Chapter 475 Numb Li!

"Manchester by the Sea".

When the melodious soundtrack and chants sounded on the big screen, the entire venue became completely silent.

In film art, the tone is actually set from the beginning, such as the classic beginning of "The Crucible".

The first reaction that fans of "Manchester by the Sea" have is tranquility.

A kind of tranquility that is different from other films shown at the Washington Film Festival.

There is a scene in the prologue where the hero Lee, played by Bratt, is having a fight with his nephew on a yacht called the Claudia Marie, but the current audience does not know these two characters.

Under the singing, the cast and crew list of "Manchester by the Sea" was presented in front of all the fans, and the movie officially started from this moment.

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"Brat!"

"So decadent!"

"Brat is so classy."

Different from Bratt's previous image, Bratt's appearance in this movie is slightly decadent, which is very inconsistent with his previous image of an artist. However, Bratt's superb performance quickly made many fans into this role. among.

Lee, played by Bratt, is a management worker who earns a low salary and lives in a basement in Boston that cannot open the windows.

Every day's work in Boston is shoveling snow, taking out garbage, cleaning toilets, and negotiating with tenants. They belong to the lowest class of workers in society.

The first plot that came up made the movie fans burst into laughter, and there was a burst of laughter in the theater.

It was a scene where Li Gang helped a female tenant clear the toilet. When he was trying to wash off the shit in the bathroom, he heard the female tenant talking to her friends on the phone about him:

"I seem to be in love with my cleaner. Isn't that weird?"

"Have you ever had a sexual fantasy about the janitor?"

"It's embarrassing because he's unclogging the shit out of my toilet right now..."

…

The story of "Manchester by the Sea" explains the living situation and character of the current male protagonist Li from the very beginning.

In these daily tasks, Li has always been lifeless, hopeless, and unable to laugh. From this perspective, he even looks a bit like Haruki in "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas". He cares about all external things, and has received many complaints from residents for this reason.

"Without desires, one becomes strong."

Once a person has no desire, he will become strong. Li is obviously such a man.

He even saw two men in the bar who seemed to be talking about him, so he rushed over and had a fight with the two men.

When I got home, I still collapsed on the sofa, looking depressed, living day after day.

Everything shows that Li is a decadent, serious, irritable character who cannot find any joy in life and is extremely depressed.

Even having an affair doesn't arouse the slightest interest.

This is an extremely important episode for characterization, illustrating Lee's loss of desire.

"Did something happen to Li?"

"Bratt's acting is really great."

"You must have experienced something to become like this."

The warm light in the background forms a sharp contrast with the cold light of the male protagonist, and the character's image is established in a short period of time.

Just under the heavy snow in Boston, Li received a phone call, a phone call that made Li's heart no longer peaceful.

While Brat was shoveling snow, his cell phone rang in his pocket.

"Hello, I'm Li."

"Yeah, I understand. When did it happen?" 1

"How is he doing now?"

"No...don't do that..."

There was a hint of crying in Li's voice.

…

On the other end of the phone, Li learned the bad news that his only brother was critically ill due to heart disease. By the time Li arrived at the hospital, his brother had already passed away.

Li's words were breathtakingly concise.

"Is he dead?"

"Unfortunately, Lee, he passed away an hour ago."

"oh."

numbness!

This is the fans' judgment on Bratt's current performance status.

Li didn't know what he had experienced in the past, but he could be so calm when facing the death of his loved ones...

Perhaps beneath the calm is the overwhelming sadness.

Li's brother Qiao did not die suddenly. Because of a heart problem, doctors have always judged that he could only live for 5 to 10 years at most. This day will come sooner or later, but it will be one day earlier and one day later.

Depressed emotions filled the entire theater.

That's what Bratt's performance delivers.

You know, the film has just begun, and the relationship between the characters has not yet reached the point of breaking the hearts of movie fans, but Bratt's performance is so textured, and the numbness is extremely real.

Just when Li, with empty eyes, drove to deal with his brother's death.

A memory, accompanied by sad, depressive music, reappeared in Li's mind.

At that time, Li was still very young, with a happy smile on his face.

A happy family.

Beautiful wife.

three daughters.

When seeing this scene, Zhou Kai glanced at Lin Qiu.

…

"Damn, Li's family is ruined?"

"Because of what?"

Cinema fans know that Lee is now alone and extremely world-weary.

Nowadays, when I see such a happy family in the past, I immediately realize that something big must have happened, and it may be far more miserable than divorce.

"Memories interspersed?"

"Double line?"

Many directors present were enlightened. In the story, Li's memories did not continue forever.

The camera cuts back to reality. In his will, his brother Joe left custody of his 16-year-old son Patrick to Lee.

Li returned to the town and went to his nephew's school.

Patrick, who was sunny and happy when he was a child, is now as impulsive and irritable as Lee, and will fight with his teammates if he disagrees. And Lee's arrival this time is to tell Patrick the news of his father's death.

There is another detail here, that is, Li's appearance triggered discussions among some classmates. Obviously Li is a well-known figure in the town, and everyone in the town knows what important things he has done.

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"I have always said that nephews are like uncles. Patrick and Lee really have exactly the same character."

"All the emotions were bottled up."

"Damn, I can't breathe."

Since Joe's death, the tone of the entire movie has returned to a gray tone.

Patrick's reaction was very similar to that of his uncle Lee. He calmly accepted the news of his father's death. Even when he went to his father's morgue, he just took a look and said:

"Okay, okay, thank you."

…

"Art films."

"Is this the story of an uncle and his nephew supporting each other through pain?"

Many movie fans thought instinctively.

They could see that both Patrick and Li had pain deep in their hearts, and this pain would burst out sooner or later.

Collapse is not difficult to act, but restrained collapse is the most difficult.

...(End of chapter)

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