This is a simple and indifferent story, simple to pure, without any major inheritance. The heroine Franny returned to New York to take care of her brother who was in a car accident after receiving a call from her mother. In the process of searching for a way to wake her brother, she found the family love that had gradually faded; she also met his brother's favorite musician James because of her search. Forester, and had a love with him; of course, Franny's younger brother Herry finally awakened in the expectation of his sister and mother.
The story begins with music-loving brother Herry playing in a subway station, and ends with a chorus recording of the male protagonist James and the female protagonist Franny. There are also different kinds of music interspersed in the film. It can be said that it is a very good performance of the essence of music movies, beginning with music and ending with music. But this is not what attracts me the most in this movie. What attracts me the most is the exploration of the identity, relationship and past of the characters in the film during the viewing process.
This small-cost literary film does not have too many characters worthy of comment. Throughout the story, there are only four main characters who strung the story line: mother Karen, sister Franny, younger brother Herry and the male protagonist (also the younger brother’s favorite music) People) James.
The first character in the movie is my younger brother Herry, a big boy playing with a guitar on his back in a subway station, and his simple and clean singing voice. All this makes it easy for me to understand this character. As the story unfolds, from the dialogues of other characters, Herry’s diary, his music, and his room, I can see that the boy who was unfortunately turned into a vegetable in a car accident’s love for music is extremely pure and musical. Footprints penetrated the corners of his life. Although there are not many descriptions of him in the movie, and almost all of them are developed from the side, the image he gave me is still very profound. He grew up in a single-parent family (the description of his father in the movie is only the mother’s sentence "after his father died...", here is the author’s personal opinion), and he chose to give up his studies in order to pursue the music he loves in college. His behavior naturally led to the alienation of his relationship with his sister and mother. They thought his pursuit was unrealistic. However, he still bravely left his family to pursue his own music. His bravery was just like his persistence in using a record player. While he was away from home looking for his own music, he never forgot to send a letter with his work to his sister outside to post a music link, hoping to get recognition and ease the relationship. He is so simple, brave, clean and persistent, which makes me envious.
The second character to appear is the heroine Franny. As an anthropological phd candidate, she was in a foreign country at the beginning of the film (from some details of the film, the author boldly inferred that she was doing a filed study in a Moroccan tribe at the time), in her sleep When she received a call from her mother Karen and learned of the bad news, she returned to New York. In the hospital, watching her younger brother's pale face with various medical devices inserted in his body, Franny was heartbroken. After discovering her CD and her brother’s diary by chance, in order to learn more about her estranged brother, she began to look for the traces of her brother in the past, collecting various sounds in the city that might awaken her brother: the sounds of pedestrians passing by. , The sound of vehicles passing by, the sound of sea water shooting crimes, the sound of ships croaking, the sound of various music... There is no doubt that, although from many details of the film, it can be seen that Franny has different contradictions with his brother and mother. The relationship is not so close (for example, her mother gave her room to an outsider, and she herself was estranged from her younger brother because her younger brother gave up his studies), but Franny still has deep feelings for her only second relative, so She feels self-blame after his brother’s accident, wants to know her brother, wants to make up (the only big emotional outburst in the film is when the person visiting his brother left, watching his brother’s pale face helplessly in the hospital bathroom Smashing the wall and crying). Looking for his brother's past, Franny met the male protagonist James along the concert tickets in the diary. James, a shy musician, was invited to find Herry's footprints with Franny after learning about his brother Franny's experience, and in the process, he continued to deepen his mutual understanding with Franny, two souls who can be said to be completely different on the same route. There was a slight spark, and they fell in love together. Their love, green but natural, is surging with a fascinating force, and they each have gained something from it. The protagonist James is like rain in the story. He appeared when Franny was sad and used his unique thoughtfulness and tenderness to give Franny's soul comfort; he eased the emotions of Franny and his mother Karen when they were in conflict with his mother Karen. Good medicine, the person who warms the story also warms the author and me outside the story.
The last thing I want to talk about is my mother Karen, a bit of a spoiled mother, an elder with rich experience, and a writer. My mother in Zhong mentioned that she always wanted to complete a book, and that her mother used to sit in a chair while taking care of her younger brother while holding a book to record the scenes, so I guess that my mother is a writer, this is my personal opinion). Karen's relationship with the two children is not so good, but she does love them, as can be seen from the conversations between her and Franny in the hospital, even the few disputes between them. She even attributed her son's responsibility for being hit by a driver who obeyed the traffic regulations when crossing the road with earphones and failing to pay attention to the traffic. After her son’s accident, her mental state can be said to be unstable. There are many clips about her in the film: doing strange things in the kitchen late at night, writing things are not in the state, and chatting with her daughter and arguing...Although She is not a particularly competent mother, but her love for children is undeniable.
In this story, every character is looking for, and finally gains. The younger brother wakes up (I believe his mother and sister will support or even support him to pursue his own music), Franny harvested a beautiful love and found it back. After the family love, the relationship between mother and daughter has become closer. James gained inspiration from this experience and wrote a new song dedicated to Franny's sister and brother...
At the end of the film, Franny chased James to Philadelphia to listen to his performance. The two did not meet, only the thank you message and a recording. Although this ending reveals a bit of realistic helplessness and a touch of sadness, I think it is a good ending, because such an open ending has enough room for imagination, and the blankness of many film details gives the author more desire to find more. , Maybe it’s okay to watch it a few more times someday.
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