A long movie, a short TV series, I watched it twice before I could figure it out. The first time I saw it intermittently, it continued to be in constant shock. Al Pacino, bang! Meryl Streep, bang! Amma Thompson, bang bang! ! Grandparents and ex-mom (it's an old allusion) have never been in the same place like this, and it's a TV show, playing different people, shining under the hood.
The second time I read it, it wasn't very clear. The translation was always bad, so I read the original version and couldn't complain about the translation. First, it was not a big hit, and secondly, it was really difficult to translate. The quality of the film proves that a good movie (television series), even if it excludes a few obscure dialogues, can still shine brightly. There is emptiness and sadness everywhere in the film, as Pryor said to Happ: "You are extremely unhappy." Pain is as real as a dream, and it invades everyone who is awake. Assuming that we are all sober people who have seriously thought about who we are, who is the most like me in the film? I thought it was Happ at first, then I thought I had Lewis, and then I saw Pryor, and then... there's nothing I can do about it, each of us is too complicated enough to be divided into several quite complex roles. Les Miserables is still Les Miserables, even if hundreds of years have passed. The plague in the New World came from the virus in the Old World. We have never been able to purify ourselves. Fate is an innate sense of despair.
But God is gone, and he has abandoned us, even his faithful, beautiful and mentally handicapped angels. Now we can be satisfied, we don't have to despair, because all hope is gone. There is no need to despair without hope, that is the truth. However, the angels chose Pryor as a prophet and decided to find the missing God again. Eventful angel. Pryor did a good job of failing the angels and destroying their hopes: "When God comes back, tell you what to do, and you go sue him!" Going through AIDS and losing a lover, stepping in The dead Pryor knows best that we have no hope, or that we should not keep the hope we have always held, because that hope is no longer there, and its shadow roams ghostly in the pain of our fate.
I have always hoped for a prophet to tell us: "No one will come to save you, please live by yourself."
America is very simple, and so are American TV and movies. Compared with the depth and complexity of the old Eurasia hidden in the onion skin under the farce of the market. The New World shows innocence even when dealing with profoundly complex subject matter. Simple pain, simple joy, simple betrayal, simple conspiracy, without the torment of thousands of years of wars of every culture and religious regime, America has little entropy. It's not messy, it's still a clean kid anyway.
But now children are starting to care about the despair of our destiny and believe that they have to make sacrifices for redemption, which is not a good thing.
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through my blog and turn forward fiercely, and you will find the first half of this article, huh, I wrote this "down" too late.
According to my usual style, putting pigeons is also a common thing. But Angels in America is a really good show (or, I say, the best), so since I've written the first half of the review, I'm going to finish the second half, no matter how late. .
In the first half of the article, I wrote the emptiness, and in the second half of the article, I will write the real thing. Tell me how good this film is.
First of all I can guarantee that this is definitely the most luxurious TV series in the team: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson...COME ON! I mean, even for a movie, that's too lavish.
So first and foremost is the acting, and it goes without saying that Pacino and Streep's two old dramas are very skilled (you must watch Streep's rabbi, wow, you can only say this Women are too talented!). Quite pleasantly surprised by the excellent performances of other relatively lesser-known actors, even in the contrast of Pacino and Streep, it is absolutely dazzling. Among them, MARY LOUISE PARKER and JUSTIN KERK, who played Happ and Player, are worth mentioning. These two actors are still in the mainstream in the United States, but their performance in the film is really remarkable. Parker portrayed Harp's nervousness, despair, confusion, madness, and a strong sense of contradiction, which is deeply touching; and Kirk's Pryor, from the beginning of illness to the near death to the end, has a very tense performance. However, it can be retracted freely, and it also shows a very rational calm in the extremely insolent and exaggerated performance (plus a very delicate and handsome face), which is the biggest highlight of the film. There is also a black sissy Billy who plays the role of Liz in the film is also very utilitarian, but in my impression, eight out of ten black sissy perform extremely well, so there are fewer surprises.
The soundtrack is also good. I also specially downloaded the original soundtrack. The main melody is beautiful and tactful (my roommate said it is like a plum blossom), and the use of religious elements is also very natural and skillful.
The sound effects, editing, including the director are all well-rounded, but a little bleak compared to the other aspects that are extremely good.
The best is the screenwriter. This TV series is not the kind of thing that has no content but only form. On the contrary, it is the kind of boutique that has a lot of information and needs to be enjoyed slowly. It is said that this film was first adapted from a stage play in the early 1990s. I am not very familiar with the original work, but it is said that it was also a sensation in the United States. Fortunately, according to the evaluation of the original work, this TV series did not violate the theme of his year, and was very faithful to the essence of the original work. The dialogue in the film has the feeling of a combination of the Bible and ancient Greek philosophy. Of course, it sounds a little obscure at first glance (the translations I have seen are not very good, which is a pity), but it is definitely a good thing with repeated appreciation. When I have nothing to do now, I often pull out a paragraph to watch it. It doesn't matter which one it is, it's always good, it's like a dream of Red Mansions (of course it's not that exaggerated).
The structure of the story is the most skillful of the screenwriter. The screenwriter really incited the desperate atmosphere to the extreme at the beginning. The film is more than five hours long. Most of the time, all the characters are extremely unhappy, confused and helpless. Desperate, so unsettling. So when Pryor finally rejected the angel's request, the feeling of hope to return really melted, everything became real again, and it was still the same, but there is always an explanation for everything, and there is always a pain. Visible end. That's why at the end of the credits I feel so warm when Pryor greets everyone for the camera. He said: "This disease (AIDS) will take the lives of many of us, but by no means, far from all ... I bless you, see how beautiful you are." This kind of film directly talks to the audience This way is relatively rare in TV dramas. Obviously, the shadow of the predecessor of the stage play can be seen. This part is really beautiful, and, I don't know if it is a good thing: it is very inspirational. I really admire the United States, such a heavy theme of religion plus politics, comrade plus AIDS, such a serious and solemn book, also makes them make a baseball movie-like inspiration, at least for me (even after because I don't know baseball).
For a non-Christian, non-gay, non-AIDS patient, non-American, non-partisan, and not living in the 1980s, this is a touching and thought-provoking book good film, then I think it should be for everyone.
It is the glory of a TV show to have such a film in the TV industry.
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