Knowing the world starts with watching movies

Jaclyn 2022-03-17 09:01:04

"Barry Lyndon" Personal essay on watching movies, non-serious movie review Kubrick is the eternal god in my heart. Every time I watch his movies, I have a sense of loss. This sense of loss does not come from the movies, but because of his movies. Not much, after watching this one, there is one less, so I watched it very seriously. Kubrick was originally a detail control, and this movie has achieved the ultimate! Needless to say, every frame of the movie is beautiful in composition and color. With the blessing of classical music, I enjoyed these three hours. In fact, I don’t really understand the soundtrack of the movie. I feel whether it is a war scene or an encounter. Unfortunately, when this instrument is played, the melody and tones sound very brisk, but there is a sense of desolation, not absurd, yes. . . Like a story, someone tells another story, but this story has a great sense of picture. This feeling is not only reflected in this movie, but it seems to have become Kubrick's personal style, which is very unique! I read the comments and some people said that this movie is too formal. I don't want to argue, but I think it is necessary to say what I think about myself. Sometimes when we watch a movie, what are we watching? Do you want to watch a plot that you have never heard of before, or do you have a different movie viewing experience every time? Of course, both are the best, but think about it carefully. After watching many movies, we can summarize the plot in one or two sentences. All stories are not new. We are human beings, and we live on this planet. He can't act like a god, so I think the plot, even if it's a cliché, but if it's told in a different way, I still think it's very interesting. When a work comes out, it's already out of the director's mind. Everyone has a different understanding! There is nothing wrong with it, even if I think my viewing volume is not small, at least I think it is a good movie! Sometimes when we appreciate a movie, we will understand it from different perspectives. For example, this movie has a lot of places worth thinking about. If it is bigger, it may have the influence of the times. If it is smaller, it is our personal growth and the world. It is very big, we are very small, but movies can be seen from small to big. This is also the charm of movies. Barry Lyndon has been with the times, the years, and himself for decades, and finally returned to the starting point. , this is his way of knowing the world! I think to understand this movie, you need a little common sense. If it was me when I was a child, I would definitely not understand it, because there are too many things I can't understand. For example, why are so many people lining up to shoot at each other during the battle? Why The two people in the duel have to face each other and stand still. Sometimes one person shoots first, and sometimes two people shoot at the same time? When I was young, the world was actually very simple. There were no rules, no etiquette, and no Rules, even less gentleman, gradually understand after growing up, what is civilization? What is politeness? What is the festival? If you think about these things further, it may turn into negative things, such as being too luxurious, too particular, too hypocritical, and this process is also the growth experience of many of us, from an ignorant teenager to slowly understanding the world, and finally Disappear, or give birth to the next generation, endlessly!

PS: Mrs. Lyndon is suffocating. . .

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  • Bernadette 2021-11-13 08:01:24

    3 hours of smooth, calm, realistic narrative style without a superfluous lens, photography is the ultimate, even a trace of light is captured so perfect, the soundtrack is the best use of classical music since 2001, it is forced to the west. All kinds of movies can only be called costume films, and Kubrick's Barry Linden truly achieved the classics.

  • Clotilde 2022-03-22 09:01:35

    [A+] Probably the least Kubrick-like movie in the Kubrick movie sequence. Changed from the madness and paranoia of the past, and became grand, gentle and with a hint of lament. But there are still traces of Kubrick's: a profusion of narration, a love of classical music against the familiar sound and picture, and an extremely neutral narrative perspective. Photography is a leap for Kubrick, not to mention its classical oil painting-like texture and 0.7 large aperture, the extreme use of natural light in each frame is enough to make people pay homage to Kubrick. The gluttonous feast of audio-visual language and three hours of joys and sorrows are full of infinite artistic tension under Kubrick's lens. Sighing, sentimental and helpless, and in his eyes, the condensation of these lives, whether good or bad, good or bad, rich or poor, seems to be irrelevant, because as the movie said at the end, "all have entered the soil equally." I really have nothing to say about being able to shoot a movie on this scale.

Barry Lyndon quotes

  • Redmond Barry: If ever I should meet him again you will find out who is the best man of the two. I'll fight him sword or pistol, captain as he is.

  • Title card: [End title card] EPILOGUE

    Title card: It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarreled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal now