Bill Murray's expression is really a must. The look of boredom, helplessness, and embarrassment seemed to be innate on his face. This expression has not changed at all from "Lost in Translation" to this "Broken Flower". So, watching him perform, it always feels like the same Bill who came back from the country across the Pacific.
The story of "Broken Flower" is very simple. A bored man is abandoned by his girlfriend, and then he finds that he has received a strange letter. The letter told him that he had a 19-year-old son who might come to him, and that the letter was written by one of his ex-girlfriends. So, the simple playboy begins his journey to find the mysterious letter under the urging of his neurotic, serious detective neighbor. The story of the journey is naturally the same as the style of this movie, boring and full of embarrassment, and in the end it is very unlucky, and the unfortunate is beaten for no reason. In the end, he was still at a loss.
In fact, this is really a boring movie, the characters in it are boring, and the story plot is boring (just imagine if we really encountered such a thing, what would we do, unless it was a boring people). Behind the boredom of such a person is a kind of loneliness. Behind every character in the film is a sense of loneliness: Bill Murray's opening scene of watching movies and listening to music alone, the neighbor's uncharacteristic enthusiasm for this little incident of Bill's encounter, the ex-girlfriend discovered during a visit Their sad family life all reveal the boredom, loneliness and all kinds of embarrassment in life.
Yes, all women will like pink, especially pink flowers, but such a simple and coveted beauty of simplicity has become monotonous, helpless, embarrassing, lonely and fragmented in the complexity of life.
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