I am a little helpless about the name of the translation, and it is not entirely accurate. Snow Cake, "snow cake", always reminds me of a bad "snowflake cake" that I ate when I was a child. Very interesting movie about autism. I have seen some movies related to various physical and mental diseases, such as "Amelie" about social anxiety, "Mary and Marx" about Asperger's syndrome, not movies related to diseases must have "Forrest Gump" Biography" is so inspirational, like Zhu Deyong's new book said: "Everyone is sick". Therefore, there is no need for anyone to look at all kinds of people who have been labelled by diseases with sympathy. The story of Snow Cake is a bit tangled. The dull Alex is jailed for killing the driver who killed his son. He has just regained his freedom. He encounters a non-mainstream Lotte girl Vivienne and asks for a ride with him, but he experiences the girl's life again because of a car accident. Guilt-ridden Alex visits her mother with a gift from Vivienne and finds out that the girl's mother, Linda, is autistic...
On the one hand, Alex is taciturn and old and helpless, and on the other hand, Linda is ignorant of the world and talks to himself. The movie seems to borrow Alex's eyes for a large part of the time, watching Linda's every move in a morbid state. She keeps her shoes in order, the rug and the door seam line up, she doesn't allow anyone to touch "her" kitchen or mess up "her" house, although it seems to ordinary people that almost nothing has been touched, we have to admit , Linda is a bit hysterical OCD. But she seemed to have a five-and-a-half-year-old girl in her heart, who would play with glowing toy balls, entangle Alex and build a snowman with her, jump on a trampoline, and lie in the snow and chew without pollution. past snow. Linda is indeed a lunatic, but a lunatic is far more rational than a normal person. When Alex asked her what Vivienne liked most about the funeral, she replied casually, she liked being alive. And when everyone rushed to her house and disrupted everything in her life, she was terrified like a child surrounded by danger. At this time, the music rang, and no one else around her danced an almost crazy dance. The shadow of Vivienne was intertwined in the picture. She was not a monster without emotion, but she chose a different way from ordinary people. A word of condolences that does not hurt or itch, she uses her soul to kiss the joy that passed away. It is true that Linda is an autistic person. In our words, autism is immersed in one's own world, but how can we be sure that we are not sick? If autism is too ignorant of the world around us, then as for us "normal people", the crux is that we ignore our hearts too much. Kind of like The Emperor's New Clothes, where we've undoubtedly been playing hypocritical and cunning characters, and only Linda, with what she thinks, doesn't hide it in the slightest.
I don't dare to judge the girl Vivienne, she is too like an angel, for fear that she can't be written well in words. She dyes her hair, gets tattoos, flirts with strangers recklessly, laughs and sings loudly, and beneath her seemingly bohemian exterior is such a crystal clear heart. She wanted to be a writer, so she found rides on trips with people who seemed to have stories. She has a graffiti book with black and white lines drawing faces made of geometric figures, with the words "The past is a memory, the future is a dream, only at this moment, we truly live" in the margins. Although this girl with thick smoky makeup in the movie may not even have a ten-minute role, she is my favorite character, such a free and useless soul, with innate optimism and kindness Watching all things in the world, all kinds of life. Don't do much evaluation, three words, like her.
Of course, I like this movie too much, it can make me think of a lot of irrelevant things in bits and pieces. I seem to be a viewer who is more obsessed with beautiful images than storylines, so 100 minutes of Snow Cake had so many surprises for me. Linda's shelf is full of sparkling crystal balls, Vivienne's house is so messy and warm, and the twilight when Alex first arrived in Wawa, there is a crane sculpture in the twilight, the orange sky and the blurred outline of the sculpture are heart-warming All warm. Of course, if you think about it, the Chinese translation of the movie title is not so unacceptable. The snow season passerby means Alex. He is not a returnee, but a passing visitor. Maggie, a neighbor woman, said to him, maybe you will not stay, but when you are passing by, I have a good time. When life returns to the original track, he will still leave if he does not belong to the town. He left Linda a cake made of clean snow, and then asked Maggie to help Linda take out the garbage. He did not deliberately change anything, but everything changed. Subtle changes have taken place because of him. He drove away from the town, it was still a dusk, it was still a crane sculpture, and the voiceover was the story Linda told when he and Linda played the alphabet game: "He was completely shocked, the world was so big, and he was so small, he turned around, Looking up at the sky, he said something softly, no one could hear him clearly. He said, Dazlious..."
Do you know what Dazlious means? I don't know, maybe it's the line "Hello Sunshine" sung by a slightly hoarse male voice in the end credits.
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