My cousins are countless...Iranian cartoonist Marga Shatapi, 4 years ago due to her own family affairs, co-directed the French director Vincent Te Paland made the animated film "I grew up in Iran" from a comic book, which attracted the attention of the literati. This time, he moved out the story of his lovely musician uncle, performed a more dramatic interpretation, and produced a new film "The Taste of Plum Chicken". In consideration of the extremely rich character and behavioral characteristics of the main character, the two artists who collaborated again gave up the form of thorough animation, and chose to let the frowning Matthew Amarek play the writer's uncle who pursues pure art.
The movie itself is a stopwatch that counts down to death. The most famous violinist in Iran, Ali Han, decided to commit suicide after not being able to find a good violin. This kind of weird behavior makes the beginning of the movie be filled with some kind of heartless French black humor for a long time, as well as the gorgeous magical scenes specially set up to enhance this humor. The witch shop-like antique dealer has a peerless violin, and said, "Because you are my most admired musician, I can't sell the violin to you, but only give it to you", but wait, "800 yuan, after all I also spent 820 on the piano."
Ali Han is in a noisy ordinary family, his son can never restrain his desire to sing, and his wife always nagging about doing housework alone. The musician could no longer find a guy whose sound quality could match the piano that was smashed by his grumpy wife, so he decided to commit suicide. The evil taste and the sense of game are worthy of this big idea of how to die: lying on the rails, death is too ugly and painful; hanging to death, not respecting death itself; Russian classic roulette-style bouncing, troublesome Clean up by others. In the end, the musician chose the most dignified method of death-a hunger strike, and became the last expression left for his nagging wife.
Ali Han has only 8 days to live, and what changes with the countdown is the in-depth deciphering of the weird and chronic suicide behaviors step by step. On the superficial level, with regard to the selfishness of the artist, it seems that only by living completely in the world of self, being authoritarian to one's own creation, and not allowing others to interfere, can it be possible to achieve peerless masterpieces; the deep level is actually as simple as one. A fragile and sensitive love heart, and an irreplaceable love that is only once in a lifetime. Author Marga Satapi explained: "Under the romantic feelings, this movie actually has a lot of creepy ideas. Through flashbacks to Ali Han's life, the character of the character gradually becomes clear, and we gradually understand those. The reason that made him fall into despair, here, death became a springboard to explore life."
It turned out that the musician decided to die alone on the charge of selfishness, and buried the most surging secret deep in his heart forever. This secret about love, like that shattered violin, embodies the artist's unexplained persistence.
The accompaniment for the musicians’ love secrets is gradually revealed by the director’s painstaking past. The melodious and long violin concerto envelops the melancholy hearts of the characters. With the weak breath of the last breath, frame after frame is unforgettable. The picture of memory has become a handful of dust for burying the gravely wounded in love.
A considerable number of female audiences in the theater have been stunned by the unstoppable sensationalism at the end of the film, but male audiences with different tear points may be slower to react. Therefore, this heavenly and earthly sentimental sentiment does not give a ripple to me, a shameless person who can make "See We Seen in the Sky" mean "to make people sleepy enough to want to go to heaven and earth".
I remember that in the movie "Night Sleep in Seattle", the men and women at the family banquet each told their most touching scenes. It was the love movie "Golden Magnolia" that made women almost embraced and weeped, and the war movie "Golden Magnolia" that made men snot and tears "The Twelve King Kong", "Watching the captain jumped down and broke his leg, tears burst into my eyes."
It is undeniable that "The Taste of Plum and Chicken" has a strong emotional production method and a well-controlled narrative. It is a masterpiece that is aligned with the direction of the best director. However, as a straight male audience, among the "Plum Chicken" who has a long relationship with children and the "Iran Grown Up" with a little bit of family feud, he should still be inclined to "I Grew Up in Iran" which has ideological values and a grand history. Even the woman who is remembered by musicians in "The Taste of Plum and Chicken" is called Iran.
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