One of the charms of the film is that we can escape from reality in a short period of time and enter a dreamlike world full of personality. Recently, the American "Time Magazine" selected the top ten best films in 2016. New Year's holidays, why not use these best movies of 2016 to welcome 2017!
"Love" – Every love is equal
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Ruth Nega, etc
What to watch: The film is based on the real experience of an American interracial couple. In 1958, apartheid became popular in the United States. Richard Loving, a white boy who decided to marry, and Mildred, a black girl, were sued by Virginia and sentenced to prison. The couple considered the verdict a violation of civil rights and decided to appeal. In the end, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Virginia decision. Since then, "Loving v. Virginia's verdict became a symbol of free love regardless of race.
The film's rare calm and gentleness is touching. In the face of iron-clad discrimination, they just quietly love each other and make sincere promises, but they are great enough.
"She" - A Manual for The Cultivation of a Single Woman
Starring: Isabelle Huppel, Roland Lafayette, Anne Conskini, etc
Highlights: The film tells the story of the indestructible heroine who, after being unfortunately raped, decides to use her own strength to get justice, but is involved in a horror game...
The film challenges many inherent moral concepts with a large number of unexpected plot reversals. The film presents a world of extreme chaos and disorder, the perpetrator can also be a savior, the victim can also be a perpetrator, and no one plays his social role well. The only criterion for judging lies only with oneself.
The film tells us: the little thing of life, you don't feel anything, then there is really nothing.
Silence – an epic poem about faith and life
Starring: Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Adam Dreifer, etc
Highlights: The film is based on the novel of the same name by the famous Japanese writer Shusaku Endo.
In a small village under the Prohibition of Theogawa Shogunate, a Portuguese Jesuit priest smuggled himself into Japan to preach and investigate the fact that his mentor had been tortured and had taken the oath of abstinence. In the process of mission and search, faith and rebellion, holiness and betrayal, might and humility, suffering and fear, chastity and forbearance, struggle and detachment... All the dilemmas force him to think deeper about his faith...
The cleverness of the film lies in the fact that it does not set too many tendencies, does not cling to what is right and wrong, but directly displays complex religious issues in front of the audience, exposes good and beauty, evil and evil without reservation, and allows the audience to think and choose for themselves.
Manchester by the Sea – no matter how long the winter is, it will always pass
Starring: Cassie Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, etc
Highlights: Just like the extremely cold winter in Massachusetts, "Manchester by the Sea" is also a calm, cold, and even cold to the bone marrow, telling the story of his brother who died of illness and the protagonist Lee had to take care of his nephew Patrick, who lost his father.
It's a film about life and pain. The characters in the film have more or less struggled in the mire of pain, some of them are deep, some are fleeing, but what they have in common is that they all carry a muddy body and continue to move forward. No matter how long the winter will pass, even if you have experienced the most desperate abyss, as long as you are willing, you can step out step by step and glimpse new hope and meaning in life.
"School Tower Shooting" - recording the ordinariness and greatness of human nature
Starring: Violet Bean, Louis Arnett, Blair Jackson, etc
Highlights: The film focuses on the 1966 shooting in Austin, Texas. The use of animation to restore the victim's every move, several clips spliced together in the historical film without any sense of violation, coupled with the description of the witnesses, bring a very unique documentary viewing experience.
"Philharmonic City" - the ideal song in the magic light and shadow
Starring: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, J. Stone K. Simmons et al
What to watch: The film tells the love story between a jazz pianist and an obscure actress. This work can bring the audience the purest happiness, the most colorful hope, dazzling.
The film is not only a tribute to the classic musicals of the past, but also a tribute to music and romance itself, and a "love letter" to los Angeles, the city of angels. Colorful, gorgeous, laughable with tears, these are the most appropriate footnotes to the film.
"When Each Boy Is Young" - May every teenager live as he wants
Starring: Blake Jenner, Valette Russell, etc
Highlights: The film focuses on the 80s, spanning five days and four nights, telling the bitter and sweet admission story of a college freshman.
The highly artistic director Richard Klingwright always likes to focus on rebellious young people and give rare sympathy and understanding. So in Klingwright's films, life is always full of unrealistic beauty, young and vigorous young people and a group of fox friends, even music and beer and even the afternoon sun are extremely enviable.
Shark Beach – The Story of Beauty and the Beast
Starring: Blake Lively
Highlights: The film tells the story of a teenage girl, Nancy, who surfs the beach, is attacked by sharks, and survives alone. The story takes place in an endless sea, but it highly follows the routine of an enclosed space thriller. The background is terrifying waves, and the heroine wanders in limited scenes such as dead whales, reefs, and lighthouses, making enough articles for simple human shark fighting. The positions of the hunter and the prey are reversed several times, and the battle of wits and courage is like the game of a Go master, shooting a sense of ups and downs.
"Patterson" - a poem that belongs to the life of ordinary people
Starring: Adam Dreifer, Gershfield Farahani, etc
Highlights: The male protagonist Patterson is a bus driver in the small town of Patterson, New Jersey, USA, he lives a regular life every day, and his only hobby is to take out a pen and paper to write poetry between shifts.
The film is well structured and very regular. The protagonist is like a robot, from this Monday to the next Monday, the cycle is endless. But it is in this seemingly unchanging stereotypical remake that the details in the film are incredibly moving.
The whole movie is like a neat, romantic, and interesting poem, the first time you read it is bland and boring, but the taste is long. In this world, talented people are always a minority, and more are ordinary people like Patterson. But who says that ordinary people's lives can't be fun?
Moonlight Boy – Who you are, you decide
Starring: Mahershala Ali, Naomi Harris, Andre Holland, etc
What to watch: The film tells the life story of Chiron, a black gay man, from childhood to adulthood. The film's portrayal of the black community evokes not only sympathy, but also thinking.
Cruel and chaotic family environment, indifferent interpersonal relationships, violent ways of survival. The story in the lens of African-American independent film director Barry Jenkins is not about bloody cruelty, but about the despair of being close but powerless, and the courage to regroup after turning away.
(Creative Planning Studio Editor: Shen Bingjie)