British movie "Souvenirs"
Type of work: plot
Main actors: Honor Swinton Byrne, Tilda Swinton, Tom Burke
Story summary: Film students fall in love with the prodigal son of drug addicts (love and kill each other)
Release time: In theaters in the UK on August 30, 2019
List of winning works:
A niche work, the style is a bit unattainable, the subject matter is slightly out of reach, the shooting technique, the level of photography, the accent of the lines exudes a strong British atmosphere, not so much "high-end", perhaps "high cold "The word is more appropriate.
Enter the short comment.
1. Actor director
Joanna Hogg wrote and directed the fourth work. Compared with the previous three works, the style has not changed at all (private custom film/strong personal color). The only difference is the failure of "Shaking Sen". In other words, the male lead has changed. , It seems, the next step is to celebrate the rhythm of Honor, the daughter of Tilda Swinton.
Tilda Swinton+Honor Swinton Byrne is a mother-daughter collaboration. Two people have a tune, sensitive, cold, and good-looking.
As for the male protagonist Tom Burke , audiences who have watched the British drama "Detective Strake" will not be unfamiliar with him. The acting skills are good and the looks are stubborn. Used in this drama, it fully meets the director's expectations.
The combination of Tom and Honor is obviously Joanna's proposition. After all, it is a "personal" work, and there is no need for "commercial", so only choose the right one instead of the expensive one. Besides, Tom’s scumboy (addict) and Honor’s "Glass Heart" movie girl are in line with Joanna’s consistent selection criteria---looking dull (pure, indifferent, silent), inner entanglement (dilemma, falling into doubt, Find direction).
2. Shooting ideas
a. Personalized, purely private goods, the director's inner monologue: if you like to watch, just watch, don't look down, understand my progress.
b, pure English atmosphere, artistry + aesthetics + aristocratic plot + arrogant physique
c. Nothingness and illusion. The director's brain circuit and memory are scattered in the fragments of the story. The audience sees it as a "mystery", and can't find the center of the play. It can't tell the shortcomings of the play. The advantage is like walking alone in the cloud-filled forest, losing the sense of direction.
3. Talk with the sex
a, Pure Love Song ⇋ Li Sao
In the play, the audience witnessed an incredible memory of love, "pure love" Julie, "corrupt" Anthony, the "improper door, wrong household" lovers (walking together -> helplessly leave -> hug and look back -> only Reminiscences), staged a bloody romantic drama (the process is full of drama, and the ending is “realistic”).
The two went from "pure love" to "lisao". This "unexpected and reasonable" relationship may be the mental journey of Joanna Hogg (it must be Julie). It is unusual, not ordinary, and unforgettable.
b, artistic sense ⇋ talk about love
A drama film made the feeling of a "psychedelic drama", watching two people "you speak, me", what did they say? I heard... I don't understand... This is the most intuitive feeling the audience feels about this film. Frankly speaking, this kind of setting-line fable + psychological suggestion, it is easy to make people feel tired. Many audiences are discouraged and leave the scene directly. A small part of it persists until the end, groggy, and only few people watch it. Understand, the "souvenir" mentioned in the original story is not an object (the last coat) or a character (Anthony), but a movie made by Julie to recall this "forgotten memory".
Written at the end, "Souvenirs", a memory of a past event, a brand of memory, a forgetting of a mark. From missing to remembering to forgetting, like (life, love, thoughts) "reincarnation", this is the meaning of this play, this is the mystery of this work.
Screenwriter ★★★★☆ (The lines are attractive, just too "nagging")
Director ★★★★☆ (Compared with the first three, there are more personalized things, and gradually far away from the public's attention)
Actor ★★★★★ (The more dull the work, the more deductive skill it is)
Plot ★★★★☆ (Simple story, because it is mixed with some private goods, it is relegated to subverting traditional tastes)
Visual effects ★★★★★ (The picture is fresh, the appearance of naked men has no sense of "erotic")
Sound effect★★★★★ (Listen carefully, melodious, light, and refined)
Recommendation ★★★★☆ (niche videos, top ten of the year)
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