Westbound train window

Kiera 2022-03-22 09:01:50

I've watched this movie several times this year. I think this movie solves cool problems. Cool is not just about you, a big idiot, wearing black clothes and big sunglasses, let alone taking a selfie with a cigarette, deleting the flash, and taking a selfie. Cool is height and depth. Speaking of high depth, we can’t always think about the symbolic meaning of philosophy, poetics, aesthetics, and I think it is thought (verb) and intention. It's fine to talk about a simple thing in your own way, and it doesn't even matter whether you understand it or not. What do you want to explain? Can you fucking explain it?
The conversation is so wonderful. It's amazing that the conversation in the everyday style, without being abrupt, long-winded and trivial has a reputation for simplicity.
I think this movie is the most radical departure from the American theme I've ever seen in an American movie. I don't know if Jiamusu has studied the theory of Zhuangzi, this film is close to Taoism. It seems to go beyond Taoism. Taoism's understanding of man and nature, such as "Zhuangzi", tends to be beautiful and smooth. In the end, it is still subjective consciousness, focusing on the description of the ideal state. This film follows the objective, pure objectivity, and there is nothing worth beautifying and uglifying. of. The psychology or inner world of the characters is even mutilated, they are essentially the same as trees, rivers, guns.
It could be a Western. On the way to the west on the train at the beginning of the movie, we found that the passengers in the car became more and more ugly, dirty and uneducated, and the scenery outside the window became more and more desolate and sinister. The grotesque cowboys stand up and shoot the bison out of the window. It's a stroke of genius, and it's very humorous.
I thought of one thing. Do you know why the conductor at the train station locks the toilet? I have never thought about this issue before. Rules, who would think about the rules made by the state. Only later did I understand. I got off the bus at a very small station and tried to get some air, and by the way, I bought the rice that the locals used in the pots (it is indeed a tile, it will break when you break it, it is estimated that the locals used the soil to bake it themselves) to eat. Then I found a lot of feces on the empty rails on the platform. When the wind blew, the smell of feces and the toilet paper floated to the platform. I even saw a sanitary napkin that made a profit and wanted to float. In other words, a train that just passed forgot to lock the toilet.

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  • Josianne 2022-04-21 09:02:09

    Can't say I understood the movie, but it did convey a unique emotion to me. The soundtrack is good. Depp, strength.

  • Freddie 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    Essentially a Western with a road movie logic. Neil Young's electric guitar score and Jarmusch's sometimes grimly humorous narrative style pair well with a hippie feel, and the slightly cheesy themes are poeticized by personality photography that differentiates it from a Hollywood western. What I don't like is Depp's performance, his character interpretation is the most unstable part of the film. ★★★

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