In January 2010, the first theater channel played Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 3 times in a month, and I got hit every time, so that my family asked if I had watched it a few times, why? see again?
But the fact is that I only watched some clips on and off for the three broadcasts, and I lacked the opportunity to watch it completely, and I lacked the mood to watch it completely. It's just the sculpture in the cemetery with a calm expression like water and a scale at the end, and the ending KD The Skylark that Lang sang leisurely, as if unconsciously, swam into people's hearts during these three times on and off. So I slowly saved up my mood to watch midnight, just like an actor entering a play before a performance, with a little southern mood, looking at the story that happened in this southern town. Many people on the Internet say that this movie is very bland, and they can't quite understand what it wants to say. They seem to understand a little, and then they don't seem to understand. I think maybe what many people want to see is a story, a story with a clear attitude, something to belittle, something to express, or something to pity; Courage and the like. And in the middle of the night, King Solomon's upstart shoots and kills a male companion in the conservative southern town of Savannah, saying he was doing it in self-defense. The crime scene was clearly identifiable and the police arrived immediately. The case has no witnesses, no doubts, and no truth. The small-town residents on the jury finally acquitted the rich man in a five-to-five choice. He died peacefully of a heart attack in his study one quiet afternoon after his release. As the upstart tycoon played by Kevin Spacey said, truth, like art, everyone has their own opinions, so we can't read attitudes from this story, and it's difficult to make up a plot of wits and bravery in this story. I saw someone say that this is a film made by director Eastwood to express his love for jazz. may be. I haven't read the original novel, the novel may try to tell a story, and the movie, I personally think the movie is more about creating an atmosphere. As the outsider played by John Cusack, the northern writer who broke into this southern town as if by mistake, said that this town is a Gone With the Wind on Mescalin. The quiet streets, the dense canopy trees, the old white mansions full of manor colors, and the light, shadow, sound, and people are all like punch wine in the south. The film gradually brings you into a state of slight intoxication, leading you through the midnight, through the cemetery, and finally wakes up, pulls away, and becomes melancholy at the cemetery statue at the end of the film. This melancholy does not come from sympathy, emotion, or compassion, but it is just waking up from a dream. Whether rich or poor, noble or just the same, we walk through the cemetery, and at last we are equal before God through death. No matter how grand and exquisite parties, no matter how intense or dark emotions are intolerant of the world, no matter how deep resentment, no matter how profound disappointment, even peaceful happiness, brave life, good and bad, all end at the moment when the story ends. . No matter how drunk, this is just one night in our lives. ps: Jude Law is in the film. Needless to say, her acting skills are amazing. In the near-death hallucination of a heart attack, Kevin Spacey saw him, who had become a corpse, with bloodshot eyes hanging from the corners of his mouth, his head lying on the Persian carpet slowly raised, and then the scene where he smiled inexplicably, has become a classic forever.
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