Strangers in Old Times and Literary Dreams

Lottie 2022-03-24 09:01:59


Many people have such a dream: to carry a bag to find, meet different people, tell their own stories, listen to their stories, record their appearance with a camera, put their memories into a beautiful hand-painted book, for several years Afterwards, I wrote a flat, tear-jerking letter of thanks to the former people to commemorate the time we spent together.
Hello Stranger. Hello old times. I just want such memories.

If the protagonist wears a long cotton dress, white sneakers, no socks, and a silver bracelet, he will become Baby Anne who was hit by a tomato.
If the protagonist wears Dior with Gucci on his back and looks up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, he will become Guo Xiaosi who is overlooked.
If the protagonist is accidentally hit by a car, struck by lightning, and surrounded by a time tunnel, it will become a Mary Sue crossing from novelty to vulgarity.

People who worship Kerouac prefer to walk rather than travel.
People who worship Mr. Chen dream of travel rather than tourism.

wandering. Look for. self. significance. dream. travel. walk. story. accompany. Lonely.
Words like this become heartfelt. Just like DSLRs, mountaineering bags and hand-painted books. After using it too much, it was accused of being hypocritical, pretentious, and literary.
After literature and art were popularized, those who favored it in the first place accused the later imitators of being small and fresh. This is just to get rid of his own roots.
However, no matter how much you despise literature and art and despise Xiaoqing people, in the bottom of your heart, you don't want to live an ordinary life of chicken feathers.

This film is, in a sense, a literary film. Shots, lines, colors, stories.
That thick memory book. Fragments of those strangers. The red mottled wall.
Perhaps the director, writer, and little boy pushed too hard and turned the whole film into an exaggerated stage play. But don't you just feel like watching the movie? Read other people's stories and shed your own tears.







PS, this thing about movies, even if the whole world is very popular, you may not like it. Even if the whole universe is scolding, I may regard it as a treasure. But it is a matter of taste, there is no need to rise to taste. Criticism is just to put a great label on yourself, otherwise it will be fine to despise it silently in your heart, why do you need to say it.

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close quotes

  • Oskar Schell: It's just a box! An empty box!

    Linda Schell: I know it's an empty box! I know this. But I did it for me, and I did it for you so we can at least try and say goodbye to him. Because he's gone, Oskar, he's gone and he's not coming back. Never. I don't know why a man flew a plane into a building. I don't know why my husband is dead. But no matter how hard you try, Oskar, it's never gonna make sense because it doesn't. It doesn't... make... sense!

    Oskar Schell: Fukozowa you! You don't know anything!

  • [first lines]

    Oskar Schell: There are more people alive now than have died in all of human history, but the number of dead people is increasing. One day, there isn't going to be any room to bury anyone anymore. So, what about skyscrapers for dead people, that are built down. They could be underneath the skyscrapers for living people, that are built up. We could bury people 100 floors down. And a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.