■Title: "Looking for a Kiss at Midnight"
■Director: Alex Hodridge
■Released Date: August 1, 2008 (USA)
■Reader: Europa
■Recommended Index: ★★★★☆ ☆
A one-sentence review: If you like Richard Linklater's "Love at Dawn" and "Love at Sunset" in twenty-four hours, this "Love in the Carnival New Year's Eve" should be Brings back a lot of memories.
In "Revolutionary Road" Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet worked together ten years later. Some people say that if the big cruise ship hadn't sank, the marriage crisis and husband and wife war in the film are Jack and Kate Winslet. Lucy's future.
Begins with the love chapter in Titanic just to show that there is a type of rich girl and poor boy, Cinderella and Prince Charming movies that have always been popular because the thing called love is so elusive . The endless "Sunrise and Sunset Series" of Bai Bai is also unavoidable. The movie shows the low probability in reality as a hit, even if everything after that is really love at first sight and mutual heart and lungs. "Finding a Midnight Kiss" is choreographed very much like Linklater, except that it swaps the meeting point for a dating site from Euro Express, Vienna for Los Angeles, and Park Street for Theater Street. A man and a woman keep talking, trying to find out the details of each other in the shortest time, or to put it another way, so that the other party can understand their emotional loneliness. After the one night story, the endings are all open, no one knows what will come next, and life goes on.
The film is specially adjusted to black and white images, and the appearance is less red, green and green, and more bleak and cold. After all, the story begins with a lonely male protagonist muttering to himself, feeling helpless about the upcoming New Year's Eve and the loss of love. Compared with the "Sunrise and Sunset Series", which is full of literary and artistic style, "Looking for Midnight Kiss" should be close to the ordinary life of modern young people. The hero and heroine are typical losers in life and achieve nothing. Some video clips by accident, such as PS roommate GF photos, five condoms, etc., can be said to be full of meat and can easily be regarded as indecent. There are just some unfortunate and embarrassing things in life that make people speechless and dumbfounded. Through trivial details, the movie jokes at the right time to pour out the sorrow and win goodwill.
In terms of appearance, compared to Ethan Hawke and Julie Debbie, it can only be said that they are inconspicuous, and it is no wonder that some people complain that actresses are not good-looking-because they do not conform to the mainstream aesthetics. The heroine in the play is an unsuccessful actress, which is not uncommon in Los Angeles, after all, there is a Hollywood empire, so "not good-looking" reflects the realistic possibility of the character.
For movies with losers, one party often has to be accompanied by a broken love or an old relationship that cannot be let go, in order to make the story better. "Finding a Midnight Kiss" is no exception, combining real-life protagonists with their confusion about how they deal with emotions, showing sincerity. In reality, men and women have different understandings and dreams about life. Misunderstandings and misunderstandings and harm to their partners are often heard.
A fast-food love in the Internet age, they have a chance to choose each other, but fortunately this emotion is not so hurt. People with a little common sense of life should also know that it is not all the credit of the film's beautification. Back at the residence, the male protagonist listened to the recording of the five missed calls, and the mood difference was not very pleasant. His tears showed that what he really cared about was not the blonde woman in front of him, or the yelling on the bed. On the countdown to New Year's Eve, the man on the radio in the car was urging emotionally, urging everyone to hurry up and resolve their regrets in the old year. In some specific occasions, people can infect their surroundings, so they can't help it. The closeness of the mind and the connection of the lips, the closeness of the invisible body, all for no specific reason. The camera cuts to some lonely people, the heroine's irritable boyfriend, and the uncle who was rejected by her within two minutes. In the night on the west coast, there may be an unknown so-and-so feeling sad by himself.
Inexplicably, I thought of a line from Jiang Wenli at the end of "Mr. Zhao": If we did "that" yesterday, would you like it? Does this really echo "Spring in a Small Town", "Sentence ends with rites"? Of course not. Mr. Zhao has a wife and a lover, and that era has long passed. "Sunrise and Sunset Series" and "Looking for Midnight Kiss" also cannot escape the qualitative problem of being "that". Turn the question over to someone who's seen the film, and there should be all sorts of weird answers. 【Beijing Youth Daily】
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