not love, but warmth
"Without love, life will feel dull; without warmth, but you will fall into despair!"
If there are young and beautiful handsome men and women in Hollywood production , A quiet and beautiful town, romantic love...Does it mean that this may be what we often call "youth romantic comedy"? ! I have to admit that it is extremely unwise to categorize it hastily based on the "information" obtained before watching the film. For this reason, I let a movie stay in a category that does not belong to it for more than a year. Until a few days ago, my friend yelled on the phone that he was moved by a movie called "Elizabethtown". I just remembered that my "Elizabethtown" was still lying quietly in the drawer dedicated to "love movies" in the saucer.
The film begins with Drew (Orlando Bloom) who caused his boss to lose nearly $1 billion and was fired. After thinking that he had lost his entire life in an instant, Drew was going to "suicide" to solve all the problems, but his sister's phone call disrupted his determination to "die"-it turned out that his father passed away while visiting relatives and friends in Kentucky. Therefore, Drew could only temporarily put "suicide" aside, and went to Elizabeth Town to bring "father" back. After listening to the instructions of his neurotic mother and sister, Drew, as the only passenger on the flight that night, met Claire (Christine Dunst), the only flight attendant. However, this is not just the beginning of a romantic love (so it should not be caught in the middle of a "love film"), but the beginning of a spiritual journey...
If the plot is concerned, the setting of the film can basically be old-fashioned Description: A frustrated young man, an angel-like cute girl, a simple town isolated from the world...These have been doomed to the style of this movie-warmth, softness and the romantic atmosphere that makes people unsatisfactory. But fortunately, this is still a warm film after all. I would say this because there is always no clear boundary between romantic films and warm-hearted films. After successful love films give people an insight into love, they will use deeper thoughts to enhance the idea of the film. , Such as the meaning of life, beliefs in life, etc. Therefore, it is far-fetched to insist on separating the two.
However, "Elizabethtown" can only be a warm film, specifically, it is a film about a young man looking for the "warmth" lost in his life. It can be said that apart from Drew, there is no role as important as him in the film. As for the heroine Claire, she can only be regarded as an important guide to help him find the meaning of life. In the movie, we only see Drew’s life, and Claire seems to be just an angel sent by God to save Drew. She is beautiful, funny, and talkative. She can always appear in time when Drew is the most lonely. Bring warmth. But the film never showed us her life, we only saw her being happy, even if she was saying that Ben (her boyfriend) forgot to meet with her (in fact, it is impossible to even be sure of Ben’s existence), Still can't find a trace of loneliness from her. Perhaps, just like she always gave Drew maps, she just wanted to take him back to find his lost things. So, although this love happened a bit strange, it became indispensable.
However, this is by no means the only "Drew" movie. During the viewing process, the intriguing details that can be seen at any time are the most outstanding part of this film. In the beginning, when Drew prepared his "suicide project" with great vigor, we didn't feel any depression, but his complicated and interesting suicide method made people laugh. In fact, in his own way, he was just venting desperately. After all, the person who was really going to die would still have the cell phone ringing at that time. Then there was the death of my father, a life that was loved by many people at the same time, but it gave everyone a reason to get together. Maybe it's because everyone knows that he is going to a place called "heaven", so there are no heartbroken people, everyone is thanking him for the happiness he brought, and quietly wishing him a good journey. There is also a mother, this woman who has not cried since her husband died, but kept learning cooking, car repairing, tap dancing, and even toilet repair. She always maintained her neuroticism, clamoring for her son to cremate her husband's body and bring it back. Until she appeared at a memorial service held by the residents of the town for her husband, telling people that she chose to learn those meanings that her husband could not replace in his life, and then used a blunt tap dance to see her husband off, everyone including the audience couldn’t help their eyes. Moist...
After being moved by every detail, there are only about 10 minutes left in the movie. Drew finally opened Claire's map and started the car. He unexpectedly found the 60B (a road sign) that he hadn't found when he came. He listened to Claire's CD, looked for every point on the map, and occasionally stopped and danced alone where no one was. He has no time to spare, and is saddened by the damn 1 billion dollars. His father's ashes were in the position of the co-pilot, and he thought that it had been a long time since he had traveled with his father. It turned out that when he passed by in a hurry countless times, he missed so many beautiful scenery-thinking of this, he finally left tears that he should have shed long ago. At the same time, he also regained his lost warmth.
It’s impossible to calculate how many themes of the film are-it may be "If this doesn't work, there will be other ways" (Father's words), or "Sadness is always easy to control people, so no matter how painful it is , You can only spend five minutes sad, and when the time comes, you have to throw it away" (Claire's words). But this is the magic of warm movies, because you can definitely find what you need (if not, it is better, because you already have it). Probably just like the first complete sentence that I reflected in my mind after watching the film-"Without love, life will feel dull; without tenderness, but will fall into despair!" I can't help but attribute the film to "warmness" Movie" and feel fortunate. Fortunately-not love, but tenderness!
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