a thief who is obsessed with orchids, can be called an orchid thief, two less front teeth, long hair, ruffian appearance, played by Chris Cooper; once, in an Indian nature reserve He was discovered by the police when he was working in the swampland (that is, picking or stealing rare orchids in the reserve) and was prosecuted by the court. In the end, he was not sentenced to prison, claiming that his fanatical fascination with orchids, for the purpose of protecting endangered ghost orchids, and the only botanist in the world who knew how to cultivate ghost orchids, began to search for ghost orchids at all costs...
Meryl Streep is a female reporter for The New Yorker who is so dull in her work and life that she is tired of being in her middle age. Once sent to interview the Orchid Pirates, in the step-by-step understanding, I was unknowingly touched by the Orchid Pirates' enthusiasm for life...thus wrote an affectionate bestseller "Orchid Pirates"...by the film producer fancy, requires adapted into a screenplay ......
a pessimistic attitude toward life screenwriter, Nicolas Cage plays, middle-aged, run out of ideas, work quite satisfactory, timid, particularly care about other people's views and feelings, and always suppress their own;
others A screenwriter brother who doesn't seem to care about other people's opinions and only cares about his own feelings, also played by Cage, a screenwriter of bad Hollywood movies, laughing and laughing all day, doing his own way... The two brothers live together, but their personalities are diametrically opposite. the same DNA,".
The film crosses and evolves in these three stories. There is nothing new. The film is like life, with no change. In the words of the big screenwriter in the film, life is like this, boring and unchanging, absurd and meaningless...
If The film has been so absurd, and the audience can't stand it. It was at this time that the big screenwriter also encountered screenwriting problems - how could such a perfect novel "Orchid Pirates" be adapted by himself, life should not be perfect Yes - yet only a week left in the due date - yet went to the lecture of a colleague who has been sneering to discover the creative skills - and then got yelled at in the lecture - the colleague asserts that life is every day There are new events happening, life is not static -
At this turning point, the three storylines of this film twisted into a single line, and began an absurd 1800° turn... (The plot has new unannounced discoveries and sudden turns)
Orchid stealing orchid is to extract drugs, the female reporter is in Emotionally attached to the orchid thief, he became addicted to drugs... After the screenwriter's younger brother and the big screenwriter teamed up to discover the truth, the female reporter immediately decided to kill and silence... They fled into the Indian swamp at night. In the swamp, the younger screenwriter revealed to the older screenwriter He actually cares about the feelings of others, and he doesn't seem to care. He said to love what you love, regardless of other people's opinions - the younger brother enlightened the older brother, and the older brother understood the younger brother at once; The orchid thief with the gun, the younger brother was accidentally injured on the arm, the orchid thief was killed by the swamp crocodile, the brothers got into the car, galloped away, just out of 100 meters, collided with the police car, the younger brother flew out of the car and died on the spot... The
film starts from the turning point Before and after, there is no hint of plot, and there are literally millions of possibilities after the plot point - but the same is true of absurdity, from absurd to more absurd, absurd to no reason.
From a romantic orchid thief to a vicious thief, from a lonely female reporter to an empty middle-aged woman who uses drugs for comfort, from a tragic writer to a life full of hope, but it ends with the absurd tragedy of real life; Death, girlfriend's new boyfriend...
a post-modern absurd platter...like this article, this is really not a "good-looking" article...
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