The movie is called "Midnight Barcelona", in fact, it can also be called "Lust Barcelona" or something like that. Anyway, it is a gaudy way, but a director who mixes "intelligence and anti-intelligence" always has the ability to control this kind of gaudy. Just right, without having to chirp like a real second-rate European film director. The movie has a bit of 4P meaning in the plot, but the filming is too clean, and the emotional chaos is not implemented on the bed. The whole film is basically the style of Woody - staying in the obscenity stage of Jewish intellectuals on the east coast of New York , filled with chatter and narration.
The male lead is the artist Juan played by Javier Bardem. Compared to last year's "No Country for Old Men", which made him famous, I have to believe that this guy is really good at acting, although the artist he plays looks more or less like a fake. , But for a southern European country that is full of romance under the guise of art, Woody, the American director, really got it right.
In the plot, Juan meets two girls from the United States. Christina is naturally open and belongs to a woman who can live and die in any city. She always knows what she doesn't want; Vicky is naturally conservative, and this trip to Barcelona When it's over, it's time to go back to America to live her middle-class life. The mess is that Juan also has an ex-wife with equally powerful artistic energy. Even if the two get divorced, they still have sex.
Of course, about the story of this "four people", Woody will definitely not tell the rules and come first, he intends to create a new mode of getting along in the film, and even there can be something other than jealousy between women and women The mode of getting along, although this mode is clearly discouraged from an ethical point of view. Of course, until the end of the film, Woody did not make it clear whether this mode of getting along is feasible, returning to China, and separation, but this situation will not change the role of Juan much. In Woody's film As for the three equally divided female characters, what significance does this mode of getting along have for them, and the old man said nothing. And that's the most intellectual space in the film -- showing the dilemma without explaining anything.
And this time in the film, Woody finally abandoned the "death" theme that he had been lingering since he was in his 20s, and mainly settled on sex and morality, which means that in this "four" relationship, openness The behaviors and motives that everyone always thought were not necessarily open, and the conservative ones were not necessarily conservative. In retrospect, they were simply unreliable. As for sex, many times it was a test field under Woody's lens, when all the characters stepped into it. At times, the plot of the entire film tends to be obscure and unclear.
Because it is a "multi-person" story, after watching the movie, some of my friends are willing to rely on Milan Kundera's "weight", or even analyze the historical topic of "how many corners of a relationship are stable". The tone of Eastern European intellectuals still seems serious on Woody. Woody's films are the result of a balance between intelligence and anti-intellect. For
example, in his previous films, he has always been "Manhattan", and colluded Death, sex, and morality are almost never explained by the "ethics" of Eastern European intellectuals. Woody's films are pure New York intellectual style, with occasional witty humor mixed with occasional sadness and delicacy, a little atheist. He is neurotic, has little faith, but prefers self-reflection, has a good imagination, and is not very hypocritical, and in the end always falls on intellectual irony and criticism, which completely coincides with the previous anti-intellectual plot. And Woody Allen himself has never believed that anyone's works will be immortal, so the works appear to be normal.
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