The decadent and melancholic appearance of the male protagonist Callum Turner fits this movie very well. This surname is even directly reminiscent of the British romantic painter JMW Turner, and is extremely literary. At first glance, this is an unwilling "quasi-writer" living in the Lower East Side of New York, but what he hides behind him is the entanglement about dreams and love with two supporting male actors of his father's generation. Of course, as a movie directed by the director Marc Webb of "500 Days of Summer" (500 Days of Summer), two female characters are indispensable, but this is not so much a love triangle as a love triangle. The hexagonal relationship of the field across the time dimension, but one corner overlaps twice.
When the male protagonist Tomas met his neighbor WF for the first time, he looked like a drunk tramp, not a successful writer, and he would never have thought that this old man was writing a name inspired by himself. The book called "The Only Living Boy in New York". When he was growing up, his father was a publisher and a successful man living in Upper West Side. In order to stay away from his father's "shadow", or to prove that his father's evaluation of his writing was wrong, he lived a life like asceticism in LES. However, his real biological father has silently followed his growth from the beginning, and supported and encouraged his writing as a "stranger". This is New York, where two completely different ways of life coexist. On the one hand, the opposite way of life chosen by the son and the father; on the other hand, the two successful fathers who have obtained the secular definition are actually going on the opposite path: One person gave up writing and became a publisher who bought books for a living, while the other was young and destitute and insisted on his dreams, abandoned by his lover, underestimated himself, and eventually became a successful writer.
There are many lively people like New York. Maybe the person who helps you store clothes in MoMA’s cloakroom is a filmmaker. He may do day-to-day chores that you can’t even think of, just to make a living in New York and shoot yourself. Movies/documentaries/programs made. He is a coach who teaches boxing in a fitness studio on weekdays, and at night or on weekends, he transforms into a director who leads a crew to give directions to Jiangshan, and even does not stop to edit the film in the middle of the night. In this city where even extras can make ends meet, living just for dreams is not a luxury. He writes poems, surfs, and dances at the same time. In this dizzying but fascinating city, he has the attraction of a magnet. At the same time, here is also the place where different lives fold, because she is not only metaphysical, she can also give you the possibility of relying on your dreams to support yourself. People here do not completely reject business, even while making independent films or documentaries about Brooklyn's gentrification, but at the same time making TV shows or variety shows looking for investors like Netflix. The city is full of vitality everywhere, and the same story as "The Only Living Boy in New York" is happening all the time.
E
2018.4.1
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