They are not handsome men or beauties, nor are they proud classmates and teenagers.
They belong to the lower class of New York. They are impoverished, their jobs are unstable, their houses are small and messy. They
are a lot of age, and the traces of the years have already been crawled. Their faces
are still so naive, fragile, ignorant, and have obvious interpersonal barriers.
Jack is a simple-minded and kind-hearted limousine taxi driver
. Connie lives in the shadow of fear of sexual harassment all day long. Connie is fighting for funeral agency promoters. The
blind date arranged by Jack’s old friends, Clyde and Lucy, brought their late first love to each other.
However, late love does not mean that its beauty and innocence will be weakened.
We can see it vaguely. When the joy and excitement flashed in the eyes of the two of them, expectation and disappointment,
we seemed to be able to clearly hear their
exhales and breaths , and the heartbeat accelerated when they hugged. She asked him, "What do you wannna see in a woman?"
He was stupidly stupid. Answer—maybe the encounter between Clyde and Lucy still appeared in his mind—: "Someone who likes music, someone positive, not a dark weird person... As long as she doesn’t need to go to other men’s bed to find happiness"
he asked back She: "What do you wannna see in a man?"
She looked at him affectionately at him who was bloated, old and immature, and replied sincerely: "Sexy, like you, someone who will tell me the truth, sense of humor, patient, like you...Of course he wants to have a job"
...
Life can be so sincere and simple.
In order to take the Xishi Connie in his eyes to boating on the Central Park lake when the spring blossoms in May, Jack learned to swim with Clyde, and even learned how to cook
the day when Clyde’s rival "Cannoli" learned to cook on a date. , He carefully played back every procedure of the cooking class while cooking, closed his eyes and imagined the effect, and then said to himself with satisfaction: "It's perfect, perfect, perfect"
This may be imperfect. Perfection
Finally, his sweetheart said to him one of the most erogen conversations in movie history: "You can hold me. If you took me, overpower me. Overcome me, but don't hurt me."
"Clyde & Lucy"
When Clyde watched the newcomer he worked hard to make, was the expression in his eyes envy, sadness, blessing or disappointment?
"I love you" ...... Oddly enough, in this romantic drama, this sentence was neither Jack told Connie (he only said "I like you" to her), nor Clyde said to his wife. Clyde is with these words to express his honest Jack sincere friendship ......
Clyde Jack really did everything humanly possible for a
while to think hard to help Jack, and he cracks his marriage with Lucy exposed
them even My own painful experience was dissected and passed on to Jack, who is inexperienced in the world, as a negative teaching material.
However, in a sense, didn't they pin their little hope and longing for love on Jack and Connie? Clyde and Lucy, who have experienced repeated deceptions of each other,’s expectation and concern for Jack and Connie, are actually a life-saving straw they grabbed at the end of their marriage...Perhaps they need a reason to continue to believe in the true love of the world "The pros and cons of
love" "
The success and failure of love and marriage, the simplicity and the complexity, make these two couples/old couples and old wives perform vividly.
Everything seems like that life, natural, logically,
but the constraints brought by material reality are not overwhelming: emotions are still the same. main character.
"Jack Goes Boating is a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace"-the
official website profile says that
Philip Seymour Hoffman is not so high: Because he once performed on the same stage with John Ortiz, the actor of Clyde in Broadway, in the drama of the same name, yes Knowing the script and the partner makes him able to direct and act
both. Every shot is precise, every expression is in place, and every time the music that accompanies the character's expression changes quietly is so perfect... (Unfortunately, I I can’t find the names of these beautiful songs in the original soundtrack.)
Perhaps the charm of this movie is that it, like its protagonist, Jack, conquered the audience with gentle and unambitious affection, just in response to the seemingly impulsive sentence: " "Overcome me, but don't hurt me" contains the philosophy of life.
When this simple story ends, I can’t wait to stand up and applaud and cheer for them
vu à l'UGC Ciné Cité les Halles, le 07/01/2011, 18h35
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