Chapter 1073 1073 Movie Significance
Nicholas' admiration for "Before Sunrise" and Hugo is not surprising; to everyone's surprise, Nicholas used such a poetic way to present the essence of the film in front of all readers. The understanding of the subject is so deep and so special that one cannot help but want to read it over and over again. Like the movie "Before Sunrise".
Nicholas wrote a sentence in the frontispiece, "This is a movie worth savoring, just like a glass of mellow red wine. Only when you really calm down can you feel the beauty of the tongue dancing."
This sentence is so simple, so nonsense, so boring, but so vividly and truly sums up the virtues of "before the sun rises".
The Los Angeles Times gave it a 9.5 rating, almost the highest compliment—if not a perfect 10—for a bold and innovative film. In fact, critics who arrived in Park City for the Sundance Film Festival gave "Before Sunrise" very high ratings, such as Roger Ebert.
As one of the most authoritative film critics today, Roger Ebert has always been the most supportive of Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival. Do your best to write a review for each entry. Because in Roger's heart, his love for movies is the most important thing. Many classic works can often be found in independent movies, and he is eager to let the world discover these classics.
Like "Pulp Fiction", and then "Before Sunrise".
"This is a very special movie, different from the usual romance movies that create illusory dreams, frothy romance and bizarre plots, director Richard Linklater and screenwriter Hugo Lancaster. With simple and simple plots, multi-angle and multi-layered dialogues, and a slightly lazy and misanthropic idealism, it constitutes a classic masterpiece that can definitely stand the test of time.
Lines, which are the only narrative technique of the film, rather than the traditional image-dominant approach, adopt a flat and straightforward linear narrative, telling the story of a pair of young people spending a wonderful night together in Vienna in the form of dialogue throughout. Starting from the encounter of a man and a woman on a train, and ending with the breakup of the two at dawn, the space is very limited, and the time is shorter than ordinary love. Such a small and short time and space, there are only two protagonists, but the story is told Vivid and vivid, which shows the quality of the work.
Men and women have been in contact with each other from the very beginning of their encounter, and the dialogue runs through the whole night. They talk about life, love, marriage, family, life and death, religion, destiny, men and women, themselves... They put the eternal topic of human existence in one place. In the chats of romantic couples, the audience can have a further understanding and understanding of the two protagonists of the film in these dialogues, and at the same time, they also examine their own status and predicament through these exchanges.
Within 100 minutes of the whole movie, all are spent in the chat and walk of the two protagonists. There is no twists and turns of ordinary love movies and ups and downs. There are only large paragraphs of dialogue, and there is no entertainment of ordinary love movies. functions and features. But this is precisely the case, but under the profound performance of the director and the two protagonists, we feel the powerful role of "dialogue" as the most important part of the script.
The setting of the two protagonists of the film is very distinctive, one is a sensual woman living in Paris, and the other is an American man living in New York. It is manifested that the romantic delicacy of France and the pragmatism of the United States, the sensibility of women and the rationality of men show a strong contrast, which also increases the drama and deepens the theme: the source of difference in love is deep-rooted, but It is this difference that draws each other to each other, while maintaining their individuality, which completes the love puzzle.
So, when dialogue, dialogue and dialogue happened between these two people, countless sparks broke out, from not knowing each other to becoming lovers who were inseparable and inseparable, and the two talked and talked about everything. They express their inner anxiety, confusion and even fear. Their dialogues are simple and casual, without any intention or contrivance, but they inadvertently convey their truest thoughts and the appearance of their souls. The speculative discussion on the abstract spiritual level, on the one hand, the love of two people spreads, ferments and deepens with the gentle night. In this way, Linklater conveys to the audience the importance of 'conversation' far more than 'alcohol and drugs'. Goods and chaos. sex'.
Although the plot of the story is as plain as water, Linklater has set up different scenes and different characters in the streets and alleys of Vienna, so that people will not feel boring and at the same time, it also reflects the cultural and romantic heritage of Vienna, and has become the two protagonists. The starting point of the collision of ideas.
From the train to the bus, from the record store to the coffee shop, from the roadside bench to the open grass, just like this two people chatting ramble, passing one unfamiliar scene after another, this kind of treatment is very symbolic—— In our life, we always go through some stages. When we look back, the past that we thought was unforgettable is nothing more than a splicing of some trivial and small fragments. Sometimes we don't feel sorry for missing something, because there is no deep memory without deep understanding; sometimes we have something but don't cherish it, but get tired of being too familiar.
People are so contradictory, and Linklater subtly places a pair of characters in an alienated scene, and the resulting novelty will excite the other two protagonists and feel the value and meaning of existence, so the story is There is a basis for continuation.
Under Linklater's connection, it jumped out of the sensory stimulation that Hollywood movies have always pursued, and presented a unique work to the audience. The film discusses all non-material things such as life, dreams, and philosophy. Some Profound and somewhat boring, but it is precisely the element that happens in our lives every day. So, when dialogue becomes the theme of the movie, there is no separation of life and death, there is no romance of the vows, and there is no ups and downs in the plot, but men and women still reach a tacit understanding in such exchanges. It starts out plain and ends plainly, but the charm hidden in the picture makes people memorable for a long time.
When they tested each other, after various complex emotions such as escape, hesitation, worry, fear and temptation, they finally accepted each other, and completed the union of body and mind on that beautiful and charming night on the grass in the park. When the audience thought this would be the perfect ending to a happy romance, Linklater gave an unexpected but reasonable open-ended ending.
At the last moment of their goodbyes, the man and the woman did not leave contact information, but agreed to meet on the same platform at the Vienna train station on the same day six months later. Although the audience was surprised, it completely fits the romantic characteristics of these two young people who like to complicate. But the problem is, Linklater didn't tell us whether the two met after half a year.
The suspense left by Linklater returns to calm with the final set of empty shots of the film, as if nothing had happened. When writing the script, Lancaster jumped out of the old routine of 'live happily ever after' in general love stories, and tried to explore more metaphysical things in the form of love stories. Love is just a means.
As the ancient Greek philosopher said, one cannot step into the same river twice. When men and women meet, meet, know each other, and love each other, when things are changing and things are changing, will they have a sense of 'it was only ordinary at that time'? But time can't be reversed after all, all ideas can only stay in the audience's psychology, let them supplement and improve with their different life experiences.
Women say to men at night, as if the time we spend together is ours alone, it's our own creation, it must be like I'm in your dream, you're in my dream.
The movie is over, and the audience's aftertaste has just begun. This is the biggest charm that Lancaster has given this movie.
Finally, I have to talk about the acting skills of the two actors. The large number of long shots and dialogues in the film are a huge test, but this not only did not make the director and actors show their cowardice, but perfectly demonstrated the profound artistic grasp of the two actors. Call it a classic!
The whole movie revolves around them, and the camera follows the two completely without giving the audience any sense of inauthenticity. The smoothness of the lines is like the normality of daily life. From the unfamiliar traction with each other, to the reluctance to part, the scale of the performance is controlled just right.
I especially liked the performance of the two people in the record store, in the small space of the audition room, the camera kept the bottom-up angle all the time, we saw two people in such a 'thin air' shot They are attracted to each other and keep their distance, while enjoying the gaze of the other party, and at the same time, they can't help but catch every bit of the other party's eyes. The whole standing is vividly reflected in a long shot. Heart-pounding romance.
Under the test of one long shot after another, the two actors Lancaster and Theron showed everyone their understanding of the role, and those small details were even more applauded, Lancaster because of the hair The small action of raising his hand and swiping Theron's hair behind his ear when he blocked and couldn't see Theron, just such a small detail makes people throbbing, which is also an important factor in the success of the film.
Lancaster once again gave a stunning performance. The man's casual, uninhibited, childish, unrestrained, melancholy, and entangled in his eyes and the corners of his mouth were delicately and vividly outlined, and before he realized it. will be deeply fascinated by him; and Theron's performance can be called a big surprise discovery, women's sex. Feeling, lazy, petty, charming, free and easy, mature through those charming eyes that fascinated countless people.
Does love pursue eternity or instant? In the movie, the two people were drawn into a deep ditch by time before they could make a choice. They chased time, hoping that this moment would become eternity; they were also waiting for time, because goodbye had already been said, and goodbye has become the inevitable ending. They enjoy encounters that are as unreal as dreams, and they are constantly struggling and calling for help under the oppression of reality.
This is the tension of time and the force of reality. Lancaster showed such a true meaning with a love movie, this is the meaning of the script, this is the meaning of the film, and the aftertaste is long. "