"Once upon a time there was a mountain, there was a temple in the mountain, and there was an old monk in the temple, he was telling a story: There was once a mountain, there was a temple in the mountain, and there was an old monk in the temple, he was telling a story: There was a mountain in the past... …”
Structurally speaking, "Fantastic Brush" is a movie very similar to this nursery rhyme.
The film begins with a well-known writer promoting his new novel. The protagonist of the novel is a young writer who has just won the annual award for his award-winning work about a young man in postwar Paris in the 1940s. Soldiers fell in love with writing...
The stories of the three writers are nested layer by layer, and the clues that run through the whole play are the original name of the movie - The Words (text). Of course, "Wonderful Brushes and Flowers" is a very appropriate and literary translation.
The young writer Rory and his wife lived a poor life. When they were in distress, they even went to their father for help to borrow money. Most of the works they wrote were sent to the publishing house. The low-level staff of , choose this profession, just want to be closer to the text that he loves.
One day, he found a stack of old manuscripts in the middle of a second-hand leather bag he bought from a thrift store in Paris during his honeymoon trip. He read it with great enthusiasm. The words on the yellowed paper were so moving and straight to the heart. I couldn't bear to let it go. At midnight when I encountered a bottleneck in writing, I couldn't help taking out the stack of old manuscripts and knocking them into the computer, but my wife read it and said to him with tears in my eyes: This is your best work. Be sure to show it to the publishing house.
Rory finally failed to resist the temptation, and signed the manuscript with his name to the editor-in-chief of the publishing house. After that, everything seemed logical: publication, bestsellers, topping the charts, winning awards... The rest of his previously unheard of work was finally published.
Just when he seemed to be at the peak of his life, an old man who was dying appeared and said that he wanted to tell him a story: "A man wrote a book, then lost it, and then a child found it..." Maybe I should stay A little suspense, no longer talking about the ending of Rory facing the moral dilemma, how the mysterious book was written and lost, and no longer feeling how shocking the passage of time condensed in the movie - the heroic Ben · Barnes was an aging Jeremy Irons in an instant. What struck me more about this film was its discussion of writers and words.
As with almost all creative work, being a writer is a job that comes out of nothing—the artist must appreciate work that is above his own level, and every line of text must be produced out of thin air from the brain.
American writer Natalie Goldberg wrote a quote that probably all writers will have a heart for: "Two months ago we wrote a good article, but that doesn't guarantee that we will be able to write a good book again, this matter But it's impossible to say. Honestly, every time we write, we wonder how we've done it before. Every time it's a new journey, and there's no map."
A writer who has not made his debut works hard to write his blockbuster works. The life of a writer who has been famous for many years is not easy. Keigo Higashino has a short story called "Valentine's Day in the Tenth Year". The motive of the protagonist's murder is to steal someone's computer. A folder with many excellent manuscripts and inspiration records - this is a story that only a professional writer who has been drafting for decades can write, and only such an author can believe that there are people who care about manuscripts and inspiration. The obsession to kill for it.
The most impressive thing about Rory in the movie is that after he confessed the truth to the editor-in-chief of the publishing house, he couldn't help but ask: "Tell me the truth, are the other works of mine that you sold as good as this book?" This is really the saddest question for a writer. Although Rory has gained fame and fortune that does not belong to him with works that do not belong to him, when he is about to lose his reputation, what he cares most about is whether he writes well enough.
This is exactly the curse of words. This curse makes the middle-aged writer who has become an old fritter in the film industry become angry and angry with fans' questions about his works, and makes Rory live in the shadows for the rest of his life. The young man who pushed him into the quagmire was the words that saved him and destroyed him again. For some people, the words, the words, were the bricks and bricks that built the whole world.
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