I watched the screening with my friends, avoided Valentine's Day tactfully, and chatted a lot later. I had a lot of feelings inside and outside the movie, and I wrote it down to commemorate and share it.
The most intuitive feeling after watching the movie is that I like it but it is not amazing, I am happy but not moved, and I am even slightly disappointed compared to the expectations of the 14 Oscar nominations this year. There are many lovable elements in the film, singing and dancing, music, nostalgia, Los Angeles... However, there are quite high thresholds for appreciating these elements, as I am very indifferent to many old movies, jazz characters and the portrayal of the city of Los Angeles in the film. Feeling, and even feel dazed at every awkward dance. Aside from these elements, the movie is a story that could not be simpler, as simple as it is clichéd. Of course, the story of the movie is just a frame, which needs to be filled with flesh and blood to make it full. To a certain extent, those distinctive elements will become a crucial and even indispensable part of understanding the movie. They are not overwhelming, but the director has chosen different focus. So I still think this movie will be the biggest hit for Best Picture at the Oscars this year, because it is too much liked by the judges, but for me, I want to talk about this simple and cliché story.
The story of a boy who wants to open a jazz bar and a girl who wants to be an actor meet and fall in love. The end of the story is not that the lovers are married, but that the famous girl reunites with the boy who opened the bar, but the girl sits beside the girl. It's her husband. The love in the movie failed in front of the dream. The director used a reunion and imagination to resolve all regrets, and ended the story with a look back and a smile. The retro and romantic tone of the whole article ends in the most realistic way, so I am looking forward to the feelings of the young couples after watching it on Valentine's Day.
From the director's last film "Booming Drummer", we can see that he has a unique understanding of dreams, which is paranoid, crazy and romantic. In his films, dreams are no longer just a simple sustenance, but become the most important shaping and expression of personality, which is also prominent in "La La Land", but in "Love", the film is covered With the camouflage of love, the theme of dreams is hidden deeper and more subtle and forbidding, making the theme warm and bright, but if you remove this layer of camouflage and recognize the contrast, it will be even colder.
The movie takes the hero and heroine as independent perspectives and switches many times. This narrative method is the most pleasing to the audience, because we can easily understand their past and present, sort out the various realities behind them, see every contradiction, misunderstanding and helplessness, and then Substitute one's own feelings and judgments into the movie story, and this information is precisely what the two of them cannot recognize each other in the movie, and is naturally the source of the movie's occurrence and development. This structure depicts a single character more fully, but makes the interaction between the two too tasteless. For the audience who cannot understand the singing and dancing scenes, it is inevitable that they will feel confused. Love doesn't know where it started, and it goes deeper and deeper. It is the most beautiful appearance of love, but it is not the shadow that a movie should have, and of course it is not what this movie wants to express.
At the beginning, my biggest confusion about the movie came from the conflict between the two and the sudden death. When it seemed that everyone was ready to solve the problem, the heroine asked "where are we?" I thought they would embrace each other in relief, no Thinking about it is relieved, why can't you insist on love if you can persist in your dreams? It was not until the end of the movie that the virgin protagonist turned around and looked back to meet the male protagonist's gaze when she left, and did not understand that the seemingly love in the movie was actually a one-man show about their dreams.
Love can still be beautiful without results, but if you can't persist in your dreams, it's not enough to make yourself the person the other person likes.
What the male protagonist really fascinated the female protagonist was his romance and persistence in his dreams, and the female protagonist liked the man who worked in the restaurant but didn't follow the requirements but played the piano casually, or in other words fell in love when he failed many auditions. The stubborn and determined self. Therefore, the reason for the quarrel in the movie is not that the heroine feels the lack of company and the dull waiting indefinitely, but that the hero chooses a stable job and gives up the pursuit of the past and can no longer see the rebelliousness in him; the next day The heroine broke up with the hero completely not because the hero didn't watch her performance, but because she fell in front of her ideals again, and she didn't have the hope of being recognized and seeing herself again. So when the female protagonist later got the opportunity to go to Paris to pursue her dream, the male protagonist did not make sacrifices again, but said that you should do your best to give all you can, which naturally includes giving up and the male protagonist. emotion. If the male protagonist goes to Paris and compromises again for love and life, it will just repeat the previous tragedy and become a person who no longer shines in the eyes of the female protagonist, is no longer full of charm, can no longer give her strength, and no longer loves.
So, if you fall in love with a specific shining point of the other party, then please try your best to maintain an evenly matched rivalry. Once you lose this shining point, no amount of sacrifices will change your heart.
The image of the heroine in the movie is very imperfect, whether it is about love or about dreams, people are not liked. But what if you ask the male protagonist if he wants to love him more? Probably the male protagonist has learned to mature faster in the face of love and life, and knows how to restrain his edge and hide his willfulness. Is this more love?
About love, the movie is realistic, and about reality, the movie is extremely romantic. In the film, the protagonist's struggle process is omitted in a simple five years later, probably because it is possible to describe romance with brushstrokes but not reality. But yeah, romantic reality is the cruelest, isn't it? No one knows why the female protagonist, who has been ignored by interviewers for many years, is suddenly appreciated by the great director, and no one knows why the jazz bar that closed because of no audience was crowded with people after the male protagonist became the boss.
The comparison before and after five years is very interesting. The heroine who used to be a coffee shop waiter turned into a big star after five years and then returned to the coffee shop, but she did the same thing as the star she served five years ago. It is not difficult to imagine , maybe this is the price to realize your dreams, learn to socialize, learn to deal with people you hate, learn to accept potential rules...until one day you become someone you hate but are jealous of.
Finally, with the most wonderful monologue in the movie that can support Emma Stone to win the best actress, I hope we can all understand reality and still not forget romance.
And here's to the fools who dream
To fools with dreams
Crazy, as they may seem
even if they seem crazy
Here's to the hearts that break
To those broken hearts
Here's to the mess we make
to our troubles
I trace it all back, to that
Years later when I look back
Her, and the snow, and the Seine
I think of her, the snow, the Seine
Smiling through it
she is smiling
She said She'd do it, Again
Said she would still jump into the river again.
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