Last night, I watched "THE MAN WASN'T THERE" with Yang sang, a 2001 Cannes Best Director Award, which was rated as Cohen's most delicate film alongside Lynch's "Mulholland Drive".
The words absurd, surreal, expressionism, etc. are too gorgeous and ethereal, and I really don't understand and don't want to use them as rhetoric. So let's talk about the film directly, not much about the plot and actors, and let's talk about the whole film. It's really confusing. I really don't know where to start, because I can't explain what Cohen is saying, so I remember a few of them. Words and a few shots, the impression is quite deep.
The barber played by Billy Bob Thornton said: "Why does hair keep growing? Hair is also a part of the human body, but people cut it off and throw it away with the trash. It is said that after a person dies, hair will continue to grow. If it continues to grow for a while, is it because it has not realized the departure of the soul?" This sentence is very interesting, it can be said that hair is the most important thing that this little man has grafted to transfer the true meaning of his life in his life, and this thing is all Human hair, and all human hair is like that. The rise of the soul and the annihilation before it is awakened, a patterning of the soulless in life, and in the process of annihilating the soul again and again, the executioner realizes his work, and there are still countless What an absurd expression, what a speechless expression, to ask him to annihilate his own soul and thus relieve himself of his troubles. And about that flying saucer, I really don't know what's going on in Cohen's head, dry cleaning, adultery, blackmail, head shaving, mortgage, murder, flying saucer, lawyer, detective, lolita, blowjob, crash, death, ritual, Beethoven's "moonlight". In the end, there was only this song. When Beethoven wrote him, he was deaf. He could never hear the song "Moonlight" that he wrote in his life. The barber never mentioned his hair. As a listener He has never given advice or refutation to any of his wife's actions and words. He lives in a world where he eliminates the soul and eliminates troubles for others. When he realizes that his desire is awakened again, he chooses to do it for the sake of hope. Running around, but not knowing that their hopes are not the hopes of those who put their hopes on them, the future is not predictable now, the deaf people can create world-famous music, the silent people can also be called murderers but not On trumped-up charges, in a world of complete chaos, he slowly smokes in the car and in high-speed footage, and this movie is really awesome. I really couldn't understand for a while and could only vent my feelings out.
The Coen brothers, or just like the VICTOR & ROLF brothers, those who change the world must first know the world.
THE MAN WASN'T THERE The last sentence is that I don't need to say anything,
THE MAN WAS EVERYWHERE I don't agree with the literal translation of "The Absentee" or the typical Hong Kong-style translation of "Find the Wrong Killer and Kill the Right Man". Cohen's exploration of human instinctual desire will gain a correct understanding in the future .
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