Woman: I watched this movie so dizzy, it was still three hours, if it weren't for my Tang, I really couldn't watch it...
The point is that you didn't understand it!
Female: No one can understand it. Several groups of characters are interspersed, and the key is not regular. What exactly does the director want to explain? Also, the title "Magnolia", I checked, in Western culture, there is no flowery language and too many implicit meanings!
You should understand it this way: flowers, plant sex organs, metaphors, are also related to nature, instinct ...
Woman: Oh, it's like toad rain, it's all romantic and wonderful things...?
That's right! Look again, the speaker played by Xiaotang uses sex to metaphorize success and life . In his concept, everything in life, including emotions, can be expressed as fuck, but he is the direct victim of his father’s extramarital affairs...
Then the use of magnolia in the title of the film is similar to the method adopted by the orator, both using sex or a "thing" to metaphor life and story...
This film discusses nature, human nature, and no one can escape it!
Love and sex are indistinguishable, and in the end, in front of the father’s bed, love and hate are entangled...
Woman: I don't think he knows how to respect and treat women at all, what little bagels are there...huh! I don’t think he knows how to love at all, he only knows sex...
Do you remember what the little prodigy said at the conference? I don’t know what is cute, what is love...
Female: A lot of dialogue and plots in the film are shown around love, but I still can't find any regularity in it. What are the commonalities between these groups of characters and families?
Don't worry, let me take you to analyze it in detail...
Female: Why did that old man, the host of a children's show, sexually assault his daughter ? Is this also called love?
You have to think about it this way. A children’s show host who deals with children for the rest of his life must love children. The kind of love that integrates into his career, family and even life, maybe after drinking, he made a mistake, his hands don’t know. Where it is placed, it will lead to irreversible results...
Female: In other words, he doesn't know how to love , he is confused , right?
So he wants to confess to his wife before dying. The drug and depravity of his daughter is a knot that he and his wife will never untie in their hearts...
Woman: I can understand that, just like the old man with cancer, people who are about to die are also good at words, and most people who are dying will repent. Ask for forgiveness, this might make you feel better!
Everyone is cheating, treating each other as a fool. But does the person who loves you really don't know? They may all know it, but those who love you have been using love to resolve these anger...
It is not until the end of life that you realize that you are the stupidest person. In fact, you can use one sentence to explain:
This is love wrong!
In marriage, all disputes we find can be explained in this way: It’s not that we don’t understand love, can’t love, can’t love...but "love is wrong."
Choosing the wrong object of love is the fuse of the family tragedy...
Woman: Oh. I understand, just like the story in the opening movie, the son committed suicide by jumping off the building, and was shot and killed by the quarreling parents on the way down...
So you see, everything looks like a miracle, is incredible, is a series of question marks... how can it be? ? ? ?
In fact, it all boils down to one reason, love !
Female: The film also mentions accident and necessity
Yes! El Niño is an abnormal weather, and toad rain must also be, ha ha, but it hasn't happened yet. All abnormalities and accidents have almost appeared in the film, no wonder!
Death is inevitable, so at the end of the film, the old man on the hospital bed is still dead, and the suicide was saved by a toad...Of course, he would die in the end. Death is a rule set by God for mankind, unbreakable!
Female: The first three stories are abnormal, including why it rains. The film has never said why, and it’s impossible to say it... Isn’t it too unreasonable?
Oscar has a criterion: it is art, no matter how reasonable! It's not art, how unreasonable!
Female: Oh, but I think your answer is sophistry. The idea of Toad Rain is indeed novel and has bright spots, but what is the connection with the theme of the movie?
Of course I have a specific explanation. Seeing this chaos, all the audience will be in their hearts os: Why should there be toad rain in the sky...? Compare the labels on the previous weather forecast and think about the probability of toad rain?
Woman: Of course it is zero. How could frog rain appear in the weather forecast!
There is a cause, there must be an effect! The director wanted to express a point of view:
All the miracles in this world have a reason!
There will also be toad rain in the sky, and toads can also save people. You see, toads saved a suicide...
Girl, this is too absurd and weird, but it is really amazing! hehe
Just like the first three news stories, right? Everything has a reason, I (the director) will not say, but you (the audience) can find that the reason for all the stories in the film can be attributed to one word, love!
All the miraculous things in the world happen inexplicably, and they happen every day. They all boil down to love or something. If you don’t believe me, look down...
In this society, laws and regulations are everywhere. You make noise at home and affect the rest of your neighbors, so you will often come to your door...
It is illegal for you to take drugs, even if it does not affect others, because there are laws governing you!
Making rules is like setting a traffic light, when the red light stops and the green light goes, it is human society, but what about the reality? Is it in order...?
Woman: Ambulances can still pass through red lights, and various situations will occur when the driver crashes... This is the reality of society!
For the police, the most difficult thing is how to use the law to save these people, not just tying and shackles ...
All the dialogues I talked about appeared in the police's os, right?
Woman: By the way, it suddenly occurred to me that this is what the ending credits mean, right? The heroine was wearing white protective clothing to prevent suicide and self-harm . When faced with a loving policeman who proposed to her, she was moved to tears...
That's right! What else can the girl in the film say besides saying yes?
Note: The police metaphors the law in the film !
From the three legendary cases at the beginning of the film to the end of the film, including the police's consistent os, all show that this film not only analyzes human nature and love, but also explores the method of saving the world, that is, the law...
We look at this girl: bound by laws and regulations, ideas, and all public order and good customs, she cannot embrace the law with open arms, but she already understands the meaning of the law...
The true meaning of the law is to influence and let those who violate the law appreciate the power of love!
Because human society is full of love!
Female: Wow, it turns out that the ending film is such a lens language, which is interesting! Also, before, the patrolman had conversations with black children and black women, and afterwards received noise complaints and went to the girl’s house to patrol...
We have to think about this one-to-one state of law and civilians, either at the top, or with mutual suspicion, mutual prevention, and mutual distrust... and in the following plot, the police and the drug addict are dating girls and impress the girls with love in exchange for it. The other party’s understanding.
The police, that is, the law, this relationship to civilians clarifies the theme of the play:
How can the law better regulate the wanton and vicious human nature?
Woman: Human nature is like a toad rain in the sky, it can't hold back, it needs to be vented!
That's it, there must be an effect if there is a cause!
Love is the foundation of human nature! Then the law must also be based on love, and the people must feel the temperature of love!
Female: Ha, well said! In addition, I found that the dialogue between the police officer and the girl was full of misunderstandings and was full of wit. It turned out that there were metaphors and ideas, absolutely!
We must see the causal relationship between dialogue, and love, these two elements!
The film is nearly three hours, a large number of plots and characters shuttle back and forth...
But if we can find these two elements, even if you understand this movie, no matter how many characters there are in the plot, it will never leave its origin...
Female: Love, and cause and effect ? !
That's right! People must be full of curiosity about the world. You can only be curious and wonder why you have to frog rain, in order to improve your thinking in this film!
Woman: But I'm still a little dizzy... But my favorite scene is Xiao Tang turning somersaults. That muscle is like a beating hormone. It's so fascinating... When he asked if it had been filmed, reporter Always say no...Haha, it was a waste to let him button up the interview in the end...
Haha, this is the director's deliberate arrangement. On certain occasions, we must sit in a precarious manner, obey public order and good customs and the aesthetic needs of the public. They are scheduled and arranged, just like puppets...
Let’s look at the three children in the intelligence game. They were talking and laughing in the background. They were clever and clever. When they came to the stage, the little girl and the little fat man said nothing. They gave up the right to speak to the little prodigy, but that child But pee...
Woman: It should be the host of the competition who will not let them speak and answer, and can only be an escort team...
That's what I mean! So in the end, boys and girls have also said dirty words... But what, can it mean that they must be bad kids?
Female: But definitely not the parents and teachers, including the good kids in the eyes of the police...
Yes, you see these people are like this, depressed, tight, like holding urine...
That's right, these people need to be released too much. I think these groups of characters are like this, as are neurotic women who buy medicine. They are going crazy...
This is suppressing humanity! All kinds of suppression will prevent you from venting out and suffocate you to death !
Only when I'm dying, I don't vomit or feel good. Or being sneaked by your family and lover... But before you die, you have to confess and spit out bitter water. Hey, why bother?
It’s not enough to analyze and show humanity. Let’s discuss what other thoughts the director wants to convey...
Female: There must be an effect if there is a cause! I now understand the meaning of what you said!
The director just wanted to emphasize the basic principles of everything in the world ... based on human nature, based on love, right!
That's right! That's it. There is inevitable in accident, and love is inevitable ! Human nature is inevitable! Just like life and death, it is inevitable that there is no escape!
What is inevitable, can not hold back, you shack him, suppress him, you can only make people twisted and crazy !
How many lunatics and mental illnesses we saw in the film, watching them restraint in front of the camera, restrained in front of reporters, restrained in public and in front of strangers... But in the end they will explode!
Regardless of whether an adult or a child, regardless of their status and occupation, whether they break in or enter over the wall, they are ultimately for love, for venting, for making themselves better... This is because of human nature and can never be changed!
Woman: I remember that after the police left the girl’s house, they thought of making that request: a date !
Yes, it’s the same for drug addict girls, you can’t explain whether that’s the effect of drugs,
In short, love is a physical and psychological need, human instinct, and inevitable!
With so many big toads in the sky, can you hold them back if you don't let them fall?
Female: Haha, yes, they all need to vent! Tell me about the structural characteristics of the film, several groups of characters interspersed with narratives, and another part of the film that feels fake. Why do you sing together? Is this also art ?
In addition to the Golden Globe Award, this film has also won multiple nominations for Oss. So you can rest assured that films at this level are undoubtedly art!
Female; then you can tell me...
Let's say that the characters in the film are interspersed, what are the commonalities in the editing process ?
I feel that emotion is a very important aspect. Either laugh together or cry together, depressed together, and struggle together... In addition, the director uses montage techniques to schedule and switch between shots and characters. In short, it makes people look not tired or annoying, although they don’t understand. But I can keep watching...
Haha, that's pretty good! Indeed, the editing points of multi-threaded narratives mostly react emotionally. Anyone who learns screenwriting knows that, in fact, watch these little tricks more on TV shows, a little bit of savvy, you can sum up by yourself, you don’t need to learn from anyone! And what I'm talking about now is what I can't learn in books and school, and I have never heard of it...
Female: That is that. Are you a master?
Hmm, Yo Xi! Let’s see that the adjustment of emotions and the unification of pace are used as editing points for multiple clues. Then even if I use tricks, there will be a sense of similarity and pretentiousness. If we sing or tune the same piece of music,
Everyone hummed and murmured the same well-known melody. Has this emotional tuning reached a true inner consistency? !
Woman: Wow, although it's a bit fake, it's very romantic!
Frogs are falling out of the sky, are you afraid of fakes? ! Art, art!
Female: Yes, yes! I forgot about this again, ha ha...
Isn't the title just a hint, three legendary cases, these are all foreshadowing. The tone of the film is romantic and full of fantasy , making the audience wait for the miracle to happen...
Woman: Oh, it's true if you want to say that, it's okay! As you said, the movie looks at artistic techniques and ideas...
There is also a more critical role:
Is it really useful for the law to use handcuffs and various systems to restrain people's emotions? The best way is to let everyone quiet down and enjoy the music quietly together. That is the real tuning and relaxation, and order will be established... right?
Woman: Oh, what a romantic interpretation! Also, I remember now, no wonder those people cry under the traffic lights. Does this also have such a metaphor?
That's right! Pay attention to the state of several people under the traffic light: confused, confused, crying...
At this time, the traffic lights also symbolize laws and various systems including morality, public order and good customs...
Female: There is also a lens language. I remember a long lens. Follow the shot. From the time the child prodigy and father stepped into the TV station, in the long corridor in the background, the camera moved around following the characters in front, and eventually fell on the main characters. ...
What's next? Did the protagonist call his wife, and that woman answered the phone at home, thus ending the long shot and completing the scene switching...
Woman: Yes, it seems like this...
The director's thoughts are all expressed through the lens! That's why I want to emphasize the causality of this film !
The director just wanted to explain that everything is there to be found, no matter how tortuous it is? Even in another time and space, they will be contacted by a telephone line...This is called cause and effect.
Woman: Oh, I remembered, Xiaotang asked his father who was lying in the hospital bed with tears, why didn't he make a phone call ... What a karma! Now it turns out that this long lens is a master of thought paving , which is really imaginative!
Well, these are all related, but only the top critics can see these ways!
Love and causality run throughout, similar to a dialogue: I need to love someone too much, but I don’t know who to love?
We humans don’t need love, don’t want to love...but we love wrong, don’t know who to love, don’t know how to love, and cannot distinguish love from hate...
All the reasons are attributed to one word: love!
Only with love can you produce all kinds of fruits... Magnolia, a metaphor for a child prodigy in Western literature, also has miracles and legendary meanings!
Woman: When small soup, which is the orator to visit his father for what has been a camera in the room corridor, facing Butler , at this time can only hear the sound outside the house of a small soup ......?
The director is to make the audience feel engrossed. Isn’t Xiao Tang always unprepared, afraid to see his father, hesitated... It’s okay, the audience will accompany him, let’s wait together, you want to see Xiao Tang, he wants to see his father, both Don't worry... appreciate this feeling, anyway, Xiaotang will meet with his father sooner or later...
Oh, that's what it meant! Haha, the director is so original!
Have you noticed that there are many subjective shots in this film, blocking the audience’s sight, at this time metaphorically communicating with the audience...
Every lens placement has knowledge! Say you don't understand art, don't be convinced, what is art, what is film appreciation , you will understand after watching more!
Woman: Then look at the plot again. After the old man died, the dog died too... What's the face of this scene?
You have to imagine that if this incident spreads, everyone will spread it like this. The dog left with the owner, so touching... Of course, the audience knows that it was the dog who accidentally swallowed the pill that fell on the ground... But outsiders don’t know, and must interpret this magical thing as "love"!
Female: Haha, it is true, dog fans are like this! So this plot is somewhat contradictory to love, which is the theme of the whole show?
Hehe, you are wrong! Can't you see love when the pills are scattered on the ground? In addition, because we have love in our hearts, the world in our eyes is full of love. Love is something that we humans cannot lack. Therefore, we are willing to use love to explain all miracles. Isn't that true?
Female: Really! This world is full of love! Just like the rain that day, I always feel the meaning of "rain and dew"!
So, why is there toad rain in the sky? There must be a wonderful explanation or legend that the director will not tell, but the audience may be able to think of that romantic word, love!
Female: Ha, I believe that if it really rains, all writers and artists will start to present the most romantic and loving legends and stories...
Well, there are actually many artistic techniques in this film. For example, the policeman's os is mixed with the background sound, and the sound is very small. If you read the picture according to the picture, you can find the metaphor, just four words: say less , do more ! ……The so-called Be well, Do good
Female: There is a plot that I would like to ask. When a little child prodigy came to his father's bed late at night and said: You have to be nice to me , his father just lay on the bed and let the child go to sleep in a daze...
This is called Sony Ericsson . Everyone needs love, it's normal! As a father, you have to love me, and you can’t ignore my feelings. The boy finally screamed...
Pay attention to the picture, the male protagonist sent the child away in a dizzy manner, and the child left sad...At this time the lens language came out:
No one does not need love, and no one always refuses to "give others and love" unless "the dead and the sleeping people"
You: That's true, people really can't fall in love if they fall asleep... Haha, interesting!
Woman: In that case, what does the dead man in the cabinet mean?
Hehe, can the superior police (law) solve the case? Can you not throw the gun?
Woman: Oh, that's it, haha, that makes sense!
In fact, there are lens language and subtext here. If you are a junior movie fan and want to understand this movie, you often need to work hard, ten or a hundred times, and you may not be able to understand the director's thoughts. And our four-dimensional integrated pull sheet analysis method is to provide you with a solution, with less effort!
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