"You don't want to be remembered?"
"I don't want them to be told to remember me."
What a melodious and sweet movie! When the final note is set, APrairie HomeCompanion, the final episode of the live radio music show will forever be remembered; including, of course, featuring her film of the same name.
It's a farewell trip to a small town in Minnesota, a sad one. Every singer, backstage staff member, security guard, and even their family members who have participated in this 30-year-old radio evergreen show will never forget it. However, when the two surviving women whose four sisters had performed here for a long time could not control their thoughts and discouraged the director GK from giving a farewell speech to the audience and audience, GK said the above. Yes, he only sees the show as his job, even though he is the pillar of the show, even though he might prefer to be remembered. So this finalshow still starts and ends as usual.
Don't think "APrairieHomeCompanion" is a pure comedy, and don't think it's a musical that she relies on from beginning to end to be bright, funny, or familiar country music. It's not even a specific feature film. This is a movie that combines all the joys and sorrows, all the emotions. She made me feel warm and sentimental. I am smiling tearfully.
Robert Altman, the 81-year-old director who won the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, uses his skillful narrative technique to perfectly and balance these diverse and colorful characters, and at the same time, perfectly control the audience's emotions. APrairieHomeCompanion, is a radio music show and a stage of life. Sometimes we don't need to trace a person's history to understand his character and emotions. Just like this short one-and-a-half hour performance, from the sister flower singer who cooperates well with the sister's daughter - the little poet who prefers to think about death, from the funny brother group to the show's life - tonight's peaceful The old singer who died in the lounge, from the director GK who directed and sang by himself, to the performance director who was pregnant and afraid to get angry, from the serious security guard to the radio owner who decided to turn this performance area into a parking lot, of course, also There is the "Angel of Death" who always wears a white trench coat and is expressionless but not fearful... Everyone's personality and temperament are fully expressed in the long shots and the closed theater backstage. .
Undoubtedly, the film shows life or death, continuing or leaving, but she brings no gesture of great joy or great sadness. Instead, I feel so sweet. It seemed that at that moment there was no fear of death or complacency in approval. The only thing left, maybe only a little parting nostalgia. She is full of all the joys and sorrows of life, yet she is so delicately expressed. Yes, she told us, life will go on no matter what. As Lindsey Lohan sheds iconic performances like "MeanGirls" and "Just Myluck" and plays the poetess with real acting skills, she sees real death as she contemplates death with brushstrokes; this encourages She finally boldly faced the audience and sang her own song in the last three minutes. She is still young. At the end of the film, the performance canopy is dismantled. She works, is busy, and continues to live; the four older elders finally sat in the coffee shop next to them, and the "Angel of Death" slowly approached , yes, their lives are also a little more crises, and they are still going on.
As for us, having appreciated her unique sensibility and warmth, we should have more expectations for life.
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