A few days ago, I saw the Coen brothers' "Drunk Country Folk Songs" shortlisted in Cannes, and suddenly remembered their "Land Thunder", coupled with their mad love for "Murder of Green Toe", I immediately found "Land Thunder" to watch.
The plot of "Thunder in the Earth" is very simple, a journey of revenge for the father, and the revenge is successful, and the girl is also injured and amputated. This is not like the previous movies of the Coen brothers, but it is so attractive to me. It is its feelings.
This feeling is a kind of "beautiful thing" that is about to pass away, and has passed away to bring us the melancholy, and this kind of melancholy if it is lost but it is cut off and not excessive, using an idiom to describe it as "sorrow but not sad." Just like the falling snow at the beginning of the film, the dim light reopened the door to the west for us, just like the old bailiff on the way back holding the girl, Snow Feifei, he fell to his knees with exhaustion: "I'm so old." In fact, it's more than you who are too old, old bailiff.
For a little girl, the climax of her life came at the age of 14. Will she still have such a beautiful adventure after this? Does she still have such fearlessness and innocence? When she remembered the first time she met the old bailiff in court, when she thought of the glittering water droplets on the brim of her hat riding Xiao Hei over the river, when she thought of the bumps on the horseback and the stars in the sky, the setting sun of the setting sun, and the Does she have such a feeling when horseshoes? In this segment of the scene, there are two moving backwards. The camera slowly moves backwards. The girl leaves the battlefield of the duel. The killed enemy. The camera moves slowly backwards. The girl leaves her beloved pony. As time goes by slowly, the girl will eventually leave this period of time. "Life may be just letting go, but the sad thing is that I haven't been able to say goodbye to them."
For westerns, to a certain extent, the old bailiff is a metaphor for westerns. He is a masterpiece, but he is indulged in whiskey all day long. On the surface, he is cynical and obscure. In fact, he has a deep hidden enthusiasm and justice in his heart. Feeling that when he drove the girl on the road to treatment, his nobility was aroused, however, however, "I am getting old". After all, Western films have declined after their glory. We miss the vitality of western films that exudes alcohol and wind and sand, we miss the crisp shots and justice of justice. However, what? Lord Du's performance is extremely wonderful and heart-warming.
Complementing this feeling is that the film’s music and image style, piano and hymn, make the film show elegance while being nostalgic. The image style is even more unique, not the roughness of "The Good, the Good and the Bad," but the clarity, cleanness, and beauty of "Brokeback Mountain". The appropriate snow that falls from time to time is even more profound. Although the entire environment where the film takes place is condensed, the director has added dim light to let us feel warmth and hope in the cold, whether it is a match lit to light a cigarette, a bonfire, or the afterglow of the setting sun.
In the first shot of the film, there is a light surrounded by darkness, snow is falling, and the girl's father is lying in the snow. The camera slowly advances, as if leading us into a fairy tale.
The last shot of the film is a fixed shot. After the heroine visits the "old bailiff" (tombstone), she walks lonely into the distance of the camera in the middle of the grass, leaving us a resolute back. Isn't this also telling us Say goodbye?
I am gone, I will not take away a cloud.
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