If you simply watch this movie, it doesn't make much sense. The first half talks about how Ray was deceived and bullied. Then I met a better collaborator, Newmet, and I started writing songs, picking up girls, and taking drugs to upgrade my life. In the middle, I met my true love, Demera. Finally got into the situation because of drug addiction, the continuous blows and the painstaking efforts of his wife made the protagonist wake up. Then I went to a drug rehab center, and I successfully detoxed. After I came out, I stopped taking drugs, stopped picking girls, and concentrated on writing songs and engaging in the black independence movement.
One of the things I hate the most is the [summary], any movie that cuts everything and leaves the outline, it's not interesting. The depiction of details, the structure of the plot, and the soul contained in it, as well as technical things such as soundtrack, composition, and lines, are all places where we have fun and learn from movies.
In the eyes of the world, Ray is definitely not a good person. He is a composer because he has some talent. He started to wave, take drugs, and cheat. It has the same problem with some artists now, people at that time hated Ray just like we criticize these artists now. However, he is also different, and it is these differences that make him known as the "king of soul singers".
I have to say that the narrative technique of this film is very good. The film starts from Ray's journey from the south to Seattle, which opens Ray's musical road. Then he uses flashbacks to perfectly show the fragments that had a major impact on him before that. His mother taught him and his younger brother to be independent, his younger brother drowned in the laundry tub, the moment he met his piano teacher for the first time, and the first country band he joined. Of these clips, the one that had the greatest impact on Ray was the death of his younger brother. When in the dark, on the way to the King of Singers, one accompanied him in the form of a nightmare. It can also lead to hallucinations of being in the water during times of great stress. It can even be said: smoking heroin has a major relationship with it. Even when he meets the true love of his life, his wife, his children, he can't help him with this nightmare. If the drug addiction in the later period was due to the nature of the drug itself, then it was definitely the remorse for his younger brother that led him to this path of depravity.
I still vaguely remember that when his wife first advised Ray not to let him take drugs, Ray said: "I love music, I love you and the children, and if the drugs will hurt you, I will give up. But it No." That was when Ray was just getting famous and starting his own band. Sadly, as Ray's influence grew, the effects of drugs outside the body began to show. Because no society can tolerate a person of enormous influence taking drugs. So the government began to intervene, purposefully intercepting Ray's flight. Limit Ray's performance. That's when Ray's wife talked to him about it again. Says: "It's not me, it's not the kids, it's not any girl you've slept with down the road. It's music. Now that it's affecting your favorite music, it's time to quit."
Ray's greatest admiration is not his great musical talent, nor his ability to live normally in the dark. But when he made up his mind to do something. Be able to restrain yourself and let yourself persevere, not because you are used to darkness, you will no longer pursue the light. In the drug rehab center, when the feeling of thousands of worms digging into the heart comes, when that nightmarish memory comes back to life again. There is no compromise, and he seeks the help of drugs as always. Instead, he restrained himself, not even accepting sedatives. This makes Ray my hero.
In addition to drugs, another striking point is Ray's "women who slept on the road". I didn't count how many when I watched the movie. But once Ray started touching the girl's arm, everyone started laughing, knowing he was in love mode. Among the women who slept with him, some were for momentary pleasure, and some were for his money. But there was one girl, she was different, and she was sadly in love with Ray. Ray left her when he realized this, even though the girl was already pregnant with his child. His departure was necessary, and it led to the death of the girl.
It must be said that Ray is an excellent musician, with a keen sense of music, excellent body control, extraordinary piano skills and an interest in music from an early age. However, the scene where his younger brother died in front of his eyes when he was a child, but he couldn't move, was his eternal nightmare, which accompanies him throughout his life. This is also the yoke that binds Ray's soul. Nightmare, emptiness, and pitch-dark world lead it to the abyss of drug addiction, passion, and weird personality. But finally broke through the shackles, returned to his family, and began to contribute to the equality of blacks.
This movie, with its exquisite soundtrack and classic bridges, has been on the Oscar podium. And the soul, the soul in Ray's music. When we are in life, we always have some means to release our soul and not let our soul be bound by the body. Because of his musical talent, Ray expresses his feelings in music and creates sultry music that can contain his own soul, just like a great writer integrates his emotions into his characters.
And we should also have some high-level fun, not nothing after giggling.
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