This one is quite special in the Viggo series I watched recently. He was the director, producer, screenwriter, and composer, and he was also the protagonist. He used his own experience as a blueprint, and it took a long time to write such a story. So I actually reported high expectations... and overall a little disappointed. But is this actually due to my high expectations? Or can't help but compare with the previous two. The theme of the film is family, from a very small perspective, but the image of Willis' father is really enough of a jerk, full of vulgar words, using foul language, violence, and sexuality as a way of constructing the authority of a man to give this family a way of constructing. His wife and children have actually caused a lot of life-long irreparable damage. He once destroyed the happiness of a family with his rotten personality when he was young, and then brought instability to his son's small family in California with his old age. An asshole is still an asshole when he's old... Years don't change anything.
And Viggo's son character is actually a bit too tolerant in my opinion, accepting his father with an extraordinary, almost saint kind of tolerance, traditional, stubborn, unreasonable, and seems to be committed to messing things up 's father. The conflict scene was very cool, and my son said what he always wanted to say as an audience. But the next day - another quiet, peaceful, even touching morning.
Viggo Mortensen's tenderness is evident here. The setting, dialogue, demeanor, etc. of this scene, I think is probably the key to the whole movie. Father and son are about to part forever, the peace after all quarrels and conflicts is not tired or hypocritical, but the kind of freedom that a real family can bring. Viggo doesn't mean to criticize anyone, he wants to talk about forgiveness and love. A family, as the smallest unit in social relations, is connected to each other by this kind of love. We get along day and night, so we will see more defects in family members, and even make us intolerable or humiliated, but we still share One roof, you will never forget the hand on your shoulder when you are depressed hunting in the snowy forest, and you will never forget the golden afternoon by the lake, you will forgive him uncontrollably, out of your love, your good instinct, because This is a family. Yes, this powerful and generous tenderness is Viggo. Accept the inability of the family of origin, and then find and convert to yourself, and still become the well-bred and tolerant person outside the rotten family, accept your own sexuality, accept the gap between two generations, and become yourself. This is a very powerful person, and this soft and tough power is shared by many of Viggo's characters. I didn't find it very special in casting. Cronenberg's cameo was a bit of a surprise. I found out that Viggo's son was in the cast but didn't recognize it... Having said that, the screenwriter Viggo didn't handle it very maturely. Can not understand the relationship with reality very well. The music is actually Viggo... I didn't expect his musical talent to be orz, but although it's not very outstanding, it won't detract from it, it's not bad.
Last but not least, set and shoot. Many of the pictures in the middle are reminiscent of Viggo's photo album. Although the empty mirrors are not so closely connected, they are undoubtedly beautiful. The shooting method close to still life is actually not suitable for the film, but it is relatively slow for the whole film. The tone is fine. He refused to do black-and-white or smudge processing on the two timelines of the past reality, and maximized the texture and integrity of the picture with a wide lens and a long ratio. The aesthetic pursuit of director Viggo can still be seen in many shooting places.
But I don't quite understand a question: why is it called Falling? This is a dynamic process, from top to bottom, and even has the meaning of acceleration, but it is not completed, but is always in progress, neither off nor down. Maybe it means that there is no choice...
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