Stranger Than Paradise

Orion 2022-03-21 09:02:39

Stranger Than Paradise, Jarmusch's second feature film, won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes. Together with his 1982 graduation work, Permanent Vacation, these two early black-and-white works have established the peculiar style of the cold and alienation of his later films.

"Permanent Vacation" is about a young man who is nostalgic for a bar and has nothing to do all day long. The whole film is filled with boring and lost emotions. If "Permanent Vacation" only reflects Jarmusch's personal feelings, then "Stranger Than Paradise", which was filmed two years later, found the caring point of Jarmusch's later films, and it was also the first Jarmusch's true meaning. Mature film work. When the Information Times commented on the film, he said: He is no longer self-centered, but turned to the situation of other racial cultures in the United States. This kind of concern for the world also made "Stranger Than Paradise" the most influential independent film in the United States in the 1980s.

"Stranger Than Paradise" tells the story of a Hungarian girl, Eva, who came to New York alone and stayed at the house of her distant cousin Willie for 10 days. She lived with Willie and his good friend Eddie. Later, Eva goes to her aunt's house in Cleveland, and Willie and Eddie visit her a year later, only to find that Cleveland has nothing to do like New York. Jarmusch uses layered black-and-white pictures, paragraph-style breakouts, and extremely lonely long shots, quietly driving the development of the plot. Jarmusch views human relationships with a deeply indifferent and indifferent perspective that draws on the alienated racial culture of the continental United States. The film has no ups and downs from beginning to end, and is full of "on the road" kind of simple and rough. The seemingly non-existent emotional line and the bizarre and intriguing ending make everything seem so real and helpless.

Reprinted with the author JEUCE, http://jeuceh.spaces.live.com/

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Stranger Than Paradise quotes

  • Willie: How much money we got?

    Eddie: I don't know. We got a lot.

    Willie: How much is a lot, Eddie?

    Eddie: We got a lot. We got almost six hundred dollars!

    Willie: You're alright, Eddie. You know.

    Eddie: We're a coupla rich men now.

  • Billy: Hey, said you'd go to the movies with me the other night. Do you want to see "Space Wizards" or that foreign flick down at the Olympia - "Days Without Sun"? Do you want to see that?

    Eva: I don't know. Isn't there a kung fu movie?