As a descendant of Iranians, he grew up in the United States, went to Europe to study, and finally returned to the United States to develop. The relatively complicated and bumpy life experience finally allowed Jamush to stay on the bank of the Hollywood commercial torrent, and instead walked into a rare twists and turns to find his own dream of rebellion. This choice made his films become the representative of a category of nouns-"style movie" after more than two decades of baptism, and he has also become the best in the United States since the 1980s. One of the independent film directors.
This "Long Time" was released in 1980. It was a classroom assignment during the school days of Jamux, and it was only 70 minutes long. Like almost all masters’ first debut works, the images are full of roughness and dullness that can be explained by vulgar reasons such as childishness or immaturity. However, the same flaws in Jiamuxu seem to be easier to understand. And tolerance, and even eventually became his maverick label. When he was in his twenties, he was making movies like that, thirty, forty, fifty...the same. Maybe his life will be indissoluble with the following words: strange, alienated, lonely, black and white... I don’t know if he made this choice because of his extreme lack of self-identity. The impulse to pay tribute to Kafka, who was pitiful with the same disease.
The greatest feeling of this movie can only be described in two words: lethargy and restlessness that always accompanies it. There is no real plot in the film, only a boring young man Alois Parker and his series of words and actions that are equally boring. On the floor of his girlfriend’s home, he danced to the music in the cassette recorder, read the story to his sluggish girlfriend, looked for an asylum in the ruins, and watched the untidy clothes on the balcony outside the broken building. A woman who went to the hospital to visit her mad mother, listened to the man at the garbage dump blowing the saxophone he picked up, talking to herself repeatedly on the top of the building, wrangling with the salesperson, listening to the old black man telling jokes, and playing on the roadside The yellow yo-yo, until the end, after a bullshit with a man, embarked on the ship leaving New York and headed to the next stop of his journey...
In every so-called "drama", there is no dialogue that people have used to promote the development of the story in the past, and even the few remaining dialogues are just a few words of perfunctory words. It seems that every character in the movie is so lazy that he doesn't even want to give up the strength to open his mouth. The opposite is that when they talk to themselves, they can spit and spit, as if they were in an uninhabited state. The so-called lines are more like random improvisation, that is to say, if the stories and jokes are replaced by something else, the appearance of the movie will not change in any way. It is still so indifferent, cold, and filled with hopelessness. silence. Such a movie, coupled with the insensitive expressions on the faces of all the characters coincidentally, a large section of blank-like death, a stiff to almost crude shot editing, and it sounds monotonous, as if beating a cauldron. Soundtrack like...no one can bear.
However, it is the same movie that is more like a sleeping pill than a movie, but has a disturbing magic. This must be what Jiamuxu excels. Because behind his ridiculed rough image, what is reflected is exactly the reality that is so naked that people are timid to touch. The first two slow motions of the film were aimed at the bustling and busy streets of New York. After that, it was more like zooming in on this glitz until everyone could clearly and unmistakably see the accumulation in every corner of the glitz. Dirty embarrassment. Let the lie, exaggeration and pretentiousness that are used to build up the prosperous countenance, evaporate, drain, and destroy, what is left, is not everything in the movie? People are afraid of strangers and eager to understand, but they are really suffering from nothing to tell each other, so those jokes, stories, and conversations that use self-deception to decorate the facade of life are born. People use lies to cover up the fact that they are alone and to get rid of alienated demons. But, after all, when people are bored and exhausted by talking, saying things that are against their intentions, the rest is probably only the black and white world to accompany themselves. It turns out that you and I have never met. It turns out that wandering and wandering are just to protect the lies that have been carefully constructed from being prematurely exposed. From place to place, from unfamiliar to familiar, from familiar to bored, from bored to parting, cycle after cycle, day by day, changes are mechanical faces, but the constant is eternal emptiness.
This is destined to be a movie that will not be noticed and liked by too many people. However, for Jamusch, it is so precious. Because, when he finally peeled off the color of the once colorful world, when he finally fixed the place where people parted ways forever in the empty forest, when he finally had "Paradise Shadow" and "Lawlessness" When a series of classics such as "The Man from the Soul" and "The Alien from the Soul", he will understand that everything that follows comes from an emptiness thirty years ago. Year after year, Jiamuxu changed different ways, and talked about the same complex of alienation in different places. In fact, he might just want to say that he is the one who never ends in that long period and migrates forever. Traveler. Of course, this person is not only him. And you, me, and us.
Nothing is spared.
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