Station
Director: Thomas McCarthy Thomas McCarthy
North America Release Date: 2003/10/03 (Limited)
National Film Critics Association Top Ten Best Films of the Year
USA Day Sundance film festival best screenplay, best actress and best film audience Choice
British Society of Motion Picture Arts and best original screenplay
American screenwriter Association award for best screenplay
in addition to these awards I listed above, the film "the Station Agent" also received a lot of Smaller film festival awards, including many awards for best screenplay. It is really rare to win so many awards for the best screenplay for such a movie with a mediocre atmosphere, lack of plot, and good details.
The story is actually very simple. A young dwarf, Fen, self-exiled to a remote town. He loves to study trains. He wanted to be isolated from the world. However, there are two other young men and women, Joe and Olivia. Slowly approaching him, the three people gradually got closer to each other in the communication with each other.
In the beginning, Fern looked at everything around him with vigilance and suspicion. This was normal. He had every reason to suspect that every active approach from the outside world was just for the sake of curiosity or to make fun of him. However, he was passionate and unrestrained. Joe and the gentle and meticulous Olivia did not give up their efforts. After showing kindly one after another, they finally established a friendship.
There is no cliché to fall in love, no lofty and lofty ideals, no misunderstandings and contradictions. They just live a plain life, like everyone of us, absolutely ordinary, and occasionally babble because of outside gossip. It's hard to imagine that such a story can be made into a movie. It happens every day around us. Why is it necessary to go to the cinema?
Details, the director gave us only details. Sitting by the river all day watching trains passing by, walking on abandoned railroad tracks, sitting silently for a meal, warm night chat, crazy racing with trains... The director is clever and has been used to watching too. We are thrilling and thrilling with many murderous feuds, but it is these details that we really lack and desire. In fact, our life is not lack of details, but lack of the ability to perceive details. Our minds have been polished by those dramatic plots and the excitement of great joy and compassion. We can only reproduce them one by one with the help of the director. Those details.
This movie, somewhat similar to the other "American Glory" I introduced before, is also a plot setting close to life, real, ordinary and trivial. Such films always make me a little envious and yearning for the life of the protagonist.
The three protagonists crowded Olivia's house to watch the video at night, and saw that they were falling asleep. In the middle of the night, Olivia and Fen began to chat and talk about their past. The talk was not deep, and soon each fell asleep.
I like this paragraph best. Listening, understanding, but not close to each other's personal space, we don't expect others to relieve our loneliness, we just have some stories and we need to find an audience.
I seem to have had this kind of night, but it was too far away and I can't remember how much I want to live again. This is indeed a very simple thing, but it is indeed a difficult thing. The mood is not, the person is not.
View more about The Station Agent reviews
