A lonely song

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

9 points up. The first Charlie Kaufman was enough to rock my mom for a whole year. Yes, I like it so much, it can be regarded as the first art film that I really like. ｜ "What you write will be a record of the times...but more importantly, if you are honest with yourself, you will also alleviate the loneliness of others, because they see their own shadow and hope in your work ." As Kaufman said in his BAFTA speech in 2011, I did understand it, I saw my own shadow, and I believe you do too.

The film is poetically smooth and as soft and cold as the wind.

| Poems in Movies

"Bone Dog"

It's scary to come home, whether the dog licks your face or not, whether there's a wife waiting for you at home, or loneliness in the shape of a wife

Coming home is terribly lonely, so that when you think back to the heavy air you just left, it comes with some fondness

Because once you get home, everything will be worse

You think wistfully, pests clinging to straw, long journeys on the road, roadside assistance and ice cream, and the peculiar shape and silence of certain clouds

Because you don't want to go home, home is...

just terrible,

And the silence and dark clouds of family life only add to the general sense of discomfort

Such clouds are actually very suspicious, their structures are different from the ones you left behind

You yourself were cut from another, cloudy cloth, returned, left

Unfortunate meeting under the moonlight, unwilling to return

Where it shouldn't be loose, it will be loose, clothes full of threads, sloppy like a rag, and tattered

You come home like an alien on the moon

The pull of the Earth's gravity, now doubled in force, tugging loose your shoelaces and your shoulders, etched deeper into the verse of worry on your forehead

When you come home, it's even deeper

A dry well connected to tomorrow, through a weak...

So and so day after day no change, you sigh, sometimes people do

Well... Anyway, you're back

The sun rises and sets like a weary prostitute, the weather rises and falls like a broken limb

Everything is still except the ebb and flow of salt in you

Your vision is hazy, you are not affected by the outside weather

Huge blue whale, bone-like darkness

You're back, with an X-ray sight...

Your eyes have become a hunger

You came home with your mutant talent, a home of bones

Now everything you see, everything, is bone.

"Wind" (self-made)

People usually think of themselves as a point of travel through time,

But I think the truth is probably the other way around, we stand still and time passes through us.

Blows like a cold wind, steals our heat, cracks us and freezes, and kills us.

I feel like I'm the wind tonight, blowing over Jack's parents,

see their past, see their future, see what they will be like after they die,

At that time, I was left with nothing but the wind.

| Criticism of the film "The Drunk Woman" in the movie

Female opinion: I am not sure I agree (that it's a amazing film).

Man: Maybe it's because I have an affinity for Mabel. She is a character with great power and great grievances...

Woman: Is it...? I think (with a puff of smoke) Mabel Longheti was bombarded because she always wanted to please everyone so he could be considered another victim heroine of the women's liberation cause, but think that way The only female liberationists who are willing to accept textbook spin-offs as art, the tall and shapely Gina Rowlands, aka Cassavetes' wife, is an amazing actress who never jumped out of the role...

Man: I think so too, she played that role well...

Female: Rolands' age is uncertain now, and her beauty has gone beyond the role of a naive girl. She can play old or young. Mabel Longhetti's expressions at various levels have transformed her from a glamorous and coquettish beauty to a beautiful woman. She became a sad and depressed street drunk. Rolands showed the disintegration of schizophrenia. You can see Mabel disintegrating in front of her eyes. The play on her face is like a three-ring circus performance. Rolands' performance is enough She can be called half a dozen stunts and deserves a bunch of Oscars. Her performance is very tiring. As you can imagine, he's a great actor, but none of his performances are memorable because she's done too much. . (smoking) That was the most fleeting grand show I've ever seen...

Man: I don't seem to understand what you mean by fleeting?

Female: Mabel wanted to cut her wrist, Nick put a Band-Aid on the wound, this idiot-like symbolism is enough to make people addicted, but in this 2 hours and 35 copies, people are too dizzy and can only moan That's it. The details are meant to establish the morbid nature of the characters around Mabel, thus showing her loneliness, but the details are momentarily powerless and hypocritical, and I don't know if the characters don't know what they're doing, or if it's the director Cassavetes Don't know what he's doing. The children kept mumbling that they loved her, but there were no clues to explain that restraint. Are they doting on her? Switch roles and treat her like a child in need of comfort, or do they have a guilt-free love like her? And what do we think about Nick the pulper's constant assertions (the two arguing over assertions and assertions), the movie is totally lean, everything is planned but not thought through.

Transition: Bringing out the male point of view, in fact, is probably Kaufman's self-debate from two perspectives

Man: I do see what you mean. You are undoubtedly an expert on film.

Female: yeah, and I am.

Male point of view: (amazing film)

M: I think I was tricked by... Cassavetes' sympathy for her, and I think maybe our society lacks some kind of kindness, lack of a willingness to accept other people's struggles, which leads to these quotes. The problem people struggle with is...

Woman: A society alienated from each other?

Man: I don't know, maybe... yes, it looks desperate, everything, like feeling old, your body's decline, your hearing, your vision, you can't see, and so do others You're transparent, you've taken a lot of turns that shouldn't be turned, all the lies--saying that everything will be okay, that it's never too late, that God has plans for you, that age is just a number, that it's pre-dawn Hours are always the darkest, saying...saying that the fuck is lost, saying...saying that everyone will find the right person...God will never give us more than we can handle.

| Interpretation of excerpts from the film's lines

00:01:36 The idea can't be fake

Female narrator:

Jack once said: "Sometimes thoughts are closer to facts and reality than actions. People can say and do things that can be false, but ideas cannot be false."

00:04 Newton's first law of emotions

Woman: I want to end this, what's the point of continuing like this? I know where it's going, how it's going to go, and Jack's a good guy, though. . . There's no progress in our relationship, I've known this for some time, and knowing this, and moving on, maybe it's human nature. The other approach requires too much energy and requires decisiveness. People stay in unhealthy relationships because it's easier that way. It's basic physics. Objects in motion tend to keep moving. People tend to stay in relationships after the expiration date. This is Newton's first law of love.

Duoyanduoyu: Isn't that what you said?

00:06 A prophecy

Radio: As Isaiah chapter 1 verse 18 says, though your sins are as scarlet, they will become white.

01:00 X Hints and Temptations

Father: This is Jack's old room. You two can spend the night here tonight if you want. My mother and I are not conservative about that kind of thing, sex or something... I know this bed, it looks a little sleepy Two adults, after all, this is a children's bed. If you can't even sleep two children, you can only sleep with one child. You will definitely be able to sleep for one night.

Woman: You are so generous, but I do have to (go home)

Father: I don't think you can do x on this bed, and this bed is not made for x, it's a children's bed, just one child, not two, I'll be sure to find my wife's old one ...something you can wear tonight, may have to rummage, but I'm sure I'll find it...

Duo Yan Duo Yu: Too low self-esteem, even in fantasy love, the sexual suggestion and temptation to the heroine need to be done by an elderly father with Alzheimer's disease.

01:23 She is sweet but cold

Male: A benevolent and generous ice cream clown queen, made entirely of lactose, she's sweet but cold

Duo Yan Duo Yu: In fact, it refers to the female clerk.

01:26 Frigid

Man: I don't like some of the girls who work here, so I want to make sure

Female: what happened to those girls

Man: I can't tell, some people are cold to me...if they knew it was me, they wouldn't come out

Duo Yan Duo Yu: The picture contrasts with the imaginary extreme attention to "I".

01:28 Boring Mean Pretty

The rash female clerk:

You are very nice, you are not as boring, mean and beautiful as they are

just seems. . . Some kind of beauty comes with some kind of hardship, which you don't have

Maybe beautiful people suffer too, I don't know, maybe. . . Maybe their beauty will make them suffer

Duoyanduoyu: It represents the opinion of a humble man like the male protagonist towards a beautiful woman. Yes, beautiful women are always mean to you who are diaosi, their fun has nothing to do with you, you can only see beauty.

01:39 Young admirably

Woman: Is it better to be young?

man: yes, i think yes, admirable youth

Woman: Young admirable? How can you admire someone because of their age? like admiring a point in a stream

Male: Younger is healthier, smarter, more interesting, more hopeful, almost all pioneering work in science and art is done by young people, old people are a pile of ashes of youth...

Duoyanduoyu: Is the fantasy of an old man about a young woman the actress he saw while cleaning the theater, or the female clerk at the dairy, or Mabel in "The Drunken Woman"? Anything.

01:40 Knowing the school well

Male: 130 classrooms, 1 gymnasium, two locker rooms for boys and girls, large auditorium, 10 toilets, six administrative offices, teachers' lounge, psychological counseling room, this is a regional middle school with students from 11 towns ...

Duo Yan Duo Yu: The cleaner has changed his identity.

01:45 say no

Woman: It's hard to say no. No one has taught me. It's much easier to say yes. In short, sometimes you are just caught off guard, and people ask if they can ask for your number. The easiest way to get rid of it is to say yes. Once you say yes, you will say yes more times, keep saying yes... He Not a beast, he doesn't hit you, right? I'm sure X life has been great, at least sometimes. only...

Talking and Talking: Echoing Newton's First Law of Emotions

01:50 Can't remember what he looks like

Woman: I can't remember what he looks like, how can I remember? Nothing happened, maybe it was just...I think it was just...just one of the thousands of times in my life that I didn't interact with people like that. (Silence, laughing) It's like asking me to describe a mosquito that bit me one night 40 years ago... Duo Yan Duo Yu: The sense of substitution is very strong, and I already want to help him cry.

02:03 Description of self

Soul Pig (readme as a ghost later):

Once you don't feel bad about being a pig, or worse a maggot-filled pig, then it's not that bad, there are always people who are maggot-filled pigs, right, it's probably you too, this It's like drawing lots, play whatever cards you have in your hand, make lemonade from the lemons of life, move on, don't worry about anything, there is kindness in the world, you know, you have to find it, but it's in the world.

Duoyan Duoyu: The maggot pig is actually myself.

02:05 your pun

Man: I'm here tonight, entirely because of you, you are the reason I am. (confession)

You (you) are all my reasons. (Finally a perfunctory sentence for everyone)

Duo Yan Duo Yu: Saving this relationship or maintaining a trace of connection through career (professional) fantasies, isn't it something you often do (dumped)?

| The cry from the heart of the opera, the final swan song

lyrics:

The floor creaked, the door creaked, and a rat started nibbling on a broom.

I sat alone, like a cobweb on a shelf, alone, in a lonely room.

But the moon appeared in the window and cast a beam of moonlight on the bed,

The shadow of the tree began to dance on the wall, and a dream began to dance in my mind.

All my wishes have become what I want.

That stupid fool pastor thought he was better than me, but I was better than him.

The girl I want is not afraid of my embrace, his soft arms keep me warm, her long interwoven hair falls on my face,

Like a heavy rain in a storm.

The floor creaked, the door creaked, and a mouse began gnawing on a broom.

The sun flickered in my eyes, and it was all a lie.

I woke up in a lonely room.

I don't dream of her arms anymore,

I don't want to leave her alone.

Go outside and find myself a bride,

Find myself a woman, my woman.

Through this sorting out, the context of the film gradually becomes clearer

This is not a feminist film, although the title and narration are deliberately directed, as well as the feminist views expressed in the film such as against objectification of women, plus the film is mostly told from the point of view of the female protagonist. But in fact, Charlie Kaufman, as the author and film director, still expresses an old man's fantasy of love for the romantic scenes he saw in the film or his life and work. The object of the fantasy is a young woman, maybe the actress on the stage cleaning the school theater, maybe the waitress you met at the dairy in the snowstorm, maybe the favorite movie "Drunk Woman" Mabel...

Older men have unremarkable looks and bloated bodies, work extremely ordinary jobs, and have extremely ordinary families. Wanted a smart brooch as a child but only got a diligent brooch, maintained a paranoid stress response to the word genius (arguing with mother, eloquent). Like poetry, novels, essays, movies, desserts, paintings, musicals, but can not handle their own life. The long list of musical titles seems like a mouthful, but it seems to be quite experienced at first listen, but after watching the movie, I realize how much he needs these things to show his "professionalism" and stir up a little splash for his peaceful life. | After reading this, please check if it is your portrayal.

The girlfriend conceived by the male protagonist in his low self-esteem is not enough to love him. How can a person who is so humble and lonely to die can imagine having a woman who loves him deeply? The heroine didn't answer the phone call from Lucy, expressing that she didn't want the hero to know more about her life. It just so happened that the heroine herself was Lucy, and the good guy called herself. It was not like you needed to arrange a phone call from a friend when you needed to leave. ; In a more vivid metaphor, the phone calls are like asking oneself again and again, showing the inner activities of the heroine. The male protagonist interrupted the emotional judgment of the female protagonist about to say three times, and he kept them again and again. He took the female protagonist to various places and made a final attempt, even if it was to watch the dead sheep by the door and the maggots. Pig, visit his "weird" sick parents, see the farm life that makes him feel inferior, the ordinary house, the meals that he can't come up with, the humble basement, the ice cream milk shop in the blizzard, the nasty middle school, Exhausted all the efforts that we can think of, but it seems to us that it is almost bizarre, trying to bring your girlfriend into your life and heart, but you will always go. How can I leave you and tell you that you can spend the night with me in the children's bed, my parents are not conservative people; I will find you a nightdress for your mother, I hope you can stay here and do it or not; go back to the city I will take you to various places on the way to know that this is probably the last time; even if you have left, I may only be able to live in your life again if I become a physicist and win awards at the grand ceremony, because you are a A scholar engaged in physics research.

comfortable mix

Road films, song and dance elements, thrillers, film-in-a-film, dreamlike performances, overexposure shots, extensive time-lapse, muting, long on-board discussions, stunning poetic lines, dreamy editing and The chaotic narrative, the echoing and interlacing of various objects, I can only say that it is too comfortable.

Objects and clues: It's not a blessing to lose a horse, die in white, cling to words, Newton's first law of love, Santa Fe burger, maggot pig, Tulsie town dairy ad song, ice cream clown queen wearing a crown... ..

It's okay to watch a movie in a movie. To be honest, the episode is really romantic, and the subtitles are really surprising...

The handling of thrillers is a major point of view. It would be boring if it was a straight-forward life stream and a stream of consciousness...

While watching the movie, I was shocked to open my mouth many times, exclaiming that this is art, this is fucking art!

It's a pity not to go to the big screen. The studio should go to Netflix to buy it. I hope there is a chance to make up the ticket. At least the library has to collect it.

Going back to the beginning, Kaufman said that everyone saw their own shadow in the movie.

Indeed I saw,

but not fully seen,

I can fully understand that the film wants to express this feeling, but I can't empathize with it, because I always have a female predestined relationship.

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