It's not an inspirational movie, telling people that after hard work, they will get what they want. Everything, but did not tell people that a lot of wealth was actually circulated in the hands of the rich, and a few pies that God left at random happened to fall on the head of some "unlucky person".
It is also not a work of realism, it does not complain loudly about the darkness of society, and it directly tells how the poor live in dire straits. Finally found a job (you must use a bicycle) to post advertisements along the street, but the car was stolen, no one was reliable (the police did not care), the sick went to the doctor (look for a witch for fortune-telling), and there was no way to find a car (encountered a thief and There is no evidence), and finally the suffering process of being overwhelmed by the dark society and taking risks to steal a car.
I now think that theater is far more powerful, more powerful, and greater than film. Drama is really something that can be imaginative, it can be more abstract, it has a more profound and beautiful language, and it uses dreamlike scenes to express reality. Facing death with cheerful singing and dancing. Bringing you into its realm, infusing you with fresh energy, it can be completely open, no need to be rigid and more intriguing.
And such a variety of things, turned out to be what I got from a movie. And it is the film "All That Jazz" that won the Palme d'Or at the 33rd (1980) Cannes Film Festival.
It's a good movie, and in my opinion, these simple words, give it the best credit, because I didn't go on to say: "BUT".
Its director, Bob Fosse, is also a big Tony and Oscar winner. The screenwriter of "Chicago" and the director of "Karaoke", "Living Like a Dream" can be called a semi-autobiographical film of Bob Fosse himself.
It's hard to describe it with one thing, the male lead here is a romantic but very dedicated director, his name is Ji Dean. He made movies, directed stage plays, and at the same time, he was imaginative, independent, talented, and merciful.
In the film, his ex-wife, daughter, dew lover, and current girlfriend appear one after another. When choosing an actress for a stage play, he met his lover: "Is this your home phone number?" Ambiguous smiles, tacit understanding to each other. And of course all this did not escape the eyes of the ex-wife who is the pillar. Still an eye contact, no words needed. It's neatly handled here, and everything is expressed again.
In addition to reality, the film also creates a dream-like space, where he talks with a beautiful woman in white about his youth, his cheating, and his marriage. The marriage is ruined, and the job is all that is saved.
His current girlfriend came to his apartment late at night to see him sleeping in bed with his lover.
People can't maintain their love by being loyal to each other, but if they can't be loyal to each other, it is estimated that this love will be the same. But it is completely wrong to judge whether there is true love by mutual loyalty. But I prefer to believe that when there is true love, there is the power to be unmoved by other emotional and physical relationships. The reason why this desire is too good is that it is more difficult to have both loyalty and true love. The love we think we find may be just an economic need (from an economic point of view, the cost of two people together is far less than the sum of the cost of two single individuals). It could also be a sense of security (on the one hand: wanting to be pampered, protected, someone to depend on, to worship someone; on the other hand: vice versa.). It may also be a team combination that develops together. These may be considered things, not love. It's just that sometimes the "feel" misleads us.
Love is not much higher than friendship, but because it has too many sexual elements, two individuals can be integrated through this relationship, and the close psychological connection can bring people a sense of security more than friendship. Aside from sex and a stronger sense of security, what love can offer, friendship can offer, and possibly better. Most people don't get angry because their best friend has a new best friend, and no one is happy because their lover has another lover. Love is not easy to bring people the joy of sharing like friendship.
The woman in white asked him: "Woman?"
He: "Hope." The
woman in white: "Beautiful?"
He pointed to the woman in white in the mirror.
He said to his current girlfriend: "I really love you", she said: "I just want to love you well", and these confessions seem so pale at this moment. As he himself said to the woman in white: "Do I love her that much? Of course not. But, perhaps one thing is true."
During the conversation with his ex-wife, he found that he no longer remembered the names of those former lovers. .
I don't know if there really is such a thing as love, because most of the feelings we think are love are actually not love. Just like a cross talk said: "Do you know where your face is?" In a subdivision, there is no face anywhere. What is the face? Does love exist? The book emphasizes finding true love, saying that love can only be true love when its main purpose is to nourish the other's heart. True love may not even feel like love. And we usually just judge the feeling to distinguish whether it is love or not. When there is pain, you think you are in love, when in fact the source of the pain may not be because of love at all. We want to believe in truth, but we can't stand our emotions. Just like we might fall in love with someone we shouldn’t love at all, and become good friends with someone who doesn’t fit in with us. These are emotions that prevail. We always pursue rationality, and it may be because of this. In order to guide the messy emotional world with the right thoughts.
The film talks about marriage, love (but I don't see it), sex, so-called loyalty, day-to-day life, and then death. And this is the most magnificent part of the film. He lay down on his hospital bed, thinking about his life, and in his mind one of the best dramas of his life conceived in his mind.
Although death was imminent, he did not see any cooperation with the treatment, and continued to smoke, drink, and revel in the hospital.
One of the characters in his film said to him, "I'm telling you, Gideon, I can see what you think. You're afraid of
sticking to the rules." Gideon replied, "Yes."
"I know you What are you thinking, unwilling to be mediocre, afraid that you are not special..."
Ji Dean: "That's right."
"About the sex thing, hehe, I'm not saying you're gay, but you're really feminine, right?"
Silence... "Yes." The
death chapter "Hospital Rhapsody" took shape in his mind , death is split into: anger, denial, negotiation, frustration and acceptance. It's amazing, but it's never going to play out. When the woman in white approached him a little bit, he tried his best to push her away, pushing away the "beautiful" god of death who had always been with him. He wrote a line to himself: "I don't want to die, I want to live" (did he copy Ruan Lingyu, or did she copy him? Or is this the ideal of all mankind?)
Finally, in "Hospital Rhapsody" in "Rhapsody in the Hospital" In "Accept", death is praised by cheerful singing and dancing, and he walks towards the woman in white with a smile on his face.
When Socrates was dying, he said: "It's time to part, I will die, you will live, which one is better, only God knows." This is an amazing work, from the scheduling of time and space, the language The running and narrative style are all testament to its power. Although the true meaning of love is not expressed, facing death with laughter is another and the best interpretation of death.
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