Dead Man

Kristian 2022-03-20 09:01:46

Movies run through metaphors can seem boring, but Jarmusch's Stranger is an exception, at least for me. In fact, the metaphor here is not difficult to understand, and Jarmusu is not as difficult to approach as he imagined. In movies that express hallucinations or whimsy, Western directors are really good at it. I like such movies very much, such as "Trainspotting" and "My Heart is Wild". The premise is that the director must have the ability, and the difficult can also use the magic Express ideas.

I think the word that best sums up the style of this movie is - alienation. Jarmusch reminds me of Wong Kar Wai, equally lazy and freewheeling. With the same absolute reliance on the soundtrack, it is hard to imagine what "DEAD MAN" would be like without the guitar solo, which is as clear as cutting through the sky from time to time. NEIL YOUNG's soundtrack really amazes me. The process of watching the movie is like watching a rock music MV. The music and the movie's artistic conception fit so beautifully, which makes people addicted.

In fact, one of the themes of this film is of great interest to me - death. Jarmusch was so clever that a bullet was shot in the chest of the protagonist William Blake - almost to the heart but not, but he was getting weaker day by day, and he was a "walking dead man". Such a parable is amazing, man must die. And we don't seem to know it. The next question is "how to die", "how to live" is "how to die", and vice versa. I remember a sage who said that human life is a process of constantly learning about death. If you don't know death, you don't know how to live.

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Extended Reading
  • River 2021-12-10 08:01:25

    (8.2/10) 1. The title is well translated, and the mood of the film is grasped. The title comes from the dialogue between the characters in the film about the "dead", but it is more substituting than the literal translation of the "dead", and there is a kind of "loneliness". The feeling of loneliness of "the soul, the wild and the ghost". 2. Jia Muxu uses the outer shell of a western film to tell about the escape and experience of a desperado. There is a vaguely strong shadow of a road film. Depp has a very good grasp of the role, a cowardly intruder, the object of being expelled, and the mixed-race Indians are individuals who mirror each other. 3. Repeat the similar electric guitar soundtrack, the sense of substitution gradually strengthens, the black screen transitions, the poetic dialogue, the look and feel is similar to "The Shadow of Paradise", Jia Muxu's inner emotions are still lonely, and thoughtless and thrown away The frustrated soul that was left and run on. Always looking for a destination, always longing and searching, but the indefinite distance is tired and unknown.

  • Michel 2022-04-22 07:01:29

    [7.0] The rhythm is very slow, but the photography is in the style of old Japanese films, dead, powerful and poetic. Jarmusch is really a very thoughtful director. The conflict between modern times and primitive civilizations is reminiscent of "Apocalypse Now", and even the direction of the plot is very similar.

Dead Man quotes

  • [Pickett is going to drink from a pool, turning his back on Wilson in the process]

    Cole Wilson: Don't do that.

    Johnny 'The Kid' Pickett: Why not?

    Cole Wilson: It's bad for your health...

  • [William has just discovered a colt in Thel's bed]

    Thel Russell: Watch it. It's loaded.

    William Blake: Why do you have this?

    Thel Russell: Because this is America.