In fact, the night I just watched it, I had absolutely no idea what the film was trying to convey. But when I woke up, I felt the same way.
The cinematic approach of Midnight Cowboy is truly fascinating. It paradoxically describes homosexuality, paradoxically describes the confusion of the two protagonists from the countryside to the big city, and paradoxically tells the relationship between the two who are distant, like friendship and love. The writing is real, but the closing is false, which makes people feel that it is true, and it is specious, leaving a broad space for imagination. This is perhaps the most poignant irony of the American Dream, with the two men arriving in America's most successful city. But what is even more ironic is that they are ready to sell their flesh at any time. The film does not explain why Hoffman became lame, but judging from his thief’s habits, it must have been an action that was revealed to be crippled; and Walter came from Texas to New York, showing off his beauty and body everywhere along the way. Flashing back to his childhood and youth from time to time, there is no evidence that he is leaving the place that broke his heart. Such hints abound in the film. What is commendable is the use of the telescopic camera, the traffic rushing past in the foreground one after another, leaving Walter's bewildered expression, like his out of place clothes, overwhelmed; to a party in an unknown place, Impressionism The single-frame cutting of the technique is very exciting to express the psychedelics of the drug addicts; then he became confused and became the friend of a beautiful lady, but had sexual dysfunction, doubting whether he liked men or women, until he was provoked by provocation. majestic. But the thing is, we didn't see these things in the movie, but the movie guides us to understand it in this way. The way of leaving blank is really clever. Finally, on the bus to Florida, Hoffman left, and Walter thought about working and being a man from now on, and outside the window was a city as unfamiliar as New York. Wong Kar-Wai made the city so confusing, and "Midnight Cowboy" showed the city at a loss. But both of them are concerned about showing a bird without feet, and there is no place for feet to wander in life. Or the place where you just thought it was possible to set your feet, that place will magically disappear. The people in the play are wandering and helpless, and the way of expression is as complicated and confusing as the expression of love by homosexuals in the past. Then, there is a feeling of loneliness in which people are in the city, and there are people everywhere, but they live in isolation. If you live in the city, you may not agree with the Cowherd, but you cannot deny the loneliness in the big city, even if the time comes to 2015.
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