The first impression of the bottom of Silver Lake is probably a pot of fan subculture stew, covering almost all aspects of popular culture: silent movies, Hitchcock, James Dean, B-movies, games, Nintendo, comics, Playboy, Kurt Cobain, rock music, vampire goth, urban weirdness, etc., almost all the things that nerds and nerds like can be found in the film. The otaku played by Garfield is familiar with these popular cultures. He has also devoted himself to cracking the codes behind these popular cultures since he was a child and finding their meanings. Like many fans, his behavior not only regards popular culture as a pastime, but also treats it as a pastime. As a kind of belief, a kind of sustenance, and a very precious thing, they study popular culture like reading classic works, and spare no effort.
When Garfield confronted the mysterious composer, the composer shamed the pop songs he wrote, and Garfield, as a fan, felt that the composer was humiliating his youth and even his life, and he gained from pop music It means far more than its creator. This paragraph clearly reveals the confrontation between fans and creators. Who has the right to interpret pop culture? When I just watched this passage, I thought the author was biased towards the author and made a poignant mockery of pop culture, revealing the nihilism in it, but when Garfield smashed the composer with Cobain's guitar, he Happy to announce the victory of the fans.
The most commendable thing about The Bottom of the Silver Lake is that while stitching together a lot of pop culture fragments, it also constructs a narrative framework similar to film noir. Mysterious beauties, unsolved investigations, lonely or marginal investigators, more beauty and sex, murder, ambiguous judgments of good and evil, the night, and even Los Angeles itself, the boulevard at night, the reservoir A film noir texture, and completes the complete narrative from the occurrence of the unsolved case to the appearance of various characters and clues to the solution.
While throwing the pop culture stalks to the audience, he did not forget his responsibility as a storyteller for movies. The audience will smile knowingly when they discover these cultural fragments, fans from all walks of life are taken care of, every poster, every scene (such as the male protagonist peeping at other tenants echoing "Rear Window", the three young people open the hood and The influence of reality on dreams reminds me of "Mulholland Drive"), and even every name can evoke the audience's feelings, and only the male protagonist who has mastered and is willing to study pop culture in depth can crack the code and solve the problem with The related problems and finally completed the investigation, which reminded me of the previous popular movie "Ready Player One". Both films were "fans' sentimental" movies in the cloak of genre films, but "Ready Player One" continued. Spielberg's typical "Raiders of the Lost Ark" mode, while "Under the Silver Lake" is put on a film noir, as well as a B-movie. Due to the genre of the story, the audience's enthusiasm and attention are also concentrated. "Finding a stalk" and enjoying it.
All in all, "The Bottom of the Silver Lake" is a movie with pop culture fans as the protagonist, showing a large number of pop culture symbols, and discussing their meanings, such as whether popular culture is worth spending time in-depth research, pop culture and consumer society, is it? Do fans or creators hold the meaning of pop culture? At the same time, this is also a movie made for fans. If it is not a fan, I am afraid it is difficult to experience the thrill of finding a stalk, and I believe this is also a movie made by fans. The director and screenwriter should also know a lot about popular culture. and fan psychology. Compared with "Ready Player One", the narrative rhythm of this film is slower and more depressing, showing some of the characteristics of film noir, but it is also a feast for fans.
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