"Love" is Bertolucci's film, and for the born dreamer, what better place to bloom the wild whims than the vast world of the desert. The golden sand is barren and warm, but there is no compromise between them. Such a characteristic belongs to love but not to marriage, so marriage dies and love is reborn, but exile and wandering is an unstoppable curse from the beginning, and in the end what flows in my heart is a desolation as bright as sand, like the embers of love. Compared with such an environment, Guilin's landscape is much milder. This isn't a director's film either, but rather a film by Edward Norton and Naomi Watts.
Mature commercial production should be so comfortable. It covers everything—a foreign country, ethnic conflicts, alienation, betrayal and remorse—but it never goes deeper, more like a mist between green and green mountains and rivers, damp but not cold to the bone marrow, not to mention the pulse of setting sun after it dissipates. If the "Love" film uses love to torture human nature, then this one is more like using human nature to torture love. The love born in desperation has always been doubtful, whether it is the warmth of snuggling or something else is really hard to say, let alone a couple with a weak emotional foundation like the film. Whether they are similar or different is more suitable for each other, whether people’s lifelong pursuit is similar or nothing, what kind of alienation will the despair in a foreign land have on human nature and love, everything is a problem when looking at the plot synopsis, after watching the film will feel more blurry. But it didn't matter, it all came to an abrupt end. A comfortable movie should be like this. Death is a perfect ending and a solution, instead of burning everything with death like Xiaobei, even after Nirvana, it can no longer make people feel warm.
The plot is a light background, which makes the performance more vivid. So it's more like an actor's movie. In fact, among the Norton films I have seen, this is the first romance film. The double-faced madman in "First Degree Fear", the prodigal son in "American X-Files", and the good doctor here are also pure and white with long eyelashes, but there is a world of difference, in addition to admiration Don't say a word. Naomi is no longer a King Kong girl, of course, not by the change of hair color. As soon as he appeared on the stage, facing the shy scholar's invitation to dance, he seemed helpless and useless in his smile, and his impetuous and frivolous waves rippled like a lake hit by a stone. In addition, the mature commercial films are good at washing the bottom, the wife is betrayal but she is frank, the doctor is a little old-fashioned but has all the other advantages of the doctor, such as carefulness, gentleness, perseverance and kindness. . In such a role with few body movements, being able to concentrate on the actor's face, especially the eyes, for two hours is still satisfying and can be said to be the success of the film.
What is even more commendable is that other aspects such as the music and photography are maintained beautifully without affecting the performance of the most important part of the film, and even the extras are very stable and excellent, not to mention the use of supporting roles such as Huang Qiusheng and Xia Yu. This makes the theme of the film not very clear and in-depth but harmonious. A harmonious society needs such harmonious films. If there are more such mature commercial productions, how happy the people should be.
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