seems like a joke and a suspense at the beginning, who is "I"? Why did "I" die? And what happened to the death of "I"? This kind of beginning reminds me of "Lovely Bones", which also predicts death, but the meaning expressed in this film is deeper.
At the beginning of the film, the director is eager to show us the whole picture of the family. The director is not the kind of implicit person, so the superficial peace of the family is torn apart from the beginning, so that we can clearly see the internal contradictions between them. The strongman's wife, Caroline, is quite disliked by her husband, Lester, who has accomplished nothing and is impotent. The passion has evaporated, and the marriage is a dead shell; I disliked both of them, thinking that one of them was old and rigid, playing some unfashionable music every dinner, and the other had no father's majesty at all, always like a useless old man, except like a woman Talking the same, nothing will happen. The adolescent daughter herself is like a joke, with a double expansion of physical and psychological, full of anger, and full of rebelliousness. It's fair to say that everyone in the family is unhappy with their opposites. The director is very good at expressing, not ramble to give you an appearance first, and then give you the essence, but directly give you the essence, let you connect with the appearance in life, so that the movie becomes beautiful, not calm, only lively , Anyway, everyone likes to watch the fun.
The film continues, the American style is very strong, the United States is a joke, and it is always reminding that this is a film about American society. Every family is a microcosm of society. Money worship and pragmatism are typical characteristics of American culture, while practicality is often Get numb, go back and measure his profit/loss ratio, what he means before doing everything. Computers can do this kind of thing, even more accurately than we can calculate. Driven by pragmatism, aesthetics seems to be just a waste of time, so Richie, who takes a DV to shoot beautiful things everywhere, looks crazy, like an alien, dancing plastic Bags, dead birds, their beauty is incomprehensible if they are not "alien".
I feel like the screenwriter did it on purpose to make the navy captain's son, Richie, into what we might call a bad boy in ordinary life, who went to a lunatic asylum, sold marijuana, cheated on his parents, and was a criminal. ! But at the same time he was admiring the beautiful, the beauty that would be easily overlooked could be noticed by a criminal. This is like a kind of irony, just like someone once said, don't think people with "Lolita" plot are dirty, but in fact he is too obsessed with innocence, and Richie also pursues beauty over evil like this. In the film, Richie and Jenny have a relationship. Their love is not like love, but a kind of mutual redemption. Jenny needs Richie to prove her existence, and Richie needs to listen to her heart. This kind of listening is impossible for her friend Angela. Yes, it takes Richie's pure heart to cover up the vulgarity of his parents. And Richie needs Angela, I think it's just because of the pursuit of beauty, a kind of original beauty, not Angela's masked beauty, the mutual redemption of the two has achieved a "love" similar to love.
Another "love" similar to love is mutual redemption. Lester's affair with Angela. What I like to watch the most is their pair, just like watching "The Killer Isn't Too Cold", I always hope that Leon and the little girl Matilda will get married, although this is absolutely impossible in real life. They couldn't, and neither could Lester and Angela. It's totally normal, because I want them to be together out of love, but the truth is, it's actually mutual use. Lester needs Angela to prove that his heart is not dead, to surprise himself, to let himself have someone to lust after, to find someone to tell him what he wants to do in another person's tone, in Yang Dechang's "Mahjong" , I have repeatedly mentioned that people always need others to tell them what to do, not because they really don’t know, but because they don’t have the courage to do so without being told by others. So Angela gave Lester a good reason to change for beauty's sake. In fact, Lester has always wanted to change, but no one has lent him the courage. And Angela, a standard woman, what a woman really uses to show off is not how rich she is, but how many men pursue her. A woman's desire to conquer is no less than that of a man. If a woman wants to control the world, she must first control the man. Angela then found that Lester was conquered, and she worked out for her and survived for her. In fact, Angela is also a little girl. It is not so much a woman playing tricks as a little girl playing games. I've always wondered why when the two of them fell in love, Angela wanted to say that sentence, "I'm still a virgin... I still think... It's what I want to say first... lest you think I'm not enough. "Okay." It's like a child who said something inappropriate when it was not in the right time, and immediately wanted to add it again, but the more he added, the more chaotic he felt. So the two of them are not love in the end, but just a proof to each other, proof that their hearts are not dead, proof that they are not mediocre.
The film comes to the end, the death that was long predicted. This death was handled like a suspense movie, repeatedly cutting to Caroline chanting that line, sacrifice A sacrifice, the foreshadowing in front of the shooting range, the director wanted us to think that the wife shot the husband, but finally jumped out and said no , the real murderer is him! Polo likes to use this kind of trick very much, and Agatha always likes to mock readers. The director wanted to have that effect too, so he had his wife go to the shooting range, had Jenny tell Richie that he wanted to shoot his father, and show us the Colonel's gun collection. In the end, the colonel was selected and sent to be the killer. I think this arrangement is a bit deliberate. Mystery novels tell us that the most obvious is actually the most innocent, so the wife and Richie were excluded, but I didn't think about the colonel, I can't tell the reason, I thought it was Jenny , because she seems to have deep resentments, but she is the carrier of beauty and is not suitable for such evil things. I also thought it was Angela who pulled out a gun or something when they were HIGH, but it wasn't necessary, she had no reason to kill him. Knowing that the final answer is revealed, I still feel far-fetched, although I can still find reasons to explain, this kind of psychology is like holding strong evidence, but reluctantly refuting. The colonel is a soldier and can be said to be a follower of the Nazis. His character is mixed with the shadow of German culture. His moral concept dominates his behavior. He opposes homosexuality because social norms do not allow it, so he said it with joy. "What the hell! Homosexual parade!", he was very angry after thinking that his son was also gay, not ashamed but a kind of jealousy, because he was also gay, morality successfully dominated his behavior, but let his heart The conflict intensified, the struggle between reason and emotion almost drove him crazy, and in the end, he obeyed his desire and went to Lester, but was poured a bucket of cold water, the fig leaf was removed, the sensibility disappeared, and reason returned, he wanted to maintain the military Rigorous image, obstacles must be removed. But I always felt that Lester died without beauty, although it was reasonable.
The language style of the whole film is American yes humor, which will make you laugh out loud and make you talk about things like "It's nice to find yourself surprising", (Lester) "Unemployed? I'm not unemployed, it's not like, "Ouch! Where's my job? "I'm quitting" "Because of what? I don't drink, I don't fuck other women, I don't hit you, I don't abuse you...Since you thought I didn't matter, I didn't even touch you! After you got The license is that I support you, and some people may think that I should split the property with you. So, turn off the lights before going to bed!" A brooding and serene mood, with unexpected lightness, energy and enthusiasm." "Any Other Name" is the soundtrack of the movie "American Beauty", "Thomas Newman's emotions in the image and melody are inextricably linked, hooking the indescribable tone. Thomas is fond of percussion instrumental music experimental images with new charm, and unique human thinking. With a unique intellectual taste, it always exudes a subtle emotion of caring for images with musical notes."
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