Last year, the first movie I saw in Hong Kong seemed to be "Begin Again", which was also a musical movie. Mark Ruffalo is also an actor I like very much, but he didn't have the urge to write a film review. "Lost Stars" has even been broadcasted by McDonald's in Hong Kong, but I have almost forgotten the plot.
The plot of the movie is very simple, with no twists and highlights. Franny returned to New York to take care of his brother Henry, who was in a car accident. In order to wake up his brother, she walked along his brother’s footsteps through the people and streets he loved, fell in love with his brother’s favorite singer, James Forester, and finally saw his brother open up. Eye.
However, for me, the most important thing about this movie is the identity of the sister Franny played by Anne Hathaway. She is an anthropological phd candidate.
I was taking a qualitative course this semester, and I just completed the life history of my classmates. The most beautiful thing about this movie for me is the spirit of anthropology revealed from beginning to end. This spirit includes complex field relations, various entry fields, and subtle feelings between a person as a researcher and his relatives.
I don't know if the director (and screenwriter) is very fascinated by the research methods of anthropology. From the beginning of the film, it was Franny's field study in a Moroccan tribe, until her mother called her back to New York. Then, after living in the room before her brother's car accident, she first discovered various posters and albums of his favorite singer James Forester, and then accidentally found her brother's most private diary.
From this diary, she followed her younger brother’s life and went to his favorite restaurant to buy a muffin at 4 in the morning. In the evening, she went to the band he admired to listen to a few songs, and came to her younger brother to film herself. The video of the song was received and the door lingered. She recorded the sounds of pedestrians, the sounds of vehicles passing by, the sounds of sea water beating against the shore at night, and the sounds of singing and talking. She was so natural and proficient, so calm and meaningless, even though she fell in love with James, she didn't stop her step of awakening her brother.
The two people's shyness, shyness, and the kind of shocking sparks fascinated the audience. In the end, she heard the song James wrote to her, leaving a sentence "Thank you..." and the sound of them singing together.
At the beginning of the qualitative class, Eric once said that I should learn how to leave after the research is completed.
At the end of the movie, I saw a perfect departure. Perhaps as an ending, it was a little sad and helpless, but to me, it seemed like the end of a semester.
How could I not like such a movie?
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