In the noir films of the Coen Brothers, whether it's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs or the acclaimed "Frozen" and "The Murder of Green Toes," it's easy to get caught up in the joys and sorrows of the characters and ignore the plot. feel. Every seemingly strange story is covered up by the brilliance of the characters' performances. In the movie, people themselves have nothing to do with good and evil, they just exist, live according to their own logic, and as a result, good and evil are intertwined .
The same is true of "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs", which tells six short stories, each of which is short and without too much language, but conveys the shock of human nature.
If there is a god who wants to perish, he must first let the inflated sharpshooter fall, because the homeless man who robbed the bank and met his true love before he died, and the sloppy professor who pretended to be dead and killed the wicked, the unlucky girl who lives in fear, take whatever you want. Out of one can be a side of our life.
Here's an extra sentence, every frame of the movie is beautifully composed! ! !
The sharpshooter who likes to sing and dance is very popular. He dares to defy the rules. He plays the gun well and has a good voice. He is like the top student in the school who has both styles and styles. He is the favorite of the teachers. It's a pity that being in the limelight also ruined him in the end. There is a mountain beyond the mountain. No matter how he punishes others, he must accept the same punishment in the end.
The homeless Fu Lanlan makes a clumsy desperate gamble for change. Such characters are very common in life, they are marginal people in life, and the final outcome will not be very good.
This homeless man is very unlucky. Although he looks handsome, it is a pity that the shooting was too bad. He was beaten by an old man who was hanging a lot of iron pots. He was about to be hanged and was saved by luck. Just came back from the brink of death, and was mistaken for a head horse thief and hanged. Before dying, he did not forget to find a beautiful girl in the crowd, and he left the personnel with a smile.
The story "Golden Valley" is almost a one-person play, and the old man almost contributed his explosive acting skills. A person talking to himself came to the uninhabited grasslands of Liao, dined and slept, chased money, and turned the beautiful stream into a gold rush pit. Just as we were saddened by his death, he made a sudden leap and knocked over the thief who had attacked him, making us applaud.
The suspended animation in the previous story made the audience cheer, and the next story, "The Frightened Woman", made us mourn and sigh.
There are very few female characters throughout the movie, which is a feature of most Westerns, and women are used as a sexy embellishment. "Frightened Woman" is much more interesting. The whole story revolves around this poor girl, dressed in restrained clothes, tremblingly attached to her unwise brother, and embarked on an unknown journey. Seeing the death of her brother and the loss of money, she had the opportunity to find her own happiness, but she ended her life prematurely because of nervousness.
Poor girl, she should have a happy second half of her life.
My favorite story is the dependence and betrayal of disabled artists and managers. Apart from performing stand-up storytelling on stage, the disabled artist does not have any lines. We can only feel his inner world through a little facial expression, despair and a little hope.
Unfortunately, this hope is slowly being abandoned. The only book an artist can say is too much and boring, but it's the only way he survives. Unfortunately, with the bleak business, he eventually lost to a chicken that counted. Will we criticize the professional manager played by tough guy Liam Neeson? Perhaps when condemning him, he would also feel pity for him, because he also wants to live.
There are many interpretations of the last story, but I think it's just an ordinary trip. Bounty hunters are a profession unique to the West, but they are not common, and ordinary people rarely encounter them. The story begins with the self-reports of three ordinary travelers, which let us know that they are passers-by A and B, and define the three views from the perspective of an ordinary person. When they meet a bounty hunter who is bearish about life and death, just an ordinary chat will subvert their worldview.
What is the worldview of this movie? Uncertainty is the way of everything in this world.
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