Why do you say that? Speaking from the beginning. The first crazy shop assistant, although the protagonist takes the name of Dante quite meaningfully, and the plot is also extremely deconstructed, what you can feel is a kind of randomness to the greatest extent, just like this movie. The shooting process is the same, it's all about shooting whatever you like. The effect achieved is like a cold joke in the film:
(Dante is installing a lamp, and an old man comes in)
Old man: Hey, the lamp is poisonous, it is easy to poison people.
Dante: Oh.
Old man: I had a friend who was performing glass swallowing in a circus, and then he died.
Dante: Was it poisoned by swallowing a lamp?
Old man: No, he was killed by a car...
Such cold jokes and the two rock youths Jay and Silent Bob, who are always idle around the convenience store in the film, set the tone of the film: a bunch of inactivity. A life constructed by unlucky trivial matters-in fact, at the end, there is actually a taste of Greek tragedy, but it is no way to recall Dante-this Tuscan man is too optimistic, I just think the poor protagonist Life on this day was like an Odyssey, but it wasn't him who was looking for things, but all kinds of things that came to him-even in the end he ran back home to see his wife and became a wife who came all the way to find him. But all these catastrophes are so meaningless compared to the test that Odysseus has gone through with a firm return to faith. Because, Dante’s life is so meaningless. It’s just that I’m going to look at the store day by day, and I’m interested in doing it with my woman, playing hockey, and that’s it. Meaninglessness itself is the source of tragedy, but when it appears, it is an absurd and hilarious situation out of control.
In contrast, the Radal, who has swear words, constant strange thoughts, and always troubles Dante, is the biggest bright spot. He reminded me of the equally sharp Jimmy Potter in John Osborne’s famous "Review of Wrath." It’s just that Radal is not angry. He never really feels anxious about anything. Compared with the mediocre but poor Dante who still has to take care of work, customers, and the feelings of his own woman abcd, Radal really lives on his own. In the world, as far as the external world is concerned, his meaning of existence is not to stop using his thorns to prick the fact that he has become accustomed to it. Radal's unavoidable mouth popped out. Potter is consciously confronting, and Radal is not so hypocritical. When he messes you up, he will still laugh at your situation and continue to say indifferently: Okay, man, don’t stare at me like that. This is actually It's nothing. In the face of this ridiculous world, Radal is the winner. When the temptation of all kinds of deliberate arrangements by God has succeeded in making most of the eagers submissive, Radal does not care at all. Successful people will ignore such boring idiots, but this The idiot may be the smartest, he can take a glance: Oh, what gold you rob, it is obviously gold powder coated dung... If he continues to think about it, if he sums it up in a more rational way , Then he is Plato, but he chose to speak out disdainfully, so he is Radal.
The first part is going on in a messy atmosphere. Disorder and chaos are its order, and the ordinary and absurdity of life are its rhythm. It doesn't need too much extraction to show it like this, which is enough. The seemingly endless plot can still be integrated by a faintly heart-wrenching sense of tragedy in the end. I don’t think Kevin Smith intentionally made such an expression, but I did have the following feelings: Dante can blame bad luck, it’s Radal, the damn annoying strange customer who ruined his life, But if he doesn’t play, if he doesn’t break up with his original girlfriend, if he doesn’t... Put it straight, his own choice should still be the main responsibility for his unlucky life, even if you can avoid it with slack Responsibility, but the responsibility of life itself will still be imposed on yourself in the end. This is something you can never avoid.
Ten years later, Kevin Smith made a sequel to this movie. The reputation he has gained can win him a higher budget. The shotgun is changed at once, not only the picture quality is greatly improved, but even the soundtrack is on a higher level. However, technical factors are always ranked second in movies (I hold this view now, and I will retain this view regardless of whether the film is being filmed or not.) If it loses its characteristics, it may not even be as good as a playful youth comedy. . Judging from the beginning of the movie that continues to be absurd and nonsensical, all the Kevin fans are relieved that the original style is still there.
Is it true? In fact, Kevin has secretly changed his tone. First of all, the story is no longer so rambling. The fact that Dante and his girlfriend are moving to Florida is the backbone of the whole plot. Then, the ambiguous relationship between Dante and the charming female boss keeps this main line always maintained. Dramatic tension, until the final climax, and a middle-class ending. Let’s put it this way, the overall style of the first episode has only become the branches that enrich the backbone of the second episode. At first glance, it is still so sharp and lively (or even sharper), but in fact, the former is a pot of soup. It is a dish of stir-fried vegetables with more water-even if the stir-fried dishes add more water than the soup, they are still stir-fried vegetables in name. The careless sense of casualness of the DVD drama in the first part is gone, and it gives you a feeling more similar to the middle-class taste of "Glass of Wine" and "Little Sunshine Girl", which is very strong but sincere, and can still impress your little ones. Cost literary film--especially at the end, even our beloved classmate Radal began to make an eight-point confession, tears rushing... the peaks turned, happy and safe, even if the woman who picked the milk appeared again, it was a response to the next number one. But the whole taste has changed. People who have nothing to do will finally return to good young people, good husbands, and good fathers... Come on! Classmate Kevin, are you also recruited?
But as I said at the beginning, I can’t say that this is bad. It just means that we have to look at the two works with two mindsets. The former you can relax completely, and the latter. The expectation of being educated in "Beauty", based on the genre experience represented by the latter, Kevin is still very successful. At the end, you will really forget the nonsense for a while, and be a little moved. a feeling of. But this feeling actually contradicts the previous pleasure, because doing so means a negative gesture, a denial of the past kind of happy life, a denial of doing nothing. The final path is reconciled, maintaining the same way of continuing the original life, but in fact it has changed its attitude.
In this movie, what can still give us hope is Radal, who continues to speak surprisingly and endlessly. His ridicule of the Lord of the Rings believes that every Lord of the Rings fan will burst into laughter and say "son of bitch" from the bottom of my heart... …When I saw this one, I thought Radal’s witty words could be compared to Falstaff, but he was still so unconscious, he laughed, he was acrimonious, if there was no last damn truth confession, Radal would be true It's perfect! It would not be too much to put him in the hall of English satirical literature.
In fact, Kevin's change is understandable. In the first part, he did not express a kind of approving attitude towards that kind of life (you can see that most of the time, the lens is very cold, but it is also related to technical limitations.), ten years have passed, No matter how young people are, they will show signs of fatigue. Even the casual person himself, as long as he can't be as pure as Radal, there will always be a sense of guilt that escapes the responsibility of life. Just take a look at "Before Sunrise" & "Before Sunset" and you will know how big a change this is. Those frivolous have accumulated, not disappeared, and become scale.
Perhaps it is appropriate to look at it this way: tragedy can only happen from a person with vitality and desire-even if he is not a hero, and when the heart is already tired, everything will fall back to normal, but it is possible to become a hero. Eliminate.
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