Frances, the heroine of the film "Frances Ha", is in a bad situation. To sum up, she is not young. The work is unreliable, the love is unfulfilled, and life is a mess. There are many girls living in this situation in the metropolis today, most of them have changed themselves due to reality, but Frances, who lives in New York, did not, even though she finally learned to let go, choose and choose, But her essence remains the same as before, and she is still the optimistic, sincere, clumsy "silly girl", which is the most touching part of her, because people know how hard it is to stick to her originality, just as Montaigne said: "People are the most The hard thing to do is to be consistent, and the easiest thing to do is to be fickle.” The
entire film uses black and white images, and this visual style seems to be particularly able to portray the loneliness of the characters. The black and white images of New York are not like other As shown in the film, it is also more secluded and more textured than the New York in Woody Allen's films about New York's literary and artistic youth. Where the camera flickers, the joys and sorrows of the people living here are fully displayed. Following Frances's busy back as she walks like a female man, as her mental journey unfolds, this simple image is only black and white. Gradually, a different taste and emotion developed.
Some people think that director Noah Baumbach is imitating the style of French New Wave films, and no matter how many similarities there are, Baumbach has done enough skill and smart enough, just like Vsevolod Mayer What Heder said, "the correct way to imitate a certain style is to subtract, not to add, that is to say, to remove the surface and strive to achieve the essence." Baumbach let this so-called imitation only stay in a few classic fragments. In a flash, it seems to be familiar, and it seems to have a new idea, which is the beauty.
The practice of dividing narrative segments by location gives the film a "chapter body" meaning and makes the story structure clear. Every time Frances has a last resort or a conscious wandering place, it constitutes the geographical division point of this film. Although it is divided into various parts of New York and other cities in the area (going to Sacramento, and even flying to Paris), but The unity and extensibility of the image style and the characters’ moods are not blocked or interrupted. Although there are not many dramatic conflicts, this kind of plot structure is closer to the fragments of life, and the taste is like the black and white pictures of the film. , again like a cup of bitter coffee.
Frances is a pure, sincere, persistent and kind girl. As a dancer, she is 27 years old and too tall, which has already revealed her bottleneck in this industry, but she is still obsessed with realizing her dream of being a dancer. Even the dance troupe has faced the dilemma that even soy sauce is not available. For friendship, Frances devotes herself wholeheartedly. She thinks her best friend Sophie is "another me with a different hair color". Frances is undoubtedly a reliable friend, but friends do not necessarily need her. Frances constantly pays for friendship and dreams, but also hurts constantly, just like all those who have pursuit. And everything that happened in Frances' life was like someone else's life was getting better and hers was getting worse, Sarah Waters said: "That's life, it's hard and sad." Fortunately, the troubled Frances still maintains her optimistic and cheerful personality, because she has enough time for sadness and entanglement.
There are many scenes of Frances running on the street in the film. In one place, when she crossed the zebra crossing, she jumped in circles. The music that accompanies this time is "Modern Love", and our heroine looks like a big child. Jumping past like a gust of clumsy wind. At the end of the film, Frances inserts a surname strip into the mailbox of the new apartment, but unfortunately it can't hold her entire name, so she carelessly folds the part that can't fit, leaving only the words "Frances Ha", she It's still the same her, even after learning to grow through the wind and rain, she still retains the innocent and lovely part.
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