British female director Andrea Arnold is good at describing the muddy life and mental journey of poor women at the bottom. This is from her previous works "Red Road" and "Fish Tank". It can be seen that his new work "American Honey" also focuses his attention on the journey of girls at the bottom. This time Arnold let the adolescent girls no longer stick to the small original family like the "fish tank", she let her On the road, go to the wind and rain, experience the cold and warm, encounter the disillusionment and flickering of hope, feel the intensity and fragility of love, add the pain of licking the wound and the itch after the scab, in the end, the girl will be stubborn and live, just like all the underlying life The same, both weak and strong.
The photography of the film is very charming, and the use of light is quite meaningful. The handheld brings a dizzying road film experience. On the road, encountering all kinds of people and things, I fainted into a small carnival with excess hormones, and I deeply felt the suffocation and anxiety that neither body nor mind was satisfied with the status quo. The pickling of the shoes, the scorching heat of the sun, the stickiness of sweating constantly, the throbbing of the body and mind in the summer night when insects and mosquitoes bite...
In the choice of the heroine, Arnold insisted on using Non-professional actors and people who have never been trained in acting, or newcomers who have never appeared on the big screen. In "American Sweetheart", she upholds her own approach, so the audience is happy to see that Sasha Lane, a freshman in the show business, has injected fresh rhythm and unruly into the role of Steyer. The wild blood also showed the most real side of life in her-the plight and hopelessness from reality, as if Arnold had trained Ryan Forge to become Steyer for this film, and Ryan was Steyer The deity is not a performance.
Shortly at the beginning of the film, when Steyer was determined to leave the chaotic family life, she cried, and the cry presented by Ryan was quite moving, as if a girl was fed up with all the injustices and hardships her fate had imposed on her, It's as if "I used to be a tomb", which is unbearable, but fortunately there is no body in this tomb. Now, the girl will leave with her body and spirit, when there is still time.
There are many animals in the film, ranging from large mammals to small insect series. At every emotional node, these human friends either slowly swagger through the market, or just walk through the scene in a hurry, or harass with voices. Aural, but full of meaning.
The music chosen in the film is great, it fits the restless and confused mood and situation, and it well renders the inner world of the characters in each scene. itch.
Henrik Sinkevich said: "Although the world and life are utterly bad, there is one thing in it that is always good, and that is youth." Indeed, even the kind of youth that is like being eaten by insects on leaves.
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