That's what it's like to watch this movie.
Switzerland, on the Alps, resort hotel. Blue sky, white clouds, green grass on even slopes, wild flowers without knees, cattle, birdsong, hot springs, and snow-capped mountains. The sun is abundant and the field of vision is wide. The environment is quiet and the scene is bright. It is the environment and the state. Like a quiet old age, but also like a bright youth. It is the good state of time, it is youth.
A movie about old age, but named "Youth", youth. In fact, this film is not about old age, nor about youth, but about state. Youth is a state. With this state, young people are no longer afraid of anxiety, and old people are no longer afraid of getting old. How to dispel the fear of aging and decay is to maintain the state of youth.
fear and longing. past and future. Youth is desire and future, old age is past and fear.
In the film, the old director Mick said that being young is when everything looks very close, and that is the end. And old age will see everything far away, that is the past. However, the difference between him and his old friend, the musician, is that the musician has been living by pretending to resist the inaction, but in the end he really found the state of youth, gave up the inaction, and agreed to the queen's concert. Mick has kept working, seems to be transparent about life, and speaks a lot of great truths to young people. But after the final film failed, he jumped off the building and committed suicide. Whether he completely trusts emotion is not the most important thing, the important thing is that he has not found the state of youth, and he can no longer live freely and calmly without the movie. Maybe he understands, but he can't, so at the end of the movie there is a look at the future with his hands as binoculars.
Aging is an inevitable fact and a situation that must be faced. This is a very real problem, but people are usually full of fear of old age, and the decay of old age makes people reluctant to face or even resist to escape. Moreover, people will not pay attention to this problem when they are not old, and the elderly who really face this problem have not found a good solution. There are also many such examples in reality. When a person retires, he has to end his life's work, and he has to give up and lose his long-term emotional dependence. Different people are different. Some people may age rapidly from then on and go rotten. And some people may find new interests to continue to live. It's like the old director commits suicide in the movie, and the old musician will keep playing.
How to face old age, with a familiar saying is, don't think about the past, don't be afraid of the future. Have a desire, look to the future, and maintain the state of youth.
Youth is a state, and aging is also a state. So sometimes it has nothing to do with age.
The young actor Jimmy in the film, although young, is full of fear, and he is not in a good youth state. He is actually a pair of eyes that the audience enters into the film, and many people and many images are seen by him. He is also like the director himself. What he sees is what the director wants the audience to see, including what he says. Through his observation and reflection on all kinds of people in the resort, especially the little girl's reminder to him, "Nothing is prepared in advance, so don't worry about it", he finally threw away his fear and found his heart. Desire, but also to find the state of youth. In the movie, he made up as a Hitler experience character. When he met the little girl, the camera kept his back to the audience, but the little girl finally smiled because he became a new self. And the beginning of this change was when he was eating in the restaurant, the sudden punch on the table that shocked everyone.
Then there's the musician's daughter, dumped, and divorced. She also slowly walked out of the pain of the past and regained her freedom, the freedom not to be bound by the past.
The resort hotel built on the pristine Swiss Alps looks like a sanatorium in the movie. There are many steaming hot springs, massages, and saunas. Beautiful environment, hot springs, medical facilities, shows. Many people were slowly healed there. Even the old musician's prostate was finally told there was nothing wrong with it. And the couple, who had been silent for a while, also reconciled.
Movies may be broken down into three categories, sensational fairy tales, witty allegories, and then abstract art.
This movie falls into the third category. Throughout the film, there is a strong sense of art. This artistic flavor comes from pictures, sounds, rhythms, and colors.
The pictures are exquisite and beautiful. If you take screenshots, too many pictures look like classic paintings hanging in the museum. The gestures and eyes of the characters are so charming. Often a close-up of a character or a scene stops quietly for a few seconds, making people feel like they are looking at a painting.
The sound is characterized by cleanness and silence. The sound of too many birdsong in the film, like the pure natural scenery, seems to nourish those decayed and aged skin. When the characters do not speak or have slow conversations, they are accompanied by crisp bird calls. There are also cow bells, playing a "Simple Movement" in the imagination of the musicians. The voice of the lines and the selected music also have a kind of quietness.
Rhythm, like sound, is silent. There are too many silent scenes without lines in the film, the picture is still or moving slowly, and there is no music without music, but it is full of images. It's a superb sense of rhythm. Such rhythms abound in the film, especially in two acrobatic performances, where an actor is breathing fire and the surroundings are silent. There is also a soap bubble performance with clown makeup, dance and soap Changhong are beautiful in silence. There is also the dance of the braces massage girl, and the slow, silent music also melts into her movements.
There are two colors, one is bright outdoor. One is the vignette with warm light added indoors. Outdoors, blue sky, green grass, sunshine, hot springs, and clothes are all bright, like the environment outside the hotel, like the future, like young people. Indoors, the light is not so bright. In the silence, those dull faces and movements will make the picture have an atmosphere of decay and decay. After adding a warm halo, the picture is like the atmosphere in a painting, and the sense of decay is covered. There are many pictures in the bathhouse in the film, a group of naked bodies are walking slowly in line, like zombies, and there are many people sitting on the edge of the bath with their aging flesh exposed, like sculptures, but the color of the film is processed. Like the background of an oil painting, the zombies and sculptures instead become works of art, especially the vague vapor. There are also old directors and young playwrights lying head-to-head on their beds, the camera swirling over their heads, each face as a portrait in the warm light as it is presented to the camera.
Of course, this artistic flavor comes from those complicated images.
The hotel is filled with celebrities and the people who work there. Director, Musician, Actor, Miss Universe, Monk, Playwright, Climbing Coach, Star, Prostitute, Singer, Massage Girl, Doctor, Teenager, Girl. All kinds of passers-by are not only like the old director said, "people, animals, and plants are all extras", but also various images in life.
The main image that the film wants to talk about is the future, desire, and freedom.
The dance of the masseuse may represent freedom. In her slow and casual movements like drawing lines, she shows freedom.
The monks have been meditating and thinking, believing that they can float up, which represents longing. The video shows a picture of him really floating. It is the phrase "I know you can't float" in response to indifferent musicians. The musician who resisted with indifference at first didn't believe that he didn't care about this state, but in the end he also chose the state of youth. The monk represents to have desire, desire is a kind of youth state.
And the star, all his glory is in the past, but his present is rotten. The contrast between his past and present is the most obvious. This long distance between the two is like an inverted telescope, looking far away, and far away from the future. But at the end of the film, Nursing asks him what are you thinking about, and he says, thinking about the future. His existence may be saying that if youth is not about age and reality, it can still be in the heart, youth is the future.
The most shocking is Miss Universe. Not only can she not foolishly respond to the ridicule of well-known actors, but she walks into the swimming pool naked in front of the old director and old musician. That
beautiful body that blooms with health and pride is exactly that word. The full explanation, young and vigorous. And this is also the poster of the movie, his tall naked back is in the middle of the picture, and the two aging artists are looking up at the corner of the pool. The contrast between young and old is clear at a glance. The young figure in the middle of the picture is the good medicine for old age. This good medicine is the youth with "desire, future, freedom", that is, the state of vigorous youth.
Some people say that the poster is unreasonable, and the poster feels cheated to the movie. In fact, this poster is the most relevant picture.
At the end of the film, the old musician goes to the doctor. In the doctor's office, there is a crow in a round metal cage, a crow with black feathers and orange bills. A crow is a representative of decay, an old age bound by aging. The doctor asked the old musician, do you know what is outside the window. Then he spit out the word, youth, clearly and softly on his lips. The medicine given by the doctor to treat aging is also, youth.
Even so, there are still many unintelligible images.
However, art is somewhat playful. Even if real art does not have this element, the process of interpreting it will bring this element to art. This is an art film, in which the imagery, like the color of a painting, does not have any meaning when it is in it, but it loses its color when removed. Perhaps the image cannot be deciphered, it just has an indescribable effect. Once interpreted, it becomes a narrow prejudice.
This is a movie about getting old. But the themes contained in the movie go far beyond this one, there are many, such as, life, family, marriage, sex, loneliness, fame and fortune and so on. An artist or a work of art is like that, "he doesn't seem to say anything, and he seems to say a lot". This kind of cloud mountain fog cover with Daihu empowerment may be called artistic taste.
Stylistically, the film is reminiscent of another film, East Evil and West Poison. East Evil West Poison is also a beautiful painting like an oil painting. There is no specific plot, but the actors are talking about some philosophical ideas. But you also think that he seems to be saying a lot of very right things. The difference is that most of the lines of East Evil and West Poison are philosophical. In youth, except for a few truths, most of them are the most ordinary dialogues, but there seems to be a flavor in this ordinary dialogue, just like the musician's daughter said to him a long paragraph of his reasons for not understanding her, It seems that there are many similar scenes in life, with different words and the same feelings. That is, the lines in youth also become a kind of imagery. Another interesting similarity is that there are bird cages in the two films, the difference is that the east evil and the west poison are bamboo cages, and what is trapped is loneliness. Youth is a metal cage, trapped in aging.
On the screen, this movie is like "Assassin Nie Yinniang" again. All paintings are made in the film, and the pictures are still or slowly moving on a character or a scene, framing a very meaningful painting. The difference is the style of painting. Nie Yinniang's is a Tang Dynasty meticulous painting, and youth is a Western modern painting or abstract painting.
It can be seen that the director of the film is a person who pursues perfection, and many details can be seen with extreme attention to detail, such as a lying position on the edge of the pool, the standing position of an old actress when she appears, her back to the camera, and her coat is placed on her left shoulder. , looking at the artwork of the Alpine Prison. There are also underwater shots in the pool. Therefore, the film is very beautiful and elegant.
However, whether it is film, or art. It is not the whole of life. After reading the paintings and walking out of the museum, it is still a life where the autumn wind is getting colder under the blue sky. If I see a painting more than once, I won't go there again, but I will go to a good restaurant again and again. The best youth in reality is to love life. If youth is a vitamin, then eat more of this vitamin to prevent aging. Perhaps, it can also make the bleak and cold autumn and winter warm.
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The characteristics of the film "youth" photography and screen, one, the face and eyes of many characters close-up. Second, there are more certain attitudes. Third, the viewing angle is broad, simple, clean and atmospheric. Fourth, many angles below the waist and sticking to the ground. Fifth, follow the mirror more when the characters walk. Sixth, use the slow-moving method with no lines and no sound to highlight the picture. It can be seen that the director is a deliberate pursuit of the picture, and it is also a deliberate display. In many cases, the picture replaces the lines, and the picture is part of the lines and the plot.
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