Jarmusch has always been a master at creating "compulsive styles". From props to dialogue, it seems that he can do it at his fingertips, but he always gives people a sense of ignorance. At the beginning of the film, Ian brought several electric guitars to Adam, who is a musician, "Sproo", "Higstrom", "Dan Electric-Silver Sound", "Greetine", all of which are high-end and top-grade , instantly lifted the style. In fact, Jiamusu has a splendid mind, a hidden belly, and an extremely wide range of knowledge. In his Youtube collection list, in addition to various music, there are unexpected things such as mycology and mushroom identification guides, so he also It's not hard to explain how much he can babble about in previous works like "Earth Night" or "The Limits of Control."
Watching Jarmusch play with vampires is a whole new experience in this genre. First of all, he named the protagonists "Adam" and "Eve", which was not only inspired by Mark Twain's "Adam and Eve Diary", but also an indirect tribute or joke to the pair of human ancestors in the "Bible". Later, he placed Adam in Detroit to be a rock musician, and let Eve hide in Tangier, a small town in Morocco. These two places are thousands of miles apart, but each has its own magic. The former used to be an old heavy-industry city, but now its prosperity has faded away and it has become a desolate and dilapidated ghost town; Such two cities can obviously have a subtle connection with the two vampires Adam and Eve. The ghostly Detroit makes Adam wrapped in black all day long, and Tangier, who advocates white, also makes Eve prefer to wear white. Detroit and Tangier are both far from the center of the world, but they add a touch of mystery.
Looking at this pair of blood-sucking couples, there is no sense of horror or horror at all, but their gestures show laziness and elegance. Whether it is the music equipment in Adam's room, or the literary masterpieces of Eve, they are the portrayal of the literary and artistic feelings of the two. The two beautiful creatures have a long life and accumulated knowledge and knowledge over the centuries. The usual dialogue is not only fascinating, but also occasionally bursts with praise and criticism of historical figures, which makes people smile. For example, they will use "Faust" (the protagonist of Goethe's poem "Faust"), "Fibonacci" (Italian mathematician), "Stephen Dedras" (in the works of James Joyce) character), "Daisy Buchanan" (the heroine in Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby) as his own name, will discuss Mary Wollston Craft (the originator of feminism), Tesla (inventor, physicist) will be criticized for their works, and they were friends of Newton, Shelley and Byron, and even the legendary writer of Shakespeare Christopher Ma. Luo was also their old vampire friend.
The casting of this film is absolutely applauded. Since vampires originated from British Gothic novels, Jarmusch found a group of British team. The director's name was put there. Although the fundraising process for this project was difficult, and in the end, 7 million was saved by patchwork, the invited actors all gave Jiamusu a friendship price. Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton play the roles of "Adam" and "Eve". I personally think that there is basically no one more suitable for these two roles than them. One is gloomy and decadent. , a natural jade bone ice muscle. Especially Tilda, who came from a Scottish aristocratic family, originally had a kind of neutral beauty, but after turning 50, her appearance became more and more strange, her grace was implicit and clear, a pair of sunglasses and a shawl, like a pale flower. The flames of her are floating in the streets and alleys of Tangier, no matter how you look at it, she is a blood-sucking "queen" who does not eat human fireworks.
Swinton is a generation older than Hiddleston, and the age gap naturally brings out the point of view. However, this "Love Song" written by Jarmusch has no sense of incongruity, and the similarities in temperament are very similar. To a large extent, the gap between the ages has been diluted, and it appears to be very harmonious. At the same time, Jarmusch made use of this skillfully, so that Eve, who looked more mature, could just use gentleness and tolerance to soothe Adam's irritable and fragile heart.
In "Only Love Forever", vampires are not so powerful, but are pitiful creatures. They have experienced the vicissitudes of life in the world, and are used to seeing the joys and sorrows of human beings. To this day, their thirst for blood and their contempt for human beings can only lead them to live in isolation, sighing in desolate and dark lair. What's even sadder is that in the 21st century, drinking unclean blood can be life-threatening, and that's how another vampire, Marlowe, died. The pressure of survival forced them to choose loneliness and retreat step by step. At this time, eternal life is no longer a blessing from God, but an eternal curse. See Adam and Eve's fangs at the end? How helpless! How pitiful! Like a cornered addict, that moment was a complete disarm.
Adam and Eve discussed the theory of quantum entanglement: when two particles are coupled for a brief period, perturbing one of them alone, no matter how far apart, inevitably affects the other. This seems to be their own portrayal, even after hundreds of years of history, even if they are separated by thousands of miles, once the love is formed, it is already inseparable. Jarmusch uses vampires to express his pessimistic attitude towards the human world - they are fragile and thoughtful, in dangerous situations, full of ignorance and fear of nature, and short-sighted, they simply do not understand how the world works and laws. However, in Adam and Eve, he still invested in the assumption of love and let it pass with time. Since we can't live forever in the real world, let's find the answer in this pair of beautiful vampires.
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