On February 27, the Oscars ceremony will be held as scheduled. As an annual masterpiece that has been nominated for six Oscars, Manchester by the Sea deserves the attention and praise of the public.
When people talk about the film, they generally focus on the writing and acting aspects of the film, emphasizing the superb storytelling skills of screenwriter-turned-director Kenneth Lonergan and Casey Affleck's heartbreaking story. The best actor-level performance; and in the early prediction, the film has almost no rivals in the two awards of best original screenplay and best actor.
Indeed, these two points have been vividly demonstrated throughout the film, among which a flashback in the middle of the film that is accurate to the second but smooth and smooth is the most, which can be regarded as a model of efficient and visual narrative. High efficiency brings not only the compactness of the plot, but also the high concentration of emotions. As many mysteries are gradually revealed, the accumulated emotions also flood the audience like an avalanche. At the end of this paragraph, Li, who had lost his three daughters, was about to commit suicide with a gun, but was snatched by the police; Li weakly cried out, "Please..." But the reality is so cruel, people are like boats and winds in the sea. Seagulls are generally not in control of their own destiny. Lee, played by Casey Affleck, walks alone on the edge of reality and the past, lost in pain, self-blame and rejection of new responsibilities, and with a sad G minor Adagio, the audience is moved. The sympathy and the mood of the film are pushed to the top at the same time.
It is difficult for any film director to convey such a huge amount of information efficiently, so it is inevitable to lay out something. But similar to Austrian director Michael Haneke and Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda, who also started TV dramas, screenwriters and directors like Kenneth Lonergan are probably best at character-centered plot construction. Therefore, "Manchester by the Sea" is nearly two and a half hours long, but it does not give people a sense of procrastination. But speaking of it, the viewing experience that "Manchester by the Sea" can bring to people is far more than that; I believe that any interpretation and interpretation from any angle will give the film more interesting layers and deeper meanings. connotation.
As far as music is concerned, "The Sea" is indeed not as eye-catching as the jazz of "La La Land", but in terms of arrangement, quality and function, the original soundtrack of this film is very elegant. In the original sound, musician Lesley Barber mainly made two parts of the original: one is a highly religious hymn, and the other is a hymn that emerged in the northeastern United States in the 1960s, with repeated And gradients are characterized by minimalist music (the story takes place right in Massachusetts, in the northeastern corner of the United States). These two pieces of music arguably announce two tendencies of the film from the outset: on the one hand, Manchester by the Sea has a fairly religious atmosphere (but that doesn't mean the story itself revolves around religion), suggesting that the It is a story closely related to death and new life. On the other hand, the characters and the emotions of the characters in the story will not be presented intensely, but will only gradually unfold in a slow narrative.
In addition, although "Manchester by the Sea" sets the plot in a real American town in the contemporary era in order to enhance the sense of reality and immersion, and accurately captures the local cultural customs, the "mix and match" of classical and modern music styles in the film "No doubt implies that this story is by no means limited to taking place in a specific place and period; it will explore eternal topics such as life and death, kinship and love, and so on.
In this way, when we look back at the handover of the guardian's rights in the film again, we will find that the music not only plays a rendering role in this film, but also plays a role in the "prediction" brought by the follow-up and the flashback brought by the previous situation. "Explain" together constitute a complete chronological thread, making things like "Why did Lee become like this", "Why did Lee react so strongly to his brother's death", "Why did Lee get divorced", "Where did his children go" and " Why do people reject Lee?” All answered in just ten minutes.
Manchester-by-the-Sea is a real town, but this Manchester is neither the Manchester of New Hampshire nor the Manchester of England. This can not help but remind people of another place name in the United States: "Paris, Texas", famous for Wim Wenders, and more interestingly, the two films "Manchester by the Sea" and "Paris, Texas" Both have detailed descriptions of the relationship between people and the active alienation of the protagonist from others. The difference is that Kenneth Lonergan infuses dark humor into awkward glances, chattering arguments, and meaningless repetitions, neutralizing the otherwise very "mourning" emotional tone, because After all, what "Manchester by the Sea" tells is not the interpersonal disintegration of Wenders and his spiritual mentor Yasujiro Ozu, but the myth of Sisyphus who has repeatedly struggled with fate and failed repeatedly. At the end of the film, Lee goes into self-imposed exile again because he can't get rid of his past, returning to Boston, but also finds a way for his nephew Patrick to not have to fly far away. Lee will spend the rest of his life in the endless pain of the death of his loved ones and condemnation of his own faults, but his nephew will also be the only driving force for his survival, and even become the Messiah who saves Lee from the fires of hell, which is unfortunate The luck in the play is also Kenneth Lonergan's infinite compassion for the characters in the play.
In the end, the two sat in the stern fishing as before, but their mood was very different from before. It was as if we could see the wound healing slowly—albeit slowly, to the point of stillness. Life goes on, and sadness never ends, just like a fish hook thrown into the sea, creating a ripple on the calm sea.
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