It's Richard Linklater
Today his new film
"Bernadette, Where Have You Gone" poster has been released
As simple and neurotic as ever
Richard Linklater is one of the representatives of independent production in the United States and a very successful American independent film director.
His films, small productions, low cost, and concise means, but the films he makes make you feel a strong sense of speculation.
And in his films, you can feel a strong sense of time.
Someone gave him this assessment: "A director who gives power to film with time." ”
For example, he spent 12 years talking about the process of a little boy growing into a big boy.
Usually we will see in movies or TV series that when the characters are young and grow up, they are played by different people, and no matter how bad it is, they also make up makeup, so that the actors become old or younger.
But Linklater is not, he wants to present a boy who really grows up bit by bit.
In the past 12 years, the little male actors have been used to truly record the appearance of a boy growing up every summer vacation.
In these 12 years, when the boy who starred in the lead was in the rebellious period of adolescence, he did not want to continue acting.
Whenever I look back at the photos, there is a slight sense of strangeness.
The person in the photo and me in the mirror are the same person, but they are also different people.
Where the difference is, I may be able to say one, two or three, but why it is different, I am a little unclear.
But this feeling is very abrupt, you can see the result of the flow of time, but you can't see the process of time cultivating on you.
But in Boyhood, what Linklater wants to recreate is what dynamic time looks like.
For three hours, he didn't have to wear makeup or deliberately create it, but every bit of his growth was displayed on his face and eyes.
Seeing him face the test of friendship for the first time, experiencing the ignorance of love, the impulse when rebelling,
At the end of the teenage road, Mett is also going to grow up and leave home to go to college, and the scene of saying goodbye to his mother at the door is both familiar and heartbreaking.
"I just thought there was more, but how could I expect forty years to pass like this?"
For Linklater, he was about recreating time with images.
When photography appeared, painting was liberated from the need to pursue similarity, and photography was enough to record human history.
And when the photograph moves, the film appears, whether we live in the same place or not, but the film eliminates the gap between language and culture.
Through the big screen, we shed tears for humanity.
In his earlier films, there is a story that takes longer, but this story has become the love bible of many literary and artistic youth.
The story was made into three films, the same male lead, the same female lead, and every nine years, it was told again.
"Love Before Dawn Breaks" ※ "Love Before Sunset and Dusk" * "Love Before Midnight"
The story stems from a personal experience by director Linklater.
When he was young, Linklater once met a girl, and they talked about movies, philosophy, life, the future, and never wanted to stop.
But at the time of separation, Linklater had a watt in his head and did not ask for the girl's contact information.
So, he never found her, but his heart was always thinking about this conversation, this girl.
So he made his regret into this movie, "Love Before the Dawn Breaks.".
The young Jesse of the United States and selena, a French schoolgirl, met on the train, and they saw each other as they were, and Jesse invited Selena to get off the train together and travel together in Vienna for the same night.
But they only had 14 hours, and early the next morning, Jesse had to catch a plane and Selena was going to continue the train journey.
The whole movie is two people wandering around the city while chatting in the north and south of the sky.
This movie is jokingly called 'talking movie', there is no big plot, it is filming two people chatting, but it resonates and yearns for many people.
Compared with beauty, wealth, and power, the most rare thing in love is probably "to talk".
I once heard a friend say that the best love for her is that I want to talk to you and kiss you.
In the first part, the two people are inevitably in love, they agreed to see each other at this station after half a year, but this waited for 9 years.
In "Love Before the Dawn Breaks", this may be the most perfect sexual encounter for two young men and women.
But in the second part, "Love Before Sunset and Dusk", Linklater shows you what a sexual encounter looks like after the baptism of time.
Both are getting older, both have encountered a lot of things, Jesse is married and divorced, Selena is in a lot of love, and she has fallen out of love many times.
Neither of them could forget each other, but there was less of the simple impulse of the year and more of a tangled temptation.
This is Linklater's reflection on the missed sexual encounter that year, and if he left the contact information, then what? And then what happens.
When the second film was released, Linklater finally found the girl, but it was two years after the girl's death.
Perhaps sometimes, the regret that stops abruptly is also a kind of perfection.
In the "Love in the Trilogy" series, Linklater fulfills herself, and Jesse and Selena have a sexual encounter with each other in the first part, an unforgettable old lover in the second part, and a couple in the third part.
Each one is a non-stop chat between two people.
The surprise and excitement of the first acquaintance, the nostalgia and regret of goodbye, the triviality and protection that accompany it.
The only constant is that they are always each other's soulmate, which is the luckiest of all.
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