I didn't know until I searched for the name Geoffrey Rush. This actor who has always played a supporting role in my memory turned out to be the 69th Oscar winner, which is many years earlier than Colin Firth.
And that actor is from "shine".
The movie "shine" can almost meet all my requirements for a good movie: excellent script, high-level director, memorable actors, with a little taste of literary and artistic film, and the additional point is music. theme. I chose this movie as my first film to learn more about GR, one of the reasons is because of its Chinese translation: "The Pianist".
If you search for the three words "pianist" on the Internet, the most likely to appear is the "1900" sea pianist, followed by the biography "Pianist" during the Second World War, and this Shine probably failed at all. Squeeze into people's vision. The snippet of the piano fighting on the sea by the pianist on the sea is very compelling. I am afraid I have seen it no less than ten times in various places. The pianist exudes a touch of historical memories. When I was in the second year of high school, I even borrowed the original work of this movie from the library. These two films are excellent movies, but the impact they brought to me is far less than the third "Pianist". The biggest reason may be that there is no such excellent actor in the first two movies.
Water, glasses, fingers. These are the three clues that run through "Shine". The movie begins with rain, and every appearance of water or rain means a turning point in the plot. The glasses are a symbol of David Helfgott as a pianist to the world. The three actors who play David Helfgott all have pleasing fingers, slender and beautiful. This seems to be an image of the piano art of the pianist.
Except for a short GR performance at the beginning of the movie, there was no GR appearance in the first half of the rest of the movie. After watching half of it, I even suspected that I had made the wrong movie. When GR did appear, I realized that I couldn't focus on other places at all. This person who is still talking, always has a peculiar look in his eyes, is it pleasure? Still at a loss? The strange way of walking, the strange laughter, and the strange little movements can only be explained by the fact that this is indeed the already ill David Helfgott. I have been trying to connect Geoffrey Rush and Captain Barbosa here, but I fail every time. This is indeed David Helfgott, and it is only David Helfgott. I can't see the shadow of the actor, only the role.
In the second half of the film, I have been in a depressed mood, a feeling of depression. Although David has been smiling, I always feel heavy. Although he was taken out of the mental hospital, although he could go for a walk in the park, although he used to have a piano to play, his heart was always imprisoned, and so was mine. Until he played the bee flying in the tavern, I suddenly felt that the soul of a pianist was returning to his body, and I suddenly had a glimmer of hope for his fate. And this feeling reached its peak with Vivaldi's Gloria, David against the blue sky, this section is the most beautiful and most beautiful shot. But it was not this one that shocked me the most, but the farewell between David and Gillian. David, who seemed to never speak like a normal person, suddenly said "would you marry me." quietly. That David, who never seemed to be sad, frowned when he hugged her after being rejected by Gillian. It's just this sorrow, my sorrow flows upstream, but this second made me completely fall in love with this person.
David played "Clock" and returned to the stage, put on his glasses and slender fingers, hiding his face and weeping. Glasses, water, and fingers merge into one at this moment. And this is probably the first time the adult David vents his feelings in the film. Everything seems so logical.
Geoffrey Rush won the Oscar with this character who only played less than 30 minutes. It is absolutely genuine. I found the real David Helfgott's video on the Internet, and within ten seconds of the real David Helfgott's appearance, I was completely shocked. I can't tell who is the actor and who is the pianist. Before watching this, I always thought that Geoffrey was only interpreting this role from the perspective of an actor. I didn’t expect that his interpretation would be as good as a real person! That unique way of speaking, that kind of inadvertent small movements, the state of playing the piano, and even his unique laughter are exactly the same. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as "God-level acting". And it is worth mentioning that Geoffrey played the piano in the film. The three actors who played David in the three periods only had Geoffrey Rush's hands playing the piano. That is to say, in the movie, the player played the piano three, mad two, and bumblebee flying. All of the scenes were played by him with David Helfgott's recordings. Those who have learned piano should know the difficulty of these three pieces. It is amazing that someone who has only learned piano fur can imitate it so well!
Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto is the most difficult piece (one of) in the world. It is appropriate to use such a tune throughout David Helfgott's life. He pursued the acme of music, but lost his reason enthusiastically. An excerpt from the sentence, "Lasan is music that makes people think. This is music that inspires progress. This is the music of God. Of course, this is also a tragic past, helpless reality, and beautiful longing." What
appeared at the beginning of the film was Chopin's Polonez in A flat major. Under the slightly blunt note, there is a tangled heart. Young David has a great talent for music, but he has more to please his father in the game. He is enthusiastic, but he can't express it. Everything starts here, his father, and him.
What followed was Schumann's childhood. Little David did not have a childhood. Under the shadow of his father, he missed the best period of his life. Only a little memory remained in the sound of the piano.
When David came out of the mental hospital, he was immersed in the bathtub in Bei Jiu's ode to joy. Perhaps he was indeed happy at this time, but the plot filled with the heroic atmosphere of Bei Jiu. Bethoven is the song of victory, but behind the victory is Ludwig Beethoven who has been completely deaf. David is like Beethoven. He wants to defeat his own destiny. He must return to the stage.
After a Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, David paid the price for his "crazy" comeback. He lost the opportunity to play the piano at home, all of which seemed to be farther away from his stage. He ran in the rain and ran towards his life, the piano. A flying bee made him regain hope. His madness is not his weakness, but his most shining style. His enthusiasm and his talent burst out again at this moment.
In his comeback concert, he chose Liszt's "Bell", which also made him come back to the stage with the same frightening world. The combination of Paganini, the king of violin, and Liszt, the king of piano, made him a coronation logically. There is no trophy, no medal, just the coronation of this movie, just the coronation of his life.
As a pianist, piano and music are his life. Crazy for the piano, dedicated his life for music, but only piano can save his soul, and only music can make his life complete. If I was given a chance to become David Helfgott, would I do it? I don't know, but a small voice in my heart is saying: Just live like this.
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