A small and refreshing musical film.
Knightley should not have been married and had children when she appeared in the film. There is more girlishness and romantic spirit in her eyebrows and eyes, but she is a little less stubborn and fanciful than the former Elizabeth. The character is positioned as a music-loving and singing British singer. Tomboy.
The first 20 minutes of the film is a bit boring. The small and noisy bar is loaded with the life footprints of ordinary New Yorkers. There are no crazy drunks, and no excited men and women. Greta was timid at the beginning of holding the guitar, and gradually became natural, but it didn't impress me very much. The conflict between Uncle Dan's dwelling and his partner's musical opinions is not so intense, such as the exhaustion of inspiration or the crisis of belief that middle-aged people often encounter.
The singing in the streets and the selfless devotion of the instrumentalists, indeed, resounded the rhythm and rhythm of life.
A pair from the US and a pair from the UK, the life of the two couples is a bland sweetness, combined with expected disagreements and temporary departures. When Dan's wife looked carefully through the white gauze to see Dan and Greta driving away, when Greta wrote a song to Dave and suddenly stopped choking on "I just loved you the same"... no surprise, they both begin again, start again.
In fact, the detail that moved me the most was not that Greta finally chose to release the album online at a price of $1, so that it challenged the traditional entertainment industry and the unreasonable capital profit model behind it. But she had obviously forgiven Dave and relived their love, but she didn't take the stage on that night's theater stage—
Because before playing and singing Lost Stars, Dave has explained to the audience: (to the effect) "This is a special song, written to me by a very important woman, I hope to sing according to her way, here And a guitar, and I hope if she's there tonight, she'll come on stage and sing with me." Given that Greta couldn't have given up on her album (whatever the format), and it turned out to be a hit with listeners, could the rise of such a future star put pressure on Dave? Moreover, if she really takes the stage to sing and sing, will it allow the outside world to speculate about celebrity scandals? Or directly because of its good lyrics and songwriting ability, the popularity has greatly increased.
In short, if Greta really did that, there could be two outcomes: obscuring Dave's light; Dave's premature loss of popularity and popularity due to scandals. You know, Dave has just officially debuted in New York for only 3 months in the film. He needs popularity, and the fork in the relationship between him and Greta shown in the first half of the film is precisely because he pursues fame and fortune (of course, he did not say that he poor ability).
He loves Greta, but gets lost every now and then.
Greta also loves him, even more than him, so in order to let Dave's star continue to shine, she silently accompanies her, and continues to be the gentle and sky-filled Milky Way that embraces the stars.
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