Actually it should be better

Adrien 2022-03-23 09:03:18

Let me summarize, then the key words of this film will be: loneliness, cruelty, hope and despair, childhood, fantasy and reality, absurdity. The director's skill has not yet arrived, making the whole film dull and uninteresting. It's hard not to compare this film to Mulholland Drive, which also describes dreams and reality. The result of the comparison is that the latter is simply too good. Mulholland Drive’s film is filled with a lot of meaningful symbols, making it difficult to really understand the meaning of the film without reading the review and watching it, but it still attracted me to watch it several times. On the other hand, in the process of watching this film, I felt too procrastinated several times and wanted to fast forward. This is a film that I never want to watch a second time. My criteria for watching films are either light-hearted or a commercial film with a plot that is closely tied to a commercial, or a literary film with a bit of ideological connotation. It's a pity that this film doesn't fit both sides.
Of course, one of the highlights of this film is that it adopts a child's perspective. The unrestrained imagination of a child's innocence makes some of the seemingly ridiculous parts of the whole film seem reasonable. The whole film probably only has the right description of loneliness. Whether it is the little girl, her parents, or the siblings she met later, and the woman who finally adopted her, they are actually lonely and helpless. As for other descriptions, it seems a little stretched. You have to say that this film describes despair and depravity. When the father brought the girl to the old grandmother's house, the large area of ​​bright straw gave people a bright and cheerful feeling, and two siblings helped the girl clean the house. The haze that was swept away revealed warmth and hope in these two scenes. Of course, the director's focus was not on this. In the end, he didn't go to both extremes, but it made people feel that everything was lacking.
This film is really regrettable. From the beginning to the part where my father was taking drugs at my grandmother's house, it was very emotional and made me look forward to this film, but I was disappointed.
Well, after thinking about it, I came back to add this sentence, maybe, I am too old to lose the fun of "seeing the world with a childlike innocence".

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  • Queen Gunhilda: It's your daddy's fault you were the way you were, not mine. 'Cause I loved you... lip smackin' little junkie baby. Irritable and hyperactive, you was, just twitchin' and spasms and convulsions. Your daddy blew smoke in your face to keep you quiet; you know that, mm hmm. I think it what damaged you, well don't blame me, cuz. I breast fed you forever... Jeliza Rose you know I love you, don't you? I'm sorry baby, I'm gonna do something real nice for you real soon some day, I promise.... What the fuck are you doin'? How many times do I have to tell you to stay away from my chocolate, you little bitch?... Oh honey, I don't want you to leave me, Jeliza Rose. I can't get by without you, Jeliza Rose.

  • Noah: [frantically] It was the methadone that killed her. Should have kept her on the junk. I should have just cut her dose and kept her on it. Now she's dead and... I don't have a car.

    Jeliza-Rose: Please don't be sad. Now we can eat all her choc bars. Look...