长篇影评
1 ) Why did John kill himself?
“I only know goodness, and anger, and revenge, and evil, and desire. These seem to me far better words than neurosis, psychology, and paranoia. These old words, these good old words have a sort of conviction, which all this modern apparatus of language now lacks. We bury these words, these simple feelings, we bury them deep. Nor the building over that constitutes this century will not wish these feelings away.” John Morgan
How easy sometimes it is to fake cheerfulness! These good old words shall be respected, as well as one's true feelings too, respected and recognised, not faked nor buried. These words build the fundamentals of humanity, and there is nothing wrong of coming across them, experiencing them, feeling them, deeply. What is hindering us from expressing what we really think and feel? What if death comes and finds us in utter ore? The boy died with contentment, respecting the truth.
Why did he have to kill himself? He brought a gun before he came, obviously it was a planned death with a purpose. What was this purpose? As he was watching from the window the market, the people coming and going getting their shoppings done, what is in his mind? Is it that he could not connect to people? He could not come to terms with the faked cheerfulness and peace. Finally he found his comrade, yet, she shared, but did not want to admit. These mutual feelings electrified them both, especially her. She did not believe such moments existed that when they came, she denied and rejected them. He thought she would be different, but she chose to give in, being part of the prevailing society.
Like Gandhi, death is a non-violent way of him saying NO. Maybe to wake the living up too.
2 ) 哲学的沉思-----一个虚无主义者的自杀事件
85年的金熊,导演还改编过路易马勒的烈爱重伤,以及那部很出名的《时时刻刻》
一天一个单身女老师请了一班朋友到他家里吃饭,其中有个叫做约翰莫根的,不知道是谁的朋友,潜入了他们的聚会,然后过了没有两天这个约翰莫根就来到老师家吞枪自杀了,故事围绕着这样一个迷团展开,约翰莫根是谁?他为什么自杀,接着镜头又转到一个就快要奔赴前线的战士和他的女友间,女友不肯和战士结婚,直到战士奔赴战场,在一次游戏中,战士被杀死了,女友独自一人走在飞机场的跑道中,而这时的片段也回到了约翰莫根自杀时的那一枪,也是战士被越南人民杀死的那一幕重合,这已是故事的结尾,当中有许多不可告人的秘密隐藏在这个教师当中,就像电影开头时讨论的尼克松的水门事件,涉及到政治,但是,在政治面前,普通人是普通的,他们孤独,需要爱,在得不到爱的结果就像约翰莫根那样,吞枪,对比下是教师的博爱,他可以和约翰莫根、图书馆朋友的丈夫、警察……发生关系,甚至可以在同学面前吸烟来上好这样一节课,其中有位女学生问老师:“文学有什么用?”“我担心以后毕业找不到工作时。”老师还是用那种老师的语气回答,读书不是为了别人,是为了自己的提升,一切的故事由这样一位孤独的对立面的老师来遐想,或者我们可以看成这部电影是这个语文老师的一部剧本。
3 ) 「Quotes」
「Do we become the way we look? Or do we look the way we really are?」
「If you're thinking, "I must use education for a career," Then you're already thinking of education in the wrong way. Education is a thing in itself. It's a way of fulfilling your potential. Looking for ways of thinking about things, Ways which, if you're lucky will help not just your career, but your whole life.」
「I think the lonely recognize the lonely.」
「You're lonely. All that hope coming out of you, all that cheerful resolution. All that wonderful enlightenment. For what? For nothing. You know it's for nothing. Don't tell me that cheerfulness is real.」
「When you're a boy, you think, "oh, it's so easy". Always wipe the slate and move on. Then, with the years, you find you become a prisoner of dreams.
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A girl ran away this morning.
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Good luck to her.
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Yes. Good luck.
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To all our escapes.」
David Hare的主题:秘密、谎言、记忆。每一位演技派女神都有这么一段过去现在和将来。Joely 饰演Vanessa 的年轻时候,一样的骨架、脸庞,一样的蓝眼睛。
由于片中那家伙太像昆汀,导致走神无数次,sorry!
导演想表达的东西生硬地插在了故事的几段对话里,而这几段对话跟整个故事其实没啥关系 /2.5
文艺也可以有悬念,但悬念过多或过强,总会多少干扰到你想表达的思想内涵。暴力的荷尔蒙效应明显可以在本片中起到提神的作用。
瓦妮莎·雷德格瑞夫算是英国国宝级老牌女影星之一。她在本片中饰演一位性格自私的英国语文老师琼。朱迪·丹奇都给她打酱油。影片有两条故事线索,其一是琼的青年期,其二是30年后的中老年期。一方面,她站在三尺讲台上教书育人,满口仁义道德。另一方面,她对待感情和性又自私而草率。多情总被无情伤害
装腔作势实则糊烂,时不时插入一段凄厉抒情乐吓唬我。主旨我明白,不是这么拍的。
初临城郊的年轻男子的神秘自杀释放出一段周边居民压抑已久的黑暗激情。大胆通过陌生人的死讨论其对与之临时接触者的活的意义,打破悬疑片逻辑演绎的传统,以三十年跨度展开不断切换的青年情事和案发前后三时间层面,在不断建构回忆的过程中建立主角与死者的情感共性,最终拼凑出模糊的心理脉络。(4.5)
观影盘点期,看过好充逼
▤「Do we become the way we look? Or do we look the way we really are?」「You're lonely. All that hope coming out of you, all that cheerful resolution. All that wonderful enlightenment. For what? For nothing. You know it's for nothing. Don't tell me that cheerfulness is real.」
剪辑素材取舍有问题,不混乱,但很多地方交代不清又莫名其妙。
主题就是孤独啊痛苦啊这些老生常谈的东西,拍得比较文艺意识流,剪切也是简单粗暴,导致前20分钟看得一头雾水,完全搞不清几条线之间的关系。好不容易渐渐有点推理片的赶脚了,看着有点意思了,我还想着之前的沉闷可能只是老片子节奏偏慢造成的,故事应该还不错,不料就这么完了,原来还是个文艺片……
女主角的教师身份与本片主题密切相连,探讨了人的内心与表面、欲望的隐藏与爆发,多条人物线索平行叙事,每个人都有秘密,叙事风格上非常像伊戈杨的作品,都是那种不急不缓的闷骚神秘的调子,配乐使用是点睛之笔,给人怅然若失之感,剧本精巧,影射了英国社会各阶层分化和青年教育的失败
要说多喜欢,也是谈不上,但确实超预期了,观感很特别…本身故事就够神了,可比故事神的是剪辑,常常不相干的片段剪到一起,却好几处恰恰是我潜意识马上想看的…比剪辑神的是音乐,除了和男友啪啪以及送别男友参军配乐外,其他几场有配乐的地方,其实都不咋需要音乐推动或渲染,可他偏偏就有,不但有,还很不搭,说他不搭吧,却提神般的好听,让你在这些本没啥值得遐想的地方,竟然思绪飘散了…
女主太像梅丽尔.斯特里普,男的神似昆汀。这片其实不复杂,用弗洛伊德的理论足以解释,性欲得不到释放,可以把人憋到拧成麻花状...
前40分钟闷骚得难受,后半段才显露出剧本的过人之处。
寂寞人何苦专挑寂寞人的软柿子捏。看点是打乱时序的碎片叙事而将吸引力放大了,三条时间线的混剪。音乐太过火,淡淡的故事不需要劳动那么辉煌的感伤主旋律。众星烘托凡妮莎女神独秀场,靓女儿Joely演过去的她并包揽脱戏
经历孤独而不被理解的人们撞到了一起,有时悲剧发生后,我们才后知后觉,原来自己有多么可悲。本片的一处剪辑把当下的两人与过去两人连结到一起,对性爱的暗示其实早已埋下伏笔。
2.5,2020.05.05
这部电影一点也不英国啊,感觉很法国。看完感觉上了一堂哲学课,割喉一段莫民奇妙,其他都很好。尤其是Tim,那时他才多大呀,也没演过几部片子,就能把这个神经质的角色诠释的这么好,太赞了。
这个被剪成碎片学生模样的《陌生男子》极有可能是不存在的麦格芬,但关于他的谜团却莫名成了人们通往历史的时光机。记忆倒带回过去,这也让位于老师立场的女主背后那组记忆与忘却间的悖论浮出水面。于是困惑所有人的问题是谁也说不清楚的每个人背负着的隐痛,最终矛盾返回到迷茫一代对教育系统的拷问。