Strange - it is indeed strange, even the name has so many translations, the most direct one is "stranger than heaven", but this expression is a bit confusing, and there is a strange paradise, which is understood as strange; in addition, heaven The translated names of Stranger, Stranger in Heaven, Stranger in Paradise, etc., directly strip stranger from the comparative meaning of the adjective, and directly understand it as a stranger. Personally, I think this translation method is more appropriate. After all, the few characters shown in the movie are really "strangers" in the United States who have been misinterpreted by countless beautiful fantasies as a paradise on earth. Bizarre tidbit - the film started with leftover footage from German director Wenders' "The State of Things".
From the very beginning of the movie, it is telling about this strange feeling: Ava got off the plane, found his cousin Willy, and temporarily stayed at his home. In just ten days, the two were taciturn, except for eating and sleeping. Lying in bed watching TV, one day Willie bought Ava a dress on a whim, and Ava put it on coldly (as a result, she threw it away as soon as she went out, and this throwing away the only good feeling between the siblings) net). Willie has a good friend Eddie who occasionally comes to play with them, and their lives are even more boring after Ava left. (Or they were bored all the time.) Willie and Eddie went to Cleveland to find his aunt and Ava, and were still immersed in boredom (the presence of the aunt here, her babble of Hungarian, is just the way to go). atmosphere), and then the three bored young men drive to Florida, and after a series of bland and bizarre encounters on the road, go their separate ways "involuntarily".
The backbone that holds the story together is the plot, and in Stranger Than the Paradise, that backbone is replaced by one after another, with no inherent logic in the flow of time. The director focuses on the trivial details of the lives of several main characters - watching movies, driving, eating, drinking beer, playing cards, dry and dull. For some experienced viewers, they can infer the heart of the characters or the director's values through the close-up or focus of the film. However, for Stranger Than the Paradise, the director seems to be careless, and has been fixing the characters far away. Among the scenes in the novel, the distance between myself and the audience is widened to the characters, which deepens the difficulty of judging the characters' morality. However, a series of coincidences in the ending (Willie, Eddie lose money and go out to gamble, without Ava - Ava meets a black man while shopping, the black man admits the wrong person and gives the money to Ava - Willie, Ai When Di came back, he found that Ava had left a note saying she was going back to Hungary - Eddie and Willie rushed to the airport, Eddie boarded the plane to Hungary - Willie was waiting outside - Ava returned to the hotel), three people For birds and animals scattered. (You should be able to read some implied authorship here.) The author deliberately took them apart, and the three were in different places, breathing the same air of nothingness. In the movie, the ripples caused by the quarrel once returned to a stagnant pool.
The lives of these three young people seem to make us smell the faint smell of tobacco, alcohol and gasoline in Kerouac's "On the Road", and the Hawkins' I put that Ava played three times in the film. a spell on you is a shortcut to understand the film, this song is wild and wild, it smashed a crack in the castle surrounded by "dullness", revealing a wild breath of life, although it seems a little weird and alternative, it is valuable ——Faced with the world of loneliness and aphasia, instead of erupting in silence, it will perish in silence. It seems that Jarmusu still chose to explode.
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