I also drink coffee occasionally, it is the kind without sugar and no milk, pure black coffee. I have a bad habit of trying to taste the most original taste of everything. I know not good, it will be monotonous.
Cigarettes, smoking, were not very addictive before, but now they are a bit hard to quit. I am a doctor, and I know the harm of smoking to health, but I have to keep repeating this action over and over again. In fact, sometimes I feel that smoking is just a state, a state of self, and has nothing to do with behavior and connotation.
In fact, I don't quite understand the meaning of their existence, so the connection between the two is even more unknown.
In 2003, Jim Jarmusch put together the short stories he shot in 1984, 1988 and 1993, so there is such a collection of short stories called [Coffee and Cigarettes].
The film is composed of 11 short stories, authentic black and white tone, telling the story of daily life, almost all of them are completed in one or two shots, there is no change of camera positions, long shots are used paranoid, and the characters' movements are not only smoking, drinking coffee. There was only conversation left.
Watching a collection of short stories like this, you will unconsciously develop another bad habit. You will unconsciously compare, summarize and analyze the short stories step by step. You can even pull out a piece of paper to do some statistical work. Although there are many stars, there are not many characters involved in the film, and there are at most two or three people in each film. Due to my lack of understanding of coffee and cigarettes, and the poor subtitle translation of the film, I saw the whole film in a fog. Can only vaguely experience the charm of it.
Most of the characters in the film appear as the actors themselves, whether they are directors or directors, Hollywood big names or big names, musicians or musicians. In every scene, the relationship of the characters reveals vague ambiguousness, old friends, cousins, cousins, twins... But there are many uncertainties hidden in the relationship, and even confrontation. It is really difficult to understand the whole film. Basically, its expressions are very obscure, and it is difficult to be clear. However, it is precisely through this obscure means that we feel the unity it wants to express. The unity of various interpersonal relationships, the unity of people's understanding of coffee, the unity of views on cigarettes, and even the unity of the existence of coffee and cigarettes themselves. The film makes the plot arrangement of each short story appear to be different but in fact similar ambiguous feelings, with the seemingly similar and different obscure atmosphere, constantly wandering between opposition and unity, making people feel that they are always uncertain.
Perhaps, coffee and cigarettes.
All have strong flavors, all are the stimulation of the first taste. The entrance is slightly bitter, and the aftertaste is slightly sweet. The initial discomfort will gradually fade away, and gradually become addicted to it without noticing. Coffee requires grinding of coffee beans, and cigarettes require roasting of tobacco. Coffee needs to be brewed with boiling water, and cigarettes need the burning of flames. However, coffee smells more than tastes, and cigarettes are the opposite. Coffee is solid to liquid, cigarette is solid to gas. The coffee gurgles out of your mouth, but the cigarette spews out of your throat. Coffee is a black swirl, cigarettes are a white mist.
In fact, people in coffee, cigarettes and people in general are all ambiguous and obsessive, and they are obscure and unbearable. Opposition and unity, ambiguity and obscurity, are thus mingled between constant stirring and suction.
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