As a personal documentary of a deceased person, "I Am Heath Ledger" shows the private life of the actor who played "The Dark Knight" and "Brokeback Mountain" from an unprecedented private angle. It is simply tranceful. He Maybe never left.
If there is any image left in your mind after seeing it, it must be Ledger staring at the camera and spinning round and round. While taking selfies, he imitated "Saturday Night Fever" and "Witch Carrie". Dance a pas de deux with your own camera.
Ledger’s lens language is very unique. On the one hand, as the documentary tells us, Ledger is an avid photographer who likes to photograph himself and his friends and relatives; on the other hand, he has been tirelessly making artistic innovations, trying to use various A combination of shots to present his video.
From the large number of photographs he left after his death, it can be seen that he has unlimited creative desire. His love for selfies proves this: Heath Ledger in "I Am Heath Ledger" is a young, narcissistic and angelic famous artist. His favorite subject is himself. He always wants to push himself to a higher level-this is why he has become a leader of his generation when he is only 28 years old (that is, the length of his life)-although his creative talent is also It limited his youthful vision, leaving him only himself.
"I am Heath Ledger" is a biographical documentary film directed by Adrian Boutanius and Derek Murray ("I am Evel Knivel" "I am Chris Law "Lee"), the film contains several hours of Heath Ledger’s private video, which is very unusual compared to other biographical documentaries-observing the real life of this screen star at such a close distance makes you even feel a little weird . You see him as a true and free soul. In his short life, he never followed the usual rules of the entertainment industry and refused to accept the constraints of the industry.
His hometown is Perth, Australia. In the eyes of his mother, Sally Bell, he is a wild child. No matter what others tell him, he never considers settling down. Therefore, as his parents, when he saw him leave home and go to the big city alone to work hard, he can only hope (and believe) that this child will be well. He seems to have been quite at ease with the reputation he has acquired, and will not feel uncomfortable at all; it is also because of this that he has traveled thousands of miles away and came to the broader Los Angeles. No matter where he goes, he can always win people's love.
As sung in pop songs, he is a boy like a flower. He turned his house in Los Angeles into a "Great Australia Base Camp" where people come and go (of course, there are also friends from all over the world). He leads a communal-style collective life, where there are uninterrupted parties every day at home. And he also sees himself as an artist spanning multimedia: he paints beautiful pictures on the photos he takes, makes music, shoots MV (N'fa’s "Cause An Effect" is his own)), and makes movies. He said it was just icing on the cake.
This sounds pretty pretentious, but it does meet Ledger's qualities as an actor. He doesn't want to "play a role", what he wants is to fill the big screen with a certain personality of his own. The last person to do this was Marlon Brando, and Ledger, who acted in his first movie ("Ten Things I Hate You") at the age of 19, developed his own role in each role. Personality.
Every time he plays a movie, Heath Ledger takes a big step forward on the road to ridicule. "I am Heath Ledger" enlarges his growth process into clear details: "The Patriot" (2000) He plays Mel Gibson's loyal apprentice-the latter is his idol and his fellow Australian. And in "Knights of the Holy War" (2001)—a post-modern joyous comedy dressed in a medieval coat—his face occupies the entire poster for the first time, and it makes him feel it happily. The stars hold the moon. On the poster, he looked proud, with the line above the title written "He will rock you!" The whole movie is simply Ledger's personal celebrity show.
In "Dance of the Death Row" (2001), Ledger learned to read lines in a slow and solemn voice. In "The Lord of Dogtown" (2005), he played a madman who wore dentures and a teenager suit. , And then the famous "Brokeback Mountain" (2005) unearthed his unprecedented performance genius. His vague and forbearing voice hides painful desires, in his own words "like a clenched fist" , Muttering about the sexual awakening.
In "The Dark Knight", his sad and touching performance once again shook the audience. He flew in the film, climbed to the top, and became possessed by Marlon Brando. His "clown" has long greasy green hair, chewing frantically on the scars of his childhood and the devil in his heart. After this kind of borderless and pathological drama performance became popular in the 1970s, it is unique in today's commercial blockbusters. If Ledger hadn't died before the movie was released, this performance would make him the king of Hollywood (although people would also sigh after his death).
"I am Heath Ledger" shows us the behind-the-scenes images of Ledger during the filming of these films. These rare scripts all tell us that these films are like him, and are his personal art. crystallization. Of course, there are far more than movies in his life, but it is clear that his brilliance in other aspects is largely obscured by movies.
Then the film talked about the relationship between Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams. This marriage that lasted for 3 years, just like the rose sunset that they had admired in Brooklyn’s love nest together, became an instant beauty. Although the relationship was short-lived, Ledger still devoted his fatherly love to their daughter Matilda. However, in the shadow of family breakdown, even the closest father-daughter relationship will have nowhere to rest.
It's not that the movie's conversation turned into star romance gossip at this time, but when you see that kind of uninterrupted intimacy and trust create a gap overnight, such a subtle change is embarrassing.
After Ledger and Williams broke up (September 2007), the movie tells us that his life has gone into pain and insomnia. It was also at this time (according to the movie) that he started taking sedatives, which eventually led to the unfortunate accident on January 22, 2008, when he died young at the age of 28.
In addition to sadness and sighs, this documentary also describes in detail the life that Ledger loves with all his heart. He discussed the topic of premature death with his friends, but he did not seem to have any clues; if he was really addicted to tranquilizers like the rumor, there would be more or less prying in the movie-but no, the movie directly confronted him. Only his demon in pain.
"I Am Heath Ledger" shows the life of an extraordinary artist with a fascinating and exciting plot. His life came to an abrupt end, but this documentary made you feel unfulfilled, because you know that Heath Ledger's life is so exciting outside of the documentary.
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