recalls a close-up of the face of Doctor Parnassu (Christopher Plummer) of the fantasy circus, with a face of vicissitudes and strange power. I imagined that his life was to live a mess of his body. , Dilapidated flowers and willows, and it will continue for thousands of years. In the scenes of "Yi Yi", Yang Yang, who was first involved in the world, said to her grandmother's remains, I think...I am old too. I am ashamed to say, I am also old. Instead of running exhaustedly under the strange and strange atmosphere of the foreign land, I would rather stroll on the trails of my hometown. This is the yellow flower of the attitude yesterday. I'm willing to watch the drama and quyi programs with some old-fashioned faces, and now it is a wise choice to watch the "Magic Fantasy Show", which is late and cut out in the theater?
As you can imagine, the four handsome figures of Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell on the poster captured my eyeballs, so did I blindly enter the urn? Just like the young girls who are pregnant with spring coquettishly gathered in front of the large LCD monitor in the bar during the Cup, they choose to cheer for the gentlemen on the Apennine Peninsula. I can only say, girl, your choice and me are an unknown possibility: Half is desire, half is dream; or in general, it is the devil, and half is the saint. It may be too heavy, but it's like a silver coin with its two sides. Fantasy show is to make an eternal joke with you: you may not know yourself. Face off in a secular perspective mirror, it is too double-sided tape, so thick that you can't even recognize yourself.
The director Terry Gilliam is actually the magician of this circus, a realistic version of Doctor Parnassu. He spreads out his strange and magnificent imagination space, and uses his various possibilities to interact with your possibilities, and you may look like onlookers. The lady in front of the props, hesitated, and was not used to his unique way of expression for a while. His production seemed to be very different from the products on the Hollywood film industry assembly line, and even a little out of place, it was almost a provocation. However, this shallow CULT story with a bit of nasty fun will not prevent you from fulfilling your dreams. Because you have no way to get rid of your life state-birth, old age, sickness, death, wealth and glory, and many unsatisfactory things. Then, maybe, the people in Terry Gilliam's drama will use alcohol to paralyze themselves, use luxury goods to divert attention, or even try the ladder of fame and fortune, and wealth is like a cloud. You will also feel that to linger in this world, it is better to have a dream, is it not an eternal kind?
In the play, Doctor Parnassu believes that the rotation of the world depends on the prayers of the saints. He tells eternal stories to continue eternity. He even won an eternal life for his inexplicable cause. As everyone knows, this is the sweetness of the devil Mr. Nick (Tom Waits), a poppy fruit, and everything has just begun. Doctor Parnassu, when he presented a fantasy show to the world, what he chose was also desire: to choose eternal life as it is, and youth as it is. The price, or contract, or even the bet, is his poor daughter Valentina (played by Lily Cole). Therefore, the saint with desire is in a state of despair, but Mr. Nick can always dress well (and occasionally be sprinkled with filth lovingly by birds) to prove to Doctor Parnassu that your so-called eternal story is forever It's so duplicity. In the dramatic moment of the movie, Doctor Parnassu pulled out a tarot card that we used to express as signing. Soon her daughter and his partner struggled to rescue a pseudo-philanthropist Tony (Heath Ledger) hanging under a bridge pier. ——A charismatic hypocrite with diverse personality who shows multiple faces in a fantasy show. This coincides with the beginning of a new bet: who is the first to collect the five souls. Since then, in the face of secular temptation, the choices our soul can make are like Russian dolls, endless.
Undoubtedly, this Imaginarium uses a rather classic circus stage with modern technology to set up some mirrors, curtains and theater lights in the scenery, and then use fixed positions to create a sense of stage, rendering The interweaving effect of gorgeousness and decay is indeed presented to the audience with great audio-visual enjoyment. In the performance of the characters, since Tony entered the urn of fantasy show, there has been a comparison between lust and reason, fame and fortune and failure, false and sincere. Here, three faces spread out like a clover (Imaginarium Tony 1-3): Johnny Depp The three flower girls, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, continue to perform artistically, or exaggerately perform. There is no doubt about their professionalism, but the characters lack effective story logic. For example, in reality, Tony has to make an effort to save the fifth soul to redeem Valentina's body, which is quite courageous; he enters the fantasy. Show this urn, but his nature seems to be exposed, a kind-faced hypocrite. So, what is his choice? Similarly, between the benevolent hypocrite and the sincere partner, is Valentina's final choice just to prove: Maybe, the director does run through a core of corruption and redemption between desire or dream in the story. However, because of the concept first, in the film process, the characters are simply masked and presented with a bit of fragmentation, like Santa Claus descending from the chimney, the magical gift handed over on the eve of the holiday, to please the little ghosts, but it is extremely cheap.
I suspected that many friends watched the movie in memory of a rising and fleeting new star. In fact, compared to the wanton fantasy of "Magic Fantasy Show", I still appreciate the forbearance emotion in "Brokeback Mountain". Perhaps this is also a sign that I am going to be or have become old. I have not paid much attention to the special effects and production costs of the film, but pay more attention to whether the film itself expresses something that makes people worry. This thing can be plain or even clumsy. As in reading, the choice of the text of the novel, I admire Flaubert's classical realism "Madame Bovary", which is even better than the masterpiece of Latin Marquez's magicalism "A Hundred Years of Solitude". Naturally, as a surrealist film and television work, "Magic Fantasy Show" is too light, not as epic as the magic of "The Lord of the Rings", or the science fiction like "Star Wars", after all, the expression of the latter two is tough. Skeleton and complete system. Relatively speaking, "Fantasy Show" is a bit looser. It is possible that the director originally wanted to loosely express his imagination and worldview, and he always seemed so unique. Encountering the sudden death of Heath Ledger again, the temporary help of three firefighting men made it loose a reason for its existence. So, is it a wise choice to watch this movie? I can only say that if the judges feel that life is too short, they can enter the urn and use a trick: Who will see the big dream first?
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