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short circuit of life
Kaia 2022-04-21 08:01:09
The title of the film may bring some confusion, but it is only an imagery of life. As an excellent independent production, the whole film has a brisk narrative and an excellent sense of rhythm. It truly restores the life atmosphere of an intellectual family in Brooklyn in the 1980s. The grainy and rough images remind people of Jarmusch or Coen at once. Brothers these are names that represent the glory days of independent cinema. The father in the film is a university professor and a former writer, while the mother suddenly got rid of the role of a housewife. The career gap coupled with the affair, the family quickly disintegrated. If the midlife crisis is a short circuit in life, then divorce is a short circuit in the family, and for the two children, their peaceful youth and fantasy about life are also short circuited, so they each start in the differences between their parents and their own confusion. grow slowly. Although the abrupt ending reveals Walt's inability to face the truth of life, Baumbach does not hold an obvious critical perspective or attempt to give any answers to his parents' midlife crisis and the resulting family breakdown. This restrained narrative style and the rich imagery in the film complement each other, creating a very tense framework for this piece of life that contains sadness and loss. The family of four's performances are infectious, and Anna Paquin plays a similarly sexy character on "25th Hour."
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Emma 2022-04-22 07:01:38
As he ran, I panicked. They were so entangled that I couldn't get close to the museum twice. Being able to safely examine one's own fears is the power and limitation of the film. I heard about you in the past, and those who can't bear to watch it will eventually see it, thank you Noah Baumbach.
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Freddy 2022-04-24 07:01:15
At the beginning of the film, the scene of a family of four playing tennis is particularly clever. In one and a half minutes, the family relationship, the closeness of the members and the undercurrent of marriage are clearly explained with a few servings and swings. The so-called family members are the people who know your weaknesses the most and know where to beat them the most.
The Squid and the Whale quotes
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Bernard Berkman: Hey - Watch it!
Frank Berkman: Suck my dick, ass man...
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Joan Berkman: You're calling me a bitch?