The video is on the Amazon streaming line. It came up very fiercely, a live performance of heavy metal music, the band had a total of two people, they were the male and female characters of the film. Metal music is very complicated, divided into many genres. In just one scene, there are a few iconic elements that may help the audience quickly make a lot of judgments. They should belong to the death metal music of heavy metal music. The iconic feature of this kind of music is the ultra-high-speed, powerful, and aggressive drum beats. In addition, the lead singer’s singing has almost no sense of melody, but roars in a nearly roaring manner. In terms of lyrics, the content written by Death Metal always involves some extreme behavior. Also, please note that the most significant frontal tattoo of the male protagonist is please kill me. Cut a shot from a motorhome to let you pay attention to the self-harm marks on the female protagonist’s arm, indicating that she has a tendency to self-destruct. Every bit suggests a strong symbol of death. This information helps the audience to establish judgments about the characters in the shortest time.
A good director does not use lines to narrate. A good director knows how to narrate in audiovisual language. Audiences with movie-watching experience should get used to receiving such information. This is another feature film of a new director's debut. This year's Oscar is definitely not a new year. New people will come out in large numbers!
They live in an RV and make a living on parade. On weekdays, the chat topics of the two people will also involve death from time to time. After chatting, some words will directly become their lyrics, soulmate, which is very enviable. It was another stop on the tour, and the two were doing preparatory work. At this point in the film, I thought it was a music-themed film, but soon the plot went straight to the theme. The protagonist, Ruben, suddenly lost his hearing. It turned out that the contradiction was at this point. A drummer was deaf. Reuben was very frightened. He went to the pharmacy alone for consultation and quickly accepted a professional examination. His girlfriend was also very broken, and decided to stop the tour immediately and send him to a mutual aid community for the deaf.
It’s getting closer and closer to the Oscars award date, so I recently concentrated on watching a large number of Oscars shortlisted films. Like "thefather" recommended in the last reading video, this work has also received 6 heavyweight nominations. I I remember it is the best film, best actor, best actor, best sound, best editing and best original script. After reading it, I feel that this is a dark horse work that is worth looking forward to. In this film, the male lead and male partner are too strong. Even let me go to the "Dallas Buyers Club" that year from time to time. This year, when I watched "Father", I thought that Grandpa Anthony's actor was already stable, but Ruben, played too well. This year's actor award competition is super fierce. And based on experience, it is very likely that the best male and female lead will eventually be awarded to the two black lead actors of the "Blue Queens", because the real weather vane of the Oscars, the union award, has been announced.
Qiao is the spiritual godfather of the deaf community. Under his organization, the community provides housing for the deaf for free, teaches them sign language, and organizes them to help each other. The sudden deafness made Ruben despair, and his girlfriend left him resolutely in order to let him stay in the community at ease. Ruben barely started his life in the community. The director patiently and meticulously showed the life of this group of disadvantaged groups in the deep forest. Although their world is silent, they are very happy.
A drummer who lives on sound, losing his voice is tantamount to losing the world. The film often uses sound effects to simulate Ruben's subjective hearing, allowing the audience to experience the feeling of being inaudible, as if being kept in the dark. It was a feeling of being suddenly abandoned by the world. Reuben was very depressed, super depressed. The direction of the protagonist's psychological portrayal in the drama is in line with human feelings, and you are very able to empathize with this sudden despair. Joe took Ruben to the sign language school. The sign language school has a beautiful female teacher with a pair of talking eyes. The actors in this film are really very good.
A film with so clear thoughts and clear expressions is hard to believe that this is another director's feature film debut. The director patiently showed Ruben's depression after his deafness. The somewhat weird Joe can be said to be his spiritual mentor. He wanted Ruben to learn to be quiet. Joe said at the beginning that what is repaired here is not a person's hearing, but a person's heart. The film has thus constructed a pair of contradictions, which are also the profound themes of the film. Have you seen it here? Ruben's progress is based on a rivalry with a child. The design here is also very good. The dull metal vibration is a bit like the sound of drums. This is the first time he has found a sense of existence for himself in this world.
Reuben began to gradually blend in with this silent world. He can start to sit down and write. The pure, non-utilitarian communication between these people is actually very valuable and very warm. The director is also very pure, very restrained and not sensational. Seeing Ruben's condition getting better and better, Joe suggested that he stay in this world, work here, and live here. Ruben couldn't help looking for his girlfriend's video on the Internet again. He missed his girlfriend crazily, and he missed the sound world outside.
Let him hear the voice again, contemporary medicine is not difficult to do, it just needs money. Reuben sold all his belongings and resolutely went to have a cochlear implant operation. Joe was very disappointed in him. He refused to help Ruben anymore and kicked him out of the community. When the audience followed the sound of the movie for the first time and regained the sound of the world by following Ruben, I was as excited as him, but what he heard was always a distorted world, and all the sounds showed a sharp metallic feel.
Reuben flew to France and found his girlfriend's home. The girlfriend is actually a rich second-generation, she had to leave Ruben and returned to the life of Bourgeois. That day happened to be the birthday party of the girlfriend's father. The heavy metal queen no longer yelled, but sang the sad French chanson. The tunes and lyrics all hinted at the emotional separation of the two. The scene where the two broke up was also handled cryptically and implicitly. The look of his girlfriend has changed. She used to dye white eyebrows, her long hair was shoulder-length, and her arms were covered with scars. Now she has adapted to the new role of Bai Fumei, with pretty short hair and beautiful eyebrows, no longer hurting herself, speaking elegant French and singing chants. They used to be so good, talk about everything, the air won't cool down when they communicate. But now, they are no longer people in the same world, so a clever breakup scene doesn't really need much. The understandable audience can understand.
Ruben left his girlfriend's house. He sat down on the street and saw a group of children. He started to miss the children in the deaf community. The ending of the film was handled very, very cleverly. The sound of the church bell came, and it was still a harsh metal sound in Ruben. Finally, he took the initiative to take off the cochlear implant...The world suddenly became quiet.
When I saw this, I kept saying in my heart that I can't end this way, I rely on you to end this way, I will kill you.
The movie is over.
It was dark in front of me, and I once again experienced the feeling of being kicked down the cliff.
From the 6 Oscar nominations, it can be seen that this dark horse debut has several obvious features, and it is also a great advantage of the film. Technically, the editing and sound effects of the film are excellent. The film's dialogue is not large, because it describes an inaudible world, so it depends on the lens to tell the story. The excellent editing makes the narrative very clear, and the psychological changes of the characters are progressive. The sound effects are attentive, allowing the audience to experience the protagonist's situation firsthand. The nomination of the two performance awards is a full affirmation of the actors. The male lead is a British actor and a rapper. He was born in 1982 and graduated from Oxford University. The role of Ruben is very difficult in performance, with a large number of shots. Almost the entire film is his one-man show. With a lot of inner fighting and deep and restrained emotional processing, he is great. The male partner also found his own way when playing a weird soul redeemer. In a few talk scenes, the character's personality is very obvious. It is rumored that his own parents are deaf, so his fluent sign language is probably derived from the truth. Life.
This is a touching story that involves disadvantaged groups, but if the director focuses on sympathizing with them, it will be true. They don’t need sympathy, it’s us who need sympathy. If this film is just a simple story of a drummer deaf, it is impossible to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture.
The reason why this film makes me feel like a dark horse is because under a superficial story of deafness, I once again see the author discussing the eternal problems that plague contemporary Western intellectuals. That is, can the prosperity of science and technology really lead mankind to a better home? In fact, this work with extremely simple audiovisual language explores the same issues as the dazzling British drama "Black Mirror" and the American drama "Western World" that I have read.
In the film, technology refers to modern medicine, and the spiritual home is the community of deaf people in the forest. Modern medicine, especially western medicine, is not easy to treat, right, where it is broken, it can almost be said to be the god of modern people, and where will the "God" of technology take us?
I live in Shanghai. With China's current national strength, how can the literary works produced in an international city like Shanghai not touch the common pain points of mankind? I don't know whose blessings I have entrusted, but I really haven't. Only see how beautiful the riverside zone of the New Bund is and how expensive the house price is.
Therefore, it is difficult to find one or two Lou Ye, and it is not easy to discuss urban modernity.
The most avant-garde film and television works in the West almost without exception all point to this theme. Because the reflection on modernity can be said to be the core of the core of contemporary western philosophy. For the understanding of this film, I think we can borrow the view of the greatest living philosopher Habermas. We should not overemphasize the importance of technology, but the importance of interpersonal interaction.
The deaf community in the film is a silent world, but the interaction between people seems to have returned to a pre-modern purity and beauty. However, Ruben's strong desire to return to a normal life led him to bankruptcy and embrace modern medicine. He who regarded science and technology as a god, but never loved him. The trend of the story is an author's attitude, an ideology, and a creative standpoint.
Finally, the children on the street point to the pure interpersonal relationship, and the church bell above their head points to the spiritual world, faith, and home. This work is so good that it proposes thinking, but it is not sharply critical. The director just asked Ruben to remove the cochlea and rethink his life choices at the end of the film.
The so-called "sound of metal" symbolizes the essential material exposed in this material world. Is this essence really the direction we want to go?
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