It's a world where no freaks can survive

Deontae 2022-03-20 09:02:35

Why are the last few seasons of The Big Bang Theory so bad?

Because the characters in it are no longer freaks, they all become normal people around you who get married and have children. For the audience, or for the general public, their screen meaning is gone, so the theme has become a warm family scene comedy, and it's no wonder that such a series doesn't go downhill.

Whether it's "Favorite Starry Sky" or "Gate of Eternity", they all try to interpret the freak Van Gogh into a normal person. In these two works, Van Gogh's conscious image is infinitely approaching the direction of Christ Jesus, and he almost has a halo behind his head. This is to become a god! Just because he's a freak who succeeds after death? Is it necessary to incorporate his world and the ideological direction acceptable to the mainstream public? From these two works, a glimpse of the appreciation level of Americans is really not superficial and sad.

In fact, from the viewing point of view, it can be said to be very comfortable. Whether it is post-grading or tilt-shifting, the expressiveness is very good. Some of the stream of consciousness shots can also be said to be in line with Van Gogh's style. But the moment Hannibal and Willem Dafoe begin to discuss Van Gogh's self-knowledge, the force of the film falls from the clouds to the ground. Originally expected to be Willem Dafoe's immortal work in his later years, it seems too optimistic. No matter how good the performance is, it is helpless to encounter a script like shit.

If "Love Starry Sky" is a feast of French dazzling skills on 7 or 8 wheels, then "Gate of Eternity" can be said to be a silver plate served in a crystal vessel by a waiter in a white glove tuxedo When the lava cake was served, you moved your index finger, and couldn't wait to pierce the brown cake shell. The result was stool. This is the look and feel of the second half of the film.

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Why can't lunatics do good things? Why do you have to find a high-sounding reason for Van Gogh's madness?

If you want to paint anything, you must try your best to decorate it. This virtue is really human nature, regardless of national boundaries.

Whether it is a painter or a singer, the real value of a work is not blown out by such a movie.

No matter how beautiful the film is, it can't compare to one-tenth of the shock of facing his paintings.

Four-star rating, one star for Willem Dafoe's acting + photography + cast, and the other three stars for the easter eggs at the end of the film, this is the most moving place.

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  • Alivia 2022-03-30 09:01:09

    Perhaps like the (daringly) repainting of Van Gogh's painting in the movie, this is exactly what a director sees as the genius of Van Gogh. He is trapped in hallucinations, but has a discerning eye; he is impersonal, but he reciprocates; he is fragile and sensitive, but full of passion; he is poor, but rich in heart. He is willful and irritable, and will cut his ears for friends to leave; he loves nature, and suicide is not his style (the director adopts the theory of being mistakenly killed by two young people in recent years). As expected of the director of "The Diving Bell", Van Gogh's spiritual world and pursuit of art can be properly expressed with light, shadow and silent lens. Willem Dafoe, a 63-year-old actor who plays a 37-year-old painter actually does not violate the harmony (is he a vegetarian because he is so thin?), and has climbed to the top three in my heart.

  • Reynold 2022-03-28 09:01:10

    About Van Gogh's life, the public is probably familiar with it, and the story is still full of pain and depression as we all know. Dafoe's performance is okay. There are good times and bad in terms of photography, some scenes restore the real scenes of Van Gogh's paintings, and some close-ups of the heads of the characters are incomplete.

At Eternity's Gate quotes

  • Paul Gauguin: Of all the miseries that afflict humanity, nothing maddens me more than the lack of money. But not tonight. Another round, madame.

  • Paul Gauguin: Listen, Vincent, the time is coming when painters won't need anymore to look at models and sit down in front of nature. You know why? Because nature is what we see here in our heads. Nothing else! Without our eyes, there's no nature. And none of us sees the world around us the same way. We sit, you and I, in front of the same landscape, we don't see the same mountains, the same trees.