Anonymous Rating: 9.5/10 #Stand Out#: Literary/Humanity Exploration/Perfect Acting/Profoundness/Details
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【I Know This Much Is True】(I Know This Much Is True) is produced by HBO and will premiere globally on May 10, 2020. The series is set as a limited-level HBO mini-series, with a total of six episodes, each of which is about one Hour-long, starring Mark Ruffalo, one person plays two roles and serves as executive producer. The director and screenplay adaptation of the play was directed by Derek Cianfrance of Blue Valentine.
【I Know This Much Is True】Based on the novel of the same name written by Wally Lamb, the story described takes place in Sanhe, Connecticut, USA in 1990. It revolves around the life story experienced between twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey. Suffering from delusional schizophrenia, which makes life almost incapable of taking care of himself , every detail in the story is delicate and meticulous, and the real life encounters reflect the memories of every ordinary person, giving the viewer an unavoidable sense of oppression, condensed in people's self-reflection on life and family history.
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Wally Lamb's novel of the same name [ I Know This Much Is True ] was first published on June 14, 1998. The book was called "an epic family saga", and was selected for [Oprah's Book Club] in June 1998. (Oprah Book Club), and was named as the best-selling novel of the New York Times in 1999. This is the second novel of American author Wally Lamb. Wally Lamb has always insisted on using literature to tell the truth that is the most real and close to life. Lifetime Story by Wally Lamb, who received the Connecticut Center for the Book's Lifetime Achievement Award for the original book "I Know This Much Is True," and served as Norwich, CT from 1989 to 1998 Director of the Writing Center at Liberty College in Norwich, and Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut. He holds a master's degree in education and a master's degree in English from the University of Connecticut. Since 1999, Lamb has been a volunteer moderator of writing workshops at York Correctional Institute, a maximum-security women's prison in Niantic, Connecticut.
Wally Lamb's debut, She's Come Undone (Her Undone), is also a highly realistic work, describing a woman named Dolores Price who has experienced all kinds of trauma and torture in her complicated life. Push slowly to the brink of pain. [She's Come Undone] focuses on women's personal suffering from the unfortunate elements in women's life including: weight, rape, abusive fathers, wandering mothers, sexual confusion, abortion, misfit, and lack of belonging, etc., Wally Lamb likes to carve women's hearts from the ups and downs of very pure feelings, which makes countless female readers lament the true feelings of exclusive women in the book, and the resonance is full. Likewise, books are imbued with the commonalities of human suffering, leaving the reader impressive and reflective.
From the point of view of restoration, the series met the expectations of the original novel written by Wally Lamb. In addition, in terms of lines and scene details, director Derek Cianfrance retained most of the content of the original novel and complied with Wally Lamb. In terms of expression, the film focuses on inner activities and the common memory of the two brothers. The memory and the real time line start the story together. The whole season of the film is very literary, showing the middle page of the twentieth century in the United States in a figurative and three-dimensional manner. Immigrant/Blue Collar Family History on the back page. In the huge length of nearly 900 pages of the original book, subtle social changes and human nature are captured in a full and thorough manner. What is love and responsibility? Is fate's answer worth seeking out? Choose to hold on or let go? Such doubts are explained in the book with a bitter life.
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Derek Cianfrance, born in Lakewood, Colorado, USA, made his directorial debut in 1998 and directed the feature film "Close Brothers". In 2003, he won the Cinematography Award at the 19th Sundance Film Festival with the action film "Myth of the Black Street". In 2010, the film "Blue Valentine" directed by the film won the 26th Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize nomination for drama. In 2016, the self-written and directed romantic film "Lights Between Oceans" was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the 73rd Venice Film Festival.
Derek Cianfrance is good at photography, editing, screenwriting and directing. At least three films in which he is in charge of writing and directing, including photography, have been released, and in [I know this is true], Derek Cianfrance Try again with three familiar characters and want to be strict about the quality and detail of the entire episode.
[Blue Valentine's Day] is the most dazzling and most directorial one among Derek Cianfrance's many works. [Blue Valentine's Day]'s expression of love and marriage is so powerful that it seems to use the camera as a "recorder". To record a real and heartbreaking life experience, the heart-breaking or fragmented feelings of love in the vastness are related to countless people, even many years later, I am deeply impressed by the tragic experience conveyed by the film. Director Derek Cianfrance Like looking for the law of human nature in the various misfortunes in people's real lives, [Blue Valentine's Day] and [I know it's true] are based on the diversity of human nature, discussing 'people who have expectations for love' How people choose how their lives are changed when they experience the shock of unfortunate fate. Derek Cianfrance is good at focusing on the depths of people's hearts, letting the broken heart speak itself, and focusing on conveying thoughts through body language, creating an atmosphere to wait for the natural development of true feelings.
Every actor, including the extras, performed meticulously on the actors, and the two brothers played by Mark Ruffalo really made people nod and praise their thorough understanding of the script and deep into the play, Mark Ruffalo revealed that he spent nearly a year Read the original book repeatedly, and see the shadow of himself and his family history from the beginning, Mark Ruffalo is a second-generation Italian immigrant in the United States, and his early family also struggled with the hard working class, and suffered from national racial discrimination and family Troubled by mental illness, the family did not become wealthy until the success of the self-made factory created by Mark Ruffalo's grandfather. Damn, there are always sudden sufferings in life that people can't face.
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'Life just like ariver.'
If you have previewed the movie reviews about this show [I know this is true] in advance, you may be influenced by the concept of "mourning" or "depression" mentioned by most moviegoers. First of all, in the author's opinion, this is not It is not a work that should be described as "mourning" or "depression", it is a special and shared journey that permeates the blood of many people, and is about the ups and downs of personal emotions. It is a personal family relationship and interpersonal relationship. memory river. The story of [I know this is true] may be more turbulent than the popular stream of life, but every fate is equally uncontrollable; it is rich and bumpy compared to the flatness of luck, but it all travels through human history and bears the burden of life. The concept of the river of life presented by it is in the same spring as [The River] . The water of waves is all the emotions, attachments, fetters and the changing "answers" about life itself that flowed to the blank ending in the past. Dominick said in the show, "You know, someone told me once that this river is life, and all it's doing is flowing from the past into the future. And just passing us as it goes."
In the play, life is used as a metaphor for rivers/waterfalls many times. In particular, brother Thomas is related to waterfalls/river scenes at many turning points in his life. The course of life is like a river. The upstream and downstream water are the same drop of water. People exist in the present. A brief moment, this moment is like a drop of water in the river. The water drop cannot be seen or felt, let alone grasp the direction, slope and flow of the river. Where it will dry up, there will be obstacles of stones, and the flow will be cut off. Unordered rules that are hard to come by. Some people are born in the sea, and some people are born in the desert and may dry up at any time. How do people find their own position in the journey of life? How to find the answer to reconcile with fate?
The brotherhood of 'Connection' is reflected to the extreme in the film. The relationship between identical brothers surpasses all promises in life. When people are in extreme difficulties, the healthy side still treats them wholeheartedly, and the bleak tone is slow. A touch of warmth is admirable. The mother-son family relationship also shows a strong corner, and it is extremely true to express the obscure and restrained relationship between traditional family relationships. It is worth mentioning that Dominick and his ex-wife meet again, the deep affection and guilt that cannot be avoided in the eyes are moving, the exquisite feelings, and the devoted performance, it is hard to imagine that this drama written in the script is as simple as that.
When director Derek Cianfrance communicated with author Wally Lamb on HBO's radio station, Director Derek said that he has his own unique understanding of this life in the show, and he called his idea "Big Bang Structure", explaining it as the beginning of everything In the emergence of an unimaginable trauma, this play is an example. The story begins with the "sacrifice" ceremony of the elder brother Thomas in the library. Thomas cut off his dominant right hand in front of everyone, as the Middle East war is a national disgrace to God. repayment. Before and after the great choice, the story moves to a double-line expansion, the memory of the past and the expansion of the future. At the same time, the expansion of the Big Bang structure is like the beginning of the universe. Like the beginning of all objects, it is composed of a big bang multi-dimensional The three-dimensional extension constitutes history and creates perception. From such an artistic expression, the audience, like experiencing their own personal growth, recalls the past and imagines the unknown together with the characters in the play.
The author has always believed that good music and good movies have one thing in common, they are a combination of sincere emotions and personal feelings. Among them, when the degree of emotional release and emotional outpouring is closer to the maximum critical value of the work's carrying capacity, the music or movie (television series) is more like a real full spiritual body with the same complexity and sense of existence as life. [ I know it's true] It's such a plump artwork.
It is the author's absolute best viewing experience in 2020, and it is worth watching again and again, and the responsibility and affection between human beings conveyed all the time in the play are constantly implying and reminding me that 'love' is the highest animal Emotional being in the irreparable one-time life experience that Milan Kundera said is very precious, and it makes me deeply recognize that the sincerity and dedication to 'love' is a kind of 'integrity that realizes the meaning of personal life' ' key.
Such a personal story contains similar pains experienced by countless families in an era. Director Derek Cianfrance uses the original author Wally Lamb's "Humanity Record" and "Humanity Excavation" to pave the way for a profound human nature exploration. The two brothers have very contrasting personalities and mental states, but at different stages of life, they show multi-level human kindness to life, and interpret the people they care about, memories, happiness, truth of life, peace, love in their own way. And tolerant of perseverance.
'It WasAllWaterUnder The Bridge, Just Let The Past Lie.'
In the end, it is better to say that this is a story about self-salvation. Life is really hard and long, and redemption is often hidden behind great despair. Especially in 2020, human beings are losing their lives, jobs, and rights. How to look at life-is The key to determining the direction of fate. Everything is attributable from the outside, and life is always like a fate that cannot be grasped and grasped. The play focuses on the use of psychological counselors or the auxiliary role of psychological counseling to make reverse attributions of trauma (it also implies that others counsel or guide in depression.) important role in treatment).
'Fate can be seen as fate, pain as a ladder, loss as a gift, loss as tolerance. 'On the road of self-redemption, people are always depressed and unhappy. Some people forget their original intentions, and some people can't see the end. However, darkness and light will always oppose and coexist. etc.) reconciliation, tolerance, and embracing reality can be an effective way of self-creating a positive future.
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