Reality pains behind dreams

Shannon 2022-03-21 09:01:09

When the magnificent audio-visual language is enough to make the clichéd stories glow, and when the routines have the maximum artistic appeal, "all routines" should be praised by derogatory sentences. Nowadays, as a movie fan, whenever I watch new movies, I always feel boring and boring because of the predictability of the plot, but often as long as I look back to the classic old movies, I don’t have the same look and feel. So, watching mainstream old movies is also facing routines, and still facing the originators of routines that have been vulgarized, but still feel relish. This will be a kind of immersion of being kidnapped by the label of "classic" and pretending to enjoy. ? I used to have doubts about my old movie-watching experience, and the appearance of "City of Philharmonic" completely dispelled it.

Obviously, it is still a long way away from the true classics, but in the color that shines with the brilliance of the film, in the montage melted in the sound of the intoxicating piano, you can once again feel the purest power of the film, you can Seeing that the team that created "City of Philharmonic" embraces so much love for the film itself. It allows me to see a long-lost sincerity in a new film. The young Damian failed to create a truly ultimate and complete movie dream like the master he was close to, but we can see him try to create a dream. His enthusiasm and talent, and even the reason why a movie is the true return of a movie. Compared with the countless tribute stalks and the reappearance of the incompetent singing and dancing forms, the absolute yearning for pure art in the soul of the work and the infinite closeness, like the spiritual recovery of the golden age, made me truly feel that its flaws are not concealed, but deeply. It's exhilarating.

Many people may have underestimated the part about love in "City of Philharmonic". Obviously, this story contains two glamorous "loving" propositions-love and dreams. Unlike most people, I think that its ultimate goal is undoubtedly love itself. The existence of dreams allows all the sense of fantasy to be firmly established on reality, and it is ready to emerge.

One is the dream of an actor and the other is the dream of revitalizing the jazz. Mia and Sebastian have to face the balance between "self-loving" and "lovable" on their way to pursue their dreams. She has repeatedly failed in the auditions that need to please others, and meets him who was swept out of the house for playing improvisations in a bar. The two began to fall in love with each other out of a spiritually filling relationship. Later, because of his encouragement, she wrote and acted in an unrecognized drama; for the basic guarantee of life, he asked for everything to make music that went against the original intention but was popular. Their relationship officially ended with the success of Mia’s invitation to audition and free acting (she achieved the balance of her dream earlier than him, and we all know that this opportunity came from the scene he encouraged her to do) "Failure" drama). Damian seems to have made a limit hypothesis: when two people’s love is closely related to their dreams, it is higher than material interests and higher than physical needs, but when it is out of spiritual needs and complements each other, love is high. Does purity bring long-term?

The ending gives a pessimistic answer-that is the limitation of "the essence of love is mutual need". In the bottom of their hearts, the realization of personal value is the highest after all. This is the cause of their love, but it also led to the final separation. After they spent the most embarrassing time with each other and helped each other to cross the biggest obstacle in the pursuit of dreams, they realized that what they lost in the process was pure and complete love. Looking at each other, I am gratified about the reality of each other’s dreams, but more and more, it is the common yearning for the impossible (corresponding to the realization of the dream, the gains and losses are inevitable) and the complete love journey. Regret. This kind of presentation and expression completely hit me, that is the pain of reality behind the dream, it is so beautiful, mixed with sad and soothing beauty.

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La La Land quotes

  • Sebastian: I'm letting life hit me until it gets tired. Then I'll hit back. It's a classic rope-a-dope.

  • Sebastian: You're a barista? I can see how you can look down on me from all the way up there.