But the film "Wendy and Lucy" I'm going to talk about today is different from the usual road movie genre. It has no freedom and happiness, no blood and friendship. The protagonist just embarks on a long way to make a living. Dystopian, its exploration of loneliness goes straight to the 1984 French film Paris, Texas.
Most road movies are stories of several friends or lovers traveling together on the road, but this one is different. Just imagine, what if road travelers travel alone without a partner? There must be a lot of trouble. Even more unfortunately, the protagonist of this road trip is a girl, or rather, a girl named Wendy and a puppy named Lucy. The social role of women who cannot guarantee their own safety makes this wandering not only embarrassing. , and dangerous.
Not long after the beginning of the film, the car that the protagonist needs to travel breaks down, which temporarily dashes her desire to make a living in Alaska. In a remote town, the destitute Wendy wants to feed her dog Lulu. Xi stole dog food from the convenience store, but was found by the clerk and sent to the police station. After several trials and fines, he regained his freedom. But when she came out, the dog Lucy disappeared. Wendy searched anxiously. By the time she found Lucy, Lucy had been adopted by a rich local. embarked on a journey.
The film was produced in 2008, at the time of the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States. The economy was hit hard, jobs were reduced, and young people were unemployed. The original idealistic genre film can only be described as "miserable" in a bad year. . In "Wendy and Lucy", we don't see the liberal romantic spirit left over from the hippies of the 1960s in America, but instead there is a kind of realism, when we think Wendy's car broke down is her most traveled In a bad situation, Lucy left her again, and fate seemed to let her experience a deeper loneliness in order to let her appreciate life as it was.
The movie is almost a one-man show of Wendy's Michelle Williams, who used her superb acting skills to live a homeless stranger. This kind of wandering and helpless mood can easily resonate with the audience with the help of the film's simple and tranquil narrative technique. The film does not have complicated photography and scene scheduling, there are many quiet long shots, and almost no soundtrack is used. The life style makes the film Like a documentary.
In addition to the wandering of literary road movies, the film also conveys a very strong sense of loneliness of modern people. With the enrichment of material wealth, human beings are more and more dependent on the development of science and technology, and the relationship between people and society is getting farther and farther. Like most modern people, Wendy in the film has been torn between longing for loneliness and fearing loneliness. Wendy chose to go to the faraway Alaska to find a livelihood, which is her desire to survive alone; and her spiritual sustenance Lucy also left by accident, making her afraid of loneliness again.
The final ending of the film seems to be that the main creator of the film provides a way out for people who are eager to find a spiritual destination when human beings continue to fall into a state of loneliness and despair, just like what Haruki Murakami did in "Norwegian Forest". As shown, the breakthrough to get out of the lost forest may be to face loneliness bravely and embrace loneliness bravely.
In the film, there is a scene of birds flying. When Wendy's car is declared to be scrapped, Wendy looks at the sky outside the window. The bird expresses her dream of breaking out of the predicament. However, human beings cannot fly as high as birds, only Being able to find an exit in reality, Wendy learned to be forbearance and completeness in the separation from Lucy. Facing the boundless road ahead, she could only go on more firmly and become stronger.
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