Last year, I was still complaining about my procrastination, and the top ten of the year would not be released until March.
So, what about this year?
alas!
It was only in April that I remembered to send this top ten list, which was indeed too slack.
Today, to look back on 2020 is destined to be the most memorable year, or, for me, a year full of changes.
In the first half of 2020, I was basically at home, the doors were rarely out, watching movies every day, doing WeChat, and tossing and turning.
In the second half of the year, I finally began to go out, but I became very uncomfortable.
After a few months of busyness, I semi-closed myself again, trying to refuse to see people, especially during the New Year, for various reasons, the family did not go back, and I was bored in Beijing for half a month, and I did not even go out of the community door.
It's not really mourning.
I don't even think there's anything wrong with that, but it's going to be comfortable.
In other words, this self-enclosed life has allowed me to find a rare inner balance.
Every day at home to cook, clean up the house, work out, watch movies, work, everything is very regular, healthy, just to minimize contact with other people, a state of excessive home, find such a day is also very good.
Like they say, as long as you feel that your state is good, it is good.
It was also good.
Well, it seems a bit far away.
However, this state may also be the reason why I am so late to make the top ten. That is, I am making my own pace of life very, very, very slow.
Of course, staying at home, the biggest gain is that the movie has been watched a lot, not even only the movie, but also a bunch of TV series and variety shows. Last year's movie viewing volume almost returned to the time when watching movies was the craziest seven or eight years ago.
As a result, the heart is very full and especially satisfied.
Movie fans, in fact, is an addiction, like a smoking addiction and alcohol addiction, a day off can not stand.
I can't stop the addiction, probably just watching movies.
So far, I have watched more than 480 movies produced in 2020 (well, only in 2020, not including other old films), and among these 480 movies, I have selected my top ten of the year.
I have to say that the best films in 2020 are very difficult to choose, and the epidemic has delayed the release of a large number of movies, and last year was really a famine year.
The top ten I chose this time, in fact, there are some dissatisfaction, may be according to the previous standards, some can not be selected. However, there is no rut, there is no choice.
Again, it's my top ten of the year, my interests, my hobbies and tastes. I don't want to represent anyone, and I don't want to guide anyone, it's more of a record, to leave a thought for the past 2020.
Therefore, we will not dwell on the matter of who is not here.
Here's my top 10 movie of the year in 2020.
Rankings, in order.
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Come to think of it, the new film that impressed me the most last year was this one, Kelly Lecat's "The First Cow".
Even if the Oscars won't even give her a nomination, in my heart, this is my Oscar for Best Picture.
Again, it was the kind of complete surprise.
I am used to going to bed early, but because of this movie, I stayed up until the middle of the night, and after watching it, I was even a little excited, even insomnia.
In fact, director Kelly Lecat is not a director I like very much, and the previous films have not been so loved. But this one, there are still some strange contents that touched me.
This is a very gentle anti-Western, the story is not hurried, there is romance and sadness. The plot itself is not particularly complicated, but because of its consistent realistic treatment, it adds some flavor of life, such as going back to that era.
It's a cruel and tender story, especially the ending, which is very aftertaste and will make people think about it repeatedly.
What a good movie should look like, I think, is to make people think about it repeatedly.
Use it excellent, in your memory, to leave a place.
So, thanks for having such a movie that accompanied me through that time.
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"From Miyamoto to You" is also a movie that I repeatedly recommended last year, which is also a special stylized one, you see, the Douban score is not so high, 7.3 points, ordinary, ordinary.
But, in my mind, it's worth 10 points.
Again, watching a movie is a very personal thing, like or dislike, all stem from the film's interaction with each audience in terms of knowledge, emotion, and life experience.
And I happen to be the one who can be hit by such a movie.
Tetsuya Makoto has always been very good at manipulating the audience's emotions, and this one is especially obvious.
The film really mobilized all my emotions, some angry, desperate, sad, and finally touched, and even some release...
The two main actors also made him squeeze dry feelings, and all kinds of emotions were released. Behind these emotions is a sense of powerlessness over life.
And when you finish watching the movie, you will feel like you are having a crazy and emotional dream.
Tired.
But it's also very cool!
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This year's Oscar nomination films, the favorite one, although, is estimated to be to take a screenwriting award or something.
There is nothing to say about this film, that is, maturity, maturity in all aspects, a kind of industrial maturity. Douban score is also high, more than 50,000 people scored, 8.6 points, belongs to the kind of movie that is particularly popular with the public.
Alan Sorkin's screenwriting prowess is beyond doubt, and he has done too many good scripts before. But in fact, the films he directed before, such as "Jasmine Card Game", are quite boring.
Or, or because this "Trial of the Seven Gentlemen of Chicago" returns to the court theme that Alan Sorkin is best at, so some extraordinary play, it can only be good.
This film is really smooth, the story is good, and the emotions are also abundant.
Moreover, the film is really a script textbook. The first courtroom scene was full of tension. In one scene, the personalities of several main characters are shown in the way of a plot.
This is called the script level.
By the way, a while ago I watched a web drama that forgot my name, and a group of people got together at the beginning, and one of the characters introduced the other role to the audience in this way: "You are the one who is very famous, has XX fans, has published several novels, and is worth XX million... Who's who's who. ”
Well, that's the counterexample.
And a good script, the character's personality, is built up by one scene after another.
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Although the quality of Xing Dingxun's films fluctuates greatly, the good ones are really good to watch.
For example, this one:
Yudō Honka and Naoki Yoshi, a very interesting combination.
The most powerful thing about this film is that it depicts the entangled relationship between men and women in the emotions very real and accurate. When we evaluate the emotional relationships of others, we especially like to be condescending, this is a scumbag, that is a stupid woman, a love brain.
It's always a simple thing, why are you so confused, with the spirit of everyone drunk and awake.
But that's the truth of life.
Life has never been unreasonable and has never been rational.
If everything were reasonable, the world would indeed be better, but we may all be robots.
In this world, many things are actually unreasonable, and you can't explain things with reason.
Just like emotional relationships, they are often the so-called authorities fans.
We are always very sober about the emotional entanglement of others, but when we are really deeply involved, we are often entangled and painful.
And this movie is exactly about the helplessness after falling into it, or the feeling of powerlessness.
I am a common man, and how many of them can escape!
The treatment of the last scene of the film makes it an allegory to the real world.
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In fact, about the entanglement of men and women in love mentioned in the above "Theater", there is a movie that is also a similar story before, that is, "What is Love", which is also the top ten of the year before me.
And this "On the Street" is the new work of "What Is Love" director Ritsuya Imaizumi.
The film "On the Street" is still a sketch that pays attention to the love life of Japanese urban men and women, with no big ambitions, but some small fun, and it is a good-looking love story.
The film focuses on a number of young men and women to tell their love stories.
The theme of this part is probably ambiguity, embarrassment, and, the sense of distance.
Subtle and interesting.
This is also a special Japanese expression of emotional relationship, after reading it, you will think, well, it is quite interesting.
It's that kind of fun movie.
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There were many Korean films with gimmicks last year, but most of them wanted to spit on them after watching them (such as "Busan Line 2").
And the Korean films that can really be remembered are actually not so many (by the way, "Parasite" is already a Korean film in 2019).
Therefore, like "The Ministers of Nanshan", it is already a very rare Korean film masterpiece in 2020.
The film is a political thriller and solid overall. Whether it's the atmosphere, the plot layout, including the actors' performances, it's all in good shape, and you can enjoy the movie with great engagement.
In particular, the final climactic scene is also a thrilling thing to watch, which stimulates tension.
There is also Li Bingxian's very prominent performance, which is definitely a plus.
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I bought a Netflix membership during the epidemic and chased Netflix every day to watch updates
The result?
Watched a whole bunch of bad movies.
But this one is a surprise.
"True Heart Half Solution", this title is very good.
Because, this movie is actually about the half-puzzled age, about learning, learning what is the age of love.
The characters in the film understand love, and people grow up.
Therefore, the film is not concerned with who to love, nor who to be with, in fact, these are not the most core parts.
Learning to love and understanding love is the whole of true half-understanding.
Not even the heroine, but also the boy and the school flower, also in this process to understand what love is, everyone is growing, growing up.
Of course, the story is told in a very relaxed way as a youth film.
Pretty good.
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How to say it, this film is actually not so Kurosawa Kiyoshi, or maybe it is because the script has Ryusuke Hamaguchi involved.
This makes the film very popular and smooth to watch.
You can say he regrets one way or another. However, some of the dispatches are still very powerful, and Kurosawa Kiyoshi is still a very powerful director.
Including Aoi Yu's performance, it is also very well mobilized, and many details of the mood and changes during the period.
And, there's a whole bunch of fans. Pretty good.
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The new work of the director duo of "Untouchable" is also a kind of warm, touching and good-looking movie.
The film is based on true events, about two people running a nonprofit organization that cares for autistic children, and their various stories.
The film adds to the realism of the film in a way that is lifelike and highlights the sense of documentary.
There is no particularly strong conflict or sensational fragment, but a faint, slow touch.
However, in those seemingly trivial fragments of life, the brilliance of humanity that blooms makes you unconsciously moved, and the soundtrack is also very colorful.
In particular, it's a true event adaptation, a group of respectable people who are the best complement and lubricant behind that massive, rigid machine.
In particular, Vincent Cassel's performance is also not picky, it is great.
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This is also a new Chinese director's work recommended by our Fan Film Spirit Awards before, and it feels like it will be a very polar kind of film.
If you like it, you will feel very touched and very good. People who don't like it will even complain that this person can't make movies at all.
Of course, I belong to the category I like.
Although he is a new director, he has a strong author's consciousness. Moreover, she still has to watch this film in the theater, because she can't watch it on the computer.
The film allows you to fully perceive the state of time, emotional restraint and aphasia. But in this day and day, slowly deepen the emotion into your heart, will be moved, shocked, sad.
It's awesome.
Above, these are my top ten movies of 2020.
Still like that, last year's good movies really didn't have so many, this time the selection is also very difficult, fortunately, or made up.
Of course, there are a lot of 2020 movies that haven't been mentioned, and they're also outstanding, and I think it's good.
However, out of personal taste, there is no place, and I still did not put it in.
For example, "Father Trapped in Time", "The Land of NoBody", "Fragments of Women", "Spiritual Journey", "Sound of Metal", "A Beautiful World", "A Father's Way to Find a Son", "Invisible Man", "Hope Gully" and so on.
Also, this is just one of the top ten I have selected based on my personal interests, hobbies and tastes, and my hobbies are different, and I can only represent myself.
Only after being elected to my top ten of the year will my 2020 really pass.
Well, goodbye to 2020.
In 2021, hopefully, I'll come across some more good movies.