Dwell time

Alysha 2022-03-21 09:02:39

I saw this movie a long time ago. I found a quiet and dark space with no snacks around, turned off my phone and computer, and watched it on my 50-inch monster TV with a DVD player.
There is a reason why the original state is explained in such detail. The effect of a movie on people is very relevant to the viewing environment at that time. A group of people can watch comedy, kung fu, horror, and some so-called art films, but not this one. And computers, I stubbornly believe that the screen is too close to your eyes, and it always feels imperfect without the process of images being conveyed to you through time and light and dust.
Of course, this is also ideal.
Some people say that the first five minutes of a Jarmusch film is sleepy. But "Stranger Things in Paradise" just gave me long breathless and empty stares. Rough, minimalist. Lose all the characteristics of a generation. There are traces of Kerouac's "On the Road". If you say what he wants to say, he is not talking about the story, but the state. They were looking for nothing but a freedom—a freedom that allowed them to travel, travel through time and space unfettered. They look for nobility and holiness in the displaced. They are to be freed. They are arrogant, bluffing, exuberant and delightful. They don't have anything, and they don't have anything. They have nothing to lose. Therefore, they are respected and feared.
Coming back to this film, the richness of the film's language is beyond my imagination.
space. Simple.
character body. constant.
Accident. direct.
screen. Pure and clear.
language. adrift.
Black and white films can always be simplified and straightforward. A world where colors are erased can often lead to the hometown of essence.

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Extended Reading
  • Elisha 2022-03-24 09:02:51

    Jim Jarmusch's classic work in 1984, to apply a line of Wang Jiawei's evil spirits, "When you see a mountain, you want to know what's behind the mountain. In fact, when you go over the back of the mountain, it's just another mountain." The theme, the Cannes Golden Camera Award movie, but the most eye-catching is its art clothing, which can be said to be the original ancestor of American Trad

  • Janick 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    Black and white is texture. The life of a few young people in the cold winter. It's simple, ordinary and real, but it's also a bit cool. The ending is quite interesting, and it's cool to care about each other. The moving part of the era without mobile phones is now solved by sending a WeChat message in minutes, but life is getting more and more boring.

Stranger Than Paradise quotes

  • Aunt Lotte: You son of a beeetch.

  • Eva: It's Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and he's a wild man, so bug off.