I don't know if it was the trend at the time or if Jia Muxu deliberately mixed the image of Asians, the appearance of the male protagonist in the first story is really annoying. With a shiny big back, a wide suit is like a garbage can on the skinny body, and under the slender legs like matchsticks are a pair of huge leather shoes, dressed in cool clothes. Coupled with the male protagonist's long thief eyebrows, but still always pretending to be cool, a classic interpretation of farmers. The male and female protagonists are a couple who have traveled all the way from Japan to the United States, just to follow the footsteps of their idols in Memphis, the hometown of Elvis, but the difference between the two is very big. The heroine is cute, lively, enthusiastic, admiring Elvis, and full of curiosity about the strange city of Memphis; and the hero is just like I said, but very boring, playing ZIPPO is superb, his idol is not a cat Wang, but the city has nurtured many musicians who are far less famous than Elvis but equally talented, and the male protagonist has nothing new to this unfamiliar city. He believes that this is only a 60% reduction from Yokohama. Architecture is the same. The heroine of the second story is an Italian who was forced to land in Memphis because of a plane accident that killed her husband and waited for the next day's flight to Rome. She had to spend the day bored in this small and desolate city with not so simple folk customs. In a small coffee bar in the city, she meets a strange man who tells her a bizarre story about the soul of Elvis that he met during his travels, then takes out a wooden comb and tells her that Elvis lent him He entrusted the woman with a comb and asked the woman for an expensive fee of $10. The rich Italian woman had no intention of entanglement with him, so she readily paid for it, but she was really attracted by the story, even if the local woman who shared a hotel room with her at night told her that it was just a well-known local swindle, She was still convinced, and at night seemed to really see Elvis' soul. The protagonist of the third story is the boyfriend of the local woman who has sex with the Italian woman in the second story. In the second story, the local woman explained in a conversation with an Italian woman that she had a relationship problem with the man dressed like Elvis from England, and was about to leave Memphis. And vulgar British men seem to have lost their way in the city. He was in a chaotic mood, because when his black companion and his prospective brother-in-law went out to relieve their boredom, they couldn't control their emotions and killed the arrogant hotel owner by mistake. So they hid in the little crappy hotel. After hiding in a dilapidated room for a night, they find that things are getting worse and worse, they are like three mice, at a loss in the city
Jarmusch uses three seemingly storyless stories to tell the emotional changes of different people in a foreign land. The protagonist of each story hurries through the city like a train—the hometown of Elvis Presley. And what did Elvis bring to the city, and what did it bring to every tourist passing by? Everyone has their own answers.
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