Two Thousand Two Hundred Lonely Flight
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"In the Clouds" is expected to be Evan-Bell's first real work in the post-"Juno" era---"One Day" is not a typical art film, so when it was screened, I actually wanted to There are definitely a lot of people watching the jokes. You can see a thing or two from the fact that the reporters at the premiere repeatedly mentioned that Studio Eleven is now being excluded from the circle.
In fact, the interests in the entertainment industry are not that simple. Since "Shakespeare in Love" defeated "Saving Private Ryan" and won the Oscar for best picture, Weinstein Company has been a thorn in the eyes of many people in Hollywood, but these years I haven't seen the Weinstein brothers being really excluded. The so-called jealousy, complaining, and exclusion are actually synonymous with negative emotions. The most important manifestation is that it will definitely not end with a simple "I won't play with you" like a primary school student, but treat it with a more critical eye.
This is the situation that Eleven Studio and Evan Bell are currently facing, and each time their works are bound to encounter more harsh scrutiny. And this time, "In the Clouds" in the eyes of critical film critics, Evan Bell Yiri handed over a perfect answer.
It is not new for William Wood to write film reviews for Evan Bell's works, but this time, William Zender's unprecedented professional and vivid interpretation of "In the Clouds" is very rare. After all, William Wood is not a professional film critic. , he is more accustomed to narrating Evan Bell's films from the perspective of the audience and the photographer, rather than interpreting them. But this time, William Wood's feelings obviously couldn't be more profound.
"Survival in the Wild, when it was released, some people said it was the true portrayal of Evan Bell; when 'One Day' was released, some people said it was a reflection of Evan Bell's story; Evan Bell's life trajectory. Is it really so?
Regardless of whether this is the case or not, no one will deny that Evan Bell's footage is still so deeply rooted that it easily destroys all psychological defenses and makes people surrender.
This time is no exception.
In the story, Ryan is a person who lives above the clouds. He regards the airport as a living room and the hotel as a lounge. In the package of VIP cards and membership cards, he welcomes the beginnings and transitions of every day in his life. Of course, his job as a layoff expert made his status even more special, and his life changed when he met Natalie, who tried to reform his work.
The perspective chosen by Evan Bell is as unique as ever, and the special interpretation of the story is throughout. Ryan's job of laying off staff has become one of the biggest highlights in the first half of the movie, making the audience feel curious about Ryan's work while suffering from the pain of the layoff process. The humor scattered in every corner of the story continues the joking style that made people smile at the corners of the mouth in "Juno", and also makes the entire viewing process very enjoyable.
Of course, a sense of humor alone isn't enough to make 'In the Clouds' the best surprise of the year. This time, Evan Bell was very unexpectedly provocative, but this provocation has a special meaning in the rhythm of the whole movie.
Evan Bell employs a large number of non-professional actors and ordinary people to use pseudo-documentary filming methods to present the layoffs in a very real way. The real emotions of the people who lost their jobs are even exaggerated in front of the camera, and in the midst of the conversation, the audience watched their world shattered. At this time, Ryan's various theories and persuasion sounded like a pile of shit.
You know, this most real and even some deliberately sensational catharsis comes from the cruelty of life.
This not only gave the film an elusive sense of closeness, but more importantly, through the most direct response of ordinary people, it contrasted the cold and absurdity of Ryan's seemingly perfect Terminator-style work, and then triggered Ryan's sense of contradiction in the character, and gradually found problems from Ryan's body: handsome appearance, dashing behavior, elegant temperament, and after this, there are also hidden cold loneliness and helplessness in life.
Therefore, from the very beginning of the film, the atmosphere that was incompatible with Evan-Bell's film style entered the big screen directly. Originally, we all thought that this was a huge subversion of Evan-Bell's film style, but in fact it was Another trick of Evan Bell, quietly hiding the uneasy emotions in the hearts of every audience, or to be more precise, substituting every audience from the paradise of the movie theater into the snowy reality outside. middle. Then under the guidance of Evan Bell's lens, the emotions of all audiences draw a beautiful arc from cold to warm, and then from warmth back to the cruelty of reality.
Therefore, when the backpack theory in the movie appeared, the audience would first notice the wit and humor of Ryan played by Evan Bell, and for a long time, the audience would be immersed in his infinite charm, thinking that he Everything that is told is the warmth from the heart, and then when I turn my head, I find that it is all so cold and so helpless. Ryan wasn't just addicted or even caught up in it all.
Evan Bell uses the gorgeous camera trajectory and wonderful picture editing to interpret the procedures of a package of luggage, dressing, going out, boarding, and security check with smooth shots, but it also brings this character nowhere. The dark tide of the footsteps is surging. When new employee Natalie came up with a new way of working with video conferencing, it wasn't so much a change in work as it was a way of life that Ryan had become a system. Therefore, I saw Ryan's first gaffe, competitive, naive but serious.
So far, the film presents two ideas, one is the unknown life behind a special occupation, and the other is a special state of life represented by Ryan. In addition to Ryan, there is also Alex in this state of life.
When Alex, Ryan, and Natalie sat across from each other and talked, everyone realized that this was not just a two-generation conversation, nor a generation gap can explain the problem. It is more about the difference in concept, the collision of two completely different ways of life and life concepts. Even if you subtract ten years from Ryan and Alex's age, and add Natalie's age to the rhetoric, the lives of these two different types of groups are parallel lines, and it is difficult to have more intersections.
Alex and Ryan are unfettered and have been running wildly on the road to work since they entered the society. For them, family is not the focus of their lives. Hotels, cabins, and rental cars can all be their ports; Nata Li, on the other hand, planned her life early, and the other half was not a so-called love product, but a partner who complemented each other and joined hands with each other. They made plans to tie the child's house and car to the rope of fate. The former behaves like a footless bird with no foothold, flying to the moment when it is exhausted and splendidly falling, while the latter's life is like a play arranged by someone, looking boring but constantly being staged in our lives.
But the problem is, we don't know how long the former's excitement can last, and even the parties themselves don't know, their rationality in life dominates, it's numbers, all kinds of cards, and freedom of wandering, but they also have this kind of happiness. Knowing that not only will it be difficult to maintain for a lifetime, but he will inevitably end up alone, and the moment he hits the ground is the moment of death. As a result, Ryan hesitated at his sister's wedding, got stuck in a theoretical indoctrination speech that looked brilliant but knew it was tedious, and was on the road to Alex's search for happiness. In fact, he has already begun to choose A life similar to Natalie's. It's just a pity that Ryan couldn't find the right way, and he still couldn't park.
At the moment of his heart, Ryan, who had footprints all over the world, disappeared. The fall of the footless bird was amazing, but the sadness of not being able to land was the same for Alex, but she was more flexible, she knew How to find a balance between sky, sea and land to give yourself a short respite. Half of her life is as casual and happy like Ryan as duckweed; the other half of her life is based on reality. In a happy Chicago house, children play and run, and her husband is warm and considerate. And at the juncture of the two halves of life, Ryan, the footless bird, is Alex's short-lived habitat. When she has enough rest, she continues to fly, while Ryan falls to the bottom of the valley.
After all, Ryan could not end the life of the footless bird. He wanted to embrace family, friendship and love, but Natalie, who represented friendship, resigned, and his family, who represented family, stayed away from his life in Milwaukee, and Alex who represented love. Kes disappeared from his life forever, so he knew he had woken up, and he knew he still needed to keep flying, alone.
And when the goal that Ryan has always dreamed of has been achieved, and the 10 million miles out of reach are coming at the most incredible moment, what can it mean? Nothing.
So, at the end of the story, Ryan, the footless bird, continues to fly again, moving forward in a world full of contradictions, because if all this is not shaken, Ryan's story is just a curiosity, showing the world of special occupations, But it can't be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people; but if all this is shaken, the audience will see a happy and happy ending. This will be the clichéd love scene ten years ago, and now it no longer exists.
Because in today's society, times have changed, the warmth in the movie is hidden in the details, and the truth of life begins to emerge. Evan Bell seems to be telling you: there are not so many stories of the diamond king and fifth son of his righteousness, only the story of a footless bird flying lonely on the clouds is repeated.
This kind of lonely flight is like the VIP card made of graphite material in the movie. When needed, it is warm and caring in the hand; but when it is far away, it is just an abandoned card, cold and ordinary, and can be seen everywhere.
The life of a footless bird will never stop. When it hits the ground, it is the end of its life. Ryan is like that. "
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