So before I read it, Paris, Texas is already an invincible flood of words, labels, genres, and even the name of one or two uncommon shops in every city.
It was as if my rebelliousness had kept me from looking at things with sophisticated lengths and deep attributions—for a few years. Unless it's unplanned and without warning, or for a reason initiated by me.
I finished watching it yesterday, and when I first saw it was over 2 hours long, I wanted to quit for a while. However, unexpectedly, I read it without stopping until 3 am.
The first shot in the movie is the desert and cliffs shot from above. I thought in my head, this is a great movie, like the beginning of "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter": There are two dumb people in town, and they're always together. This scene at the beginning of the movie gave me the same feeling. Although before that, I watched two movies that used the same flowing method to shoot scenery at the beginning, one was "Suzhou River", and the other was "The Life of the Disgusted Songzi". When Travis appeared in the desert in the red hat, I was thinking of the look of Forrest Gump when he was running. I wonder if Robert Zenighis copied this trendy look ten years ago.
Plot -
Looking at the old film 24 years ago from my current perspective, the plot is actually really lackluster: a man lost his wife, left his son, and was exiled on the road for 4 years. Finally, one day, he fainted in a desolate bar, and was called by the unscrupulous boss to recruit his younger brother. Since then, he returned to human society, gradually broke the estrangement with his son, and finally took his son to Houston to find a wife who ran away. The search went very well, found it in one fell swoop, and found out that the wife was working in an erotic bar. The man finally left his son to his wife and went back on the road alone.
However, this kind of story is impossible to pick out, each link is fastened to each other, and it is a very stable bite. Every next one comes out just right. Each foreshadowing is buried and set off one after another. Not a single one was missed.
actor-
Sorry, the actors are also just right. As soon as old Travis came out, I said, some actors are born, and Harry Dean Stanton is born sad, taciturn, sullen, paranoid, lonely. Well, he's a Cancer.
The actor Hunter Carson of Little Hunter, I believe that everyone who has seen this film is deeply impressed by him, and I am also very surprised. This guy obviously has a face like Matsuda Longping. This child's precociousness is not annoying at all, but he has such a naive expression when he talks about the vicissitudes of life. As a digression, this kid outside the movie is not simple. He is also a screenwriter and a director, and he is a decathlon.
Playing his wife Jane is the beautiful Jinski, she is a bit like Zhou Xun and Shu Qi in China, she is born to play this kind of role, bad girl, sexy, with invincible naivety.
And Travis's younger brother and sister are just as fitting as Ann's crappy Mandarin. It will definitely not leave you with any extra imagination, but let you fully understand their identities and conditions. In addition, I personally feel that the film is too calm in depicting the life of this family, without any warmth and attitude. It seems that this man who makes billboards to support his family is not among the director's favorite range.
All the actors are not out of line, strictly adhere to the share on the big pie chart and play their own light and heat in the movie.
Emotions -
The emotions in the film are also clearly divided into three paragraphs.
The first paragraph is brothers.
The second paragraph is father and son.
The third paragraph is for couples. love.
All feelings are natural, no need to explain more, you can guess the cause and effect with your eyes closed.
Of course, based on the principle of safety, the director still explained it to you. In the third paragraph, there are two large dialogue scenes where Travis and Jane talk through a single mirror. From this, you know the evolution process of this pair of men and women from love to hate n years ago.
Highlights -
There are many, many highlights in this movie.
Travis wants to be a good dad. In the film, there is only a scene where a black maid who is very short-lived helps him make his outfit. It reminds me of leon and Natalie in "This Killer Isn't Too Cold". That clip of being a movie star. A little humor.
The second time Travis went to pick up the hunter, the scene where the two walked home together across the road was very warm, especially the part on the slope.
Hunter went to school on the first morning, and Travis chased after him and said he was going to pick him up. I don't know if everyone noticed that part. The filming was really slow, and it was exactly the same as the rhythm of real life. I closed my eyes and thought about it for a while, and I was sure, it was exactly the same, and there was also the effect of light and shadow. This is the realism that is difficult to achieve.
And the shouting passerby on the bridge, which a lot of people talk about when they tell the movie, and I'm going to say it too. This is a stroke of genius. It is the only scene in this film that is not within the safe range, but it is very exciting. Fans of literature and art can transcribe that line, although it does not make much sense to look at it alone.
The use of a single-sided mirror is old-fashioned, but it works. It is easy to achieve the atmosphere conditions that the director wants.
...there are so many of them.
In short, this movie is too round, it starts and turns, it is open and tolerant, and there is no procrastination.
Most importantly, it is not out of date at all. Although it is not shocking enough, the inner strength is quite deep. In fact, the film can reflect the director's temperament. "Paris, Texas" for Wim Wenders, "The Tin Drum" for Schlondorf, "Overland Boat" for Herzog, and Fassbender are too many, so I have to name the most famous one. "Love is Colder than Death", the film characters of these four heroes of the new German film are quite obvious. Compared with these three people, Wenders had to be the most literary and affectionate one.
-Love
road drama is inseparable from love. Always talk about love for a long time, and finally leave. About the place where dad and mom made love for the first time, Paris, Texas, old yellow photos, warm dv by the sea, and the flames of bundled delivery brought out by travis and jane through quiet narration after the vicissitudes of life surrounded by love.
Basically, this kind of love exists in two people who are too emotionally demanding.
Basically, there is no way for two people like this to live peacefully and peacefully.
Basically, the result is doomed. This is the only way for this kind of love to exist forever, because neither of them can stop. They must be walking, flowing, constant, and stillness means the end of it all.
So travis finally left, not because he didn't love jane anymore, nor because he couldn't accept jane's fall into the dust, but because he was incomplete, he needed to keep looking for and keep on the road. The ending of a family of three together seems happy, but it is not. Everyone will be hurt.
In fact, Jane loves travis very much. I don't know if everyone can see that, she can't stand being imprisoned. Her hurt comes from travis.
Travis's injury came from himself. He was not a normal person. Didn't you hear him say that he was in a band when he was studying? Can there be normal people in the band? !
As for the little hunter, it is obvious that he has left a father's breath on him. Sooner or later, he will be on the road, hum, wait until he is a little older. . .
Why did John Lennon later choose Yoko Ono instead of Cynthia, because Yoko Ono only gave him part of the love, but only part of her, the other part of her is free, this subtle uncertainty can protect them all the way go down without dying.
Okay I admit I did watch Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" lately...
White clouds, pale blue ,
blue sky, gray and blue
, and your love
has been on the road
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