is now a popular era of "mourning culture": the cruelty of Juan Fu's new drama "Melrose", the loneliness of the annual funeral drama "Fuck the World"; the melancholy of the animation "Horse Boy Jack"... They all have a common feature: tell you the most true truth in the cruelest way. Similarly, there is such a mourning film. It has no ups and downs. It only tells a middle-aged man's unhealed pain, but won an Oscar for original script. The protagonist has no legendary identity and no explosive performance. , Only the numb quiet narrative, but won the best actor Oscar. Today I want to introduce this movie-directed by Kenneth Ronald, starring Cassie Affleck, Michelle Williams, etc. "Manchester by the Sea"
There is despair under the calm surface. Undercurrents
"Manchester by the Sea" written and directed by Kenneth Ronald is a story about misfortune and heartbreak-no matter how hard one tries to fill the neglected emotional trauma, it will always resurface. Out of the water. Looking back at Ronnagan's 2000 Oscar-nominated "You Can Trust Me", "Manchester by the Sea" is more restrained and reserved, and of course more desperate. How mourning is it? The protagonist’s brother Ben Affleck joked at the Oscars that if you search for "Manchester by the Sea" in the Amazon store, it will say that customers who bought the film will also buy Yu Fu Le (an antidepressant), although It's a joke, but it cannot be denied that it is definitely not a movie that makes people feel comfortable to watch. The
film uses a lot of montage techniques to show the daily life of the protagonist Li: mechanical snow shoveling and daily maintenance chores are edited together; the chatting and laughing of others in the bar intersect with Li's almost static drinking scene; happy and cheerful past memories and Today's life like a walking dead is in contrast. Sometimes it is silent, accompanied by the hard-to-eliminate white snow and endless sea water in Manchester in winter; sometimes a string or aria full of life ritual sounds, accompanied by seagulls soaring in the blue sky, seems to want to melt the ice and snow of human life, making it depressed. Not healed, quiet and not peaceful. A large number of shots in the movie are aimed at the desperate and cold tone of the winter background of the seaside town north of Boston. The gray-blue color scheme, the cold sea surface, the persistent fog, and the imagery without rendering and artistic processing make people feel To the heavy reality, the protagonist's "sorrow is greater than death" indifference.
Hemingway said: This world is so beautiful and it is worth fighting for. I only agree with the second half. The clues of
interspersed with flashback reveal the scars of the past. The hardest thing in the world is to empathize. The film slowly unfolds with the male protagonist’s memories. Reason: If Li didn’t want to party with friends that day, if Li was inconsiderate and lit a fire in the fireplace, if he could remember to put on a fire board, if he chose to drive instead of Walk to the store, if... there are not so many ifs in reality. The most obvious feature of this film lies in its reality: through a large number of line-drawing shots, the noise and dissonance in life are directly restored from the details: the sudden quarrel, which is different from the artistry of the film language, Li and his nephew are in the car Because of the closed quarrel, the awkward gaps in the conversation between Li and other people, and the frequent interruptions in the conversation, they all appeared in real life.
reality is always more absurd than drama, because its suddenness is completely unrecognizable.
's true and tolerable pain is more depressing than a cry, and it's even more heartbreaking. In many films, there is a critical point of emotion that will burst out, but the director has to block this exit. Everything seems to be soaked in the Manchester winter and will never be saved. The jazz master Duke Ellington once said: "You have to find a way to speak without speaking." This film takes the spirit of this sentence to its extreme.
uses tolerant and restrained acting skills to interpret the pain deep in the bones.
director Kenneth Ronald is good at showing roles and moments of intersection with other people. He likes to create emotionally hurt characters who struggle with self-improvement. These images also appear in "Manchester by the Sea". Cassie Affleck’s performance focuses on minimalism, and his role rarely has bright lines: in the movie "A Floating Ghost", he played a more challenging role as a ghost played by a bed sheet without any lines. , But all are infectious. And in this movie, his performance has confirmed thatAn old saying-less is more. Whether it is the depression and depression written on the face of the actor from beginning to end, as the plot progresses, it becomes heavier and heavier. Facing the emotional outburst of the elder brother's corpse, the collapse of the police station, the reunion with the ex-wife tearing the old scar, and the final collapse of the nephew, all of them can reflect the actor's subtle acting skills.
In the scene at the police station, the male protagonist calmly narrated the process but found that he didn’t need to be punished. He turned to grab the pistol on the table and wanted to shoot himself. For him, he didn’t have to bear any responsibility. His life is a shackle that is enough to suffocate him. Finally, he said to the police:
"Please."
Many times we are used to "acting burst" to admire an actor, expressing extreme pain through desperate roars, tearful and bloodshot eyes, and madness. This time Cassie used his strength to prove to us that forbearance and restraint in acting can also make people empathize, and this performance also won him an Oscar statuette.
The author’s favorite movie clip is the meeting and dialogue between Lee and his ex-wife. This performance by Michelle Williams is totally worthy of an Oscar supporting actress. The language of the movie screen and the wall in the middle clearly constitute a dividing line. Two people are like two worlds. The sweeter the memory, the denser the scars are left. Your wounds have never healed completely. I stand on your left, but there are two worlds.
"My heart is broken and will never be healed. I know your heart is also broken, "
" so I don't have to bear...I love you. "
" You can't just sink into this way..."
" My heart is empty."
interrupted again and again, tears flowed down without warning, and the trembling tone was about to exit but choked in his throat again. This is the conversation I think is the most touching. The choked words of the actor can not help but remind people of the wedding vows of Zhang Ziyi with sugar in "Favorites", but one is because of happiness and the other is because of pain.
In addition, the nephew of Li, another character in the play, is also a very interesting character. He is a rebellious child in his adolescence. On the night when he learned of his father's death, he discussed "Star Trek" with three or five friends. He stayed with his girlfriend for the night. He glanced at his father's body and left. But in fact, he was not in pain: he would want to leave his father’s cruise ship, he would not leave Manchester, he would quarrel with his uncle because his father would not be buried until spring. One night, when he opened the refrigerator and saw the frozen meat in the refrigerator, he finally broke down when he thought of his father's body frozen in the morgue. The moment your loved one leaves is usually not sad, but what really saddens you is the half carton of milk that opened the refrigerator, the green basket on the windowsill that flickered in the wind, and the velvet that quietly folded on the bed. Be, and the noise from the washing machine late at night.
Accept the most real life, and then live well
In the current society, we always want to see positive energy and hopeful movies: we want to see someone behind bars and finally fight back in the Jedi, so there is "The Shawshank's Redemption"; We want to see that even ordinary people can shine in the workplace, so there is the chick movie "The Queen in Prada"; we want to see that even if I am desperate and want to die, there is always an uninvited guest at the key. It always brings me warmth, so there is "A Man named Ovi decided to die". These are what we have seen in the movie, and today this movie is definitely not a regular movie: it arranges the chance encounter between the protagonist and the ex-wife, although they love each other, but at the end it is difficult to come true; although the nephew Patrick and There is no common warmth and embarrassment when the mother of the heart-minded meets. In the end, although Li Jian gradually opened his heart, the pain was still incurable at the time, and he still had to leave Manchester. The director seems to remind us: Life is not a movie, it has only bloody truths.
Regarding the theme of the film, it is difficult to summarize it. It combines the real fragments of life and shows us the seaside of Manchester. This place is always rainy and the sunshine of California will never come here again. There is a man, like countless silent and painful souls in the world, who cannot be saved. A broken soul will not be complete even if it comes back. It tells us that pain does not make a person, but pain can only defeat people. .
Yeats said:"If you want to be born again, you have to die first. "
is like this, but it's not only that. In the film, Li is used to carefully wrapping the original photos of his children and placing them on his bedside. At the end, when Li and his nephew went out to sea together, he finally showed a long-lost smile; Li It is said to find a house with two rooms so that my nephew can see him during the holidays...The golden light from the coastline in the film implies: Actually, it is not hopeless. In the face of pain, we may There is no way to beat it, all you can do is live, wait and remember. In fact, there is nothing to be saved, and there is nothing to defeat. To live is actually a habit.
"The days we have passed are all under your wrath; we The end of life seemed to sigh. The days of our life are seventy years old, if we are strong, we can reach eighty years old; but what we boast about is nothing but hard work and sorrow, and we fly away in a blink of an eye. "
Liu Liangcheng said: "We can't see all the snow that falls in a person's life. Everyone spends the winter alone in their own lives. We can't help anyone. My little fire is obviously a drop in the bucket for this poor life. His cold is too great. "There are many unsatisfactory things in life. What we can do is to survive the cold winter, work hard in the spring, and do not close our eyes but want painful memories in the warm hours. We appreciate the fierceness of life. But they also have the ability to feel the warmth of life.
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