【Wonder Wheel】
1. The film will be released in North America on December 15, 2017. By some chance, I saw it in New York ahead of time. The Chinese translation name is not clear should be called Ferris wheel.
2. The script of the movie is generally a good life imagined, or to meet the needs of human beings that cannot be met in reality, such as superpowers, changing the world, and hard work will be rewarded. And this movie is completely different. It speaks of reality, and reality is often imperfect. Because people who are too real are often unwilling to be mediocre and unable to change.
3. In the film, Kate Winslet plays a remarried middle-aged young woman who was once an actress and is unwilling to be a waitress and her husband who she does not love. So it's up to Micky to get him out of it. Micky, a NYU student who spent summers working as a lifeguard on Coney Island, was accidentally attracted to Kate, a thirty-nine-year-old woman, and began an extramarital affair.
4. Kate seems to be holding on to a life-saving straw, hoping that the young book writer will get rid of her mediocre and boring husband. Seriously, it's too realistic. In reality, too many people want to change but don't have the courage. They can only hope for another man to get rid of this man. Countless times I've asked a friend of mine why he didn't break up because he didn't like it, and the answer has always been that he couldn't find a better one.
Most of people's troubles come from unwillingness to accept their own mediocre reality, but they do not have the ability and courage to make changes.
5. But Micky was not that into her. He hesitated when Kate stole her husband's savings to buy him expensive gifts. Kate's love is too heavy, because there is a yearning for changing his life, and he is afraid that he will not be able to return it. Kate's love was putting too much pressure on him to suffocate him. Micky ends up falling in love with Carolina, daughter of Kate's husband and ex-wife
6. Woody Allen is like telling about his life. He once said that he grew up under the Ferris wheel in the amusement park on Coney Island. NYU dropped out of school, and Kate's current husband, the middle-aged man Humpty, more or less left behind Woody's own shadow. And these characters, plus Carolina and Kate, their fate is like the Ferris wheel that keeps repeating in the film, It's just a repeating of my mediocre destiny and my stubborn life. Even if I see hope, it will eventually fall to the bottom. There is no wonder ever.
7. At the end of the film, I thought Kate would commit suicide by jumping into the sea on the beach, ending his mediocre life and his almost hysterical soul. But I was wrong, Woody Allen is neither Frank Darabont nor Hitchcock. In the end, all the characters will continue to silently continue their life without poetry and distance, only the present and the future.
The PS tone is still a surprise like Midnight in Paris, much like Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love", but it's also a little different, and it's worth savoring carefully.
You don't need to indicate the source when reprinting, just say you wrote it yourself.
View more about Wonder Wheel reviews
