The first movie of the new year:
After May (Something in the Air), a post-adolescent film. Excellent photography and scene scheduling, the paintings in the movie are very touching. Amazing 70's music, quickly grabbed the movie soundtrack and listened to it. It can be seen that the director has a great sense of beauty and music appreciation.
The organization in the first half was rather chaotic, with a lot of scenes of the May Revolution, actors blindly chanting slogans, burning houses, and undressing. The director wanted to explain too much, so he made it into a personal memory documentary. The characters have become human props against the background of the era. The movie is not a big bag, you can load any material in 2 hours.
The midfield is getting better. Lola Créton looked for the male lead in the room until he finally jumped off the building. A series of shots with the Why Are We Sleeping soundtrack intuitively expressed the character's heart and sense of age. Using the most powerful expressive tool in film art, without a single line, it is smooth in a few minutes, and it hits the audience's senses in one go, which is amazing. Compared to the previous hour's string of philosophical confessions, it's all bullshit. Since then, the director has seized the main contradiction and produced many similar wonderful scenes. In the last farewell scene where the male protagonist walks into the movie screen, when the song Decadence is played, the beauty is horrifying.
When the director expresses the hearts of several protagonists against the background of music and pictures, the artistic conception is vivid on the paper. The choice of characters is inseparable from the era, and the most emotional records of that era are those works of art that never fade. Other than that, the textual expressions are all at the end. The irony is that this film actually won the Golden Lion for the best screenplay.
I can see the confusion of saying goodbye to idealism. Grow up, we will meet somewhere someday.
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