Time is but a river flowing from our past.
In recent years, the Oscar nominations for best picture have included such a film that pays homage to classic Hollywood. From "Chicago" to "The Artist", "Birdman" to "La La Land". Did you find out, except for "La La Land" where the Oolong incident occurred last year, the rest were successfully elected. When I saw the deliberately dated "talkie" opening of the 90th Academy Awards, it goes without saying that the best movie of the year was "The Shape of Water."
"The Shape of Water" is certainly a film that pays homage to classic Hollywood in all aspects, whether it's the rhythm of the plot and the setting of the characters, or the photography, lighting and tone. When I watch the movie, my mind keeps jumping to other movies, such as Chaplin's "City Lights", the story of the poor boy and the blind girl, and Frank's "It Happened One Night", the story of the rich girl and the poor boy . The movies at that time were very simple, saying that love was love, without the exaggeration and hypocrisy of today’s idol dramas, and without paying attention to the three views that audiences are demanding today, two people met like this, and then they broke through many difficulties regardless of everything, and finally there was a lover. Married family. The same is true of our story today, a princess who can't speak, a prince in trouble, they are finally no longer alone, they can be together forever.
This may become a cliché in the eyes of some audiences, but I want to say that it is not a great thing to be able to make a common story as good as its predecessors, and make people feel like they are in that era. ? We loathe stereotypes because of their clichés and femininity, not because of the "clothes" themselves.
In addition to the wonderful atmosphere created by the fairy-tale-like soundtrack, the ubiquitous 1970s jazz, fans of classic Hollywood movies finally heard the heroine slowly sing the song "You'll" in the montage. "never know", goosebumps must have come out, those iconic shows and TV series in the 1970s on TV, a few tap dances when heroines and painters rose, and the movie theater that is about to decline, the boss has been talking about there are not many people now Watching a movie. These nostalgic emotions piled up with classic Hollywood elements fill the entire movie.
Americans no doubt have been nostalgic for their golden age of Hollywood, just as we have been nostalgic for the cultural prosperous times in history when literati and writers were born in large numbers. The more complex and shallow the times are, the more we miss the elegance and simplicity of the past. . Compared with our 5,000-year history, the United States has only been established for more than 200 years. Their cultural prosperity is undoubtedly the 1960s and 1970s. Literature has the lost generation of Hemingway and Faulkner, and movies have Hollywood in full swing. The film industry, music has the developing jazz and rock, those great directors and musicians, I believe that even if I do not list them one by one, everyone can imagine the enthusiasm and prosperity of that era.
Today's Oscars, to put it poorly, have Hollywood plot first and social factors second. As for the quality of the film itself, this is beyond the scope of discussion, because being nominated means that these films are almost the same in terms of film skills, at least they have not made any mistakes, so the competition can only be the above two the person. I don't want to say much about the competition between "Three Billboards" and this film. I'm happy who wins. The only one who wants to interject is the "political correctness" that is about to be used up. In fact, I am very strange. Some Chinese people scold their country for always singing and dancing and do not pay attention to disadvantaged groups. Now, seeing people's mainstream art paying attention to these, they also label them politically correct, saying that they are not derogatory. Words and actions have demoted people to the dirt. A work that pays attention to the problems of human beings while it is excellent in itself, isn't this something to be encouraged? Why is the word "political correctness" rejected by others? Is this another kind of opportunistic hot spot? ? If so, please don't say that your country is always prosperous and does not pay attention to disadvantaged groups, okay? What kind of world do you want to live in?
The real world also needs fairy tales, and fairy tales need to be created, so this world needs dreamers, and dreamers are not afraid of reality. Top is undoubtedly a director with feelings and artistic persistence. He has been shooting fairy tales, and he has been shooting reality. There are no handsome men and beautiful women in his films, only ordinary people who are brave and kind. He has been satirizing dictatorship and tyranny, and he has been resisting the coldness of the adult world, so he keeps creating one dream after another, and after the cruelty, let the viewer cherish the innocence and ideals that come from hardships. In this "Shape of Water", the heroine's life inside and outside the institute is in stark contrast, on one side is the cool tones of classic war movies and the solemnity of rusted metal, blood and violence coexist; on the other side is rich Soft lighting and color matching are filled with an almost romantic beauty. At the end, the soft fat top finally gave us a Happy ending. This is a hard-won dream that will stir back and forth in your heart for a long time. Compared with the kind of disillusionment at the end of "Pan's Labyrinth", today the top does not destroy the beautiful things for people to see, but magnifies this beauty infinitely. I should be grateful for his great kindness.
After all, such an adult fairy tale is no longer an understatement of the past. No matter how the protagonist fights with the devil, he can finally live happily with the person he likes. It faces this bloody world, people have to use all their strength and pay a heavy price to protect those beautiful things from being taken away and killed. If you've ever fought for something you love, you'll appreciate the value of this story even more.
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