Yes, David Lynch’s movies are like dreams. Neither the cunningness of "Blue Velvet" nor the extreme violence of "My Heart is Wild" are not like situations that would arise in the real world: such a gloomy atmosphere, and such a damp and heavy image. I often think that if the nightmare has color, it will be the color that appears in Lynch’s movies! There is a deep sorrow that will linger you for days and nights. However, in this "Mr. Strutt's Story", David Lynch’s dreams are no longer gloomy, no longer overwhelming. He changed his previous strange style, with a simple and simple style. Enter the American countryside from a loving perspective, telling a journey through the years of simplicity.
This is a road movie using lawn mowers as a means of transportation, based on real news that happened in the United States a few years ago. The story tells that the elderly Mr. Stritt is in poor physical condition, does not have a driver’s license but has a persistent personality. In order to visit his seriously ill brother who has not seen him for more than a decade, he drives a 1966 vintage lawn mower. , From Iowa to Wisconsin, staggered more than 300 miles. Just like many road movies, along the way, we saw Mr. Stritt met many people, including a young girl who was pregnant and ran away from home, and a hysterical woman who killed at least one deer every week on the way to work. , A group of young people participating in bicycle races, a kind couple, a retired veteran and a kind priest. And when a group of teenagers on bicycles whizzed past him during the journey, he stopped the lawn mower and greeted them with a smile.
Unlike "American Heart Rose", which uses a plain lens to interpret the jokes of the American countryside, the Iowa field in David Lynch's eyes is a magnificent land. The golden yellow corn field is endless, spreading a whole undulating curve like a wave under the setting sun. At the moment when the sky is full of sunset, a lawn mower is slowly moving in a narrow narrow winding towards the distance. On the highway. The soundtrack of this movie is also comfortable. The soft piano sound and the crisp guitar strings overlap, implicitly laying out a journey of memory, and one can't help but be immersed in the spring breeze, as the old man firmly determines The will keep moving forward.
This is a prose poem written in detail by David Lynch, with a deep light in the poem. Besides Richard Farnworth, who is seventy-nine, I can't think of a better person to interpret Mr. Stritt. The old man has a pair of clear eyes, firm, indifferent, yet very kind. Mr. Stritt has not read many books, but when he tells young children the true meaning of life with a shallow smile, we can all feel a selfless love. The film states the character of the old man in a calm tone. Richard Farnworth’s performance is even more moving. In this long journey of remembrance and regret, the old man will inevitably succeed in entering the audience’s life. From the bottom of my heart, let people search in his emotions where they overlap with him in their memories.
Another important role in the film is Mr. Stritt’s slightly disabled daughter Rose. Maybe because some part of the brain was hurt, she couldn't speak very clearly. The first third part of the film describes the situation where Stritt and his daughter are dependent on each other. There is a touch of sadness in the gentle tone; after the old man set off for Wisconsin, we learned that Rose was unfortunate in his conversations with others on the journey. Encounters, and then connected with the old man’s emotions, have become one of the most touching moments in this movie. In the old man's memories, there is also the image of "fire" that David Lynch likes to use in movies, marking a tragic past. And this is probably the only picture in this film where Lynch’s past style can still be seen!
"Mr. Streit's Story" does not have a bloody ear lying in the grass, nor a human head flying all over the sky. It has only a few sincere and good actors and beautiful and comfortable countryside scenery. It chants all the way without sprinkling dogs. Blood does not sing high-profile. The ending of the movie is just right, just so simple to set up a freeze-frame shot, let a thousand words condensed in the sky full of stars, leaving a lingering sound that makes people feel infinitely melancholy.
The starry sky is a kind of witness.
Deeper than the starry sky is the human mind.
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