【Film】"Perfect Perfection" (1997)
Directed by: James M. L. Brooks
Starring: Jack Nicholson / Helen Hunter / Greg Kinnear
Douban score: 8.2 (24388 ratings)
There are six films in the history of the American Oscars that have won best actor and actress at the same time, namely "One Night Affair" (1934, Clark Gable and Claude Colbert), "Flying Over the Madhouse" (1975, Jack Nichols and Louise Fletcher), "TV Storm" (1976, Peter Finch and Fay Donnevi), "Golden Pond" (1981, Henry Fonda and Catherine Hepburn), "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991, Anthony Hopkins and Judy Fletcher). Foster) and Today's Recommended The Perfect (1997, Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunter)
Generally speaking, those good-looking fictional movies are very challenging to the actor's acting skills, otherwise it is difficult to attract the audience to get close to the characters in the movie, feel their situation and psychological changes. This "Perfect" tells the story of three people with completely different personalities, neurotic writers, gay painters and single mothers who work as a part-time restaurant waiter, how to get to know each other and then solve their own problems and troubles, it is like those Hollywood high-scoring dramas that we are familiar with, the tone is relaxed and optimistic, and there are many humorous and funny passages. The puppets in the film will discuss very serious topics of life and love, but often do not give satisfactory answers to the audience, and it seems even perfunctory. But that doesn't detract from the fun you'll have with watching the movie, like the puppy that's as important as any of the protagonists.
【Film】Family Private Novel (1999)
Director: Atsuhiko Suwa
Starring: Makiko Toba / Tomokazu Miura / Takahashi Takahiro
Douban score: 7.7 (384 ratings)
Found this movie, thanks to Huang Ailing's film essay collection "Dream Yu Says Dream", it is not a serious professional academic work, there is no obscure theoretical terminology, it only records an audience, film fans, or a film idiot after watching some films and engaged in film business inner feelings and experiences, her words poured out an enviable love for movies, reading the plot she told will not only not feel boring, but will stimulate your curiosity about a movie, even if you have seen this movie, You still have an urge to watch it again, why do scenes or details that we often turn a blind eye to become so beautiful and intoxicating when they reach her pen?
For example, in this movie, Huang Ailing described the feeling that this movie brought to her at the beginning of the section "Modern Men and Women": it seems to be a small fragment of daily life, there is no beginning, there is no end, when you watch it, you are sad, and you are also sad after watching it. This is because the film shows a very tense and depressing interpersonal relationship, and the tone of its narrative is slow and dull, it is a bit like Hou Xiaoxian's film, fixed camera length shots, the characters perform freely and casually, even the dialogue is improvised on the spot, or simply an empty shot, making people feel anxious. More than 140 minutes of movies, after watching it in one breath, you really need to have a certain amount of patience.
[Film] Children of Heaven (1945)
Director: Marcel Carne
Starring: Aletti / Jean-Louis Barout / Pierre Brasser
Douban score: 8.6 (4459 people rating)
This three-hour movie has so many surprises that after watching it, there is a feeling that it is good not to miss it. It is actually a story of a woman and four men, which sounds a bit exaggerated, but the relationship between these characters does not seem messy in the film, but provides a full character image and complex social background for this tragedy. The actors' outstanding performances give each character a unique temperament, especially Baptiste and Frederick, two actors who perform on stage, their body language and facial expressions need to undergo a variety of difficult changes, and Baptiste is called a god-like performance. On stage, he never spoke, but his every movement, every close-up of his expression, exuded a hurtful and touching power in a kind of pantomime humor.
It is also a film with a lot of dialogue emotion, and each important character has the courage to reveal his inner language to others, and the words are accurate and elegant. Frederick's eloquence is the best, which is also his survival skill, and he said the very famous phrase "life is so beautiful, and you are not inferior" as soon as he appeared. And Baptiste, when he heard that Gabrielle had returned, felt extremely tormented in his heart, he had already started a family, and had children, in the room, he was emotionally pouring out his pain to the landlord, and occasionally he could not help but turn this disturbing emotion into a wave of anger, he said, "You carry an empty heart, in your empty room, spend your boring day, it is really ridiculous and sad!" In fact, he is talking about himself, and dialogue like this kind of drama abounds, but it does not make people feel repulsive.
【Film】Li Shuangshuang (1962)
Director: Lu Ren
Starring: Zhang Ruifang / Zhong Xinghuo
Douban score: 7.5 (2614 ratings)
This film has long become a classic in domestic films, but this does not mean that it can be accepted by audiences of all eras, compared to the new wave films emerging in other countries at that time, its method is a bit too backward, and the bumps and bumps about China's early rural communes seem to be not worth watching, just like the writer Ding Ling's "Diary of Lady Shafei" and "The Sun Shines on the Sangan River", which are completely different from the evaluations received today. However, this film is simple and simple, cheerful and relaxed, shaping the classic female image on the screen - Li Shuangshuang, more importantly, it has been branded with that era, and the relationship between politics and art can also be reflected in some plot treatment, so it is also an important text in the study of Chinese films for seventeen years.
【Movie】"Unlucky Sex, Crazy Yellow Film" (2021)
Director: Radu Jude
Starring: Claudia Jeremiah / Olympia Malai / Nikodin Ngurianu
Douban score: 7.4 (2896 ratings)
This Golden Bear Award work has several things worth seeing, such as the camera recording the entire social atmosphere in the epidemic era, the actors wearing masks to perform, and from time to time people are reminded to wear masks correctly. And its story backbone is a controversial topic, the developed Internet technology has made personal privacy public, but also caused a bad impact, who should blame it? Personally, I still like the second part the most, maybe it's irrelevant to the movie, but it shows us a lot of ridiculous things. Unfortunately, in terms of the sensation caused by the whole film, its award and people's desire to see the film as soon as possible seem to ignore the real issues that need to be discussed, which is also ridiculous. We can only be careful not to have social deaths like heroines, is this one of the reasons why people are becoming more and more hypocritical?
【Documentary】Microcosm (1996)
Directed by: Claude Nuridsani/Marie Perenu
Starring: Jacques Behan
Douban score: 9.1 (27660 ratings)
It is said that the documentary took 15 years from research preparation to actual shooting, but the length of the film is less than 90 minutes. Because of this, every frame, every shot, every scene is the essence of condensation. It reaches the camera under the grass, ant burrows, bee nests, next to the stones on the ground and at the interface of water and air, and observes the every move of those tiny insects, like a magnifying glass, allowing us to see a wonderful scene that we can't usually see. The documentary has little commentary, only a few female voice narrations that hint and reveal the theme at the beginning and end, and in some special scenes, there is a very solemn music, accompanied by chants, like an ode to nature and life.
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