Recently watched the first Jim Jarmusch (Jim Jarmusch) work "Broken Flower", many people may know this ghost director because of his famous work "Heaven Stranger" and Johnny Depp starring in the "Divorced Stranger", these two works road movie traces are particularly deep, but also very fantastic, of course, can not be missing is the actor's superb performance, and many netizens feel that Jim has a set, every time can find a unique actor to be the protagonist.
Jim is a music fan and cool director himself, and one of the most interesting in many of his works is the music chosen in it.
And what I recently watched was Jim's 2005 work "Broken Flower", the male protagonist I have a good feeling, he is Bill Murray (Bill Murray), when I was a child, his "Groundhog Love" impressed me, always think that he is a very interesting comedian, and this "Broken Flower" subverted my thinking, although Bill still retains his expression of not laughing and always makes people laugh, but more is a strong sadness.
The film begins with a pile of letters thrown by the courier into the home of Don, the male protagonist played by Bill, and then his girlfriend's departure, for the simple reason that his girlfriend thinks that Don is a man who does not want to face marriage, cannot give a woman a lifelong commitment, and is even worse than isolating a noisy family of six. Even if his girlfriend leaves, Don still doesn't care, and continues to lie in front of the TV watching a black-and-white film about Don Juan, an amorous person, feeling like he is talking about himself, which is quite ironic.
Until he received a letter in a pink envelope, which was not signed, the content was quite interesting, saying that she was one of Don's former girlfriends, when she broke up and found out that she was pregnant, raised her son alone, and now that her 18-year-old son suddenly ran away from home, he might come to Don and ask Him to come home early after seeing his son.
This is really confused, the next door neighbor is a super enthusiastic and very detective man, he analyzes what this lady is from Don's pink envelope, where she lives, he seriously communicates with Don to make him try to recall his past N girlfriends which is more likely to be the child's mother, Don has no clue at all (too many girlfriends), enthusiastic friends give him a night to let him list a "girlfriend list", originally Don thought it was a very ridiculous thing, But the enthusiastic friend thinks that the appearance of this child may change Don's current muddy lifestyle (Don's muddled is just daily life, he is a very good computer engineer, not bad money), so he has been encouraging Don to take it seriously, probably because of the attitude of his friend so chicken blood, Don did make a list, while giving his friend another thought that this is boring and boring, unable to act, did not expect, In a short time, the detective friend listed the specific address of the city where each lady now lived, and also booked a ticket for Don to leave tomorrow to find the first lady.
In this way, Don took a passive step on this journey to find a child and mother, and Don still remembered that his friend said to visit each lady with a bouquet of pink flowers to show his sincerity.
<h1>First lady to visit: Single mom Laura (played by sexy actress Sharon Stone</h1>).
It is obvious that Laura has not forgotten her old feelings when she sees D on, especially enthusiastic and surprised, it can be seen that their breakup should still be quite pleasant, Laura also has an open-minded 16-year-old daughter, Don very indirectly asks Laura if she has other children, Laura's expression is very confused, and she makes it clear that she has only one daughter, her husband is a traffic jam driver, and died in a car accident. An interesting scene comes, Laura invites Don to stay at home for one night, inevitably rolling the sheets (Don is indeed an amorous species, the feeling is that the visitor does not refuse)
<h1>The second lady to visit: Dora</h1>
An elegant lady, and with her husband to run a real estate business booming, Don is to come to one of Dora's investment villas, it is obvious that Dora saw Don in addition to surprise but also contained a hint of joy, although the atmosphere is more awkward, especially Dora's husband appeared, the scene of the three people gathering for dinner that silence, that cold scene, even Dora's husband vaguely felt that this sudden emergence of men is full of threat, but for Don, Dora is only one of the past girlfriends, After discovering that it was not the child's mother, she also left decisively, but Dora has always kept the photos that Don helped him take, and has always been placed in the photo corner of the home.
<h1>Third visiting lady: Carmen</h1>
Carmen is an animal communicator, that is, can communicate with any animal, many customers bring their own animals to Carmen just to hear what their pet wants to say to themselves (humans who can communicate with animals can not communicate with the same kind, this is my initial impression of Carmen). Don's arrival obviously made Carmen feel uncomfortable, it seems that Don broke up with her and brought her hurt, so when Don wanted to ask about the child, Carmen was particularly disgusted, it may happen to us also feel ridiculous, your ex-boyfriend suddenly appeared more than ten years later to say directly to a sentence You have a child, in fact, it is quite a fire, isn't it? So Don ended up bored and left.
Even this pet cat gave Don a disdainful look! When Carmen saw the cat teammate, he actually said to Don, "It says your arrival is not simple."
<h1>The fourth lady to visit: Penny</h1>
Looking for Penny made Don get beaten up hard, because Penny was very excited after seeing Don, Don thought that Penny was probably the child's mother, but before he was further sure, he was hit on the ground by Penny's friends to find teeth (in fact, two big dark circles, to go out of the sunglasses), you can feel Penny's abandonment of Don that year is still careful, even from love to fierce, but the more fierce is actually the more love, From Penny's behavior, it can still be seen that he has feelings for Don, although in the end Don still slips away, because his purpose is only to find the child's mother, and it is really quite cruel purpose, and there is no love in it.
<h1>The last lady to visit for the first time: the deceased Iraqis</h1>
Don gently placed a bouquet of pink flowers in front of her grave, a "Hello", just like saying hello to her lost youth, but it was buried in the ground, and there was no echo.
The fruitless Don reported his journey to his enthusiastic friend, and the friend still warmly reminded him that his newly departed girlfriend was actually really suitable for Don, why not try to start a family? But for Don, all this is still full of pressure and helplessness, he does not dare to take this step, in front of marriage Don is a coward, but at the same time he is happy to know that he has a son in the world who has never met.
So when he looked at a teenager at the station, he intuitively thought that this was his son who had come from afar to look for his father, but the result was disappointing, and the child was frightened by Don's over-enthusiasm, especially Don's "I am your father", scared and ran away, thinking that he was unlucky to meet a madman.
Turning around, a car was parked in front of don, and inside sat a young lad, looking at don with uncut eyes, and don was wondering if this was his son.
Going around, looking back, how many times has life missed, and what else is waiting for us? In this road movie of finding a son, the role of the son does not appear, but it is a lead-in, cruelly dissecting Don's youth and letting him face the past himself. Escape can not solve the problem, the thorn in the heart always needs someone to help pull, any flower has only a short shelf life, just like the sentence in "Chongqing Forest": "Everything has a shelf life", once the shelf life is over, it is broken.