The director turned out to be Jim Jarmusch who made "Only Love Forever". It can be roughly seen that the background music is also unique, the plot is simple and the dialogue is short, and it pays more attention to the details of light and facial expressions.
Before, because I watched the 3-step song "Love Is" and "Killing", I thought that a purely dialogue-style movie would be very appetizing. After watching this one, I think it's better to take it slow. rhythm.
11 short stories took place in front of 11 coffee tables. Two or three people were drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes and chatting about trivial matters. In two stories, they were still drinking tea.
There are three clues that appear more than twice:
in the first story, Steve said that after drinking coffee before bed, dreaming is many times faster, and GZA also mentioned it later.
Jack told Meg about The earth as a conductor of acoustical resonance, and the last two old men also mentioned it.
There are countless times that Your lunch is only this? cigarettes and coffee? That's not very healthy!
I can only boil it down to most people's verdict on coffee and cigarettes is = make the pace faster + but not healthy + but still addicting.
When it comes to "the resonant conductor of such a sound as the earth", the protagonists raise their cups and "ding" countless times in my mind. In cheers, it is not only the resonance of the sound, but also the collision of two dialogues. Two people who may have the same tacit understanding and may be thinking about each other, clink glasses in the gap of the conversation, take a sip, organize their thoughts, change the topic, slow down Rhythm.
Saying this, it seems like I understand the rhythm of the movie. In fact, my head is still dizzy and full of many questions.
Why are both hands shaking while drinking coffee in the first scene? What did the two musicians, Iggy and Jim, want to say when they met? Since it's coffee and cigarettes, why are there two scenes in the middle that neither smoked but also drank tea? And the funniest thing is that I can't stop thinking about whether RZA told Bill Murray that gargling with hydrogen peroxide really cures a cough or is it just a fool's errand hahaha.
But I was surprised because I couldn't find good Chinese subtitles and I just watched it like this.
Every time I see the camera turn to the top to shoot the ashtrays scattered on the checkered tablecloth, and Marlboro still have a few cups of coffee and a few trays of sugar, I really want to take a screenshot as a desktop.
Because looking at it, I feel that special life has a special story. It seems that I can hear the conversations of the people at the table, the collision of the cups and plates in the store, and the background music that seems to be absent in the cafe.
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