The most direct impression after watching it is that this is just an acceptable film. On the one hand, because the "Chasing Neruda" I watched on the first day was really good, and this one seemed a bit stiff in every way, I could feel it during the viewing process, which was very much like a new director's imitation and tribute. Although the plot is not inconsistent, there are deliberately artificial conflicts and contradictions, so the overall expression is not particularly natural. The slow motion of the portrait of some characters looked a little funny. At that time, it reminded me of Wong Kar Wai's "Chongqing Forest" and "Fallen Angels". As a result, when I came back and researched, I found that the black director is really a fan of the King of Sunglasses. But if we compare it like this, let's talk about the use of the camera lens, the arrangement of light and shadow, the smoothness of the narrative and the lines. This fan and Wong Kar Wai are about ten blocks away. However, as an art film born in the United States, compared with the commercial films made and processed on the Hollywood assembly line and the romantic and exquisite independent films in New York, it lacks an atmosphere built by the industry model, and is more like a kind of distance from the United States. A product of the filmmaking model. Perhaps because the story takes place in Miami, many scenes and dialogues in the film always remind me of Southeast Asian films, and there is never a shortage of imitations of world art films and explorations of local films.
But it is such a work that seems out of tune with the mainstream American film culture. The script lines and even the actors' performances are raw and tender. It is far from mature or somewhat bland. It always reminds me of certain episodes. It's easy to mentally return to the restaurant and beach at the end of the movie during the meal, sleep, and walk, and from moon to dawn the picture fades out like an oil lamp being burnt dry.
I think maybe this is a certain degree of entanglement because the world in the movie is really too far from the United States where I have lived for the past three years, and it has nothing to do with the tone of the white American teenage life circle in Hollywood movies. In fact, we have very few A rare showcase of the African-American civilian community in the southern U.S. that has received so much attention.
I also originally thought that most of the excellent ratings for this film today are probably dominated by some curiosity and political correctness in the American critics, but now I prefer to believe that the director is committed to planting in the hearts of the audience. Some of the emotions took effect. In the three-part movie structure, there is no doubt that the second part is my favorite. The male protagonist in his youth struggled the most. Although the beach scene started hard, the ending has the taste of some popular youth movies of the same theme in previous years. . The third paragraph itself seems to have only two scenes, but the procrastination at the beginning of the second scene finally helps to round an unfortunate story back to the warm boundary, which is considered to be an impartial achievement.
It's hard for me to stop myself from thinking that the vast majority of local film festival members who attend the festival and fill the auditorium at the same time, the elderly white people who attend the film are excited to watch the film How did I really feel at the time, because I happened to have such an elderly white woman by my side. She prayed devoutly during the few tragedy moments in the whole film, and even left very sad tears, which made me have to believe that many people have already regarded this film as a microcosm of a social event rather than a simple works of art to appreciate. But fortunately, for that purpose, it's worth it.
But this also makes me think: If director Jenkins can't get rid of the flaws in some movie skills purely to imitate idols in his next work, he probably won't be as lucky as this time. Bar.
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