Even for me, it is the same as youth movies, always have great charm and attraction, but whenever I encounter new releases, I am still worried about it and look forward to it, because there are too many good works in front of me. Few directors can explore as delicately as Wim Wenders, as crazy as Todd Phillips; very few works can be extraordinary and philosophical like Captain Marvel, and as special as "Green Book". So when I saw the plot summary of this film, I actually had the visual idea of "I know what it will look like".
This year, due to the epidemic, many American commercial blockbusters have been withdrawn, making European films one of the main components of theatrical releases, and there are indeed many masterpieces worth seeing, such as "The Best Is Not Coming". This French film uses a comedic style to package the preciousness of male friendship, not only is the content of the whole film full of relaxed and witty tone, but also the delicate description of the friendship between the two protagonists can be seen everywhere, which is a warm story with seriousness and touching in humor, which is good to look at and say. The film has one of the best arrangements and dialogue content this year, and overturns the plot and prediction of terminal illness in the past, which further triggers a rare friendship that is really sincere and warm.
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The choreographer of "The Best Is Not Yet Coming" sets the tone of the film's story through the differences in Arthur and Caesar's perception of who is sick. Due to the cognitive difference, there is a slight gap between the behavior of the two people and their actual expectations, and one of them is "difficult to speak" and the other is "self-righteous", which makes the interaction between the two sides more interesting.
In the opening five minutes of the film, the two protagonists already have distinct personalities and even family backgrounds. The researchers who stuttered in Mune mistakenly believed that they were going to face a life-and-death separation, so the cancer friend proposed to accompany him to complete his dream, and even moved in with himself, and introduced the women of the Mutual Aid Association to assist.
And then the more you hide, the deeper it gets. But he deceived himself that this was not a bad thing, and if he could grasp the rest of the time together, and not have to worry about the aggravation of his physical illness, it might be truly pleasant, as in the past. However, the film's road trip is not a focus depiction, but a tipping point, so that the two can see that they are just waiting for the old love of the puppy, and the rabbit who escapes the past. At the same time, the film is pulled from the rest of the time to the level of "this life". What is reversed is that when making up for mistakes, crossing the shadows, and exposing the truth, we find that understanding is no longer the point, because life is unchanging and unpredictable, who is left behind, and so what.
You left the world to me, but without you, the world is so small.
From car theft, restaurant flirting, family coordination to hanging suicide notes, "The Best Is Not Yet Coming" is a gentle chapter dedicated to loved ones and lives, and it is also a remarkable work that is both gentle and gripping. Fabris Ruccini and Patrick Brewer play beautifully, the former playing the hesitation into the puzzle, the latter infusing the care of friendship around the slack, especially watching the white-haired and wrinkled two people feel like brothers and sisters, even beyond time and life, which is painful.
The choreographer of "The Best Is Not Yet Coming" has successfully mastered the principles of "yin and yang" and "mistake is wrong". The former allows various accidental factors to come together to form unexpected misunderstandings, and the latter is because of the aforementioned "unspeakable" factors, either allowing those unexpected misunderstandings to happen continuously, or becoming a dilemma of adding mistakes to mistakes, and the two are intertwined to provide laughter for this film from time to time. Although the humor of this film is not like some Hollywood works that belong to the "strong stimulation" type, it does succeed in making the corners of people's mouths rise from time to time or laugh!
In addition, "yin and yang" and "will be wrong" will have an unexpected development effect on the plot structure, and also let the plot of "The Best Not Yet Coming" promote occasional turning surprises, which are integrated with the above humorous elements and add to the watchability of this film. Importantly, the beauty of "The Best Is Not Yet Coming" is that although these humorous settings are due to "yin and yang" and "wrong is wrong", the reason why this is so is because the two pay too much attention to and care about each other, and the result is self-defeating. Therefore, "The Best Is Not Yet Coming" can be said to use a comedic style to describe the funny behavior of the two, while reflecting the thickness of the friendship contained in it.
Therefore, in addition to those outrageous plots, "The Best Is Not Yet Coming" also makes a lot of preparations for the personalities of Arthur and Caesar, on the one hand, constructing the three-dimensionality of these two characters, on the other hand, explaining why there is a cognitive difference through the description of different personalities and styles, and on the other hand, explaining why the two will become inseparable friends. Importantly, the film is not entirely witty, and many of the plots touch on the difficulties that the two cannot overcome, as well as the differences in their ideas on major issues, and the confrontation, concession, persistence and compromise in them all show the positive significance of "Arthur and Caesar's emphasis on friends more than their own principles".
This relatively serious plot part complements the light-hearted part of the preceding part. If the humorous fragment is to reflect the degree of friendship between the two people, the serious part is to analyze in depth how the two face the conflict caused by the difference in ideas under this deep friendship, and how they can still know each other in this situation. The two different personalities are either presented separately or melted into one furnace, and as the plot develops, the audience's inner touch of Arthur and Caesar's acquaintance is repeatedly stacked.
After all, "The Best Is Not Coming" is a warm story about "friendship is precious". Whether in terms of psychological needs or practical benefits, people need friends, because emotional support makes people feel that even if the whole world is an enemy of you or abandons you, there is still courage and meaning to face everything; the real help is the gas station of life, whether it is to achieve goals or solve problems, it is about the perseverance and ability to pass the hurdles.
However, everyone can know many people, but the people who know may not be our friends, because the different growth life experiences of each person have caused differences in personality preferences, conceptual values, life attitudes and ways of dealing with the world, so it is actually quite difficult to become friends, or even close friends.
Because the so-called best friend means that the differences between the two sides in all aspects will not only not become an obstacle to the growth of friendship, but will enrich and expand the resonance factors of their respective lives and the world, just like Arthur and Caesar in "The Best Is Not Yet Coming". One knows everything but is afraid to take a decisive step on many things, and the other is afraid to take a decisive step without anything but has the courage to try to take action, but this seemingly extreme trait collides with the resonance of life that knows and cherishes each other.
According to this, "The Best Has Not Come" can be so good-looking, in addition to the plot and character setting is quite ingenious, and the director's narrative is smooth and mature, the most important thing is that its theme element is the thing that we humans attach importance to cherishing in our hearts, and the highest point of this film is that the use of the time pressure formed by the setting of the last few months of life forces the two to bring each other a regretless life at the last moment, and the result is to polarize the purest core of the friendship, not only to give full play to the theme elements, The humor and seriousness mentioned earlier are full of emotional touch.
All in all, "The Best Has Not Come" portrays the friendship of two old men extremely movingly, through the interweaving of humor and seriousness, resulting in laughter with tears, tears in the heart, and empathy resonance of the movie effect, so from last year so far, this film should be the most outstanding work after the "Speed King" to depict the friendship of men, which is worth watching.