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As of today (12/13), the film has had a terrible global box office, and the box office has not even reached half of the cost of 26 million US dollars. In the recent major awards, it is only shortlisted for the best film in the Golden Globe Award. soundtrack,
Of course, jazz is very nice, but the movie itself is actually worth watching. As Edward Norton's second directorial work, this work written, directed, acted and directed by Edward Norton is full of the charm of a film noir and the The charisma of Dewar Norton himself.
When the original Brooklyn orphan "Motherless Brooklyn" was mentioned in the film's lines, it was actually translated as "the Brooklyn orphan without a mother", but it might be better to translate it into a motherless Brooklyn. This is a The pun refers not only to the past when the protagonist Leno lost his mother at the age of six, but also to the land where the "world's largest city" in New York is not loved by his mother. On an official, Mosha Randolph, who would have thought that this lame man could cover the sky with only one hand, dominate the city, pay high prices for officials, keep a low profile behind the scenes, cover the public with bribes, and the Administrative District Office ( BA) as his underground thug. The victims of his construction are people of color living in blue-collar neighborhoods, such as blacks and Latinos, and a few poor whites, whose homes are listed as slums and then demolished, and the beaches and parks are inaccessible to them because they are all in A place that can only be reached by bus, and Mosha doesn't care about the bus system at all. Even if there is democracy as a backer, they are nothing because they are a minority.
"Actions change everything, words are meaningless."
He's not corrupt, he's cruel, because he has faith, so he has no hesitation, if in another movie, maybe he would be the protagonist, a fallen hero, fallen because of ideals and encounter reality, in some way He's like another film noir detective because he's exploring the way to the future and doing everything he can to get through the way he sees it, he thinks people are by nature forgetful and lazy and afraid to change, when the masses forget He remembered when Central Park had to move farmers and cattle and level the fields when Central Park was built.
And his antagonist, our protagonist, is a young man with Tourette Syndrome who lost his father-like boss Frank in an accident, Leno. Just because he sometimes can't control his words and actions, as a detective, he is talented, but his flaws are also fatal, because it is logical that a detective must be a low-key person and know how to hide himself, but His precise and rapid thoughts did nothing to control his body.
Frank calls him Brooklyn, yes, he is in Brooklyn in Brooklyn, the mind and body are out of harmony, as if it is a metaphor for the incongruity between the upper-level mastermind and the lower-level blue-collar workers in this city, so he wanders between the upper and lower levels. It becomes what he does in this film, and the future of Brooklyn (which refers to both the city and him), as a pun, is something he must explore and decide, and he forms with his rival Mosha. Parallel relationship, they are both exploring the future, and even better, they are both in love with black girls, even though Mosha says he "just wants to fuck black girls occasionally", Mosha's handwritten love letter to the girl reveals the truth. The truth he shuddered and dared not face.
He, a man who maliciously broke down minority housing prices and drove them away, once fell in love with a minority girl, a black girl in a restaurant. After many years, he did not get married, and he never tried to silence this black girl. The crystallization of love with him (they lived in the same city, and his daughter, unknowingly, served on the committee that rebelled against him to transform the city.), even if it was a matter of his character .
Leno, on the other hand, fell in love with the unspoken love crystal, Lola.
I admire the languid pace of Brooklyn Orphans so much, of course if you look at time, the time between events is actually very short, but Edward Norton used a languid pacing , using a simple beauty to present the atmosphere of Leno when he is alone, it is not the chilling, thrilling, and breath-taking atmosphere in film noir, but more of a sadness revealed by human nature. promises to avenge his boss), but gradually becomes less clear-cut, because Leno discovers that the reason why Frank is obsessed with the case that led to his death is not for fairness and justice, but to extort a lot of money, and this It's what he planned with Lola's uncle Billy. Mosha's down-and-out younger brother Paul knew about this, but he was unwilling to participate and did not dare to participate. He knew his brother's evil, but he convinced himself that because he had his dream, and his dream would benefit the people of the whole country, so he I don't want to overthrow my brother, but only hope to remind my brother of his importance through some small events.
Compared to the mystery that has been solved in the movie (when the mystery is solved, it is as if the sketchbook of the labyrinth has been drawn, stretching all the way from the entrance to the exit, and is no longer fascinating because of its multiple possibilities) I appreciate the blurred characters in it even more. Their outlines are blurry at first, but as the protagonist approaches the lights, everything becomes clearer and clearer, but it blurs the impression they gave us earlier in the film. How contradictory and lack of identity, or the identity of man contains contradiction. Even if the country is depressed by the war, yet
Frank, who has no regrets fighting for his country, runs a broken detective agency and a broken marriage. He is a person who is used to "being calm under high pressure", but he is also killed because of his lifelong habit (because the gun he was carrying was accidentally killed). Kill), and it all happened, perhaps because it was the first time he tried to act boldly, with the intent of saving his tattered detective agency and tattered marriage with a large extortion. And Billy, a crippled veteran who seems to be holding Lola in the palm of his hand, is actually a participant in the blackmail plan. As for Paul, who embraces ideals, lives in a humble alley, eats and drinks, he also exudes a wretched smell. This smell comes from his insignificance. Yes, he is a good person, but he is also a small and cowardly good person. He only dares to attack from the side, and dare not contradict his brother. In the name of ideals or upbringing, what he lost was his brother's respect for him.
So in the end, when he gave up the last bit of dignity, obeyed his brother's words and got dressed, and received the letter expecting his brother to adopt his urban electrification plan, but a big "veto" was printed on it.
This is the fate of the characters in this film, who suffered misfortune because of their "change".
Edward Norton's handling of this film is actually very delicate. First of all, as far as the voice-over processing is concerned, he clearly distinguishes the difference between Leno and the setback of the opening. The smooth thoughts and a small amount of first-person narration are a good inheritance of the novel. The charm, while not too much of the show. With the melodious soundtrack, we sank into this world like underwater ruins with Leno (the movie used the image for this transition to suggest Leno's similarities with Mosha again, but Leno sinks in the middle. There is no direction, but Mosha above is determined to swim back and forth to show his strength. The movie shows him swimming twice, reflecting his ambition to conquer the city instead of ups and downs.) This world of underwater ruins gradually Disappearing out of the viewer's field of vision, because the body of water as the medium of light makes everything deform, and the ruin itself means a gradual state of extinction, but the ruination is the necessity of progress, whether the city must be due to racial equality. Stagnant development, or racial equality must be stagnant because of the city, nostalgia has become the common enemy of the two kinds of progress, water, mirror, smoke, shimmer... Everything covered on the ruins as a reflection reflects a sinful Beauty (In another transition, Frank's figure becomes the jazz musician, who both takes on Frank's work to enlighten Brooklyn and saves him when necessary, and this sameness manifests itself in a glare that confuses black and white.)
Not to mention the subtlety of the other as the sound in and out.
If there is anything wrong with him, maybe the action scenes in the films he made in 2019 are not exaggerated enough to arouse the audience's senses. There are speeding scenes but not chasing, there are chasing scenes but not exciting, he is Can't get up quickly (see the scene where the tall thug came out to chase the male and female protagonists with a lame foot in the second half. The lameness has already slowed down the speed, and the speed cannot be accelerated if the frame does not collide with the tall guy), He tries to make up for the lack of dynamic with the tightness of the dialogue, but his dialogue lacks the dynamic and tightness of Quentin Tarantino, which strikes a balance with Leno's outspoken character and slow-paced script.
Mosha is based on the real Rob Morse, a controversial figure still remembered today and Manhattan Councilman Daniel O'Donnell recently proposed changing the park's name because Moss's racist project in the past, but not many people support it. Maybe Mosha is right. People are forgetful and lazy, so they are afraid of change. Without emotion and imagination, rationality is limited.
The unreachable part of reason is exactly the charm of film noir, where the candlelight of reason makes the darkness of the illuminated part more seductive, like the jazz of the black bar and the Tourette's syndrome of Leno. We, let's dissolve the old shell and merge into the deeper new self. In the end, Leno left the place where he grew up, left his past job, and lived a new life with a new lover in a new world. Like many people who left Brooklyn, escape and cruelty became two sides of the same body. the demise of the past.
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