"Life is a tragedy in the near term, and a comedy in the distance." This is the spiritual core of the famous novel "A Letter from a Strange Woman". This is true for everyone, as much as there is giving, there is as much worth and happiness as there is pain, and there are as many memories and reluctance as there is pain. Although there are so many unsatisfactory things in life, everything will pass, and what is important in our life is not what we get ourselves, but what we can give to others and what we can leave in the world.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is the eighth feature film of American director Wes Anderson, who wrote and directed the film himself. Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revololi, Silsa Ronan, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Adrian Brody, Jude Lowe, Owen Wilson, Matthew Amalek, Leia Saidu, Harvey Keitel, Tom Wilkinson, Jensen Schwartzman and other well-known actors.
If you like European history and explore human nature, then you must watch this movie! This is the Grand Budapest Hotel. This film has an indelible position in the film industry, and has won the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Art Direction and other awards. On Douban, which is known for its harsh ratings, there are up to nine points of rating, which shows its wonderful degree.
Although the film tells the story of the rise and fall of an era, his shooting does not use the grand and heavy style we have seen before. On the contrary, the film's storytelling style adopts a calm and even a little black humor, although the story is grand but does not appear tragic and sad. The color of the movie is also worth mentioning, it uses a small fresh technique, the color is bright and light, until now it has been used by many people as a wallpaper collection, imitated by many movies.
The film tells such a story. In Europe in the twenties and thirties of the last century, there was a group of elderly noblewomen. Their husbands were high-ranking generals, soldiers, government officials, etc., and they were all dead. Therefore, in their old age, they live an unrestrained, superior and affluent life, and like to constantly visit high-end hotels for small stays. The Grand Budapest Hotel, the most exclusive hotel in Europe, became the nursing home for these ladies.
The most popular manager of the Grand Budapest Hotel is Gustavo, a polite and communicative gentleman who was very fond of every lady during his tenure at the Grand Budapest Hotel. One of the most favored was an old lady who had lived here for almost a decade, but she had left and died.
Even more surprising than that is that the old lady left Gustavo the most valuable thing in her estate, a famous painting of Van Gogh. This caused an uproar, and not only did the old lady's children firmly disagree with giving such a valuable inheritance to an outsider, but even the outside world suspected that Gustavo had used some unseemly means to confuse the old lady. In this way, under the slander and covert manipulation of the people, Gustavo went to prison.
Gustavo had a clever little follower, and he had no name, so Gustavo named him Zero. He was an astute young man who, when Gustavo was imprisoned, zero thought of many ways to finally rescue him and prove his innocence. Everything came to light, and Gustavo justifiably inherited all the assets of the old lady.
I thought this was a classic ending where good is rewarded with good and evil with evil, but the director obviously did not want the plot to fall into the cliché. At the end of the plot, Gustavo is killed after an argument with the patrolling soldiers, and the story is thus left behind. In this way, a vigorous golden age that has created countless splendors and added many accidents and pains has passed, everything is depressed, things are not human, and the protagonists of the past have long been lost, leaving only the Grand Budapest Hotel still standing there.
This was the most glorious era in Europe, but also the most tragic. "The Grand Budapest Hotel" is adapted from the novel "Yesterday's World", the author Zweig is Jewish, during the Second World War, he and his wife were seriously hit and hurt, leaving a lifelong psychological shadow, after experiencing the Nazi mad slaughter and persecution, this talented, world-famous writer and his wife both committed suicide, the ending is very sad.
Although the film is very humorous and makes the audience watch it very lightly, it is actually Zweig's autobiography, a microcosm of personal fate in the chaotic era. As we all know, the degree of development of civilization in Europe is very high, there have been many civilizations, music, art, literature ... Of great name. Originally, it was about to become a mecca for art and aesthetics, but the arrival of World War II completely destroyed the city.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the Nazis began to rise, and France, Germany, and Italy began to wage an unprecedented war all over the world, which was World War II. During World War II, the people were not happy, destroying a large number of otherwise happy families.
At the same time, many works of art have also been destroyed, many great works have disappeared, and great buildings have collapsed, including not only many buildings in Europe, but also many great architecture and art in China, which is extremely sad, until now, there are still many works of art in China that have been scattered overseas.
A great era has fallen forever, and there are changes in the times, but it is more caused by human greed. The movie "The Grand Budapest Hotel" vividly reveals that era and reminds us never to forget.
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