The director of the film, Wim Wenders, is one of the four great new German films. Most of his films rely on the coat of road films, but they are quite different from the road films in Hollywood. His films give people a kind of wandering. The feeling of loneliness everywhere is engraved in the character of the film, and most of the protagonists of the film are in a state of "on the road", and this film is no exception.
This film was shot by Wenders in the United States, and the film was indeed shot in Texas, which represents the scenery of the American West. The plot of the film is not complicated, it tells the story of a wandering man from returning to searching and then wandering again. Various alienated images not only place the characters in isolation, but also set up a desolate scene for the audience. First of all, many people's conversations in the film are through a layer of glass. The most typical one is the dialogue between Chavis and his wife Jane. Jane can't see Chavis, and she doesn't know that it is Chavis who is talking through a layer of glass. , while Chavis looks at her affectionately and sadly, this kind of relationship is unequal, just like when the two were together four years ago, Chavis cared so much about Jane and even quit to keep her by his side. work, but Jane not only ignores him, but sees his existence as a bondage and shackles. Then Jane turned off the lights, and finally saw Zavis in the dark, silently watching her from the other side of the mirror. But no matter what, the mirror was still there, and neither of them could touch each other, and even the voice had to rely on the cold telephone line, so when Jane came back, it was when Zavis was leaving. Unchangeable destiny. In addition, the position of Chavis and his younger brother Walter in the car is also quite meaningful. When returning from Texas to Los Angeles, Chavis sat in the back seat, just in line with the driver. The Hunter on the seat is in a diagonal line, which in a certain sense shows that the two people at this time are still in a state of unfamiliarity or even opposition. There is a scene in the movie that I like very much. Chavis is wearing a suit to pick up his son. He walks on the left side of the road and his son walks on the right side. Even though the two of them are separated by a road, their actions And the pace is the same, to a certain extent, the son accepts the father again. Furthermore, the plane is also an extremely important image. The plane needs to leave the ground, and Zevis has been drifting for a long time, and the earth seems to be his only support, so he will feel panic on the plane. After arriving at his brother's house, he often sits on the balcony and uses binoculars to look at planes in the distance and the shadows cast by the take-off planes, and when he arrives here, the plane becomes a link with his son, or in Zeavis' heart. Wishful link because son loves planes.
In any case, everyone in the film is a lonely person. Some are deep in the swamp of loneliness, and they have to hold on to any straw they encounter; some look at the water of loneliness in fear and want to get away, but before they know it, their feet are already soaked in water. Chavis longed for his wife to love him, and longed for his love to be understood by his wife, but his wife would not be jealous of him, which made him begin to distrust and suspect, and hoped that his son would maintain the chain between the two. But the result backfired, his wife left him anyway, and the straw he held was still broken, so he kept walking, aimlessly, forgetting the language and the civilized life. Jane sees her son as a straw crawling out of the swamp, but also knows how mortally wounded it can be when he clings to that straw, and leaves him in the Walters' care. The Walters have a harmonious and happy family, and it seems that it has nothing to do with loneliness, but when Chavis took his son Hunter away, and even said that when Ann realized that he might lose his son, their loneliness It also leaked out. It turned out that Hunter was also the straw that blocked loneliness for them.
In the film, Chavis mentions Paris, Texas several times, and pulls out the photo, which is nothing more than a worn-out sign erected in a desert. Then Chavis told an interesting story: his parents had sex for the first time in this piece of Paris, Texas and became pregnant with him. This is not exactly what the director is implying that life is lonely, and that life only arises from people's feelings about it. Lonely and powerless resistance?
Of course, he also told another interesting story - "Mother is an unpretentious person, father has an idea about mother, in his eyes, what he sees is not my mother, what he sees is his own thoughts, He told people that she was from Paris and it was a joke, and he started telling everyone about it, and finally it stopped being a joke, and he started to believe it, and he really took it seriously. And she was very Embarrassing."
The implication here, isn't it a satire of people's self-deception to resist loneliness? But does it really work? Father uses his jokes about his mother to unconsciously announce the rupture of understanding between the two. Paris? Just a desert in Texas. Aren't we the same? Take a person who has nothing to do with us as a life-saving straw, and cling to it. Even if we don’t catch it and fall into the swamp of loneliness, we still yearn for that straw day, and don’t think that person is just a straw. , does not admit that he lives in the desert, and deceives himself to give this behavior a nice name, called love.
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