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The Coen Brothers' "Bast Scruggs Ballad" is a collection of short films.
But what does it matter? The fifth story alone, "The Woman with a Puppy", is already close to five stars.
Want to come to most commentators and movie fans, is not willing to choose the Coen brothers, this new 2018 film, into their top ten of the year. First of all, there are too many masterpieces by the Coen brothers. "Drunk Country Folk Songs" can only be described as literary and emotional essays. Furthermore, it is a set of short films. This form of genre means that everyone will have a question: Which part do you like best? Or, this part is so good that the other part of the internal PK does not look so good (think "The Story of the Golden Age" and "The Savage Story").
But I still want to talk about why I like this movie.
It was a caravan escort accompanied by death accidents, mutual trials and new hopes. The progress was orderly and heartbreaking: the young girl who has been nervous, overly sensitive, and with a barking puppy, is about to look forward to a bright future. , The movie ended in an unexpected way.
The tragedy of this part means that after the protagonists and heroines have all tried, they believe that there must be another kind of life in the new world of the west, and they all want to start a new life. However, the accident did not spare them.
The trick of fate is not the usual risk factor of Western films: the yelling, murderous, and haunting Indians.
Flashback to the next story: Due to too many protests and dissatisfaction, the man told the girl, let's get rid of the puppy. A puppy named President Pierce, he always barked at everything around him, day and night.
The girl's nature is unbearable in her heart. But after losing her brother, she was even more convinced that the puppy belongs to her brother's property, and she needs to draw a line-especially after she learned that President Pierce is indeed an unpopular role.
The man picked up the puppy and walked away with a smile. The girl turned her back and suddenly covered her ears in fear. She heard several distant and dull gunshots.
The man came back and told him that President Pierce ran away in a hurry, and he also felt that he had missed the shot.
What does the detail show here? Most likely, of course, the man deliberately let go of the puppy, and the trick is still in place. It is impossible for him not to know that the puppy is the companion of the beloved.
In short, the man let go of the puppy, and the puppy ran back like a murderer. Similarly, when Big Brother discovered the messy horseshoe prints, he didn't ask the man to alert the man immediately, but ran to find it by himself.
Many people have analyzed that in this story, the girl and the puppy are not only inseparable from each other, but they are also a set of carefully arranged image comparisons. The barking dog and the girl who is easily nervous and disturbed by the future and marriage arrangements are exactly the same species.
The opening dinner table scene has already explained the relationship between the puppy and the elder brother, the girl and the elder brother. She answered or stated something, her expression was quite nervous, as if she was about to deal with the examiner or the judge's student. At the same time, this play is definitely not a waste play. It mentioned a cough that was happening, and it mentioned a possible marriage.
In this story, the appearance of several characters is vague, and only the constantly moving caravan is an unchanging existence.
Needless to say, my brother was covered with a shroud soon. The big brother who noticed the situation of the man and the girl turned around and left. The director almost didn't want to give him a line for the greedy subordinate who appeared in the image of "real taking advantage of the fire".
When the audience focused their attention on the long confession that men and girls were too cautious and shy, and counted on the basis of a day of thinking, they even thought that the type of story that happened in the west would end in a happy ending. The god of destiny followed, not letting go of any fatal harvest.
For some reason, I unexpectedly like this kind of female character who is so delicate and sensitive that people around me have to follow to change the atmosphere of the chat. She is simply too unsuitable to survive in the story of a Western movie. However, isn't the story told by the living being created by countless dead people—just like the opening of a sharpshooter's playing and singing, just like the chanting of a young artist.
I thought about it again very seriously.
Each of the six stories in "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" actually has its own merits. Moreover, they are not what some people think. They are strung together by fictional stories and inevitable deaths. They are fragmented, irrelevant, and randomly arranged existences.
For example, in the third story, there is a chicken that can only count. But in the fourth story, the old man made a joke. The owl probably couldn't count-so he reached out again and took out a bird's egg.
The whole movie has a literary taste of wanton legend. Just like the sharpshooter who I like to humming—he is waiting for you in heaven.
This opening scene is quick and accurate, time after time by surprise, time by time exaggeration, first it is one enemy six, and then the onlookers of the surrounding people are brought in, and I draw out a mirror for myself. As a result, for the last time, the black and white duel, simply so that you can not see the other party's rapid shot.
As the saying goes: martial arts in the world, only fast is not broken.
There are hapless robbers. Many people especially like this story. How wonderful is life, just like the good girl who took a second look before you died. I really want to take another look, but unfortunately, it's just one look, not much. damn!
Reciting little brother, in a remote and remote place of wind and snow, chanting Shelley's "Ozmandis" with eloquence, is it not "Alien: Contract" that passes through the big shark in an instant. Such beautiful words in the world can't be worth a grilled chicken in the end.
As for the last story that flew on the carriage of death and was cold-tuned to make people shudder, the director's concluding remarks blocked the critics' back road.
After all, it seems that I just focused on the fifth story, but I think it's enough. Well, the top ten income year.
The lively scene is over.
Our actors, I have something to say first,
It was originally a few elves, but now they are all gone, empty and empty.
Just like the emptiness of this illusion, the towering towers, the glorious palaces, the solemn temples, the vast land itself, and everything on the ground will disappear, and it will be like this empty ocean view, no Leave a trace.
We are the materials used in dreams,
A short life surrounded by a dream.
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