It's been a hundred years since I looked back

Lea 2022-03-22 09:01:13

What I want to say has nothing to do with the plot, let's collapse it. "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​is a special movie for me. I bought the DVD and gave it away; I downloaded it and deleted it; my friend asked me to watch it together, and I ran away. It lasts for nine years, and there is no second movie like this. From wanting to watch it, there are two Olympics. After thinking about it, why is this happening? I know what the plot is. In the film review of "The Godfather", everyone has spoiled "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​108 times. Maybe I think I can’t bear the weight of my life, so I don’t touch it, just like a self-knowing 386 won’t try to install Win10.

A classmate said that women generally don't like this movie. "First, it is difficult for women to understand the brotherhood and vicissitudes of men between men. Second, women always regard men as shelters, expecting men to provide her with a stable and comfortable life, but it is strange that men will treat women Think of it as a spiritual belief and totem. Many women can’t understand this. Just like the male protagonist said when he confessed to the female protagonist: “Whenever I can’t stand life, I think of you and think of you still there. You support me to get through everything.' Schopenhauer said, it is ridiculous to regard women as a certain object of worship and spiritual belief. However, men are like this, going forward and succeeding. Schopenhauer laughs at men, just to explain himself It’s also been the case. Women are men’s guides, fire, light, and inexplicable beliefs. This force for women to endure everything in life and go on is not as Freud believed. from sex. I can only vaguely say that it comes from the heart. because I do not know why men would be so. "

I was shocked at this speech, because the play work from high school, I and female biological (Including people and hamsters) I have lived together for ten years, and I have never felt that they, or us, are so miraculous and full of divine brilliance. At first, many thoughts came out, thinking that this was a projection, a search for an ideal mother, but then gave up. Goethe said: "Eternal women lead us to ascend." For those who believe this, rational analysis is probably a cruel thing.

In my eyes, a woman is a lovely creature, not so sacred or so utilitarian. If there are some commonalities, it is that they don’t like abstract thinking, they like concrete and beautiful things, they like to communicate with each other, they need love and a sense of security, and they are good at making life warm. Perhaps there is a natural sympathy for the weak and admiration for the strong. I am not a person who pays attention to details and is good at life, so every time I live in Yuanjia, I watch her and her girlfriend help me make the bed, cook with them, prepare sandwiches for spring outing, and eat their snacks. I sigh from the heart: Although the most outstanding experts in every field are men, women make life better, and the warmth of human fireworks is something more eternal than abstract ideals. Imagine that the hero is dying, and can't help but live in Hexiang.

After watching the movie, I remembered another thing. I went to the Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou a while ago. There is an ancestral hall of the Huang family in the temple, which was built as a temple to commemorate the ancestor Huang Shougong's residence. The ancestral hall is filled with fireworks, and on the left and right walls are the list of scholars of the Huang family in Ziyun since the Tang Dynasty. I have read every name. Among the few previous lives I remember, only one was a scholar, and he died young, so I can’t help but envy the scenery of other people’s titles. Thoughts wandered, and suddenly my heart shook, and a voice said: But they are all dead. Come out and walk to the main hall at will, under the two rows of big banyan trees that cover the sky and shade the sun, the scriptures of the Song Dynasty are arranged in sequence. I wanted to shoot the words "Sanglian Dharma Realm" and I was focusing on it. A girl in a red dress walked into the lens. I waited for her to go out, but she stopped moving. I focused on her and found that she was a beautiful girl who looked so lively. But she won't be so young forever, don't you see Gao Tangming Jing's sad white hair, the morning is like blue silk and dusk is like snow. I think of the rising green smoke in the ancestral hall, the beauty of beauty is easy to grow old, the fame is dusty, and what can a person live for a lifetime.

"Once Upon a Time in America" ​​also gave me a similar sense of trance. Thinking back to the life of the hero and many people, there seemed to be nothing but joy, sadness, passion, and hope, coexisting with the vicissitudes of life and nothingness. Whenever the protagonist is alone and the music is played, there is a kind of detached perspective, as if a lifetime has passed, and then looking back at the time, it seems true and illusion. This reminds me of the beginning of "A Hundred Years of Solitude" and "The Story of Your Life". It seems that every fragment can reflect the entire life. Faced with such a short and extremely rich life, there is only silence. After the side view, I feel that so far.

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  • Otto 2022-03-22 09:01:13

    After watching more than 4 hours of film length, it is estimated that many people’s health bars are almost empty. However, it is said that the original film has 6 or even 10 hours, but frankly you don’t think there is much redundant content, after all, it is almost A person's life is condensed into a few hours. Through the interweaving of three timelines from 1921 to 1933 to 1968, the director used several vivid characters to vividly depict the turbulent era of the gangster in the American Prohibition on paper. The uninterrupted telephone ringing at the beginning runs directly through the three timelines. , An extremely awesome narrative operation. If you recall carefully, you will find that the main female characters first have a relationship with Noodles and then with Max. It can be seen that Max has always been jealous of Noodles. Maybe there was really hurt in the street fight? The role played by Connery, who left a glimpse of film history, has always been a relatively secular one, while Noodles, who witnessed the death of his partner in his arms, are idealistic from beginning to end. Fortunately for the national poet, Prohibition is a heavy scar in American history, but it has nourished the art of film.

  • Assunta 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    I'm still young, and I won't pretend to be big in the future. This is the film review, more than three hours of film review. I may give 100 stars in the future, but now, I am still young, so I will not express my position. But why did Noodle do that to Deborah? Why?

Once Upon a Time in America quotes

  • Frankie Minaldi: Hey, Joe, tell these guys the story about the pussy being insured. What is it? Tell these guys how you stumbled on this whole thing. Tell them the story. Come on. Pussy insurance, the insurance pussies. Tell them that story.

    Joe Minaldi: Life is stranger than shit, that's all. It's a pisser. No big story. I got this insurance agent, this Jew kid named David. He conned me into every policy in the world. Every policy, name it, dogs, house, wife, life, anything. I'm drinking with the boys one night. He comes in with his wife, a brunette with a nice ass who works for a jeweller. And he's still on the hustle, this guy. So I wink at the guys, I say, "Look... the most serious policy, you don't have me covered for." He goes, "What's that, Joe?" "Cock insurance. You make me a policy that when it don't work, I get a payment. I'll write out a check now." He thinks, and he says, "I don't know if the actuality gauges govern this... but we can make a policy. But you gotta guarantee you're in good health now." I says, "Look, leave her with me. Come back and see if it stands up. If it stands up, you know I'm in good health." The jerk leaves her. I screw her. Not only that, she likes it. And she tells me when her boss, the jeweller is shipping stones to Holland, where he keeps his stash - in a drawer in the safe - everything! Can't ask for more, right? Except, one better. I never paid the first premium on the new cock policy.

    Max: [laughing] Cock insurance...

    Joe Minaldi: Life is funnier than shit. But... be easy with the girl. I mean that. Be easy with the girl.

  • Dominic: Bugsy's coming! Run!