Seeing the posters and propaganda, what attracted me to the cinema most was the performance of the male and female protagonists. With this film with a budget of 10 million U.S. dollars and a box office of only 11 million U.S. dollars, the leading actor and actress almost won the best actor and actress in various film awards around the world.
Movies where the heroes and heroines have won awards are definitely worth seeing, just like Wang Jingchun and Yongmei's "Long Forever", regardless of the plot, the editing, and the details. Great enjoyment.
Melissa shared a real performance. I think her development path is a bit like Huang Qiusheng, most of the acting road is receiving garbage films, but she can earnestly perform every role in garbage films. Until one day I received a really good movie, boom, and I became famous. Melissa is also almost 50 years old.
Grant, who plays "bad old man is bad", feels that his acting skills are higher than Melissa. Don’t you think he is acting, do you think his role in the play with is like Pokemon The deformed monster looks soft, but it can be shaped into the way it should be. What's more valuable is that Grant doesn't snatch the show, and won't snatch Melissa's limelight. On the contrary, he is very good at acting, like Teacher Yu Qian.
Why is this movie Anti America?
Why is the heroine down? It's not because she has no talent, or because she didn't work hard. Haah? In fact, it is because she has no "value" in the commercial society. And she has no "value" in the business world, just because she doesn't follow the trend and doesn't write books that she refuses to write.
What is life like for the heroine after she is down? My favorite pet cat is dying but has no money to watch. The room is full of foul-smelling flies but no one takes care of it because the rent is arrears. The people in the publishing house are obviously there but refuse to listen to her calls.
What about this world? Few people are willing to read serious literature, such as a biography of a dead author, but are willing to spend a lot of money to buy celebrity letters, whether they are real or fake, arty. This is a strange business. The value of the dead writers does not lie in the thoughts and words that they have conveyed, but only their names, which are used by posterity as pretending wedding dresses.
Melissa's wonderful performance best interprets the four words "living alone". The single life of middle-aged and elderly people is not so romantic, there is no sudden love, no career opportunities full of infinite possibilities, no unexpected surprises; some, only the pressure of paying the rent, a companion cat, and one that have already broken up Homosexuals who no longer talk to each other. But even so, the role played by Melissa is still struggling to live. The hard life here is not the kind of poverty-saving, low-key and diligent life seen in Asian movies, but drinking and drinking, still seriously facing their own emotions and sorrows to spend every day. Living according to one's own heart has nothing to do with rich or poor.
Living alone is not easy: when the pet cat dies, there is nowhere to bury it, so it has to be sent to the pet shop; in the face of judicial accountability, he is powerless; but after all this, the writer begins to write his own new book. Young people shed tears for the perseverance shown by the Iron Man Batman in the movie, but they couldn’t see the real people in life, such as the writer played by Melissa, when faced with the real crit of life. Strong.
Grant's "Bad Bad Old Man" is actually a very cute character, too cute. But there is also a trace of desolation. The movie type is comedy, but if you think about the life and past of the hero and heroine, it is actually a tragedy. Think about it carefully. An old gay with a British accent appeared on the streets of New York, relying on drugs and alcohol to paralyze his nerves. How did he fall to this day? There is a valuable detail in the film. The bad old man played by Grant and the writer played by Melissa both made a little money. Grant took her to a stylish jazz bar for a drink. Grant dresses formally, and gently moves Melissa a chair and orders wine. At that moment you will feel that something that died in the 60s, 50s, or even before World War II is resurrected. The role played by Grant has the taste of a British gentleman. Perhaps it was World War II, the United States, and globalization that brought this old man here. On the streets of New York in the 1990s, he symbolized a declining cultural system that seemed incompatible with the brand-new American society. At the end of the film, he said to Melissa: When you wrote about me, you wrote me 29 years old, a little more glamorous. It's actually a bit sad to see here.
Speaking of this, I discovered that the movie has a tone of "Midnight Paris". How many English gentlemen are there? How many people read serious literature? How many people will find passion and empathy in the past text? A 2018 movie, which is about the nostalgic spirit of the writers who fell in the 90s, is kind of interesting.
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