The attitude of watching everything indifferently and the interpretation of everything different and lonely laid the foundation for the old man Jia's consistent narrative style.
Linear processing method.
The whole film seems to be just a continuous time segment. As for the existence of specific time, it doesn't seem to be that important. The three protagonists just happened to change from separation to aggregation during this period of time due to some factors, and then from aggregation to separation. Following the camera, I didn't expect so much about what was about to happen, I just knew that it would happen. From the beginning to the end, we just followed the characters in the film for a journey of life.
Inevitably make accidental and make inevitable accidental.
The three people entered the cell by chance. John Lurie was evicted by his girlfriend because of an attempted pimping business and Tom Waits was evicted by his girlfriend because of the lure to transport the dead. He was mistakenly convicted as a murderer. Roberto Remigio Benigni was the only person who actually committed a crime. , But also because of being beaten by others to kill someone by mistake in the counterattack. But to be honest, the three of them are not really good people, not even ordinary people. John is a pimp who wipes out his guns, Tom is a DJ who has been unemployed many times and has no sense of responsibility, and Roberto is at the chess table. Speculators playing tricks, and the scene of a body search on the highway at the beginning of the story seems to have made it clear that this is not a society where the police are divided, that is, a justice society under the rule of law. In this environment, the three people are imprisoned, it is inevitable by accident.
The three escaped from prison and walked through the barren woods and swamps. The common goal was to leave, but they disagree on where they were going. In the end, Roberto accidentally met the fellow and chose to stay. John and Tom parted ways after walking together. Only then did they think of the three. I have discussed this issue in the hut in the woods. Of course, things will continue in the direction I choose, and the things experienced by people encountered on the road will be different because of this. This is inevitable accident.
Substitutes or spectators.
It is difficult to say who is good and who is bad in the film. This is a big impact on traditional film viewers who are used to punishing evil and promoting the good to uphold the main theme of justice. Look carefully, there are no absolute good people nor absolute bad people in the film. The realism is full of romantic and humanistic atmosphere. We can either be the escapees in the film or just witness this. The spectator that everything happened.
I love this boring, cold, cute and charming movie villain.
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