From the establishment of the project to the shooting, to the good reviews of the trial screening, yes, this is almost one of the movies I want to see this year. Although the enthusiasm for watching movies is diminishing, there are always a few movies that arouse curiosity every year. The desire to watch the film was, of course, the subject matter at first, but later it was purely because of word of mouth. What is so good about such a movie that looks like "politics in command"? How good is it?
After watching this movie, I did not hesitate to give full marks. For me, the kids are all right,
but the movie isn't all right......
It's awesome.
Watching such a movie is like a testimony A wonderful cycle.
Ten years ago, the neurotic Annet Bening in "American Beauty" was still a bit nervous woman ten years later;
10 years ago, Julian Moore in "The End of Love" cheating, 10 years later , You continue to have an affair;
10 years ago, Maclafolo, who first appeared on the screen, was the young man praised as contemporary Marlon Brando in you can count on me. After 10 years of sharpening a sword, you are the one who shines the most in this movie where the woman is headed.
More importantly, 10 years later, from the black, twisted and twisted gay movie "American Beauty", we finally entered the gay movie of the rainbow era, the kids are all right.
I have always worried too much that the "show off gay theme" did not happen at all. The audience is not a fool, and bluffing with the theme has always been a patent for harmony. This gay movie is not gay enough. If the role of Annet Benin is replaced by a man, the degree of beauty will not be compromised. But this is still a gay movie, full of gay jokes from beginning to end. From the beginning, the mother of Lala told her son that Lala porn was too ugly, because they were all straight women's clothing, so fake! At the end of the film, the daughter is about to leave home to go to college. The two mothers are inseparable. The silly son said, you shouldn't cry, my mother reprimanded: I really hope you are gay, that way you will be more emotional!
That's right, I've been laughing all the time, from beginning to end.
I haven't watched the classic high art film, but I have watched the director's last movie "Laurel Valley". The movie that was a bit challenging to the audience surprised me the first time I watched it. The bold hippie bisexual mother actually got her son's wife into bed. Not only was I shocked, the American film critics probably couldn't stand it either, and they all gave low scores. So this time the director lady returned to the family, playing a warm card. (To be honest, "Laurel Valley" is actually a traditional family drama with avant-garde appearance.)
Critics like to use "textbook level" to describe good stories, and I steal this term to use it. This five-person movie tells a stale story, but it is like a magnet to attract the audience. This is probably the power of a good screenwriter. The characters are all lively and three-dimensional, there is no deliberate plot transition (that is the patent of the American TV series), there is no exaggerated performance (hey, it is also the patent of the American TV series), everything is so natural, but there are interesting lines that create a sense of joy. There are more than the three major dramas, everyone has a drama, even the small characters are also stealing the spotlight. That little girl who speaks for "sex" once played a completely opposite character in "Republic of Tara". I love this girl.
The simple story cannot be simpler. But as soon as that sloppy man walked into the door of the standard middle-class couple, he was immediately full of jokes. There are no contradictions between straight people and bending people in this movie, but there are contradictions between different classes, between couples, and between two generations. Marriage is a difficult task, so derailment happened. But family is always the happiest place, so the prostitute began to want a home, and even began to have love in his heart. Can't help but say it again, Mark played really well.
I think this is the effect Lisa Cholodenko wants. In this movie, we don’t see any fragments of comrades marching on the streets waving rainbow flags to fight for rights. What we see is that the whites, blacks, Indians, Mexicans are straight men, regardless of skin color, race, and they love each other. They formed their own family, they raised their children and grew up to go to college. They have middle-aged crisis marriages that are gradually boring, cheating and forgiving each other, they laugh for a while and cry for a while, they are ordinary people, just like you and me.
This gay movie in the era of it gets better, no longer black or distorted, only laughter and warmth. The sun was shining most of the 100 minutes. When the subtitles came up, I thought of Zhang Qingfang's old song (how old I am),
California sunshine,
let it heal my sadness and
make me stronger... .
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