Watch this movie because of three people: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Perkins.
Watch this movie because of a movie: Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris.
Accidentally on the streets of Beijing, I saw the propaganda that the film was about to be released in the mainland. I was bored, picked up my phone and searched, saw Fitzgerald, saw Hemingway, and immediately became interested, wondering if this is another story like Midnight Paris? Take us to find the golden age?
Fitzgerald shows up, along with Trimachio in west egg, along with the sick Zelda. Hemingway appeared, still like a warrior, extolling true bravery. However, these two brothers are soy sauce, and the real protagonists are Max Perkins and Thomas Woolf, Genius and the editor of Genius.
The genius Woolf is uninhibited and free-spirited by nature. He eats and writes while leaning against the refrigerator, and his works are as long as two sacks of paper. He, who has never been appreciated by the publisher, sent the manuscript to the chief editor Perkins through the relationship of his lover. What he didn't expect was that Perkins admired his work, but there was a condition. change! change! change! delete! delete!
Most of the film is about this incident. Max keeps asking Woolf to delete and delete. . The two discussed revising and revising all night every night, deleting and deleting, all of which were to let the beauties stay alone in the empty boudoir and focus on the master of literature (why every time they revise at night?). After several years of painful revisions, Perkins rarely went home for the two books, and couldn't play with his daughter during the Christmas holidays. Woolf is even more obsessed with writing, basically ignoring everyone except Perkins. At such a price, Woolf finally changed the article to a suitable length under the influence of Perkins' opinion. It is the writings we see today: Angels look to the homeland, and time and rivers.
Is this director trying to tell us? Do you never tire of changing your text? ?? Of course not, I personally think that this film is to express the mutual dependence between the author and the publisher through the names of Woolf and Perkins in the annals of literature, but the complicated emotions that are constantly entangled. A deeper exploration of the relationship between people and others, and society.
For the complex relationship between Woolf and Perkins, which is like a father and son, the director portrays it in great detail. But Woolf's indifference to the world and his ignorance of them are not portrayed three-dimensionally enough. The last turning point is weak. But the most important thing is that most of the film is Perkins's inspiration to Woolf's works, and there is less lack of inspiration for his character. If the balance between the two can be handled well, it will be the best.
In the end, Jude Law's performance was a little too passionate. Colin Firth still maintains a high level~
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