There is always a strange connection between things in the world. For example , the gay brother who reproduced "Farewell My Concubine" committed suicide in the early spring of 6 years ago, and interpreted "Brokeback Mountain". Heath Ledger, who was gay in ”, died suddenly at the beginning of 2008. On the night of the fall of 1992, after Raven Phoenix, who played Mike in “Boostruck Sky”, came out of his friend Johnny Depp’s bar with his girlfriend and his girlfriend. Like the character he played, he fell asleep suddenly, but he never woke up again. He was 23 years old at the time... I
have written a commemorative text about my brother many times, and I have also written some words to Ledger. As for Rui Fan Phoenix, once mentioned him in a film review about his brother Jacques Phoenix, but for Rui Fan, a young boy who has a pair of melancholy and gloomy eyes and outstanding acting skills, he only mentions him in passing. Is not enough, he deserves people to write some words for him.
Undoubtedly, Ruifan Phoenix in "The Uninhibited Sky" is so heartbreaking, it hurts as if the heart is being run over by life, especially the worried and hopeless eyes he gave Mike, as if it was full of poverty and could not be eliminated in his life. Of pain. There is a scene in the film that is very aftertaste, and the comparison method and mood are presented exactly-when Mike and the street prostitutes bury the dead old Bob together, the Scott (Keanu Reeves) whom Mike loves deeply Acting) He is burying his mayor’s father in the rich man’s burial area on the other side. At this time, Scott has moved away from his former street partner and the "mentor" Bob who taught him a rebellious life, and has returned to his upper class life. Compared with the quietness of the mayor’s funeral, Bob’s funeral on the other side was noisy. Mike in pain waited for the opportunity to shout Bob’s name with his friends. When his eyes looked at Scott, all kinds of Complex and entangled emotions were revealed suddenly, with affectionate determination, hopeless love, and sober pain. When he turned around, the audience seemed to see a heart swallowed mercilessly by the boundless darkness.
When many female movie fans are watching this film, it is inevitable that they will have such an idea—if possible, they want to treat Mike, who has a pitiful background and hopeless in love, as a child. The birth of Mike in the film seems to be a mistake, a chaotic family and a distorted relationship. Although the warm idea of the family only exists in his dreams, he still yearns for it, just like he yearns for Scott's short and practical consideration. . For this reason, Mike went to find his so-called "brother", to find his missing mother, even if he was not far away, even if he went to Europe. However, the dream will always dissipate, the cruelty is as clear as when he is awake, so the severe intermittent sleepiness he suffers is like the compassion of heaven-let him illusion the mother gave in the dream Warmth.
Different from Mike's desire for home, Scott took the initiative to escape from the family, or a self-exile. A good background and a good life do not mean happiness. Therefore, Scott is rebellious and unruly. Different from Mike's current living situation, Scott lived on the street as a male prostitute in order to provoke his father's power and family's face, because in that home, he "Wherever, whatever, have a nice day".
Both boys grew up in the absence of maternal love, and Mike’s environment was more turbulent and unfortunate, as if his existence proved a distorted actual relationship, which determined that it was impossible for him to fall in love with other girls, even if It doesn’t work if the client is a woman. In the Italian countryside, Mike failed to find his mother, but Scott found love. Since then, his life and Mike have gone farther and farther. The two are like two intersecting lines, coming from different directions. After a brief meeting, whereabouts belong Their respective trajectories...
Overall, the film directed by Gas Van Sant (the recent director "Milk") 18 years ago is full of remote alienation, decisive sadness and symbolic hints. The narrative method is also more artistic, but it does not go far. It is not obscure and difficult to understand. Those methods of contrast or interlacing or vague or direct interspersed in the progress of the plot, gradually connecting Mike’s broken childhood And the hard and dazed current life, whether in the streets of Portland, the Italian countryside, or the Idaho wilderness. And the expressionism on the soundtrack shows its unique street mood in the portland scene in this film. Perhaps it is a spiritual reproduction of the city by the creators.
The film begins with the endless fields and endless highways of Idaho, and it ends here. At the beginning and the end are Mike walking alone in this exceptionally open wilderness. The loneliness of this scene seems to imply the loneliness of Mike's heart. And confused, in his childhood memory, there is always some low pressure here, and there is always some entanglement in the clouds. In the space where the end is not visible, he is hopeless muttering to himself-I am an expert on the road, and I have been trying the road all my life. The taste of...
During these two solo trips to Idaho, Mike and Scott had been here together. It was on the way to visit his "brother". The breakdown of the motorcycle allowed the two to go out in the wild. In the late-night conversation, this scene of Mike's intermittent revealing heart was presented with affection and gloom: Mike in the firelight was sitting curled up with his hands on his knees, looking fragile and helpless, because he knew that his love would not be answered. I don’t know how to love a man, even so, Mike still whispered carefully as if talking to himself, "...I don’t know, I mean, for me, I can love someone, not for money. I am Love you, and you don’t have to pay me.”
It’s said that this long paragraph of Mike’s lines was written by Rui Fan himself, and Rui Fan’s grasp of Mike’s mood in this scene is also really wonderful, and it is truly famous for being the actor of Venice. Back, Mike’s eyes were always low when he confided in his mind, and he did not dare to look at Scott, but his tone of voice revealed clear concerns, a touch of helplessness and a little hope, unrequited love, The inexorable love made Mike fall into the same prison as his family, but at that time, he still had a hope to find his mother, but the reality is cruel to a person who unfortunately came into this world, and his mother’s appearance cannot be determined. However, Scott made clear the way forward, so the sentimental and desperate pulse at Bob's funeral turned into a swan song.
The literal translation of "My Own Private Idaho" is "My Own Idaho". This title is more like a depiction of Mike's lonely mood and fits the scenes at the beginning and the end of the film, while "The Uninhibited Sky" seems to be biased towards Scott used to be rebellious for the unruly years of rebellion. It can be said that because of Rui Fan’s excellent performance in the film, many relatively conservative people also feel Mike’s love. Perhaps, there are some loves in this world that cannot be fixed by gender and secularity. Sometimes , Because of this stinginess, it seems even more tragic and decisive.
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