The last days - I would love to think so

Olin 2022-03-21 09:02:52

A friend moved from Beijing to Guangzhou. Before leaving, he sorted out hundreds of movie DVDs, and picked out some that felt good to bring back to watch, just like the previous one.

I haven't seen any reviews or clips about this film before, and I'm not familiar with the director's name. I just read the introduction on the DVD jacket saying that the film was created based on Kurt Cobain, so I took it back to watch it as a matter of course.

In the imagination, the film should be plot-oriented, not so "literary". Various untreated natural sounds waterfalls, burning firewood, walking or breathing. The male protagonist seems to be possessed by some kind of power and his consciousness is ambiguous. Talking to oneself or muttering to oneself, women dressed as transvestites and suddenly stagnant and stagnant movements due to stagnation of thoughts or interruptions, as well as the appearance of contrasting dirty kitchens in large and beautiful villas, it is always simple The fast food and bisexual bandmates, the premise of running out of drug rehab, and the crazy belief in rock music are the supporting factors that make these events hold. Everything is clearly filled with the atmosphere of literary and artistic films. After the male protagonist commits suicide by drinking bullets, the soul suddenly stands naked from his body and jumps over the fence easily. It can be attributed to the "fresh words" that are no longer unfamiliar-- Stream of consciousness, or directly sublimated into a liberalism that truly transcends the physical bondage of the mundane world, you will definitely not be laughed at by your friends when you say this, and if they have seen it, they will recognize you.

The most impressive part is that after the rehearsal of the band, the male protagonist sits alone in the quiet pile of instruments with a guitar, and sits in the corner and sings a song, although the tone is far from Kurt Cobain. The passage of this song is enough to be called a classic in the film. I think the director written on the DVD introduction refuses to express the prototype as Kurt Cobain, and wants to reflect any human race that cannot face its own pain. This idea seems too subjective. Everyone's pain should be the only one that cannot be copied. This is human nature. And just went to Baidu and searched the results, and it shows that this is a movie that many people come to enjoy because of their attention to Kurt Cobain, but most of these people will feel disappointed.

Don't be disappointed, the man with trembling hands fiddling with food and a suspender skirt is not Kurt Cobain, and what Kurt Cobain was doing and thinking in the days before he left, the world will never know, I like to think so.

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Extended Reading
  • Kole 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    I finally watched the CD I bought two years ago

  • Lois 2022-03-24 09:03:07

    It's not that he can't find an exit, but that there is no exit at all.

Last Days quotes

  • Detective: Then one day he thought the way to make money there are a lot of people who had exotic backgrounds in vaudeville. There was a Chinese magician named Ching Ling Foo who was doing really well. So Billy Robinson sort of disappeared and he resurfaced as a Chinese magician named Chung Ling Soo. He had his hair cut off and made into a queue you know, one of those long queues at the back of his neck. And he had himself made up look like a Celestial. And he became incredibly well-known performing in England. No, he was a magician. He was a stage magician. He did these really wonderful shows. And the real Chinese magician, Ching Ling Foo, got outraged and he tried to have a competition with him. There was headlines in the paper, Soo fools Foo, Foo sues Soo. You know, they had this amazing rivalry. Basically, the guy who wasn't Chinese kind of won the contest, as this great Chinese magician. The other thing he did actually tried to catch a bullet in his teeth on the stage. And marksmen would get up. They'd have a bullet autographed. I mean, you would nick with your nail an initial into the bullet, and a rifleman would fire it at him. And this Billy Robinson dressed up as Chung Ling Soo would stand on the stage with a plate in front of his mouth, and the marksman would fire the bullet. And Chung Ling Soo would catch the bullet in his teeth, and then spit the bullet onto the plate. And they would check it. And it would be the same mark that was made by the guy in the audience It was an amazing effect. It goes back to the 16th century. There was a book about it called The Riddle of Chung Ling Soo by a guy named Will Dexter, but The thing that's amazing is he's performing one day at the Wood Green Empire Theatre, you know, in London in 1918. And he's doing this stunt they shoot him, he drops to the ground and he's dead. He actually dies trying to catch the bullet in his mouth. To this day, there's still all sorts of speculation about what really happened. Was it an attempt to commit suicide? He had some rocky relationship with his wife Dot, who performed with under the name of Suee Seen. But the thing I always remembered about the case you know, being a P.I. I guess is that the Coroner's report called it misadventure. Death by misadventure.

  • Blake: I'm being treated like I'm a... like I'm a... fucking criminal, you know?