"Frozen River", like "Rachel's Wedding", is an American independent film, and the shaking of "Lei" almost made me dizzy enough to lose interest in the film, of course, in several climax parts of the film, The effect is still very good. I think the director wants to use this kind of movement to give people a sense of realism that is almost suffocating. "Frozen River" is slightly more refined than "Lei", and I can accept it better.
The plot of the story is not complicated, but the idea is very deep. Since the content involved has not been touched before, there are many profound subtexts or detailed arrangements in the film that are not well understood. But I know that Ray did something illegal because he couldn't, and so did the aboriginals (fat women). I would like to say that in my opinion this film has similar entry points with some films, but also different places.
The tone of the film is not to create a great sadness, so as to sympathize with the characters in the film, which is very different from "The Reader" and "Walk in the White Night". "Frozen River" presents the cruelty of reality in a light and orderly mood, so that the crime of ray and the fat woman seems to be a matter of course, and it comes naturally; ray saves frozen babies, saves stowaways, brave In the face of criminals, the human nature that remains in reality is so powerful but nondescript; the son's fraud to make small money does not make people feel extremely good or bad emotions, on the contrary, in the end, he tells the old woman The apology of the person, and then bring the mood of the whole film to a warm and calm, which should reflect the fact that the reality is so innocent and beautiful. Whether the director's intention is: reality is cruel, life is not perfect, but human nature is so distinct, independent and unique.
The fate of life is very delicate. An hour ago, the fat woman and ray were strangers fighting each other. At the end of the film, the most real thing in human nature connects them as a family. This includes a shared need for sinful money, a shared great motherhood, and a conscience that every passionate person should have.
Life is so easy, why do you have to survive, and you have to live in a criminal way? The fat woman is for her son, and Ray is also for her son and family, but this is only superficial. The deeper reason is that if you don't die, you must survive, and to survive, you must face everything that happens in reality and accept them. Therefore, the film does not make people feel sorry for how pitiful Ray is, even if he will be imprisoned for four months in the end; it does not exaggerate any necessity to make us sympathize with the fate of the people in the film, just like Ray still laughs at those Chinese stowaways Same, why smuggling? Is smuggling just to come to this ghost place? People who make mistakes are just living in a way that others think is unreasonable, and nothing else.
For me, this film is timely, and survival is my motivation in any adversity.
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