Gus Van Sant's works have always had non-mainstream colors. Although I have seen one before, "elephant" is very clear. Consistent characters followed, and different clues were tracked. In one day, they all came together to the point of the shooting. The final climax of the campus blood massacre was also the end. The angle of view is also non-mainstream. Compared with the demonized campus shooter, in the director’s lens, the protagonist is just a small, weak boy who occasionally plays the piano. Like most students of this kind, he is often bullied by his classmates. . However, the director did not exaggerate this point at all. Although many people might have guessed that this point would be the starting engine for the boy shooting and killing his classmates, the whole film did not create such a depressive atmosphere. Rather, it is more like a documentary, faithfully stating such an ordinary day. The director did not want to explain the waves. The waves in the middle are left to the audience to freely imagine and comment, who loves so and so. Different people have different opinions. Xiao threw the plate of "elephant" to me. At the time, she said that she didn't want it after seeing it, and she didn't like it. Then I watched it.
Oh, about Gus Van Sant, I forgot to mention "Good Will Hunting", the soul catcher, the sun is like me. No matter what the name is, there is no need to go into details. nice.
Finally speaking back to "My Own Private Idaho", generally the mainland is a literal translation, and the Hong Kong version is usually much more sensational. For example, the Hong Kong version of "Lolita" is called "A Pear Blossom Pressed Begonia", and "Hilary and Jackie" directly moved the title of Yi Shu's book "She is Lonely Than Fireworks", which has become one of the classics. "My Private Idaho" was translated by Hong Kong and called "Half of a Man or a Man", and it was too long to live. Two men, close friends, are not gay, although they make a living by working as male prostitutes. The keynote of the film is still a sense of desolation as a road movie. Displaced people have no place to live, but they are far more than that. A lot of expressionist techniques are used in the film, and many shots and things are very symbolic. The house falling from the sky is broken to the ground, the deserted plains, the endless highway, the protagonist’s sleepiness, including the bed scenes required for the plot, only the static posture of the camera switch, a few seconds, no emotion, no waste of any rendering, just passing by . The soundtrack of the whole movie is also faintly faint, hidden behind the lyric of the movie, as if it exists exclusively for expressing meaning. For example, when they are involved in wandering and robbery, the background music is similar to a kind of Bohemia or Gypsy music as a backing. The starting point is strange, but the expression is quite accurate. When the image of the road on the wasteland appears at the beginning and end of the film, the typical central plains of the United States sounds like a nostalgic country music, warm, and feels like home.
These are all clear intentions, and the real theme of the film comes out. Looking for family affection. Although MIKE and SCOTT are both male prostitutes, their families are born differently. SCOTT's father is the mayor. It may be that he was too strict with SCOTT in his childhood. He was extremely rebellious since he was a boy. He was a male prostitute, strayed, peddled and wasted his youth. But at the same time, he was determined to follow the path his father wanted him to take after the age of 21, inherit property, enter politics, and enter the upper class. He also did it afterwards. The circumstances of MIKE are different. A lot of space is spent in the film about the two of them rushing to find MIKE's mother, the only warm memory of his childhood. "Finding a mother" may be a motif for the entire human race in FLOYD's research. Just imagine that everyone has the anxiety of "finding a mother" in childhood. Children are the most helpless, while "mothers" are It symbolizes all the warmest and most comprehensive aspects of protection. Whether or not there is such a role, everyone has different circumstances, but in social cultural psychology, this protective role has always been deeply rooted in people's subconsciousness.
The boy looked for his mother, and when he was young, he would cry when he saw Chenxiang and his fairy mother; when the man looked for his mother, A Fei found Philippin and died. The audience was moved by Leslie Cheung and wept.
At the end of the film, the sleepy MIKE was picked up by a good-hearted man on the road, and SCOTT, who stepped into the right path and began to pretend to be cold-blooded, went to the same destination.
PS: After watching the film, I was shocked by the acting skills of the MIKE actor, and his appearance is also great. It makes KEANU REEVES a little bit dim. Why is it unfamiliar? I checked the information and found out that this genius had already passed away, sighing. The name is REIVER PHOENIX. He started taking drugs when he was filming this film. He died two years later. He was only 23 years old. His life experience was similar to the people in the film, so that he seemed to be living in this film. In the movie. KEANU in the same movie has gone through the later "The Matrix" worth tens of millions. If REIER is still alive today, with even more amazing acting skills, without losing the face, what kind of achievements will he achieve? ? He and BRAD PITT can be counted as peers, and he will be a handsome middle-aged man to this day. Will he be more fascinated than BRAD? ?
For the genius who died prematurely. . .
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