Through the lens of Gus Van Sant, we see how a man is besieged by loneliness, with nowhere to go, and ultimately self-destruction. The recurring religious references in the film implicitly convey an eternal question: Where is God? Where is the Tao? Where is the light? Where is hope?
When people ask this question, it is because in the human world, there seems to be no hope, no light.
Like Jesus on the cross, "My God, my God, why did you forsake me."
This time, Kurt Cobain was canonized. The
director used a lot of long shots to connect the pictures to each other, and brought to everyone Cobain's image in the last few days of his life: jagged back, face-covered hair, blurred eyes and a lot of vague self-talk. This man who was deeply immersed in his own world was either babbling on the muddy trails in the woods, or staying in the gardener's tool room and writing quiveringly, or sang angrily in the music room. There are too many clips, it's heart-wrenching to watch.
The film did not take how Cobain committed suicide as the climax of the film, but smoothed it over, and put the climax of the film in the whole of the song "Death to Birth" that the protagonist played and sang the night before the suicide. Process. The vocals range from vague words to tearing hearts. This unplugged hollow guitar sings. If it is really Cobain's heart, then death is his release.
In the film, Kurt's image is like a walking dead in the house . Walking through the mountains and fields, there is no music of Nirvana that we are familiar with, only the music of BoyⅡMen and "The Velvet Underground" flashes in the film. Although the film is filled with heavy loneliness and despair, it is not so much that the protagonist is experiencing inner pain and struggle. , rather he is more like a patient through and through.
Regardless of the success or failure of the film’s artistic achievements and creative techniques, the important thing is that it is a very impactful story that does not shock the audience as it should, even when we see the familiar scene at the end of the film: the door of the greenhouse is halfway through. Covering a corpse lying upside down, the black canvas shoes on his feet were tied with large knots. It was a scene that will etched in the hearts of all fans, even a blurry black-and-white photo can bring tears to the eyes, while the film's delicate and colorful images leave one indifferent. Could this be the charm, value and meaning of this film! ?
forget it! Let those who have passed away survive! Don't think that only you or I can truly understand their pain and carry forward their spirits, even if we die once, we can't put our minds on their lines, let's stop cursing or Praise them and let their souls rest in peace in heaven or hell!
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