Friends who like jazz will definitely enjoy their ears. Several song and dance scenes (villa swimming pool, mountain top sunset and planetarium) are quite full of appeal, and the rotating long shots, art sets and song and dance scenes work together to create a dreamlike atmosphere , as if to bring the audience back to the golden age of classic Hollywood musicals, and the chemistry between color and music also implicitly reveals that the director was deeply influenced by Wong Kar-wai's subtle influence. The director's way of borrowing and paying homage to the Hollywood genre is too good to be true for a new director in his early thirties.
However, the story is decidedly mediocre compared to the various hilarious filming techniques. The theme of love and ideals does not bring out more new ideas here. Damien isn't Woody Allen, after all, and this isn't "Match Point" about choice and destiny. Artists are often destined to be lonely, but this "loneliness" helps to finally realize their ideals, just like the hero in the play. In my opinion, love and ideals are not inseparable. The ending of the heroine not being with the hero is just her personal choice, but it is difficult to prove the conflict between love and ideal. So the sweet flashback in the heroine's head at the end doesn't add much introspection to this real-life story.
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