Like ants making thunder.
Brilliant metaphor, wild imagination, "Making Woodstock" spent two hours warmly and briskly depicting a rock festival that affected the world 50 years ago, but always focused on a young man named Elliot. , it was his reckless phone call that opened up a show that was already in jeopardy due to backlash from residents of the venue.
The film is both relaxed and ordinary, without plot, and without too much dramatic conflict. The camera always follows Elliot's Motel in his house, his relationship with his parents, his mentally ill friends who returned from Vietnam War, the endless stream of hippies, freedom The soul is at odds with the conservative town dweller. There is no footage of the outside world, and the only thing that is dated is Elliot's mother watching the news of the Apollo planned test launch on a black-and-white TV.
If someone who doesn't know Woodstock sees it, he can only see a messy muddy hillside in this movie. The overwhelmed Elliot seems to accept all this calmly, a little bit of paradoxical ambiguous and abrupt And the love for Zhi, a large number of young people who are disheveled and carefree, young people who decided to leave after a trivial family dispute. You don't see the music festivals that shaped the spirit of a generation in America, you don't see any band play, no Jimi Hendrix, no The Who, or even the only shot Elliot got high on the stage. .
But I liked this movie so much, I was absent-minded when I first watched it, and I almost couldn't hold back my tears when I saw a conversation between Elliot and his Vietnam War friend Billy:
-Billy?
-Man, I remember this hill.
-Remember remember, or, like Vietnam flashback remember?
-Remember remember, man.
-Homecoming. Senior year. We fucking massacred Monticello. I caught like three touchdown passes. Rum and cokes. And we fucking tipped three of Yasgur's cows, man, right there, at the top of that hill. And Shirley Livingstone, man, right there, at the top of that hill.
-Wait a second. That was you?
-Was. Is.
It's beautiful to be young, and the memories are really beautiful, but Li An immediately turned the camera, and the two were covered in mud and ran towards the quagmire of the crowd. Maybe Ang Lee is telling everyone that the important thing is not the music itself, or even how the carnival shaped American culture in the 1960s, or how these young people will change the world in the future, but what matters is that they get together, these 400,000 pieces The important thing for a young man's heart is sincerity and purity itself, and the important thing is a free soul even if it is dazed. As we get older, we don't like to talk about sincerity and kindness, but Ang Lee still takes it out and tells you that good things are always good, and good things are themselves.
Watching the dazed and dazed face of the male protagonist wandering among the crowd often reminds me of the face at the end of "The Graduate", or the face in "Patterson", the kind of slightly gloomy young man, the unknown world , at a loss and sworn, full of longing but fear. The show is over, where are you going after tonight? The important thing is neither the question nor the answer, but you have to leave, get everything in the car, and get on the road. We are here to meet, we meet to leave, and I hope this time is the glimmer of your life.
"Leave tonight for tonight."
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