When the number of movies and televisions marked by Douban reached 999, I suddenly became a little cautious, evolving from three digits to four digits, and felt that this was a bit of a sense of ceremony.
Of course, I don't want to bathe in incense or fast for three days, but I just want to choose a movie that should make you feel liked to complete this step.
So I chose Philharmonic City.
"Philharmonic City" is a film that cannot be overrated. Bright color painting style, cheerful song and dance scenes, superb male and female protagonists, and heart-pounding film themes, all of these beautiful collections permeate the entire film, like a brilliant work of art, so that the audience is physically and mentally comfortable.
I remember the last time I watched a song and dance film was Chen Kexin's "If Love" more than ten years ago. The same is the youth, the same is a couple chasing dreams, but that one is a complete tragedy.
Love, music and dreams are all extremely beautiful things. Beautiful things should be wrapped in a warm story, and american director Damien Zazere is undoubtedly a person who is good at telling such stories.
Therefore, "Philharmonic City" is very popular with fans, with an investment of 30 million to harvest more than 400 million box office, the length of awards won at major film festivals on the mobile phone listed a full five screens, this film boiled the whole Hollywood.
"Philharmonic City" is a love movie that easily evokes memories. Someone said: "The person who will think of watching this film must not be forgotten." "Love has always been an unknown journey, in this journey, some people harvest happiness, some people end without illness, joy and tears are spilled all the way.
Song and dance films are just an external form of expression. Compared to the cheerful singing and dancing, I prefer the beautiful and melancholy musical atmosphere. In particular, a love movie, the tone and music, can better render the emotions to be expressed in the movie, and mobilize the audience's synchronous emotions.
At the same time, the use of color and lighting makes this film even more stunning.
The fusion of love and dreams in the movie complements each other under the solid color of the big meal. The bold smudging of blue in the film's footage shows an unusual magic. Under the clear blue background night, the romance of love and the dream of ideals have excellent expressions.
Moreover, whenever all the light is focused on the protagonist and everything else in the shot is suddenly dimmed, we can feel the focus and the uniqueness in the eyes conveyed by the lens.
Admittedly, all the techniques and renderings are supported for the sake of the plot. And the most touching thing about a movie should be its plot.
"City of Philharmonic Music" tells the story of a couple meeting, knowing, falling in love, and forgetting each other, and in the love movie that reveals the true feelings, it also contains the vision of the little people for their dreams, as well as the perseverance and mutual care for the dreams.
The heroine of the film, Mia, is a young girl with an actress's dream. She was obsessed with old movies, and the huge poster of Ingrid Bergman hanging on the wall of the room was the future she dreamed of. She worked as a waitress at the warner bros. set café just to be able to audition at any time. She is aggressive and has failed again and again, but she still does not miss every opportunity in her role.
The film's male protagonist, Sebastian, is a musician who loves classical jazz and dreams of one day owning his own jazz club. It's just that in contemporary Los Angeles, jazz has long been thrown into the museum of history, and only he is stubbornly insisting on his dreams.
Such two lonely and self-motivated souls, fate let them meet in the city and fall in love, they encouraged each other along the way, supported each other, and performed a touching and profound emotional story.
The director divides their love journey into four seasons, starting from winter and ending in winter. This will remind people of South Korean director Kim Ki-duk's "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring", which is also the division and reincarnation of the four seasons, and in "City of Philharmonic", it is gradually getting better.
Winter is the season of encounters, although neither of them has a very pleasant encounter.
Sebastian and Mia's first encounter, in the city morning rush hour traffic jam queue, Mia puts a middle finger at Sebastin, because the male protagonist uses the horn to protest Mia's slow start.
The two meet again, but it is Mia who escapes from a boring banquet. The car is towed away, the phone is out of battery, and Mia walks frustrated down the street, only to be seduced by the elegant piano sound of Sebastian in the roadside restaurant. It was only that day that this beautiful piano piece also caused Sebastian to lose his job, only because he did not play the "Jingle Bells" requested by the restaurant owner. The encounter between the two turned into a passing situation in such a situation.
Fate, let this pair of lovely people meet again in the spring when the flowers are blooming.
At the pool party, the two have developed a good feeling for each other, but they still arrogantly do not admit each other. Obviously want to get closer, but flee, but the feelings involving the two always pull each other's relationship.
Mia drags Sebastian around the set, and Sebastian leads Mia to jazz in the café and encourages Mia to write her own screenplay. The distance between the two grew closer and closer, and finally they entered each other's hearts under the stars of the planetarium.
So, they entered a hot love in the hot summer, they snuggled up to each other, their ears were grinding, and they imagined and planned on each other's dream road.
Mia completed her screenplay and designed the logo for Sebastian's Jazz Club in her spare time. However, in an unintentional phone call, the male protagonist overheard the dialogue between the heroine and her mother.
Love is not bread, life is reality. In order to live, in order to give Mia a stable life, Sebastian joined the Courier Orchestra, playing electronic instruments that he did not like.
The Courier Orchestra achieved unprecedented success, and in the lively band performance, Mia was mixed with the crazy fans on the stage, and heard the electric sound of her lover playing on the stage, but she could not feel joy. She knew that this was not the classical jazz style that Sebastin was looking for.
The male and female protagonists are moving forward on their respective career lines, and there are few opportunities to get together. What is even more sad is that Mia's one-man show has not won the praise of the audience, and Sebastian has gradually drifted away from his original dream.
And the quarrel also made their feelings stalemate in the autumn of zero.
Sometimes, two people can have some tacit perception of each other's unsustainable feelings. After an audition, the two were in the cold wind of late autumn, under the deep love of each other, but they also realized that they could not let this relationship continue. Love each other, but can only be separated, like a closed cinema, withered classical music, regret, but can not be recovered.
Five years later, in the winter, when they reunite, they are no longer human. When Mia, who has become a star, and her husband inadvertently walk into the jazz club called Sebas, such a reunion is not the result we want.
The montage in the last fifteen minutes of the film is undoubtedly the best part of the film. If everything can be repeated, if they are already in love when they meet for the second time, if they can push off those propaganda trivia and cheer up the debut of the one-man show, if all this is not the way it is now, maybe the person who is with you today will not be such a stranger.
But if it is only if, back to reality, they can only look at each other in a hurry, look back faintly, and forget each other. Such sorrow makes all those who have loved it shake their heartstrings.
The director uses an extremely delicate technique to create a utopian drama. The feeling of excitement but pain in the heart, like the emotions flowing in the blood of the audience, the uncontrollable sadness that was about to come out and buried deep in the heart, suddenly spread throughout the body.
In addition to love, while moving towards the times, we seem to be able to feel the demise of the classical and the traditional, even if we try our best to save and retain those complexes full of memories, but the decline and end seem to be doomed.
It is only in this steaming dream guardianship battle, just like the Dream of Los Angeles contained in the Film's English name La La Land, stubbornly conveying to the audience the persistence of love and dreams.
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