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On the whole, the road is boring, it leads a lonely town at one end and weariness at the other
Luther 2022-03-25 09:01:14
In the freezing weather of New York and Cleveland, Florida is paradise, but the separation still cannot be eliminated in paradise. Cousin Ava has always been an outsider. In Cousin Willie's view, she should always stay in the house. It's safe to say that one day, veteran gangsters Willie and Eddie, when their idle boredom and emptiness are unbearable, travel to Cleveland to visit Ava and convince her to embark on a road trip to Florida together. I first regarded "A Stranger in Paradise" as a road movie, and Jim Jarmusch was regarded as a road movie director mostly because of this. However, it is different from regular road movies and does not express the kind of "on the road". Complex, he was talking about Garland's feeling in "The Great Road," "the great road, in general, is boring, connecting a lonely town at one end and boredom at the other." Willie and Eddie are not eager to hit the road, they are just tired of New York, tired of Cleveland, and even their final destination, Florida, has become dull, they are just planning to escape anytime, anywhere, but don't know where to flee. , On a certain day three years after Jim Jarmusch finished filming "A Shadow in Paradise", the bow ruler received the thirteen sisters, a distant relative who came to defect, in New York. Similar opening, completely different story, thirty years The former Chinese are in the era of pilgrimage to find their dreams. Everyone has expectations in their hearts. Boredom is a luxurious thing, and most people can't enjoy it. Finally, another senior scoundrel owns a room. The restaurant facing the Atlantic Ocean, Thirteenth Sister also found her own stable life. This story named after a fairy tale is soaked in the real smell of fireworks. Almost at the same time, our eastern neighbor, Japan, is at the peak of rapid development. , Japan has become more modern than any other place in the world, their young people start to travel overseas, Mizi and Chun just out of love for Elvis and Carl Perkins, they traveled to Tennessee. Small town, Memphis.
Extended Reading
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Willie: How much money we got?
Eddie: I don't know. We got a lot.
Willie: How much is a lot, Eddie?
Eddie: We got a lot. We got almost six hundred dollars!
Willie: You're alright, Eddie. You know.
Eddie: We're a coupla rich men now.
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Billy: Hey, said you'd go to the movies with me the other night. Do you want to see "Space Wizards" or that foreign flick down at the Olympia - "Days Without Sun"? Do you want to see that?
Eva: I don't know. Isn't there a kung fu movie?