It was extremely difficult to watch the ice storm in the dark at night. This one really touched me the most. Ang Lee said, I hit their hearts directly, so that they can't heal for a long time. This feeling is brought to me by the ice storm. I don't know at what moment I was touched, but after watching it, there is that kind of haze that can't be dissipated.
The ice melted after a rainstorm looks so bright and so cold. This movie is about the United States in 1973, but when I was watching the movie, I suddenly felt that it was now, especially with the frequent explosion of celebrity scandals. From Wu Yifan to the current Wang Leehom, the chaos is unimaginable. All I can say is that I was born in a very strange age, with abundant resources but lack of spirit. I'm a little tired of watching the endless stream of funny jokes in video software, and the deformed values in order to cater to the mainstream.
"Ice Storm" is based on two middle-class families in Connecticut, USA in 1973. Through the framework of parallel development of parents and children, it looks at the impact on people after the power of moral disintegration penetrates into ordinary families. As adults engage in sexual liberation and play "key party" games, their teenage children are doing the same temptation, the kids are going through adolescence, and so are the adults. I felt that American adults at the time, those in their forties, were also facing a new embarrassment of middle age. Most of the films made in the United States in the 1970s were social satires, and there were few films that seriously discussed this era. That's why I like "Ice Storm" because the subject matter is very challenging. When shooting, I took a different approach and made a new attempt in the narrative structure. Compared with my previous films, it was a double rebellion of "content and structure".
In the past, most of my films talked about the constraints of society and family on individuals, and at the same time extended to the deconstruction and change of family. This time I want to do the opposite. How will people react when the bonds of society collapse and the individual is completely liberated? Feeling insecure, unwell, as if you're not wearing any clothes? In the filming of "Ice Storm", I was focusing on the theme of "home", which I have been doing in the past, but not yet fully satisfied, and tried to cut it from a negative angle.
When families face deconstruction, life can be a state of ignorance. On the night of Thanksgiving, there was a large table of delicious food, but the family members were silent. Everyone had their own affairs in their hearts and was ready to cater to this society. Instead, they began to miss the era in "Rationality and Sensibility".
There is also a very special point, that is, people in the ice storm do not make eye contact. During the conversation, most people avoid direct eye contact, and fiery eye contact will make people feel strong love meaning. What is home? Isn't it love between family members?
I really admired both Kevin and Sigourney's performances, especially Sigourney, who has a poignant quality about herself that no one else has. The last two scenes in the film were also added for her reminder. Because Jenny didn't play after the "wife swap party" in the first draft, she felt like the role wasn't over yet, so James added two more. She first shrunk into a baby on the water bed, as if in a mother's womb. Since I was already in bed, I thought of the scene where she woke up the next day to the sound of her husband crying. I used a close-up to look at her eyes. When I opened my eyes in the morning, the world she was going to face in the future unfolded like this. It's also one of my favorite shots, it's so horrible that I can't take it anymore. If she hadn't mentioned it, the latter two shots would not have been thought about. This is the actor's contribution.
In fact, I especially like the scene where Jenny is curled up on the bed. At that moment, I feel that people are one in common. No matter how we wrap ourselves up, when we're alone, we're just such a tiny human being. There was a time, under the pressure, I liked going to the bar, but I couldn't stand the noise, it was a very deformed state, and it made me understand that after the hangover, what greeted us was unfinished or unfinished. worse things. Later, I began to abandon this state and went to run, read, watch movies to relieve the pressure and pain I felt. When I couldn't escape, I tried to change the environment.
When the family stood by the train station again in the early morning, waiting for their son to come back, and the father burst into tears, at this time, each other's hearts were opened and their eyes began to intersect.
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