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Personal feeling is more general
Anderson 2022-04-23 07:02:47
The film may be trying to express something, but the presentation is not clear. The script is ordinary. After the couple divorced, the eldest son had a chaotic life, and the younger son lacked self-control. I don't know what to express, maybe I don't understand enough. There are also shots that seem to be dangling to imitate the realism of a home camera, but it can be seen that some compositions are deliberately designed, which leads to the seemingly random atmosphere that you want to create, which is very different from the specially designed composition. The combination not only reduces the sense of reality, but also makes the audience have no time to appreciate the specially set pictures. The soundtrack uses a lot of songs, but none of them are very good. I think the failure of this film lies in the mismatch of various elements and the unclear theme.
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The Squid and the Whale quotes
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[first lines]
Frank Berkman: Mom and me versus you and Dad.
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Bernard Berkman: Joan, let me ask you something. All that work I did at the end of our marriage, making dinners, cleaning up, being more attentive. It never was going to make a difference, was it? You were leaving no matter what...
Joan Berkman: You never made a dinner.
Bernard Berkman: I made burgers that time you had pneumonia.