But I like the old look,
Charming rundown.
But I love it all just the same,
this enchcanting old ruin.
After watching a quarter of the movie "The Grand Budapest Hotel", I felt a familiar feeling. After checking the information, it turned out to be the work of Wes Anderson. It's not that I'm so sensitive to movies, it's that Anderson's work is so recognizable. The film has the subtlety of Moonrise Kingdom, the tight narrative magic of Fantastic Daddy Fox, and the absurdity and irony of Darjeeling.
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" is the eighth feature film directed by Wes Anderson. He wrote and directed it himself, rejecting CG and shooting entirely on location. He used his extraordinary imagination to create the Republic of Cowgrass and everything that happened in this place. The film won Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction at the 87th Academy Awards.
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" is full of Wes Anderson's inherent juvenile fantasy and romantic literary atmosphere. The film tells a deeply sad and heart-warming story in a comedy way so wonderful that we forget the tragic ending of the protagonist. Just like Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises", he used a gorgeous and magical ending to blur the helplessness of reality. The beginning in the ending is so beautiful that we forget that life is embarrassing later.
At the beginning of the film, a girl walks in the cemetery holding a book called "The Grand Budapest Hotel", and then the author of the book appears and tells the audience to the camera, " Everyone often misunderstands one thing, they always think that Writers have boundless imagination, they are always full of ideas, there is never a shortage of stories, and they can imagine wonderful plots out of thin air. But the truth is the opposite. Once people know you are a writer, they will come to you with characters and stories. You only You need to watch carefully and listen carefully. ”
That's how the story of The Grand Budapest Hotel came about. When the writer was a young man on vacation in a beautiful hotel, he met the owner of the hotel, and he told the writer the kaleidoscopic story of yesterday that he experienced with the legendary hotel manager Gustave when he was a doorman.
The film's bright colors, symmetrical composition, just right and flamboyant soundtrack, and humorous narration not only highlight Anderson's personality, but also give the story a special meaning.
The protagonist Mr. Gustav, after being falsely accused of being imprisoned, was most worried about the Grand Budapest Hotel. He asked his apprentice Zero to bring a letter to the hotel staff, so that they would definitely maintain the hotel's good reputation and keep it flawless and dazzling. Gustav tied his honour and disgrace to the fate of the Grand Budapest Hotel.
Apprentice Zero seems to be dull, but he is actually smart, and he values love and righteousness. After Gustav was framed and imprisoned, he actively tried to rescue him and accompany him all the way to find out the truth.
The most memorable scene in the movie is when Gustave, who escaped from prison, blamed Zero for forgetting to bring his perfume "Scent of a Feather". Zero suppressed his grief and said calmly that the war destroyed his home and forced him into exile.
After listening to Gustav, he immediately apologized and said, "I'm a big idiot, a pathetic idiot, a damn selfish bastard, ashamed of the Grand Budapest Hotel, I apologize to you on behalf of the hotel." He sincerely and equally intersected with Zero, He was even shot by the Nazis to save Zero.
I like Gustav like this, as he always said, "In the savage slaughterhouse, there is still a glimmer of civilization, which is human nature."
Poetry appears many times in the film, and the characters in the film recite poetry whenever they disagree, with a playful elegance. When sending Mrs. D away, when giving lectures and training to hotel staff, when falling off a cliff and hanging on the line, Gustav used poetry to express his feelings. Even Zero was also influenced by him. The gift he gave to his lover Agatha was a collection of poems. When the three of them traveled together, Agatha also expressed herself by reciting poetry.
It is said that these poems were written by the director Anderson himself, and none of them are historical poems.
Especially after seeing the Nazis occupy the hotel, Gustav said indignantly outside the door, " I would rather not have seen this blasphemous act on the outskirts of an abandoned town, with a shabby piano playing a sad finale out of tune. "
Only poetry can accurately express how he felt at the time.
The writer asked Zero after being ravaged by time, "Did you keep this high-cost, low-profit, hopeless Grand Budapest Hotel with huge wealth in memory of Gustav? Because this is the only one that connects the lost world, his world. channel."
"It's not for Gustav, it's for Agatha, and we had a great time here," Zero said.
I like how the story ends without being sloppy or overly emotional.
Some netizens said that this is a movie that is very suitable for watching more than two times, the first time focusing on the storyline, and the second time carefully savoring the pictures, music and poetry, I fully agree.
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