Greta, who loves music and is very talented, came to New York with musician boyfriend Dave from England. Here, Dave has a better career opportunity. But soon, Dave was lost in Vanity Fair and a new relationship. Having lost love, Greta can't find her way in the huge strange city. At this time, she meets Dan, a music producer who used to be famous but is now frustrated. The two frustrated people inspired each other's inspiration and passion, made a legend of popular music, and also changed their own destiny.
This story sounds like a standard music film frame, even a bit cliché. But the good thing is that this film doesn't want to play tricks and skills at all, but wants to uphold the most honest way and impress you with the most conventional structure and story. Moreover, the director really did it.
The director of "Song Changes Life", John Carney, filmed the famous "Once Upon A Time" 8 years ago. It has a similar theme to this film. It is a story of ordinary people who met and fell in love because of music. Eight years later, he took the story one step further. The actor is set as a middle-aged man. Mark Ruflow, an actor who has appeared in "Avengers" and "Bounded Island", can always have the subtle feeling of being depressed and still dreaming, but never because of it. Hold it right, and the heroine is Keira Knightley, who has appeared in "Pride and Prejudice" and "Pirates of the Caribbean". This time, she has portrayed a typical woman who is independent, tough and always optimistic in a metropolis. Image.
The reason why this movie touches people is because it unabashedly describes the way people pursue their dreams, but the director never suspends dreams, let alone a little bit of praise for dreams. The hero and heroine have encountered all the embarrassment and indifference in the city. Material poverty and mental frustration are normal in their lives. They dealt with these matters, but they were not defeated by trivialities. They are doing things towards their dreams, but they never claim to be idealists everywhere to win sympathy. What's more meaningful is that in the movie, there are also a group of ordinary people like them who chase dreams with the heroes and heroines. When their music was rejected by the big record companies, they decided to record independently throughout the city of New York. Greta and Dan have recruited street performers, black drummers, and keyboard players who dream of but can only accompany the school dance team... subway stations, the roof of the Empire State Building, under the bridge, and Chinatown have all become Their open-air recording studio. They recorded the music and all the sounds of the city. In this sense, what they did was not just the pursuit of music and the completion of a record, but it really melted into New York, or that , Melted New York into his body, showing the breathing and pulse of the city and the people living in it. In doing this, Greta and Dan did not distinguish between what is a dream and what is survival. Every day, they try to live in the present happily and try their best to get close to their dreams.
This movie is telling people that dream is not a noun to show off. It is a verb and should be the driving force of action. Doing something every day is much more useful than boasting about your dreams and ambitions to everyone. More importantly, you don't have to wait until your dreams come true, and you can gain something when there are results. The process itself is changing and reshaping yourself. This is the most wonderful. Just like what this movie finally shows. A record was finally completed, Dan returned to his wife and daughter, Greta finally put down her vanity ex-boyfriend and had a firm direction. They shared the record over the Internet, and the fans only paid one dollar, but they made money and did this without signing a contract with a major company. This is another metaphor, a new era, an era in which oneself is in control of one's own destiny, without any intermediary and others, no one can control anyone, dreams and freedom are things that everyone pursues.
(Text/Yang Shiyang)
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