The topic of healing in a different place is not new. I always prefer this kind of movies, because looking at a city that is equally strange to the audience with strange eyes, it is easy to produce a certain kind of empathy. The film "Genoa" not only did this, but also cleverly superimposed physical space and emotional space together, producing an unexpected narrative effect. The actor, Colin Firth, is steady and melancholic and slightly tired and old, changing his youthful and arrogant temperament in "BJ Single Diary" and "Pride and Prejudice".
Director Michael Winterbottom did not hesitate to focus a large number of shots on the winding and dark streets of Genoa, an ancient Mediterranean city: vendors selling along the streets, prostitutes with various styles, drunken men, and shrews cursing the street. , Naughty children, arrogant businessmen... With the help of a pair of lost mothers and sisters in a trance, looking for the vision, this city that has existed as early as the fifth and sixth centuries BC, the sultry classical temperament and mysterious patchwork You have been slowly unfolded. After piano lessons every day, my sister will lead her sister around the maze of streets and lanes, looking for a way home. If she doesn’t pay attention, she will get lost. This is not only their experience of a strange city, but also their accidental loss of loved ones. Feeling at a loss afterwards. The loss in space and the loss in emotion are intertwined to produce a strong visual and emotional impact. This is the biggest charm of this movie.
The father and daughter all tried to return to their normal state before losing their loved ones, thinking that leaving Chicago and moving to a stranger Italy, no longer seeing things and thinking about people, could help them forget their grief and start all over again. The father refused the love from his old friend, hoping to use the youthful vitality of the exotic woman of the young female student to temporarily dispel his loneliness; the eldest daughter passed the time through promiscuity with the local punks, seeming to open up the mystery of sex and the Genoese It is as simple and casual as weird, but anxiety and confusion always follow; the youngest daughter has been struggling with nightmares and guilt for a long time, and has always had the illusion that the ghost of her mother is beside her, and has lost her way twice...
The dazzling Mediterranean beach sun shines on the Genoese schoolgirl with white teeth and laughs, warmth hits; with his arms around the young Italian, sitting on a speeding motorbike, shuttles through the dark and narrow alleys by the wind, screaming wildly; mother A gentle gaze through the window grilles and heavy curtains of the apartment, cast on the creaky old Victorian bed, cast on the surface of the old Rococo quilt, a ray of blue light...the scenery and the mood complement each other, outlining the faint sadness and inevitable Longing.
It is difficult to rebuild a new life in the old place, and it is not easy to start a new life in the new place.
Can't get out or go down in the old place; Can't go in or get a direction in the new place.
Being alive is not simple.
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