two years ago, this looked called [buffalo 66] movies. Love it at first sight.
Later, after listening to the vulgar woman who had sang [My 1997], she continued to sing an unintelligible song with this movie as the title. In fact, it is simply a shell that has nothing to do with the plot and put on an empty gimmick. However, it was this kind of song that suddenly opened my memory.
Think of those pieces related or unrelated to Buffalo. Thinking that there will always be such a day, it should not be too late to revisit it.
Will everything that once slept in my heart now recover and never stay the same?
Billy·Abandoned Child·Why can the love bear
this beginning is very interesting.
In the cold weather, the cold man appeared. In the snow, he bowed his head and walked out of the prison, lying feebly on the bench outside the iron fence. Wearing a pair of glaring red shoes, with messy hair and stubble beard. Is he still the first kid who appeared holding a puppy named bingo and smiled innocently? The shots are superimposed one by one, replaying his life in the prison. It was the first time I saw such a way of remembering that year. It was amazed and I loved it deeply.
Then watched Billy start him running aimlessly and searching. What is he looking for? It's just a toilet, a place of excretion, but it can't be found everywhere. The mall broke down, the commissary was closed, and even if I wanted to hide behind the car, some people came and drove away. After waiting to find a convenient place in the classroom, they were spied on. From anxious, irritable, violent, and finally unable to excrete suddenly, it becomes a very black thing.
It's so simple, but it's a summary of Billy's short life. He is uncomfortable and restrained, his grandfather does not love his grandma, his family relationship is alienated and indifferent, and even his mother thinks he is a superfluous person. He is just a worthless wanderer who has been left out of warmth. But even so, he in prison would miss asking his friends to send a letter home every month, and even rush home to take a look at his parents after he got out of prison.
Can you say he is a good person? He is irritable, rude, and neurotic. But, can you say that he is a real bastard? He doesn't know how to pretend. He uses toughness to cover up innocence and frustration. He is easy to see through. In fact, he has always been just a child. It's no different from the young child holding bingo with innocent eyes. He is a person who has been abandoned by his family and society. He wants to resist. It is not that he has resisted, but he has made no achievements.
He also thought about destruction. But he was destined to meet someone who would stop him.
Layla·Angel·Not the end, the
pure girl suddenly became the prey of the evil little ones.
She kindly borrowed a coin from him to make him call home, secretly hiding outside the door to listen, and she just wanted to pass by him when he hung up the phone and stood alone in a trance. Then, logically, she was captured by him.
I always felt that it was layla deliberately. The moment he appeared in her eyes for the first time, she was willing to hand over all of herself. At first it was people, and then it was the mind. In fact, she has thousands of opportunities and reasons to slip away, but every time she is willing to be insulted by him, keeps silent, and even comforts him when he is nervous.
The capricious man meets a young woman who is willing to go into the mouth and will not fight back. And what kind of patience and love should this girl have to bear his unreasonable or helpless or presumptuous harm over and over again; and what kind of cunning and cleverness should be able to gain his unconscious trust again and again, and then Get his love.
She said, I felt cold, so I went into the bathroom after him; she said, let me come to you, so she saw him curled up in the bathtub with integrity; she said, I’m cold, let me go over with you , So she got into the bathtub and sat across from him. These careful eyes are tricks that make you hard to hate but can actually smile.
At first, she didn't resist or struggle or might feel a little willing, but after that, everything about her was so natural. She saw him trembling with nervousness outside his parents’ house; she saw him so proud that there was only a bowling ball; she discovered that the name he gave her was the name of the woman he had always crushed; she listened Then he slowly told his story. She is the one who is destined to come to him and share all his state and psychology, the one who begged her to save a fragile, aloof, and endangered soul.
She is not stunning. But she is beautiful. When she was tap dancing alone around the poles in the bowling alley, no one would doubt that she was an angel waving wings; and the story between her and him had just begun.
buffalo·since '66·bullet time
This is the warmest scene in the whole movie.
A lonely couple of men and women, lying bored on a dirty hotel bed. Occasionally turned around and looked at each other. First, she slowly opened her hand to grasp his hand, and he refused; then, in another look at each other, he moved slowly over, and the two kissed quietly, but it had nothing to do with lust. Later, with his head close to her chest, she gently soothed his messy hair, without speaking to each other.
I love it because it is not fanciful and descriptive. Any scene, any place, where the story may happen, stop abruptly, cleanly. It is like noble and pure motherhood, with a shy but unreserved shelter. This kind of love is often difficult to disturb because it is too pure, and naturally, it also disappears from imagination.
Billy's life is always turning around in tragedy. He has an ambiguous relationship with a word called buffalo. His mother gave birth to him and missed one of buffalo's games, so he always held a grudge against him; he was committed to jail on behalf of others because he bet on a buffalo game but couldn't pay for the loss; it happened to be the former who put him in jail. A member of the buffalo team; after he was released from prison, what he could not forget was to find revenge for that guy and use it to save his life.
There are shadows of buffalo everywhere. Since 1966, he has followed him for decades like a devil. He concealed the emptiness in his heart with the superficial bigness, confusion and anxiety. He was not confident and insecure. His classmates who had a crush on his childhood sweetheart could not talk about it. He watched him flirt with his fiance in the seat opposite to him decades later, and he couldn't even remember his name. The most excessive thing is that he obviously couldn't bear layla, but forced her scalp and drove her away.
He thought he didn't need her and he could let her go calmly, so he said "fuck u" viciously.
At that moment, Layla was desperate and replied "fuck u, too".
After leaving, Billy started looking for the toilet again. Excretion seems to be a kind of metaphor in this movie, and repeatedly hitting the wall, the first time it implies his life before, the second time it necessarily implies how he would be without layla. So he went back and cried bitterly in front of the washbasin in the toilet. When he returns to Layla, it doesn't matter whether he can see the tears on her face. Because he said, please follow me, I need you by my side.
He is still obsessed with revenge. So before leaving, Layla, who had a foreboding, still tried to keep him. She already knew what kind of person he was, and knew that if he really did, she would never show up in front of her again.
"Can you give me a kiss before
leaving ." "No. No, don't try to play tricks. I only said to bring you hot chocolate, not to kiss you."
"Then give me a hug."
"No more. Me Let us shake hands."
His speech was poor, and he was naturally pulled to her side. His hand fell on the tip of her hair, and his heart must be very peaceful. He didn't stop when he went out, and didn't look back. But the gentle voice behind him was low and clearly said, I love you. He must have heard it. But closed the door.
In the end, his bullet only shot through the opponent's and his own head in his imagination, making a close-up of tens of seconds. He stared at that person's face for a long time, must be long, and left resolutely. Maybe his parents sitting in front of his grave are still parents who only know how to discuss football, but he still has layla, an angelic woman who wants to see him come back all over. He called her, "girl-friend".
He would hope that from now on, he, who has been afraid of being touched, can hug her. Neither is lonely anymore.
Genius·Perseverance·Dreamland
I once saw a person writing a review of this movie in a certain newspaper. When talking about the famous "bullet time", I shamelessly said that this idea originated from [The Matrix].
[buffalo '66], production time: 1998.
[the matrix], production time: 1999.
Who is plagiarizing, who is borrowing from who, at a glance, clearly.
When it comes to independent production at a small cost, does it have to be associated with words such as "borrowing brain", "gagging", "cheap", and "difficult"? Is Vincent Gallo so depraved that he needs to use "imitation" to show his talents? Could it be that the birth of a miracle in a work that is blooming all over the place will be demolished like this?
It is ridiculous that a so-called film critic does not even have the basic low-level behavioral ability to understand film-related materials before writing a review.
Vincent Gallo's talent here is not just as simple as self-writing, directing and acting. He took care of all the lyrics and music creation, as well as the lazy voice at the end of the film, just like his downcast face, full of unsatisfied sadness and desolation. It's a little bit away from despair, and a few steps away from Consummation.
But billy, after all, is waiting for his lover. And besides layla, I don't know who else you can love.
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