The whole film revolves around a "loop" theme. The bar solo at the beginning is actually the ending part, but the connection makes you mistakenly think that this is the development of the event. Staying at the parents' house of a dead partner twice, and being woken up by a cat twice, the plot is almost identical, making you mistake them for one time, but it needs to be cut twice for the development of the film. Also, Llewyn went to Chicago twice through the station's icy slag, and the camera angle was almost the same. This "loop" that is played repeatedly, reverses black and white, and makes us stupidly unclear about the plot of the movie is to tell the audience: life is a big cycle, we do the same things every day, and even make mistakes often knowingly.
The gradient cut that begins with Llewyn being beaten up after a solo in a bar and waking up the next day with a cat walking into his room is an old-school tactic that is rarely seen in movies these days. The last time I saw it was in Polanski's "Bitter Moon", when the male protagonist recalled his past with Mimi. So, this kind of footage is reminding us that the following part may be reminiscing or dreaming.
The addition of the yellow cat in the film is believed to have touched the cuteness of many people. As a natural cute cat, it is not difficult to arouse the sympathy of human beings. The Coen brothers added the element of cats here, in fact, they may want to use people's feelings for cats to make the audience have a little sympathy for this young man who has not yet started a family.
At the same time, Llewyn is arranged to have a suicidal partner in the film. The two debuted for many years but they have been unknown. We can imagine that maybe the suicidal partner also lived a life without hope like Llewyn, and Llewyn died when his partner died. Then it fell to the bottom. Maybe the Coen brothers want to say to each other, you or you, are the only "good friends" in my film career, without you, I may be Llewyn. I also paid tribute to myself who once wanted to give up because of the difficulties in filming through the partner who committed suicide. And the saying that cats have nine lives, maybe the Coen brothers want to imply that they are Xiaoqiang who can't be beaten to death. Their movie lives are harder than the nine lives of cats. Don't try to stop them in order to make movies.
Llewyn went to Chicago to find the owner of the record company and made a recommendation. I believe many people, like me, thought Llewyn was going to be transferred. In fact, at this time, he has passed the most youthful and vigorous time, and he began to be unable to do anything, including his favorite folk songs. He was tortured by life and had nothing to say. He began to stop defending in the face of many accusations, not only because Tired, but also because I know I can't change the status quo. Just like he always looked like he didn't wake up, the lack of energy in the creation could not arouse more resonance in that depressed era, and the record owner rejected him.
In the end, Llewyn took the blame. When he learned from the bar owner at the bar that everyone liked Jim and Jean because everyone wanted to fuck them, of course, this can be regarded as a joke. Llewyn heard the bar owner insulting his friend or he played justice. fist. But at the same time, we also got a hint that Jean complained that Llewyn had made her pregnant and asked her for money to have an abortion, but Jean might have had sex with anyone, but she believed that Llewyn was a big head, maybe she thought he was easy to bully, maybe because of two People are close, and they may feel good about others. Anyway, it is not the first time that he has paid for others to have an abortion. However, the most important thing is, who let him accomplish nothing, nothing can make a man the target of public criticism, and can let all bad things be placed on his head. For example, oh, f**k, I didn't get the train ticket today, TMD, it's all Llewyn!
At the end of the film, the strange man's fist at Llewyn is more like a small impact on him from all the hardships of life combined, handling it very much like a gangster movie. And Llewyn's words to the person who was far away: au revoir (goodbye in French), more like saying goodbye to the hapless past, is very dramatic, because this bad luck is likely to come again.
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