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Tomato Jun: "Manchester by the Sea" has been well received since its launch at this year's Sundance Film Festival! Tomato Jun has always recommended most of the movies that fans can see (you know), because this movie has become a phenomenon, so Tomato Jun specially invited Mr. Guo Liankai and Miss Xiang Yu of the United States to write this film review.
Manchester by the Sea
IMDb gives a high score of 8.5.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness 96%.
Douban: 8.8 points.
Boston Post:
Like carefully woven origami, Manchester by the Sea slowly and delicately reveals the beautiful structure of the interior, giving us the most emotionally powerful viewing experience of the year. Cassie Affleck finally waited for the most groundbreaking role of his career, and his quiet and tense performance perfectly presented this tough, gentle and heartbreaking work to the audience' eyes.
When you first hear the title, you can't help but think of the British industrial city of Manchester, and the famous football team Manchester United.
However, in fact, this is a pure American film, "Manchester by the Sea" is the name of the town, located in Massachusetts, the united states, the total population of only 5136, is a literal seaside town.
The film's director, Kenneth Ronalgan, is a screenwriter who has twice been nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Gangsters in New York" and "Please Come Near Me."
Manchester by the Sea is his third feature film. Rather prolific, he locked in a work that was blacklisted in Hollywood scripts in 2014.
Producer Matt Damon wanted to direct himself at one point, but eventually handed it over to Ronagan because of scheduling issues (not the Great Wall).
It turns out that Kenneth Ronagan did not fail with a good script and told a good story in a down-to-earth manner.
(Ronagan and a bunch of actors)
Like the extremely cold winter in Massachusetts, Manchester by the Sea is a cool, cold, even cold film.
The film begins with a string of plain lives, and we see this middle-aged man named Li doing ordinary blue-collar work, repairing toilets, repairing water pipes, and shoveling snow.
He has no family, and after work, he goes to the bar to drink alcohol, silent, but at one point, the anger can come out of the chamber in an instant, and pull the trigger at any time.
A phone call shattered the calm, and people at the hospital informed him that his biological brother had died of a heart attack and Lee dropped his work and drove to Manchester by the sea.
Surprisingly, there was no sadness of life and death, no tears. Silence was Lee's only statement, even if he walked into the morgue and saw the body of his brother, who was already cold.
Then Joe's 16-year-old son, Patrick, appeared, equally calm and taciturn, staying in the morgue even shorter than Lee.
"Okay, push it back", the same shot, the picture is very short, this is the last meeting between father and son.
This is also the biggest feature of "Manchester by the Sea", director Kenneth Ronagan carefully hides the grief in the script, because the male protagonist is a person who silently licks the wound.
Lee calmly deals with his brother's affairs until his brother's lawyer tells him that Joe has given him custody of Patrick, and Lee strongly states that he cannot take on the responsibility.
It turned out that he had been a father, and he had made mistakes that he could not forgive himself.
The once Happy Lee family once forgot to cover the fireplace before going out, which caused a fire in the house, and all three young children were killed except for his wife Randy.
Overnight, Lee lost everything. Unable to face reality, Lee even tried to steal a police gun to commit suicide.
Both the murderer and the victim were themselves, and Lee was overwhelmed and left sadly.
In Li's eyes, life is only left with pain every moment, and he should bear the torment and end up alone.
However, his brother Joe never gave up letting Lee go home. Even in his posthumous will, there was a plan for Lee to move back to the town to become Patrick's guardian.
Father-like brother Lee seems to have reluctantly accepted the identity of guardian in his relationship with Patrick.
Pretending to be strong, Patrick collapses in front of the freezer, the awkward reunion with his missing mother, and the interesting daily interaction with his girlfriend, Lee gradually finds a sense of participation.
He had been hard-laced to send Patrice to Boston, and slowly tried to get a job in the town.
As the story unfolds in a warm direction, an unexpected confession from his ex-wife Randy makes Lee realize that in the deepest recesses of his heart he can never forgive himself, and his broken heart will never recover.
In the end, he transferred custody to Joe's former friend and decided to return to Boston to continue his life of asceticism.
For the audience, this ending comes suddenly but not abruptly.
Every character in the film, even passers-by who appear only a few seconds on camera, are real and full.
There are no declarations of encouragement from relatives and friends, no joy after the release of the previous suspicions, and no warmth between uncles and nephews. Some are just a chicken feather in real life.
Cassie Affleck has given what may be one of the best performances since the film (comparable to the performance in Death of the Sharpshooter), a man with a hint of cowardice and failure in his appearance, which is very different from his brother Ben Affleck.
When Big Ben put on the bat suit, but was criticized for his paralyzed acting skills, Cassie Affleck continued to hone himself in small-budget literary films and gradually accumulated energy.
"Manchester by the Sea" was the moment he exploded. In the film, he does not have much body movement, and only one face interprets Li's grief and anger to the fullest.
Manchester by the Sea made him, and without him, the film wouldn't have stood.
Kenneth Ronagan orchestrates the saddest plot of the story and the most playful laugh points tightly, and the audience has not yet come out of the heaviness of the previous second before being caught off guard by the next shot.
In particular, in the process of the various interactions between the stubborn Lee and the adolescent Patrick, and the gradual establishment of a kind of father-son relationship, the contradictions, embarrassment and confusion of the two make the audience can't help but laugh.
These laughs are bland and unpretentious, and are the warmth that occasionally floats in the cold story.
The Claudia Marie has been an important presence in the twists and turns that tie the story together, representing the relationship between Lee and his family.
The name "Claudia Marie" of the fishing boat is actually the name of the deceased daughter of the owner.
The shipowner's wife said that the biggest fear of parents is that no one remembers your child who died prematurely except for themselves.
The ship left as a relic was damaged by the motor, and Lee initially considered abandoning the ship, but at Patrick's insistence, Lee thought of a way to save it.
For Lee, the biggest fear is that he can't convince himself to pursue happiness, and he feels that he is not qualified to be anyone's father.
A dozing led to a smoking pan alarm, and Lee, half-dreaming and half-awake, saw the scolding of the dead child in a trance:
"Dad, am I burning?"
Some may blame Lee for not being brave enough, not strong enough, not being able to regain hope and live again.
In fact, each of us lives in the shadows of the past and the fear of not seeing the future.
This is no longer a movie era for people to draw cakes.
A mutilated and unsatisfactory life and eternal loneliness quietly occupied the screen.
Three years ago, oscar-nominated "The Happy Line Behind the Clouds" can still struggle to blossom the flower of love in the ruins, while last year's fires of "Nocturnal Animals" and this year's "Manchester by the Sea" adhere to the principle of death to the end, desperately strangling hope.
Directors, writers, and audiences gradually accepted:
In a world where everyone feels that their bodies are hollowed out and tired of not loving, the fairytale daydream of "as long as you work hard, you will be happy" will eventually shatter into slag.
The film does not consider the mental health of the viewers at all, does not expect people to be cured, and does not have the slightest premeditation to make the audience cry bitterly.
The color of the picture is dull, and the dialogue of the characters is calm and restrained, trapping people inside and outside the film deeply in a swamp with no end in sight.
The film stops abruptly with the swaying backs of the protagonist Lee and nephew Patrick sitting on the rebuilt Claudia Marie fishing boat.
The friend next to him looked confused:
"So he just left everything behind?" Is this the end? ”
People coming out of the cinema had to squeeze out a smile of reluctance to be seen out of their companions, pull up their collars and walk silently into the bustling winter streets.
Movies are just that, regardless of your feelings.
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