Jim Jarmusch_A Stranger in Paradise_1984
7.8
The deepest impression is the piece of Lake Erie. Director Jim Jarmusch is one of my favorite directors. The Chinese translation of "Paradise Moying" is one of my most hated translations. This movie is Director Jarmusch's second movie and the first I've seen. A Jarmusch film. Time has passed, and the initial emotions are still indelible. The deepest impression is the piece of Lake Erie, which is not the same as those beautiful postcards. When I first arrived in Philadelphia, the scenery I saw was similar, and it was so white that I couldn't see anything clearly. This black-and-white image of this film does not have the gorgeous silver quality of "Raging Bull", but the black and white of shit, and the roughness of Jay Hawkins' music. The scene is its smallest unit, and the occasional black picture seems to be empty of these characters, although the actual reason is the lack of funds. The three looked at the dizzyingly empty landscape, and Eddie said it was funny, you're in a new place and everything is the same.
When I first started quarantining two months ago, everyone went to the trouble of telling each other to stay safe and healthy, but life still hasn't changed much, and I'm even frustrated by it. Willie, who is far away in his apartment in New York, has a stagnant mood. He can never get excited like a wooden chicken. He has been isolated from the world for so long that his body is covered with dust. He plays solitaire and eats instant TV meals with meat and potatoes. , vegetables, desserts, and no dishes. Ava came like something had happened, and the act of throwing away the clothes brought everything back to square one, like a joke forgotten by Willie. So I went to Cleveland, and I heard that there is a beautiful lake there, and there are Chesterfield cigarettes.
When I first saw this film, it didn't match my usual movie viewing experience, and I liked it because it's closer to depicting a person's life in a primitive state, rather than a person's life after being socialized. I have seen many psychology class tests before, and the most dissatisfying thing is that there is never an option for expressing "I don't know myself". It's far from the bottom line, and I'm not in favor of a lazy life, but indeed, I believe that this state of inactivity is closer to the original intuition. All expressions are almost the same, the meaninglessness of life and the fear of existence are intertwined.
Isn't it the same in Hungary and America, strangling an alligator and vacuuming, Cleveland and New York? Play cards, watch TV, sleep, come to Florida, put on sunglasses, and say we're like tourists now. Both time and space turned out to be just man-made rulers, and I thought the same when I was lying in the bedroom of a 13-square-meter apartment on Paris Street. Taking a certain stage of change in time and space as an opportunity for our own change, birthday, New Year's Eve, anniversary, moving house, entering a higher school, entering a job, falling in love, what is the difference between different locations on the map to me, it is still unclear to me.
When Willie and Eddie meet someone who is waiting for the bus and ask for directions, the man says he is going to work in a factory, and the two look sad when they hear it, as if he said "I'm dying." This episode is humorous and even more disturbing. Romain Rolland said that there is only one true heroism in the world, and that is to love life after knowing the truth. But I have always been in a deep state of being unable to recognize the truth of life, nor to love it, and I can't get out of that big world like a mouse.
It doesn't even have any predictable direction for the plot. It's a battle of beasts in a world of its own. Even if I were put in that space, of course I didn't know what to do. Like having encountered those hypothetical problems, what would you do with a few million dollars? What do you do when you are terminally ill? What will you do at the end of the world? What will you do with great influence? What would you do in a small room with who? I didn't know anything about it, nor did I take it for granted that these were things I had to know, so I just got involved. Like The Arizona Dream says, if I really want to know the difference between an apple and a bike, I'll take one bite of the apple and another bite of the bike.
View more about Stranger Than Paradise reviews
