modern letter

Millie 2022-03-22 09:01:54

I always wondered whether Jarmusch's films were all written listening to music, and whether music would always be played on his set to make the rhythm so exciting and comfortable.
Like the name, it's a broken story, fragmented, flowing and unable to grasp its direction. Just like music itself, it runs through time and space, neither flat nor saturated. I especially like this tone.
The story is like "Letter from a Strange Woman", with the modern features of helplessness and anxiety. It was all a sudden letter, which changed the state of the male protagonist, began to look back on a certain period of life, and even ran away from home to those lives in person, to see how broken they were, the unrecognizable unfamiliar appearance.
The journey is long, cumbersome, and stressful. He didn't know what to say when the door opened. He secretly searched for clues to the letter, and was uneasy because he couldn't find it, but he was still uneasy when he found it. That's where the music stops and there's a two-time 360 ​​that nails him there. No way, this is my favorite.
Like that novel, the protagonist seems to be a man, but in fact he is just a prop for the plot. The real protagonists are, of course, the women he sees through his eyes, and under their various appearances hide their unpredictable hearts that are riddled with holes. All women have become broken flowers.

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Extended Reading
  • Michele 2021-12-12 08:01:12

    Jarmusch was able to shoot this boring subject interestingly, and the old man in Lost Tokyo wore a sweatshirt with a lonely expression as always. The journey of haunting Ethiopian music made him seem like a down-and-out Don Juan. He bent down and put down pink flowers in front of his former lover’s tomb, and then whispered hello, beautiful. He just felt that time flies, and the answer is not important anymore.

  • Kimberly 2021-12-12 08:01:12

    Jia Muxu’s imagination of society is quite small and fresh, like a middle-aged new concept composition, Bill Murray is not like Don Juan and turned into a computer tycoon, but like a proud social animal who doesn’t want to be honest. Because modern people have no ownership of themselves, they can only mechanically implement the set procedures. However, what is going on, finding a child has become a literary journey, Lolita Carmen appears in turns, pink like the North Star guiding the reverse An affair, an awkward reunion releases a real loss. In the endless car window view, emotions have recovered their sorrows and joys. I don’t know who it is, anyone can be, only the cold street, only echo-like names, dialogue and colour. I suddenly thought of the flower shops that used to open in front of the Shanghai Film City. They are also like broken petals, scattered in the neat plan. Some stories are finished without revealing the answer, but let you understand the mystery of life.

Broken Flowers quotes

  • Girl on Bus: I can't believe my Mom won't let me wear a bikini.

    Girl on Bus: I can't believe your Mom let you come on this trip!

    Girl on Bus: Oh, she doesn't know. Well, I mean, she knows, but, she thinks that I'm with your family. He-he-he. No, she wouldn't have let me come and you would have been totally mad at me.

    Girl on Bus: What if she calls my Mom?

    Girl on Bus: She's not going to call her. She thinks she's here. See, its perfect!

    Girl on Bus: Wait-wait-wait. What?

    Girl on Bus: Don't even worry about it. Don't even worry about it.

    Girl on Bus: Wait, do I need to call my Mom? 'Cause my Mom will totally lie for you.

    Girl on Bus: No. I really want to go to the party tonight. I really want to meet some cute guys.

    Girl on Bus: That guy is SO cute that is sitting behind me. Can you see him.

    Girl on Bus: Oh my gosh! He's really cute.

    Girl on Bus: He looks like a supermodel

    Girl on Bus: Oh my God! No, he looks like the Calvin Klein model, that's like on the side of the bus.

    Girl on Bus: Oh my gosh, he looks so cool. Ally will take us to get something to eat before we go. I'm starving.

    Girl on Bus: Oh she better.

    Girl on Bus: I'm starving.

    Girl on Bus: That's why you need the mix-and-match when you we get fat you got a good dinner. We're such heffers.

    Girl on Bus: Are you serious? Its disgusting. We're so fat.

    Girl on Bus: Donut girl!

  • Don Johnston: [teasing] So how's the sweetest grape on the vine?