U Turn

Melyna 2021-12-23 08:01:11

2005-03-01 16:02:11

Anthony Hopkins, Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Al Pacino, Tom Crew Si (Tom Cruise)... is
indeed a very male film director. Just by looking at the actors he uses, you can predict the power of the movie and the emphasis on male vision.
I haven't seen it much and don't feel too much. I am not interested in the position of men.
I remember watching "Born on July 4th" because I like soup at that time, and I watch almost all of his movies. As for watching "The Gate" it is because of music. And other "Field Platoon" and so on, often give up after a few glances. So I didn't pay attention to the director, until I was shocked when I watched "No U-turn" at the end, I realized that Stone's charm and power are really wonderful.
For a director who sets his perspective in a very grand world, he is not only thinking about human issues. For him, or to say that more attention is paid to society, change, environment, and foreign things that we have to accept. His eyes are not for love, but for the question of how love should exist. This is a very MAN observation angle with too much thinking and cunning. I usually don't understand.
When I don’t understand, I always feel bored.


But watching "No U-turn" I was attracted the first time I appeared on the camera. It is a very special way of narrative, without the usual subject matter and traditional methods, it is very fresh.
I started a scorching journey in the next two hours.
The picture accurately conveys: thirst and panic.
Like the hapless Bobby in the lens, I kept feeling my body heat up and my mouth was drying up.
We all need something to drink.
Everything is not within logic and rules.
Starting from the monster car repairer who did not look like a person, the world was turned upside down.
There is no longer anything familiar to you under the familiar scene here.
Houses, streets. Man, woman.
The police car passes by you, with its voice and a pair of eyes looking at you.
It seems that there is nothing wrong, but there are plots that confuse you everywhere.
There is a tramp on the roadside who you don't know whether it is a blind man or a liar.
And the woman in the red dress has a mouth full of desire and eyes that can't see clearly.
...
Grace, it's on the stage.
I know, the story begins.
It started from a woman with a destructive aura.
And I guessed it was from a woman at the beginning, then a man and a woman, and finally, it turned into a man.

Or should the movie's name be called, it can't be turned back? Or is it not to be repeated? ?
It feels a bit hard to call "No U-turn". Not so surreal.
Grace is a hopeless life in itself.
Live or die. all the same.
The despair of the soul has already taken her life.
All she still has is a fascinating body.
And it's this kind of body that ruins the dream. Her dream.
The trampling body is no longer a taboo for Grace, but becomes a bargaining chip and weapon.
Bobby still believes too much in his logic and judgment.
His biggest mistake was not to come here, but to believe in himself.
When your surroundings are no longer the normal world you are accustomed to, all your discrimination and thinking abilities are in vain. Because you have no scale, because you have no idea what is around you and what to use to maintain balance.
Such passivity is invisible, but it is the most powerful.
Bobby fell into this trap.
The world is colorful. There are many unknown dangers. Some can be avoided, some can be saved if encountered, and some are fatal.
Because it is not just that simple. After it merges with your characteristics, a chemical reaction occurs and a new substance is formed, a force that you can't control at all.

accidental.
Inside the film, I also tasted the taste of accident.
That stupid and nervous girl and her more stupid and nervous BOY.
My heart went cold when I watched Bobby’s ticket being messed up by his death stupidity.
On one side is the underworld that wants him to pay off debts in human society, and on the other side is a small town in his eyes. However, it is not the former that really fears.
Sometimes I also have this fear.
You are not afraid of things you think you are afraid of. What's really scary is what you don't know. What you can't see, such as the truth, such as the mind. There is always a huge haze after the secret.
Can it be said that the biggest trap is human consciousness?
Wrong perception brings ultimate destruction?

Bobby is always on the verge of sexual desire and safety again and again.
It can also be said that he is shaking his trust in the world around him again and again.
He wanted to approach Grace again, and tried to believe her, trying to find a reason to believe.
However, he doubted.
Fear made him doubt.
In fact, think about it, no matter which side he chooses, the ending will be different.
However, he just stood in the middle. There is no attribution.
When Grace stood on the cliff, he didn't need to do anything to kill her. However, he stretched out his hand to hold her who wanted to be a bird. The director is very shrewd to bury the illusion of personality here. Actually, would it be that simple? If it were you, would you give up a chance to save yourself for a one-time process with a woman?
However, the film hides the real people and the problems of people.
It wants to use illusions to confuse more people.
Desire is not the ultimate sin.
The real sin lies in the distorted human nature and the distorted world.
Bobby just passed by such a place.
However, it is very funny that he was bewitched by two people and killed each other to find a way to change his life. One person uses money, and the other has no money but knows how to get them and use his body to make transactions.
Bobby wanted to refuse.
However, for people who are about to drown, you either just stay away. Closer, either save him or die. Bobby was even more pitiful, he met more than one dying person. But many, many...

when they finally established a relationship that could be desperate together.
The police showed up.
But it's ridiculous.
He didn't want to kill, but to tell Bobby that the woman sitting next to you was a complete bitch.
I looked at that boring policeman coldly.
Does it make sense for him to do this?
All he wanted to destroy was the last hope in Bobby's heart.
too cruel.

It's hard to say what the director wants to express in such a movie.
Because what he said was very cryptic.
He didn't tell you the face of the world but let you see half of it. See those incomplete fragments.
For the rest, he hides in the lens.
You have to work hard to find it, like a jigsaw puzzle. Anything missing is inaccurate.
Not many people like to play this game.
Because the final pattern is not the kind of image that can be beautiful.
However, it is really interesting game.
It can train your eyes as well as imagination and the tricks of guessing riddles.
Unfortunately, I played badly.
Because I don't have a clever mind and cunning eyes.
Those desperate smells filled my heart, making my breathing hard and my heart beating slowly.
I am not a person who is good at considering complex issues.
I always struggle to watch movies like this.
I don't understand what is going on?
Why do people live such a painful life?
Suspicion, hatred, violence, jealousy, deception, greed...
everything is so ugly.
It's like the face of the car repairer and the big black hands soaked in engine oil.
It's so disgusting!

William Barrett once wrote: "If there is no such unpleasant things as death, worry, crime, fear and tremor, and despair, this complete person is incomplete."

"I am very unwilling to be where you are today. .You have a lot to think about. You have seen evidence that the public did not see. Recalling our childhood, most people believed that justice is what we have landed among us, and virtue is the best reward for virtue, and justice must be Can defeat evil. But when we grow up, we know that things are not like this. Each of us must fight for justice-this is not easy, because truth always causes panic among the powers, and we have to take risks and powers. Struggle... As long as we can fight for our beliefs, this country is still ours. Seeking the truth is still our most important life value. If the truth has been murdered by the government, if the people are no longer respected, then this place is It’s no longer the country I was born in, and it certainly won’t be the country I want to live with for life... Don’t ask what this country can do for you, ask what you can do for the country-don’t forget your dead king, This is still a government owned by the people, governed by the people, and enjoyed by the people. As long as we are alive, nothing is more important than this..."

——Excerpt from "Assassination of Kennedy"

Director's legend: Stone was born in New York on September 15, 1946. He has developed a keen interest in movies since he was a child, especially the European movies that were just in the recovery stage after the war, which made Stone intoxicated. After studying at Yale University for a year, he dropped out of school and came to Vietnam (this is not to go to war, which is amazing!), and then went to Mexico. In 1967, like many young people, the 22-year-old Stone went to Vietnam "honorably" and plunged into the most "clumsy" war waged by the United States in the last century. This experience has become the most precious part of his life. After the war, he became a disciple of Martin Scorsese. He started as a photographer, then became an editor and screenwriter, and won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Alan Parker's "Midnight Express" prize. In 1981, Stone's debut "Hand" met with the audience. In the following 20 years, he directed a total of 13 works, including his famous "Vietnam War Trilogy". Oliver Stone has therefore become a topical figure in the American film scene.


[手] The Hand 1981 Stone's directorial debut.
[Wall Street] WaIl street 1987
revealed the truth about the Vietnam War. Stone again pointed the finger at "greed". Michael Douglas's Wall Street merger tycoon Gerton believed in the most plausible saying that "greed is the most beautiful thing in the world"
[El Salvador ] Salvador 1986

[Talk Show] Talk Radi0 1988

[Field Platoon] Plat00n 1986 The first part of Stone's "Vietnam War Trilogy", which is also his own semi-autobiography.
[Born on the Fourth Of July] Born on the Fourth Of July 1989 Stone's "Vietnam War Trilogy"'s two-part song
[The Doors] The Doors 1991 A story about the soul of the 60s rock band "The Doors" Jim Morley Mori's biographical film
[Assassination of Kennedy] JKF 1991

Entre ciel et terre Heaven & Earth Heaven and Earth This film is the third part of Stone's "Vietnam War Trilogy". Premiere time: January 20, 1993 Movie starring: Chen Chong (Joan Chen) Russian Han Jamie (Talisman) Seth (Allen) Josh (Evans) Caroline Kava (Caroline Kava) Bryan (Larkin)

[Born Murderer ] Natural Born Killers 1994

[Nixon] Nixon 1995

[No U Turns] U Turn 1997 Stone-style black humor film
[Pick the amount of time] Any Given Sunday 1999
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U Turn quotes

  • Grace: [sitting on a bed, appearing as if she is about to seduce Bobby] Come here. You know what I wanna do? I wanna hang drapes...

    [gets up and walks off]

  • Jake McKenna: I got a mind to put you over my knee right now and paddle your ass raw!