Many people think that love in movies is so beautiful, so good that they can be imitated in real life and try to pursue happiness on the screen. But movies are movies after all, and the countless graceful loves in movies are not because they have a desperate background. A man who is about to collapse meets a woman who has been destroyed, and another nirvana-like love occurs.
Those loves have a reason.
Directors are a selfish industry, and movies are their tools. They play with the public based on the stories in the movies, and some do not tell stories, just like Andy Warhol's 18-hour cheating masterpiece-"Empire State Building" , Fudge you with a big form. Those touching loves are just based on a hopeless life, such as "Escape from Las Vegas", such as "Buffalo 66", such as "Guessing the Train". Because of pain, so beautiful. Otherwise, how can you say that tragedy is always more touching than comedy, and because of this cycle, touching love often dies in the end. For example, "Last Tango in Paris", such as "Bonnie and Clyde", only destruction can amplify love itself and make it last forever.
"Buffalo 66", an extremely beautiful and emotional name. In order to repair the family relationship, a marginal figure who just came out of prison kidnapped a girl who was learning tap dancing to pretend to be his wife. The story focuses on the person Bill, and explores how he discovered himself and finally found true love on the most important day of his life. I don't know if this is the first movie that pretends to be a couple, but there was a comedy starring Ren Xianqi and Fan Bingbing in China, which also told the same story. Why did the same subject matter become a comedy in China? The reason is worth discussing in another article. In the United States, it has become such a gloomy and decadent independent film. This is related to the director's own experience.
Rumor has it that "Buffalo 66" is adapted from Vincent Gallo's own experience. As Gallo wrote, directed and acted in his debut novel, it is naturally very personal. The whole film's factors are related to this reason. Let me mention the title first. Galloben was born in Buffalo, and the story happened in Buffalo. In the film, Buffalo is the fuse of the whole story, and there is a kind of fatalistic destiny in it. If it weren't for the 1966 Buffalo game and Bill's background, then Bill's experience would not have appeared. His life may not be so miserable. Buffalo symbolizes a kind of shadow of destiny, and Bill lives in Buffalo and cannot compete with it. The mother is set to be a loyal fan of Buffalo, and the oppression of Bill as the cutting-edge role of the family is also brought by Buffalo. The big aspect of the motif of "Buffalo 66" is the portrayal of small people in American society. Buffalo, 1966, the title combination of time and place is the direct meaning of what society should be and what a person should be.
Next is the character of Bill. Very interesting, in 1991 "The Silent Lambs" appeared a serial murderer-Buffalo Bill. I also heard that Gallo is a super movie fan, with 5,700 video tapes at home, so I don’t know if Bill’s name is a tribute to "The Silent Lamb." Bill is a nervous person in the film. It is also a super loser. Many experimental and enlarged flashback clips are used in the film to explain the character's history. Because the film is adapted from Gallo's real childhood, it is extremely well portrayed in Bill. Guess boldly, this person is a fire sign, a lion or an Aries. Bill was completely obsessed with ball games because of his mother, and his father was arrogant and violent to teach his son. He formed a kind of arrogance and low self-esteem, and he didn't trust anyone. Bill lives in the anxiety and tension his parents brought him from childhood, so he keeps repeating words, this is because he is afraid of the outside world and others, and does not believe in himself. He hopes to be recognized by others, but when Layla brags about himself, he is angry and uneasy. He is self-closed, so he has no friends, is laughed at by others, and prevents Layla from touching his body. At the same time, Bill had an arrogant character in his heart. He made friends with a somewhat clumsy man to gain self-satisfaction, and brag about himself when he was in contact with Layla. But the greatest thing about Bill is that he has always been a dutiful son, persistently expressing affection in his own way that his parents did not know. In a sense, this feeling is the same as Layla's love. It is also deceptive to cover up a kind of inner truth. This also reflects the director's desire to repair the relationship with his parents.
Finally, back to the film itself. The image style of the film is gloomy and gloomy, which is consistent with the tone of the story itself, and the character of Bill's experience. And as a debut, it has some very special and experimental image processing. For example, the four fixed positions of 360° appeared twice in the film, once in the car scene and once in the table scene. The scene in the car was nothing more than an introduction to the environment, and then looked at the incident of pretending to be a couple from a closer perspective. The dining table scene is very exciting. It is from the perspectives of four different people to look at each other’s dialogue. Simple handling, but very powerful, calmly and objectively portrays everyone’s character, and clarifies Bill’s personality. The growth environment and the cause of his character. To say it big is a critique of the bad things in the life of the lower-class civilians in the United States. For example, some processing and stage plays, and even dreamlike scenes. Kristina’s tap dance in the bowling alley seemed like a stroke of magic, but it lacked a certain meaning. The shortcoming was that it was deliberately added to create a “stroke of magic”. You can understand that this is the moment when the character of Layla changes his heart. . But there is not much relationship between before and after. And the whole film is also reflected in this-Gallo is not a screenwriter born with discipline training. The biggest loophole of the film is that it is incisively and vividly dealt with the character of Bill, and there is a big problem with the treatment of the character of Layla. There is no such thing as "love at first sight" in the play, so without explaining Layla's history, the reason why this woman fell in love with Bill is vague. At the end, Bill's reason for not killing is too far-fetched. There are two reasons given in the film: from Bill's lines, he found that Woods is just an ordinary person, indulging in female sex and alcohol, not an inexcusable badass. One of the hypothetical paragraphs shows that Bill is thinking of his parents at this moment. But these two reasons are not enough to be the support point for the huge turning point of not killing people. Fortunately, the film took an entire hour and a half to pave the way for Bill's ruined life and dark reality. So the ending is extremely warm and powerful. The big bunch of flowers and the close-up of the two people who were finally frozen made the whole movie go up in an instant, and the audience would not think about why Bill changed so much, but sighed-in the gloomy Buffalo, in this depravity In the world, there is actually such a warm beam of light, that is, love.
I like "Buffalo 66" very much, because of its visual style, because of Vincent Gallo. So ignore its shortcomings, this is a great movie. It is also a movie with excellent performance. The selection of actress Christina Ricci is very, very perfect. She possessed such a coquettish and pure temperament, just like a flower blooming in the decayed leaf layer of a dark forest. After this kind of movie is over, it will give people a strong sense of fall back to reality. After all, the movie is a movie after all. There will be such a glorious moment in the movie, such as the extremely classic underwater scene in "Escape from Las Vegas". Kissing shots. But in reality, it is always just plain without gaps, love is no longer a touch of shine, it has become a state.
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