"Maybe the greatest love lasts only a week or so"

Evan 2022-03-17 09:01:06

The fourth feature film of Jamusch, like the prelude to [Earth Night], focuses on immigrants and foreigners in modern cities. The language jokes caused by unfamiliarity with English are often seen. Three paragraphs, each of which takes place in Memphis and that old hotel for half a day and one night. The time and space of different characters overlap with each other. Correspondingly, there are repeated symbols that mark simultaneity in the three stories. Such as the passing train, radio, [Blue Moon], the same action of the night shift manager and the cool doorman in the distant view, and the gunshot in the morning. Although the three groups of characters have intersections, they don't know each other. Elvis is everywhere: memorials, portraits, photo collections, old urban legends used to defraud money, and melodious ballads of [Mystery Train] running through the beginning and the end. The neon at night, Robbie Muller's photography reflects the sense of loneliness and tranquility, complementing Memphis's "non-locations" such as deserted stations, abandoned streets and hotels. A large number of fixed long mirrors & horizontal movement to follow the walking in the shot. Boring + humorous, Japanese couples who hold their own opinions in all aspects are so loving. (8.5/10)

Aletha 2022-03-25 09:01:16

The last two stories in the three-parallel narrative are more like a whole, and the narrative meaning of the first story of the Japanese couple's youth has not been clearly figured out (except for possible dealing with Japanese management). When the three groups of characters entered the room, they all emphasized the "no TV" in the room: it was because "there was no TV" that there was a story of the movie; and the third story also used the TV series "Lost in Space" in the title and lines. The element of (Lost in Space) may be an indication of Jarmusch's sense of distance from the television medium. At 18:10 on October 16, 2021, in Hall 6, FUN Yantang, the ticket price is a bit expensive. Jiamusu Screening B.