The old time
Regarding the plot, many great gods have said before that interesting ideas are the same, and the eyes of watching movies are different. Just tell me how I feel.
This film is mainly the use of the camera lens and the silent and sincere performance of the actors as the biggest highlights.
The prologue is through the dreamy floating furniture in the underwater wreck, the floating Sleeping Beauty. It sets the tone of the dream for the whole film, and the core of the dream - the sleeping woman. As soon as the camera turns, the sleeping woman has color, and as the picture zooms out, it feels like the story jumps to life from the text. The old-fashioned apartment in the 1970s in the United States, the ordinary and distant daily life of the 1970s, also came alive from people's dormant memories. A few scenes, a few shots, vividly embody the loneliness of the mute aunt and the girl's heart like a fragrant white lotus. The camera followed the footsteps of the aunt to the research center, which is again a strong science fiction flavor at the end of the last century. I have to say that although there are various CGs and special effects in sci-fi movies now, it is still very emotional to look at this old-fashioned sci-fi set. This scene seems to be able to speak, explaining the era, character, and scene environment. Nostalgic rigorous and dreamy. Among them, I think the most dreamy scene is the black Obama wiping the rocket engine with a mop, which is absolutely amazing.
Speaking of which, there is a strong nostalgia complex in the movie, and I actually like it very much. Especially the part where the heroine said I love you to the murloc in her inner monologue, the picture turned black and white, and she started to sing! ! I'm going~! ! Haven't had a paragraph like this in years! ! It's not the kind of song and dance that Jiang Wen directed the Grammys or the Spring Festival Gala in "One Step Away", but a real song and dance drama, classic films like "Sing in the Rain" and "The Sound of Music". Although I also forgot what "Song in the Rain" and "The Sound of Music" talked about, I remember that it was the golden age of musicals, and the tribute to the classics is still there. I still have a B-level~ Hahahaha~~ Here, as Trump said, the United States used to be a strong era. It was also a time when gay painters were seen as monsters, and a time when the dark clouds of the Cold War lingered. Bureaucratic politicians don't care about the real value of things. It was also a time of greater tragedy. Marginal groups are not understood and are treated as monsters. The concept of AI is now popular, and the test to distinguish the difference between AI and humans is called the Turing test, and the computers used today can also be called Turing machines. This is because the core idea of modern computers was proposed by the great mathematician Turing. And during World War II, Turing cracked the German code in MI6, which brought the final victory of the Allied forces. It was such a great man who was convicted of being gay and treated as a monster, and ended his extraordinary life by eating a poisoned apple in depression. Although homosexuality is now respected. But will everyone be tolerant of other "monsters" they don't know about?
In fact, although we show respect on the surface, we still regard those people as "monsters" from the bottom of our hearts. "I only see people riding horses, but no horses riding people". When we are in a hurry, we will let go of the hypocritical respect and expose the contempt and malice from the heart. It's not that Huang Bo is wrong, in fact, I also think this sentence is very good, because after all, I am not a fish, and I don't really know what the fish thinks. I can only subjectively make judgments in my own favor. But in fact, the movie may actually mean something else. After all, starting from "Frankenstein", the essence of science fiction is the ultimate concern for human nature.
What I can't help but say is that the old aunt Sally Hawkins played the mute really well, without a serious line, every scene, every body language, every expression played that kind of aunt's sullenness. Incisively and vividly. Especially when Lennon was asked to help her save the murlocs, the painter did not agree. She was so anxious that I could hear the vague Fake. It is really worth learning from some actors in China that they can act in such a play.
In fact, such a curious story itself can be shot by a Japanese screenwriter and a Japanese director, which should be more in line with my taste. even more depth. But I have to say that the language of the shots in this film is impeccable, and you can probably understand it without reading the subtitles. Some people say that the development of the emotional plot of the two people is too abrupt. In fact, every movement of Auntie, the twisting posture, the Huaichun eyes. The feelings of the two have been explained. Those unspoken affections are filled with those dreamy shots. I gave 4 stars but not 5 stars. In the end, I still feel that the more oriental expression of this story is more in line with my habits. For example, in Shunji Iwai's "Love Letter", with the development of the plot, the interpretation of the actors, and the portrait behind the last library card, the green feeling is natural.
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