It's actually quite a blessing to be a callous and callous audience. Because no matter how sad you are, the world will not change for you.
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"Manchester by the Sea," Casey Affleck's best actor Oscar nominee.
This movie was originally prepared by Matt Damon for himself, but the schedule just happened to crash into the world-famous masterpiece of the Chinese director, thus giving up the opportunity to direct and act.
Fortunately, Matt Damon's exit gave the film another possibility.
The director of "Manchester by the Sea" was originally just a screenwriter hired by Matt Damon. The script was written for three years, and the screenwriter became the director. Perhaps due to less external intervention, this film rarely sees redundant screenwriting skills and routines, which is particularly fresh and restrained.
The quiet town scenery, beautiful soundtrack, and a story like a mourning wife.
The seaside scenery, the symphony, and the male protagonist's ashen face are so out of place, it's like the male protagonist can't fit into the crowd.
The environment and characters are completely separated, which seems to be deviant and runs counter to the scriptwriter's routine, but isn't that the case in reality?
Will it always rain when my father dies? The reality is that no matter how sad you are, the world won't change for you. The beautiful is still beautiful, the quiet is still quiet. The sofa in the living room doesn't change color because of your depression.
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three children died in the fire, and the three handprints tattooed on their backs became a spell that could never be erased.
In the police station he was going to pull a gun and kill himself because no one blamed him and he would not be punished.
He could only self-exile as a punishment for himself. He lives in isolation, repeats mechanical manual labor, and does not have emotional entanglements with anyone.
But those pasts always showed up unintentionally and dealt him a heavy blow.
He rejects the kindness of care given by others, because it always makes him fall deeper into the abyss. He wants to crawl out of the vortex of the past, or pretend the past doesn't exist. However, whenever someone reminds him of the good moments he once had, he will realize that he will never be able to climb out of this abyss, that he will never be able to get out of this abyss, and then he will not be able to restrain himself from wanting to hurt Own.
When he was flushing the toilet with his female employer, he heard that the other party wanted to date him, which aroused his emotions, so he got into an argument with the next employer.
A woman in the bar came to talk to him. He responded indifferently, but he couldn't suppress the aroused emotion. He could only fight against strangers.
Looking at the pictures of the children, he suddenly lost control and smashed his fists at the window glass.
His ex-wife wanted to reconcile, but he rejected the other party's kindness, and the next second he was fighting with strangers in a bar.
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My brother died. He hugged the corpse in the morgue, but he couldn't feel sad, because he had to experience this emotion every day. It's like at the end when the daughter said to him, "Dad, we're on fire." The
elder brother entrusted him with custody of his son, and he was very resistant because he couldn't take any responsibility, because the last time he was a parent, he saw it with his own eyes He burned his three children alive.
The nephew suddenly broke down when he saw the frozen meat in the refrigerator, which reminded him of his father's body lying frozen in the morgue.
He awkwardly comforted his nephew. He recalled how his brother comforted him at the time.
In the small room in Boston, the family was surrounded by people. My brother said that he wanted to buy some furniture for him. He said "fuck off", but my brother still bought a sofa, a coffee table and a dining table. Sitting on the new sofa with a smile on his face, my brother said, this is like a home.
His brother let him survive, and now that his brother is gone, he should also take good care of his brother's son.
Family love is troublesome, but it at least makes you realize that you can't just live for yourself.
I sent my nephew to a date, chatted with my nephew's friend's mother, changed the engine of the fishing boat, and found a reliable adoptive family for my nephew.
Everything seems to be getting better, except for the damn past.
Salvation stuff is bullshit unless you're willing to deceive yourself.
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He is always immersed in the sadness he created, even though the scenery is beautiful and the people around him are constantly giving kind care, but he doesn't care. He didn't want anything, he just wanted to hide in an unfamiliar place.
The director did not give him an outlet, but made the story as calm and cruel as reality.
The ex-wife cried about the past and wanted to imagine what the future might be. He looked at her delicate face, so close and so far. She said "I love you", and that love for him was the abyss that he could never climb out of. This pain, the pain of life rather than death, is the ultimate punishment for the wanton indulgence of the past.
People living in Manchester, everyone has to experience the pain of loss. The ice hockey coach, the old man who played chess with his father, lost his father at a young age, a mother without a husband, a nephew who lost his father...
No matter how beautiful the scenery, how beautiful life looks, everyone has a painful heart inside. The vortex, the only thing it can do is to live with it seriously.
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If you see this movie very detached, you don't think it looks good, and you still can't find a suitable emotional point, then please hate it to your heart's content, at least prove that you are living a happy life.
Never empathize with the emotions in the movie, you might be like me, and it's hard to watch.
If you don't think the hero deserves any sympathy at all, despising what he does might give you some sort of moral superiority.
The director is too ruthless to put such a heavy core in such a delicate shell.
The pictures, music and the whole atmosphere of the story are always detached. Perhaps this is to keep the audience on the sidelines, without empathizing too much with the characters in the story, feeling a trace of sadness while maintaining a sense of distance.
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, it is actually quite happy to be a callous and callous audience.
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Author: Ma Ma Ye, young writer, screenwriter, film critic
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