It is the hardest thing to truly be able to grow both emotion and order. In this regard, I think Gus Van Sant is a consummate master. I knew him earlier from the "The Elephant" about school shootings. That strong sense of order immediately caught my eye. Scattered clips of several parallel lines + first-person perspective + fully non-fictional life clips = school shooting. It's simple, it's very simple. When I look at the ingredients, I feel that this film is very easy to be dry, dry without plot, or simply unintelligible with literature and art, but this film can be exciting. His recent film "Paranoid Park" further consolidated the particularly difficult line of "juvenile delinquency documentary".
I wondered why such a grim and monolithic subject could be recorded so objectively by him, with such a strong subjective emotional color--isn't it contradictory? But he does it with ease, and that's where the charm of his lens comes from. The hard work of editing in "Psychedelic Park" is better than "The Elephant". The cold and confused picture style reminds me of his little joke in "Paris, I love you Paris, je t'aime". The green European flavor is crisp and neat, and the misplaced language barrier makes the short-lived relationship between the two male protagonists extremely charming - what I want is his simplicity, better than Ang Lee's immortal sissy in Brokeback Mountain It's much better to procrastinate. (Lust, Caution, Broken Back, I'm fed up with this unmanly thing, a man will die at one point, bro!~)
No nonsense, let's get to the point - school shootings and fantasies.
Today I think of Gus Van Sant and this theme because I watched another good film: "The life before her eyes". It tells a story that is equally psychedelic and factual—the child who spilled her youth on sex and marijuana, the school shooting, and the life she imagined shattered both inside and out fifteen years later.
I have been writing articles with fantasy as the only theme, but it is actually not a good thing. The reason why the weak become weak is because he is afraid that he cannot make changes in the real world, so he simply removes all his interventions. Some people think that just not wanting setbacks is not enough, so they invent fantasy and live in a perfect and illusory world. One of the three giants of Japanese animation, Katsuhiro Otomo, has produced a "Her Memories", which can be regarded as a leader in fantasy themes. Its ending leaves a huge question mark for everyone-
if the fantasy world never ends Shattered, will you still choose reality?
"Life in front of me" depicts the fantasy, worry and collapse of this woman (mother) with two extremely complicated lines fifteen years ago and fifteen years later. The subject matter is all very old-fashioned, but the editing and script shocked me, far beyond my expectations. The intensity of the documentary and the corresponding shock reminded me of Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides" ”, and the breadth and depth of the sensitive topics involved are well distributed within the short film length of just over two hours, and they are well-proportioned.
This is very, very difficult. Let me list the topics it covers: abortion and sin, maternal love (the protagonist experiences two identities as mother and daughter in two periods of time), choices in life, violence (school shootings), guilt.
Just pick one and you can make a movie, and you can imagine how difficult it is to squeeze all of them together. What I like the most about it is that it's still patchwork, and there's a lonely warmth to every shot—every character is left out. It's like the warm-toned garden at the beginning of the film. You can't tell if it's a negative fantasy, or a little hope left for you to talk to and comfort. It's just ambiguity and ambiguity that pierces your heart.
A lot of people don't understand what's going on at the end of this story. They're arguing about it. It's totally boring. It's a story about fantasy and violence. Do you think it's more marijuana or blood? What about some? I don’t want to have any spoilers. The most boring thing about writing a movie review is spoilers. If you are interested in going back and watch it yourself, I will not explain the ending, and my thoughts are a little different, which reminds me of another story…
At the end of the day, that's half amniotic fluid, half cartridge case gestation for American teenagers.
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