I thought that I would fall asleep in the slow rhythm of endlessly lengthening going around, but the truth has become: the more I look, the more devoted I am, I am so excited and completely fallen. Romantic, psychedelic, innocent, and eerie, it seems that vampire movies have lost that magic for so long. In Jarmusch, the Gothic complex, the Renaissance, and the dark humor are fully realized. I can't help but sigh: vampire movies should be made like this.
With close to zero plot, arbitrary swing, and extreme art, what is the meaning of discussing it? Character is everything, style is everything. There is only one problem from start to finish: how to get blood and live. It's that simple, the rest is vanity. The personal charm of the two protagonists has been maximized: indulgence when drinking blood, skinny when hungry, graceful when dancing, indulgence when snuggling, white Eve, dark Adam, calm white, decadent black, they inherit With the names of the ancestors of mankind, they have accompanied each other for hundreds of years and will continue to live like this. Time is infinitely extended, and only eternity is relevant, and there is no expiration date. As a result, events happened too easily and seemed meaningless; they were full of negative doubts about survival itself, and the only thing that really mattered was the desire to eat.
For example, if you want to show the so-called survival form and try to explore it by using movies as a medium, the protagonist selected by the script can naturally be an ordinary little person with ordinary life and contradictory particularity. In addition, I think the vampire image will also be an excellent choice. An animal of the night, a bloodthirsty nature, a long and cold life. In Jarmusch's script, vampires who have survived for thousands of years and hundreds of years have finally lived a seemingly peaceful and happy life in modern society, but for a time limit that does not exist, everything seems so mediocre and boring Too boring to entertain with childish doctor games. Adam, a young man, was really distressed. He hated "zombie" humans but had to rely on humans. In order to buy blood, he had to dress up as a doctor and sneak into the hospital to trade. He only had the word "world-weary" on his face, so he thought of using the ancient method (wooden Bullet through the heart) committed suicide, but Eve noticed something was wrong, and finally failed. Life is so desperate for Adam, stubborn and old-fashioned in his bones, out of tune with human society, he can only stay at home, play guitar, listen to music and dance, and the rest of the entertainment is driving Eve late at night, roaming the huge industrial ruins in Detroit, and interacting with him. The crumbling old civilization looked at each other in dismay. Eve is quite different from her lover. She lives in the city of Tangier, Morocco. She has a stable blood supply. She has an open-minded and easy-going temperament. airplane. Eve said to his lover: How can you not understand after living for so long, this kind of self-pity is wasting your life. Life should be spent surviving things, appreciating nature, and cultivating goodwill and friendship. This is Eve's understanding of life. However, in fact, everything is not so satisfactory. Everything is different from the fifteenth century. Although the times seem to be peaceful, living is so troublesome. Adam was troubled by the fanatical children downstairs in the residence but was helpless, his only human companion was bitten to death by the bear child Ava, and he had to deal with the corpse. The two were extremely nervous when they were driving to destroy the body, afraid of being discovered by the police. Eve is terrified of death, but feels threatened all the time. In Jarmusch's story, vampires are no longer as noble and indifferent as the ancient nobles, they are just ordinary, chaste, arrogant, childish, and stubborn. This is the image of vampires that Jarmusch rebuilt. subversion. construct. Reflexive. Cool comedy.
What's more terrible is that, superimposed on the identity of "literary youth", Adam and Eve's world has almost reached an extreme: extravagant and false. Music, literature, history, and science have built a spiritual home and ultimate destination. Eve is proficient in various languages, knows the Latin names of almost all animals and plants, knows the year of production by touching a guitar, and talks about white dwarf stars like a record when driving. Adam is a gifted musician who provided Schubert with an adagio just to leave a shadow in the world; no idols, but the most famous writer ever in history, poet, artist, musician is his friend...literary art As necessary and sweet as blood. Taking literature and art as daily needs, chatting to spend the long night, when chatting with each other, nine out of ten sentences will fall out of the book bag, but not tired, as if it is extremely romantic. Why do you have to be a literary youth? Perhaps it can be said that becoming a literary youth is the way to survive. Perhaps it can be said that only literature and art can rival the immortality of life. It is too delicate and beautiful. When the white Eve meets the dark Adam, it becomes an almost ideal and perfect spiritual world-literary, boundless, and immortal.
Such as the title "Only Love Eternal", Only lovers Left Alive, how can we live forever? To be a vampire, to become a literary youth, and to live on love. It is the way of survival for a vampire to become a literary youth, and to be a lover is the maintenance of survival. Adam is too pure, melancholy and cynical, and Eve saves him when he wants to commit suicide... Eternal loneliness is the hardest cure for vampires, and words and music are not necessarily the cure. It's impossible to estimate how long Eve and Adam have known each other, but they married for the third time in 1868, and are now separated because they want to keep things fresh and passionate, and they still have a passionate relationship when they meet again. The two of them love each other like this: sleeping side by side, dancing gently at Adam's house, walking around talking and laughing while driving at night, leaning against each other with sunglasses on the plane, holding hands and walking through the dim streets... All kinds of situations will feel that these are all reasons to stay alive, which is the romance of physical, domestic and freshness. So until the last moment, they quietly waited for death to come, but love brought complete banter and absurdity. When they decided to turn the lovers in love in front of them into vampires, the literary youth finally revealed their true colors, and we laughed.
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