Looking back on the past 2019, in addition to the twists and turns and ups and downs of my own story, there are also two film and television works that impressed me a lot. They are all about friendship and growth, one is the TV series "My Gifted Girlfriend" and the other is the movie "Frances Ha"; one was watched at the beginning of the year, and the other was watched at the end of the year. However, this inadvertently small coincidence happened to run through the beginning and end of 2019, reflecting my embarrassment at that time...
Some people in the market say that it is the twin of the Coen Brothers' "Drunken Country Ballads", male literary youth must read "Drunken Country Ballads"; female literary youth must read "Frances Ha". Indeed, it is not unreasonable, they all share the same theme: impoverished literary and artistic youth, facing the stubbornness of real life, struggling to pursue poetry and distance.
Regarding the former, I believe that many people fell in love with this movie because of Boss Jia's well-known folk song "Five Hundred Miles" that sang the hearts of wanderers. As for the latter, it is an ordinary story that takes place in Manhattan. Whether it is a black-and-white image or a chatty dialogue, it is full of the taste and tribute of the French New Wave.
Andre Bazin, the father of film studies, once said: "The film is the asymptote of reality." What impresses me most about this film is its reality!
Whether it's the indecision when the ATM charges a $3 fee,
It's still the heartfelt words that I couldn't help confiding to my best friend before going to bed late at night,
It's just like you and me in the real world.
There are always countless bitterness and struggles behind a decent life. After the night takes off the helmet of the day, it is a lonely soul~
The female protagonist in the film is a big man who is more than 1.7 meters. She lives a sloppy life, squatting in the subway station to urinate when she is drunk, her clothes are littered in the room, and she sleeps without taking off her socks. She is called "Undateable" by the male roommate who has a crush on her. (Incompetent in love), is a typical female man, but she has a supreme dream - a dancer.
Probably every Wen Qing has to experience a period of disappointment. Frances, who wants to be a famous dancer, has always been a substitute. She broke up with her boyfriend inexplicably, and her best friend has to leave to live with others. She is so poor that she can't even pay the rent...
The film does not use a tragic tone to describe how difficult this kind of life is, but instead captures the picture of Frances running happily, wearing a leather jacket, floral skirt and bottoming that will not be changed for a hundred years. Pants, canvas shoes, carrying a bag, jumping across the city's astonished eyes, striding on the streets of New York, dancing while running, accompanied by the brisk and joyful background music of David Bowie's "Modern Love", instantly It is now a classic!
Yes, young people are afraid of the world, run if you have the strength!
Oh yes, Frances also has a good friend, Sophie. How good is it? In Frances' words, "We were like a pair of lesbians who didn't make love."
They talk about everything, get to know each other, play childish games together, play in the park, run wild on the road, take the subway back to the shared apartment together, curl up on the sofa and share their favorite books, and they will smoke, drink and chat on the balcony. , would also sit down to play chess together, stuff all the clothes that had been stored for a few days into the washing machine, and occasionally squeeze into a bed, chatting over and over again about their fantasies about the future...
Indeed, some emotions are difficult to define in terms of friendship or love, and their existence is wonderful, just like the soul needs to rely on.
Frances awkwardly thinks that Sophie is another self, "We are the same person, but we have different hair". (Can't help but remind me that an anime "NANA" I watched a long time ago is also talking about another self, and they have the same name only)
Similarly, the difference between Frances and Sophie in the film is not limited to hair color. Frances, who regards her friends as her life, prefers to put Sophie in the first place rather than love, but Sophie has other advantages. Desire to pursue something, they are destined to part ways at the crossroads of life and go to their respective classes.
In middle school, I also had a time when friendship and love could not be defined. Maybe there is always a friendship like love in my life, and there is always one that is better than the other...
A long time later, Sophie and Frances huddled together in a small single bed due to a chance encounter at the alumni meeting. They complained about each other's troubles and reconstructed their future life.
Sophie said, "You know what, I always felt like we were competing." Frances smiled and said "I never thought about it...".
The feelings between girls seem to be so delicate. Along with the faint competition, they will always unconsciously regard the other party as a reference, envy the innocence and simplicity of the other party, but in the next second, they will still hold fast to their exhausted life. , and even have contemptuous sympathy for the other party at a certain moment, while secretly glad that he did not choose to live the same life as her. Complex we always envy the simple, and then continue to choose to be a coward.
In the early morning of the next day, a message saying that she didn't remember what she said and her leaving without a stop shouting finally made Frances understand that she had to face reality and live a serious life.
She returned to the dance company, accepted the clerical job she had rejected, and stuck to her dream in a different way. In the end, the dance she choreographed for the first time was screened, appreciated by supervisors and friends, and moved the audience.
Among the possible permutations and combinations between people, where is the right position, and who is the best partner?
"I like things that look like mistakes," Frances said, just as she obeys reality and chases her dreams.
After the performance, in the staggering crowd, Frances suddenly looked at Sophie, and at this time Sophie was also casting her gaze, looking at each other, and they both laughed.
Frances finally got the relationship she wanted, as she described herself in a long monologue: "another dimension in the universe".
This is a movie that can be stopped at any time and can be started at any time. It can belong to any era. It is the story of every girl and every boy. The story of the dream catchers of heaven and earth, may we all grow and comfort in this story!
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