Too fast to live too young to die

Constance 2022-03-24 09:02:14

After watching MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO for the second time, I still didn't cry.

But the bottom of my heart is like a big hole burned by a cigarette butt, so sad. It's more painful not to cry.

People are sighing with emotion, that clumsy confession, Mike sniffing fake sunflowers and the like. Drunk, uninhibited, helpless, painful, laughing, parting ways, the script so far is impeccable.

In addition, can I allow my clumsy literary sentence, the name River Phoenix itself is a kind of youthful pain.

In the film, he falls on an unknown road many times, like a fucking face, always wakes up with Scott by his side, until he finally falls on the road that seems to never end, Scott will never appear again, but life goes on, no. Complete, but still going on. Off-screen, 23-year-old Phoenix collapsed in front of Johnny Depp's bar with a drug overdose and never woke up.

The more outstanding River's acting skills are, the more one has to sigh. In fact, the character of Scott played by Keanu Reeves has changed a lot, but he is not as delicate and difficult to play as Mike. Although Keanu's acting skills are almost perfect, River's depraved and fragile temperament in Mike's body is vividly explained, which is heart-wrenching. Everything in him was faint, dizzy and extraordinary sobriety, as if he had seen the pain in his heart.

Finally, Bob's funeral, that grand orgy is the climax of the movie. Putting it together with Scott's father's funeral is a great irony. At the mayor's funeral, the priest recited a eulogy praising his merits, and the participants were solemn and silent, but no one was sincerely saddened by his passing. And Bob's funeral is simple, chaotic, carnival is the loneliness of a group of people, loneliness is a carnival of one person, this group of lonely Desperado squandered their lives to enjoy the real heartache. Scott did attend his father's funeral, but not the rich father, but the father who loved him more than his parents. Then, Mike continues to be alone, and Scott continues to have power, money, decency, and loneliness.

After his lifelong friend, River, left, Keanu started rehab and was lonely.

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  • Gertrude 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    Like those endless long roads in the movies, the charm of River Phoenix is ​​never-ending.

  • Jonas 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    Two years later, just like the opening scene, river phoenix fell to the street world with a drug overdose. There are always a lot of coincidences in "I could love someone even if I was't paid for it."

My Own Private Idaho quotes

  • Mike Waters: This chick's living in a new car ad.

  • Scott Favor: It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings. Isn't that right, Mike.

    Mike Waters: What?

    Scott Favor: Wings, Michael. You grow wings, and become a fairy.