This is a sentence that popped into my head after watching "Broken Flower".
There is no other.
When I was in Kunming, I bought a copy of Watch the Movie, a Cannes special, and when I saw the film, I knew right away that I couldn't wait to fall in love with it.
This is the first time I saw Jim Jarmusch's work, very colorful movie, very melodious soundtrack, very poor plot. DON's expression was so flat from beginning to end, no matter what face he faced after knocking on the door, either welcoming or embarrassed or cold or angry, his face was always so sluggish and perverse. Only in that cemetery, the cemetery where his only dead lover was buried peacefully, did he hold the pink bouquet and whisper to the cold stone tablet: hello, for my beauty. Then leaned against the tree, sat down, and slowly shed tears.
DON wanted to dedicate this simple sentence to every lover who opened the door for him, but the estrangement of years prevented such a simple sentence.
Although DON's dialogue is not much, we can still glimpse his inner world from DON's rich eyes and body language. Don's journey is not ordinary, he is not just looking for his unknown son, when the last lover leaves him, when he sits boringly in the middle of the sofa, a powerful sense of twilight loneliness prompts him to set foot on On the journey, I began to relive a period of my own life, cherishing all the lost and owned, and all kinds of fragments that framed the memory. However, the time gap was too long, and a strong sense of indifference knocked DON's original strong power to pieces. Facing every old lover behind the unfamiliar house, DON is often hesitant to say anything, even a simple "for my beauty" is hard to say. The door is closed, and the world of the past is also closed to DON.
He could only confide freely to the old lover who was lying on the ground. Although he didn't say anything, those tears were full of disappointment, loss, and endless melancholy and full of regrets along the way. frivolous, but to pay the price of long-term loneliness.
This is a very quiet film, quiet and almost deserted, and it always reminds us that there will be no fiery enthusiasm to relive the passing years.
For the boy who escaped later, DON has been unable to recover, just like unable to recover the old situation. After turning around on the map, DON finally returned to the starting point of the journey and returned to the current state of life. He achieved nothing on the road, so he devoted all his feelings to the short moment of being with the boy. However, that kind of love The eager call of the past finally scared the boy away and lost his only hope.
At the end of the movie, DON is standing at the crossroads, and the picture revolves around him for a full circle. He still has a tired expression, standing so sluggishly, looking into the distance, unable to do anything.
People can't change the tiredness of life, it is a kind of loneliness that goes deep into the bone marrow.
All the lost possessions, the lost memories, are like a handful of broken petals, only the form, and the fragrance is no longer.
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