A film is full of one-act drama style, full of intense and speculative dialogues and collisions, but there are only two actors in the whole film, even the names of the characters are omitted. The corresponding "white" and "black" substitutions for their skin color seem to represent two completely different ideas and attitudes, and there is only one scene in the whole film, that is, the living room of a simple and small apartment. Cut out a corner from the open door, the two leading actors mainly develop their intensive scenes around a simple dining table and sofa. However, it is such a film with a single vision, a test of viewing stamina, and a lack of fancy tricks that make many People with a heart are fascinated by it, and they think about it.
The Sunset Limited, directed by Tommy Lee Jones and one of the protagonists, was born out of the novel and play of the same name by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and playwright Cormac McCarthy. . The plot of the film is clear at a glance. It starts from a shabby house and ends in a shabby house. From the time when a white man who attempted suicide was rescued by a black man, a huge and profound debate began. The content is about life and death, truth and nothingness, faith and atheism, religion and deception, existence. With death and so on, the whole film has almost no plot, no necessary narrative foreshadowing, and even no emotional drama, and some are just large sections of philosophical speculation. However, these philosophical dialogues have far-reaching meanings. In the rhetorical confrontation with "Bai", a complete and meticulous dramatic structure and texture are also presented. If there is no thought for a certain depth and breadth, and there is no rich rhetoric to express it properly, this work, whether it is a novel, a drama or a movie, will be a masterpiece. does not exist.
There are many excellent examples of reproducing stage plays in film versions. In recent years, Ron Howard's "Forster Conversations with Nixon" and Polanski's "Killing" have been favored by bloggers, while "Killing" It seems to be more similar to this film in terms of layout. It is also less scenes and more dialogues, and it is also a confrontation between ideas and attitudes, but this film is more single, more isolated, and darker in some aspects. As far as a film is supported by two people with very different living spaces and very different thinking concepts, this film is reminiscent of the new version of "Secret Meeting" directed by Steve Buscemi in 2007 and featuring the male lead. Of course, in terms of performance, whether Tommy Lee Jones or Samuel L. Jackson, they are better than Sienna Miller, another protagonist of "Secret Meeting". As far as the degree of speculation is concerned, although the film is not as broad as "The Man From Earth", which is also famous for its simple scenes and dialogues, it is also deeply discussed, showing the characteristics of a mature and solid work from beginning to end.
From the moment of birth, human beings walk all the way towards death. About the end of life, human beings are more willing to recognize and express in a beautiful way, so suicide has become a behavior and taboo topic that is generally opposed by human society. Camus said: "There is only one really serious philosophical problem, suicide." Perhaps because it cannot solve the dilemma of the end of life in any way, avoiding and admonishing seems to be a good trick. However, since human beings have independent thoughts, especially those who are sensitive and thoughtful but disdain to avoid, they often regard death as an eternal existence at the end of their thinking. For them, suicide is a yearning, a way to get rid of The ultimate tangled positive behavior. Sylvia Plath, the poetess who committed suicide, said: "Death is an art, and like everything else, I am particularly good at it." Fitzgerald, who died of a heart attack, said: "There is no doubt that all life is a process of destruction." So with this view, the five girls in the film "The Virgin Suicides" have a foresight and courage.
What kind of process life is, people with different experiences and different feelings comprehend differently. Camus also said: "To judge whether life is worth experiencing is itself an answer to the fundamental question of philosophy." Everyone does this The right to judge, but sometimes, those who seem to be positive and clear, don't argue with those who have thought about such questions thousands of times and finally come up with negative answers, because the results of the debate are not necessarily clear to those who are clear. People who get depressed will eventually be affected by that yin depression combined with dense thoughts. Just like the end of this film, even if the hard-hearted black believers dig out all the truths they think are correct, in an attempt to awaken the other party's empathy, but as an atheist white professor who has read 4000 The person in this book can no longer be persuaded, his ideological system is indestructible, his theoretical philosophy has penetrated into his blood, and for him, the words of black people no longer have any motive force, and he freely and vividly tells about hypocrisy. The disgust of the world, the disgust of the empty life, the hatred of the so-called God, the contempt for religion and the fascination for death. When he finally opened the door to leave, the black man was clearly affected by it, with a erratic expression on his face, and the person who finally tried to rescue others was dragged into the shadowy area.
The "Sunset Train" in the title of the film never appeared in the film. There was such a line in the lines "When the Sunset Train came at a speed of 80 miles per hour..." Perhaps in Cormac McCarthy's heart, Life is like sunset, and the trajectory of life is like the sunset train heading towards darkness and death at a certain speed. In this sense, the film is like a "death hymn".
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