The experience of chasing trains may not be for everyone, but most people have experienced packing up and setting off.
"Crossing Darjeeling" can be regarded as an early work by Wes Anderson, with sweet and greasy colors, and the symmetrical aesthetics is still outstanding. Those panning shots, humorous dialogues, and extreme details all show Anderson's distinctive personal style and ghostly temperament.
At the beginning and the end of the movie, there are slow motions of catching up with the train. With the background music of The Kinks, the journey is a mess at the beginning and the end. I can’t wait for the time to freeze and the slow motion replays back and forth. Of course, the journey may not be all romance and surprises, and so is the Darjeeling. The accidents, accidents, and frustrations that follow make people embarrassed. In an unfamiliar world in an unfamiliar city, risks and accidents are unpredictable, and loneliness and wandering go hand in hand.
However, no matter what kind of travel it is, those scenery, accidents and surprises will be deposited as memories. The important thing is to throw away the baggage and run again.
The story tells about a spiritual journey of the three brothers in India. In order to meet their mother who has not been seen for many years, the boss Francis carefully took the lead in the arrangement and even hired a traveling personal assistant.
Since the father’s funeral, the three brothers have not seen each other for a year. The eldest son Francis is disfigured in a car accident. The second child Pete is about to become his father. The third child is heartbroken because of love. with.
Francis is tyrannical and will not ask for opinions, but will force the other two brothers to order food; the second child, Pete, is melancholy and emphasizes that he is his father's favorite child, and privately took a lot of his father's things; the youngest Jack is neurotic and will secretly check his girlfriend's home The answering machine's message still emphasized that the characters in his novel are fictitious. The three brothers don't trust each other, they endure each other's stinking problems, and the two betray little secrets.
The three violated rules repeatedly on the train, and were finally kicked off the train for fighting to disturb the order. Assistant Brandon left because he was humiliated by Francis, and the trip was interrupted.
However, it also happened that because of this accident, the three brothers rescued two children who fell into the water and were therefore invited to participate in a local custom funeral in India. Compared with their father's funeral a year ago, they felt the warmth of unity at this funeral in India, recovered their long-lost inner peace, and finally found themselves.
The three brothers decided to continue their journey and go to see their mother. Still, the mother still did not give the three brothers the maternal love expected. Instead, there was a silent communication and a regular agreement.
This silent communication with the mother was switched from the faces of the three brothers and the mother to Wes Anderson's shifting lens, to the last carriage of the Darjeeling, which contained loneliness. , There is confusion, joy, and ecstasy. The rumbling train continues to move forward, never stopping.
The three brothers tried to find the answer. However, the confusion, confusion, confusion and even pain and failure have not gone away. What makes people relieved in the end is the courage and determination to accept all the unknowns and changes in life.
There is a religious ritual of peacock feathers in the movie, which requires the three brothers to perform together in an open and beautiful place.
However, various accidents always happen unexpectedly. The ritual has twists and turns, and it has almost been abandoned. Until finally, under the gentle breeze on the top of the Nepalese mountain, the three brothers completed the ritual with the last remaining peacock feather, drawing a perfect picture for the trip. Full stop.
This peacock feather ritual may be to pray and make a wish, or to achieve inner peace through the ritual, or it may be the same as the trip through Darjeeling by the three brothers. It is meaningless in itself. The important thing is that this ritual and this The trip tied the three together.
Along the way, they saw the beautiful scenery and tasted the unexpected sorrows and sorrows. The unique smell, light, texture and touch, as well as the words of people lingering in their ears, constituted the three brothers' uniqueness to that land. memory.
During the whole trip, various precise arrangements were disrupted, and the expectant motherly love was also in vain. These accidents and uncertainties made people worry and felt disappointed. But it was precisely because of these accidents that the three brothers gained mutual trust and broke through the barriers until they found themselves. When the three brothers chased the return train and dropped all their father’s bags, they also put aside their obsessions and burdens, turned around, and returned to their lives. The original life will also be a new life.
I wrote the ending of the story, but I don't know how the story started. Unexpected accidents, accidents, and surprises will remain in my heart as memories and will become the rhythm of the continuous advancement of life.
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