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Recently, Yingmei's circle of friends has been swiped by a cute ghost who looks like a faceless man.
Today, let's talk about this romantic fantasy film about ghosts - "Ghosts Floating" .
Although this ghost film has a 92% Rotten Tomatoes index , its few lines and slow rhythm make it destined not to be everyone's favorite.
Don't look at this ghost is very cute, but the movie is not a healing film, on the contrary, it is very depressing.
After reading it, it was like a broken love, like the loneliness and helplessness abandoned by the whole world lingering around for a long time.
Only Casey Affleck can turn a love ghost movie into a big mourning movie .
In line with the principle of "carrying out the funeral to the end" , Casey's despair in "Manchester by the Sea" last year seems to be still vivid in his mind, and this year, he vividly interprets the obsession and loneliness of a lonely ghost.
Many people said that it was a waste to let an Oscar winner play a movie that didn't show much face and had no lines, but Yingmei felt that this movie must be Cassie.
There is not a single line in the whole process, just walking around in a sheet can make people feel strong emotions, I don't know if this is an acting skill.
Rooney Mara plays a couple with Cassie in the film .
From the "non-mainstream" hack of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,
To the "Silly White Sweet" who was dizzy by Queen Kate in "Carroll", the girl paper's play path is also wide enough.
Rooney Mara's performance in this film is very restrained (faced) (paralyzed), and a five-minute long shot is the most amazing.
The first half of the film is reminiscent of "The Ghosts Are Over".
C and M are a couple who can kiss for a few minutes. This dog food is so sweet.
M always feels that there is someone (ghost) in the house and wants to move, but C feels that there are two people's past in this house, and he has his favorite piano.
In a car accident, C dies, leaving M to bear everything.
C, who became a ghost, was reluctant to leave M. Facing the open door of light (similar to Meng Po Tang), he chose to stay in the world.
C watched M immersed in the grief of losing himself, but couldn't comfort him, he couldn't even reach out and touch it.
No sensational soundtrack, no sad lines, no hoarse cry.
Rooney Mara offers one of the film's most memorable 5-minute long shots at this point - shoving the pie into her mouth desperately, and then spitting it out.
It's like a lover who desperately wants to forget about leaving, but finds that everything with him becomes clearer and audible.
We all think that the person who leaves is happy, and the person who stays is miserable, because she has to bear the pain of losing him.
But in the film, C, who became a ghost, carried the loneliness and helplessness bestowed upon him by time and fate.
For the obsession in my heart, I am willing to draw the ground as a prison and endure the changes of time.
C accompanies M day after day, watching her start a new relationship, watching her move away.
M once said that moving was because he had no choice.
It can be seen that C is an unbearable pain in her life. Only when she leaves the place where she made memories with him can she start over.
Before leaving, M stuffed a note in the crack of the wall, which became C's obsession. The picture of C kneeling on the ground and pulling the note from the crack in the wall is too distressing.
It's like trying desperately to keep her memory, but being mercilessly eroded by time.
C meets new tenants from house to house.
He is also angry when he sees a happy family, because if he hadn't died, he would have been so happy.
As time passed, houses were demolished, and high-rise buildings were built, C witnessed the prosperity and dilapidation of the place where he lived, accompanied by only the eternal loneliness and the obsession of immortality.
After suicide, C was reincarnated again. In the vicissitudes of life, he saw the original builder of the house, and saw himself and M in another reincarnation.
C even saw himself die in a car accident again in the next reincarnation, turned into a ghost again, and also chose to guard his memories and wait for his lover.
The inescapable fate makes people feel desolate.
After waiting for a reincarnation, C finally saw the note that M stuffed in the crack of the wall.
At that moment, I don't know whether it is relief or sadness greater than death, C let go of his obsession and vanished into ashes.
There is a song that is the perfect footnote to this movie:
I've been waiting for someone / I'm not going anywhere / I live with your memories / Are you that person
In the film, the white bed sheet ghost meets the flower bed sheet ghost opposite. Two obsessive ghosts had the saddest dialogue in the whole film:
- i'm waiting for someone
-Who?
-I do not remember
When the residence full of memories was crushed into ruins, the flower bed ghost said: I don't think he will come back . When the obsession dissipated, so did she.
The rhythm of "Ghostbusters" is very slow, the shots are mostly long-range, the soundtrack and lines are very few, and the emotions are very restrained.
Whether it is a car accident or the pain of life and death, there is no sensational expression.
The narrator of the film is like time, from the perspective of God, watching the joys and sorrows of the world with cruel malice.
Many people think that this is an extended version of the MV, and the water-injected long film is boring.
But there are also many people who feel the film's inseparable emotions,
Feeling C's loneliness as a ghost and feeling love can only be reduced to an abstract obsession in the face of time changes.
Obsession comes from love, but after passing through time, is obsession that blurs specific objects still love?
After the vicissitudes of life, C may be like a ghost, forgetting who he was waiting for, forgetting the appearance of that person, forgetting the common past of the two,
But he never forgot his own protection and waiting.
This obsession transcends the time of loneliness and helplessness, even if it is no longer love itself, it is definitely the proof of love.
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