the old beginner

Sigurd 2022-03-26 09:01:06

The film is named after "beginners", and beginers in the usual sense are probably under the age of 20! Before the age of 20, we begin to learn everything we have to learn in our entire life.
After the age of 20, we are all "old drivers" in the face of everything, and life does not allow us to begin. Regardless of whether it is your first time or not, the position given to us by society is already the third time.
The film starts with the hero Oliver packing up his father's relics, and begins to throw a heavy psychological burden on the audience, such as a few white daisies in the vase, various pills for eating, his father's old books and his father's family. a puppy.
In the face of real life, the conversation between the male protagonist and the puppy in the park at night "...you should be chasing a fox instead of a tennis ball...and now people just need you to be cute..." is a clear explanation his confusion and confusion. Perhaps it is also the confusion and incomprehension of the father's choice in this life and the direction of his life!
The puppy in the film is like a mark made by a hunter in a vast forest, leading later people to travel more easily and freely in it.
Masquerade is both a satire of reality and a tribute to life! As the heroine said: "...the people who live in this building, half of them are ignorant, and generally believe in magic... what is hidden under my bright exterior, you will never know. What is in it, it is completely Another person...sometimes you'll be lonely the moment you arrive at a place..." Faced with this reality, the heroine is more terrifyingly lonely than the hero.
The part of the male protagonist and his father in the film: "You were waiting for a lion, but a giraffe came. Do you choose to continue to wait for the lion or the giraffe?" The little story shows how difficult life is.
In the whole film, the director's continuous use of freeze-frame shots and the contrast between the "old times" and the "new modern" give the audience a sense of the gap between the present and the past, and it is also the audience's thinking about life.
In terms of layout, the film begins with Oliver leading his father's puppy to visit his house, and at the back end Oliver is led to visit her house by the hostess' phone call, and Oliver brings back the puppy from his father, and in the end he refuses to take it anywhere. Going to the puppy to the father's boyfriend's house and everything back to the beginner!
The mother's image in the whole film is more like a warm sun of art, with a warm red suit, taking Oliver to the art gallery, she will twist her limbs with the image of the artwork, facing her father's procedural morning kiss choice is Play games with son.

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Beginners quotes

  • Oliver: And what about the chair? Is it gay?

    Hal: The chair is not gay, obviously.

  • Oliver: We didn't know how we learned the stories in our heads, but sometimes they stopped running, and I can really see Anna's eyes in 2003. Her ears. Her feet. This is what it looks like when she says, 'I love you,' in 2003. This is what it looks like when she cries. When she tells me there's always a new empty room waiting for her. They used to make her feel free. Now they make her feel the opposite of free.