What is tragedy? Tragedy is to show you the living destruction of what you think is beautiful. "Blue Valentine's Day" is regarded as the most successful love tragedy this year. It can almost completely subvert one's attitude towards love and marriage. In the eyes of most people, love and marriage are extremely beautiful things, and what "Blue Valentine's Day" expresses is the deep despair of love and marriage. The whole film is indulged in a melancholic atmosphere, and the film The cold violence in China is even more depressing. Dean and Cindy’s marriage continued to escalate and deteriorate in the face of real-life problems and irreconcilable conflicts, and finally sent their marriage to the grave.
The film uses a two-line cross narrative to unfold the film. One line is based on real time and space, describing that after Dean and Cindy entered the sixth year of marriage, their marital status gradually deteriorated, and this emotional line is constantly going down. The other line is that six years ago, Dean and Cindy went from acquaintance to marriage. At this time, their love is getting stronger and sweeter. This emotional line is constantly going up. It is the two clues that go in the opposite direction intertwined. The film has produced a huge emotional gap. It was once embarrassing. Compared with the initial happiness and the final pain, the film pours cold water on people who long for love and longing for marriage. Time is a terrible thing, and the promised vicissitudes of life are no match for time. Facing the gradual indifference of feelings, the weighing and trade-offs between facing reality, and facing their different life concepts, Dean and Cindy can only be like the end of the film. The same goes back to the road, drifting away.
The divorce rate in the United States has long been ranked first in the world. According to statistics in 2008, about 60% of marriages in the United States ended in divorce. The high divorce rate reflects many social problems in the United States, and "Blue Valentine's Day" It is a very important analysis of part of the problem with images. It is appropriate to classify "Blue Valentine's Day" as a realist film. It does not express its theme too exaggeratedly. It is actually unwilling to face it when it is extreme. The opposite of what we thought was beautiful. The 60% divorce rate in the United States also strongly supports this movie. The root cause is part of the commonality of humans, and the other part of the social problems of the United States. It is well known in the United States. The degree of sexual openness of people is extremely high, and sexual openness has brought many social problems on a large scale, such as single-parent family problems caused by unmarried first pregnancy, marriage loyalty issues, etc., while the domestic democracy and freedom of the United States Concepts also cover marriage. People have a high degree of freedom to divorce. In addition, due to the short history of the United States, it is difficult to form some deep-rooted traditional concepts or morals. Therefore, the traditional moral concepts that bind marriage are very weak in the United States. Without moral barriers, the divorce rate will naturally increase. Economic issues are also an important factor. The developed economy of the United States makes it easier for individuals to survive, so the economic barriers after divorce will be weakened to a large extent, which will make divorce fears less. These generalizations are also more or less reflected in the film, and another reason is the commonality of human beings, which is the conflict of ideas and the influence of some practical problems. "Blue Valentine's Day" can be regarded as a typical case of American marriage tragedy, and this realist movie is very cruel and presents these problems to us in trivial ways.
The color tones of the film are extremely colorful. The combination of cold and warm colors in the film enhances the artistic appeal of the whole film. Most memories are yellowish and warm colors with the taste of sugar water. In reality, they are used. Cool colors such as green and blue that have been tuned. The director of this film is extremely successful in grasping the overall film. The methodical melancholic statement strengthens the overall temperament of the film. The bold performances of the two actors also add to the film a lot, and the film is named NC-17. In an interview, Michelle Williams said in an interview: "After 10, 20, 30 years, re-judging this movie, I am very curious about which level it will belong to." The rating of this film is obviously yes. Some time later, the erotic shots in the movie are not erotic for the sake of eroticism, but an auxiliary element of the story. Although this affects the box office of the movie, the artistic level of the film is not compromised in the slightest.
"Blue Valentine's Day" has always maintained a melancholic temperament. It has no angry screams or expressions full of personality. It just keeps making statements, melancholic and sad detailed statements. In the film, Dean and Cindy have never had a big conflict, but every sentence of their dialogue makes people feel a kind of depression and cold violence. We can feel that they are hurting each other, but this kind of hurt is not direct and acute. It is a chronic injury. This long unpleasantness not only depresses the film, but also makes viewers feel a chill. The sweet "once" interspersed in the film has worsened the marital status of Dean and Cindy in reality. Become sad.
Some people say that marriage is the tomb of love, but if there is no marriage, love is a place where there is no burial. This is an optimistic and ridiculous attitude, because it is impossible for most of us to avoid this so-called "grave". "Blue Valentine's Day" does not allow us to reject marriage or avoid love, it is just a statement. , State damn love, state some social issues. Even at the end, we can still see Dean’s love for Cindy. "Blue Valentine's Day" just chooses a melancholy way to express some realistic problems, so that people can feel and feel it and think about it. We can’t go because of it. Despair of marriage and love, but should appreciate such an excellent work of art with an artistic, rational, and mature attitude.
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