Jiamusu narrates in a chapter-return style, using the image of a clock to unfold the story of how people from different regions in five countries meet and know each other one by one by chance.
Jiamusu is a director who can make the city's feasting and feasting into a dream. His shots are similar to those of Wong Kar Wai's city. This also refreshes my current understanding of the movie's "night". The most perfect movie in my mind, above "Transcendence", this is my humble opinion.
Of the five stories, my favorite is the last one that happened in Helsinki about a father who lost his daughter. Jarmusch used a long shot to create a feeling of oppression as heavy as lead. The dialogue builds up, (this is enough to show the high literary quality of Jarmusch himself, and his other work "Patterson" shows it particularly deeply.) The scene of the drunk man curled up under the street lamp in the last scene makes me Reminds me of Vincent Gallo's "Buffalo 66". After reading this last story, I couldn't extricate myself for a long time...because this is an extremely delicate and continuous moment, as lonely as the rustling of night.
Jarmusu's story may be deliberately told, but the footage is so real and cinematic... Just like Hou Hsiao-hsien's "non-interference" attitude in every scene, Jarmusu also uses the same method to record New York , Rome, Paris these belong only to the night city.
Saint-Exupéry said: "You can see things clearly only with the heart, and what is important cannot be seen with the eyes."
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