Are the tears for Frank, the eccentric but innocent musical genius?
Should not be.
That's to never be able to integrate into the "Freak" band, and only realize his mediocre hero Jon Liu at the last second?
Yes, but not exactly.
After thinking effortlessly for a while: Oh, the tears are for myself.
I think 90% of the people who watched the whole movie had a huge hatred for Jon. From the very beginning of the movie, Jon is in an awkward situation where he has a great love for music but has never been able to become a hit in this field: he tries to get inspiration from life all the time, but what he writes is only incomplete and mediocre, "shit "The same tune; almost morbidly sharing the bits and pieces of himself intertwined with music on Twitter, but in reality he is just a little white-collar worker who succumbs to ordinary office work.
At this time, he should have understood. He was shouting to the colorful music world, jumping up and beckoning comically, hoping to be discovered by even one person in that world, and the response to him is generally nothing but silence.
Why "in general"? Because occasionally, the goddess of music will be stunned because of sleep, and mistakenly think that the little figure is also one of them - a nervous band appears.
The members are all weird: Don, who loves plastic dolls, Clara, who is sullen and violent, French musicians who never speak English, and the absolute core of the band, who wears a huge headgear all year round, never takes a bath or sleeps. Frank who doesn't take off.
Jon, who was accidentally pulled into the band to replace the previous keyboard player who tried to drown himself, tried his best to fit into the team and gain a place in the process of making records with these strange members in the isolated cabin. , but still failed.
Even as he spends his own money to keep the band going, all he's touching is a thicker and thicker barrier.
When the movie sees this, I think Jon should wake up - he doesn't belong to this place, he was not gifted by fate (talent), and Frank, who can be inspired to write beautiful music by a small thread, is not one of those Sacrificing the chance to become famous just to protect the other members of this independent pure genius, he is just an ordinary person who thinks he is getting closer to his dream step by step.
But after all, he was temporarily blind in the game. By secretly filming the members' daily music production and uploading them to a video site, he became a little popular - and even got the opportunity to participate in a famous music festival.
From here, the mood of the film takes a turn for the worse, and I seem to be in the middle of it, watching Jon "destroy" Frank's innocence and talent step by step, along with members who are well aware of the tragic ending. Although "destroy" is an objective fact, it is definitely not Jon's subjective intention. He just wants his music to be recognized and loved, and he just wants to make waves in the field he loves. He even wants people to see Frank's wonderful performance. Talented, but he underestimated the fragility of Frank's heart, and underestimated the distance between himself and the hall of talent.
After the blow, Frank disappeared, and the band has long since fallen apart. Jon, deeply ashamed, embarked on a long journey to find Frank, and finally found in his hometown, which he only mentioned once, without the headgear, and can no longer write beautifully. Frank of Music.
He also knew that Frank's amazing talent did not come from some bad family environment or terrible life experience, he was just Frank.
In other words, Jon never had to chase Frank because he couldn't. He's mortal, and Frank is a genius.
At the end of the film, Frank, who had taken off his hood, hummed a grief of gratitude to the members who had been facing each other day and night in a dilapidated bar, while Jon left behind only the lonely and lonely back.
He didn't fit into that world until the end, even if it was just a band full of "freaks" that could never be a big hit.
Jon, in fact, is the most successful character in the movie, but no one wants to talk about him. Why.
Do you understand why everyone resents Jon, who has worked hard from beginning to end, not because he is chasing fame and fortune, nor because he hurts the fragile and kind Frank, but because we see ourselves in him what.
He was obviously just an ordinary person, but he did his best. The back figure who was trying his best to climb up was so ridiculous and pitiful.
The same is true for most of us. We may have made great efforts to talk about brilliant dreams, but stretch our arms to the highest point and touch only our own little kingdom. It's just the ceiling inside, and those children who are loved by God are soaring in the vast sky, unknowingly squandering their inexhaustible talents.
While writing this review, I always think of another work I love, "Ice Fruit". It was also a cruel story dressed in a reasoning story, telling the insurmountable distance between genius and mortals. But the difference is that Bingguo's second male lead, Satoshi Fukube, after seeing the huge gap that was insurmountable between himself and the protagonist Oreki Hotaro, who was gifted in reasoning, he chose to "be persistent and not persistent" and turned to work hard. Build your own character set as a "repository". This can be regarded as a positive means of trying to change the status quo with optimism in the face of the tragic plot in life, and some people may choose the method of Don in the film "Frank" - chasing Frank all their lives. Failing that, he finally chose to wear a huge headgear symbolizing Frank's identity and hang himself from a tree.
I don't know how many people have shed the same tears for themselves after watching this movie, but I know that those people are probably similar to me, more sober cowards: I have already seen myself as a mortal kingdom. The identity of the member, and leisurely, or do nothing to acquiesce to his mediocrity.
Is there anything sadder than this?
Whether it's Jon or Don, or even Satoshi Fukube who let go of his obsessions, there are more and more others, and they do their best to burn themselves in order to make themselves appear less gloomy beside those giants.
The flames on their bodies were so radiant that if they were not careful, they would burn me, a little figure standing in the distance looking up.
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