Of last year's Oscar-nominated films, this one was my favorite.
The film was nominated for three Oscars, namely Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. Although it didn't win an award in the end, it didn't prevent it from becoming my top three favorites of the year. Among Oscar hits, it has the highest freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes - 98%, higher than Carroll, The Room, and Spotlight. And as soon as it was released, it was selected as their top ten of the year by 56 film critics. 10 people even ranked it first. "AssociatedPress" commented: "Everyone who has ever left their hometown and made their own way outside will resonate with this film.
" Rolling Stone magazine called it "the most intoxicating love story of the year", Although there were no awards at the Oscars, the British people on the other side also loved this movie. Maybe the British are really more romantic than the Americans? The BAFTA awarded it best British film, and the British Independent Film Award went to Saoirse Ronan, who played the heroine Alice in the film. But many people know her, probably because of the well-received "The Grand Budapest Hotel", in which she plays the lover of the doorman Zero, the clerk of the cake shop, Agatha.
Few actresses are as beautiful as Saoirse Ronan. Her beauty is not in the conventional sense, she is not a sexy actress, and she is not beautiful enough to be aggressive. But when she stood there, she wanted to make people wonder, "How can such a beauty exist in the world"? She is like Audrey Hepburn in the 21st century, with the elegance of Hollywood's golden age actress, without being pretentious, full of the temperament of a literary actress. In "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Brooklyn", she played the unremarkable girl next door, beautiful without knowing it, and graceful just right.
It just so happens that the love in these two films is very romantic, both sweet and beautiful first love, and the greatest love created by the most ordinary people. In "The Grand Budapest Hotel", Saoirse Ronan's Agatha likes the doorman Zero; in "Brooklyn", Saoirse Ronan's Alice falls in love with the Italian plumber Tony. The male protagonists of both films are also very well chosen, not as handsome as Tom Cruise or Ryan Gosling. Tony Revolori and Emory Cohen are both newcomers, but their acting skills are excellent. They don't have a strong star halo. They are just like the boys we fall in love with in our daily life. They are simple and ordinary, but have a kind heart. .
The descriptions of love in the two films are also against the Hollywood tradition. There are no ups and downs and too many dramas. Some are just men and women who are excited because of their first love, doing what all couples in love do, watching movies, together Eat, go to the amusement park or the beach together. There are even fewer shots of love being depicted in The Grand Budapest Hotel, but when Zero mentions Agatha, the shot gives Agatha a smirk against a flashing neon background, which instantly melts the heart. Only the heartbeat like first love, only the deep love of a lifetime, can you remember her when she is old and still so emotional and tender, as if time can take away their youth and health, but it will never take away this heartbeat and love meaning.
The same is true of Alice and Tony's love, they often just sit quietly like this, and Tony is shy and doesn't know what to say. There is no requirement to "buy lipstick for the baby", and there is no need to go to a Michelin restaurant for a big meal. It's like the love of our parents, even if we just meet to watch a fireworks show in Victoria Harbour, and hug each other after dinner in a little-known restaurant, we all feel sweet and happy enough. This love conveyed through the camera, I can't bring any kind of lipstick or a big meal. In fact, hobbies are easy, but we are making love so complicated now. This is the kind of movie that often makes people feel that there is still love and it is still very good.
I like the love in "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Brooklyn" because they have one thing in common. The love here is without rhetoric or tricks. In fact, Saoirse Ronan also mentioned when evaluating her performance in "Brooklyn", "It's interesting that I think a movie like "Brooklyn" is also very close to a silent film. Like you just said The idea, expressing myself without the constraints of the stage art. I've always enjoyed not talking in movies. I love the dialogue, but I'd really rather cut out some of it or say, 'We don't need to say that.' "Less rhetoric, just a hug out of love, which makes people feel that this love is more real than the love in many Hollywood movies.
The film "Brokeback Mountain", which Chinese director Ang Lee won the best director, also has the same effect. The two male protagonists never talked about love in the play. The original book of "Brokeback Mountain" is only a few dozen pages, and only one short article contains the entire story. One of the things that impressed me most about Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry is that there is so much living soul in this empty novel. In the first ten minutes of the film, when they went up the mountain, there were no lines. The camera showed many close-ups of mountains, flowing water and countless sheep, accompanied by Gustavo Santaolalla's guitar. .
In the original book of "Brokeback Mountain", the best description of this love is not in the dialogue, but a hug:
"What keeps Jack Drizzt so obsessed and confused is that summer on Brokeback Mountain. The hug Nice gave him when he walked behind him and pulled him into his arms, full of unspoken, non-erotic joy.
On that day, they stood still for a long time in front of the bonfire, the red flames swayed, and cast their shadows on the stone, blending together like a stone pillar. All I could hear was the ticking of the pocket watch in Ennis' pocket, and the wood in the fire was gradually burning into charcoal. In the interplay of starlight and firelight, Ennis's breath was calm and long, and he hummed something in his mouth. Jack leaned in his arms, listening to the steady and powerful heartbeat. This heartbeat is like a weak electric current, making him feel like a dream but not a dream, intoxicated. Until Ennis woke him up in the soft tone his mother used to speak to him: "I gotta go, cowboy. You sleep standing up like a horse." He shook him and disappeared. in the dark. Jack only heard him shudder and say "see you tomorrow", and then the sound of a horse snorting and hoofs moving away.
This lazy hug solidified into the sweet memories of their separation years and an eternal moment in their difficult life, unpretentious and heartfelt joy. Even after he realized that Ennis no longer embraced him because he was Jack, this memory, this moment, could not be erased. "
This is the mark of the heart, and words cannot replace it. At such times, when two people quietly look at each other without speaking, when two people hug quietly without words, it is a shining fragment in the growth of life. It is not common, but we will never Such moments will be forgotten; such moments cannot be erased by the tide of time. Such moments will come alive in front of your eyes every time you think of them.
The pastry chef and doorman in "The Grand Budapest Hotel", "The Grand Budapest Hotel" The department store salesperson and plumber in Brooklyn, and the two cowboys in Brokeback Mountain, their encounters are just one ordinary encounter among thousands of encounters in the vast world. The reason why they become different. Ordinary, it's this sudden heartbeat, it's this heartbeat that doesn't need words to hug tightly, it's this heartbeat that we can't help smiling and loving even when we look back on our lover's face when we grow old one day. These heart -
wrenching encounters have created sweet love stories big and small, and finally these great sincere and heart-warming movies!
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