Doremus's lens always has a sense of wandering peeling, as if a dream that is flowing all the time, stripping the happiness and beauty of the story from the basis of reality, creating a fragmented illusion of watching the movie, so that every audience can easily find their own familiar shadow in the movie, and in a trance you can see that what is on the big screen is not Jacob and Anna, but themselves and the memories of the past. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The script written by Drake Doremus and Ben York-Jones is delicate and insightful, and what makes the film special is not that it tells a simple love story, but that it explores what love is: there is no right or wrong, everything is a matter of timing, and even two people who are deeply in love miss each other by accident.

The same story, if placed in the context of World War II, or in the era of racial/racial discrimination, may be endowed with a kind of historical heaviness and epic grandeur, and the intertwining of fates makes people sigh, and then becomes a masterpiece like "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button".

But the brilliance of the movie lies in stripping away all these additional factors, suppressing the grandeur of fate to a minimum, returning the power of society to its essence, and then amplifying the emotion of 'love', sacrificing the pattern and framework of the film, but successfully allowing every audience to substitute for it. Single-mindedly and attentively tells a story about love and only about love.

Those who study screenwriting can study the details of the movie, Jacob's sketchbook, Jacob's chair to Anna, Anna's favorite whiskey, Anna's diary...... These details all show a sense of belonging, a sense of belonging that gradually closes two people closer, but gradually pushes two people apart.

Sadly, Doremus is a little impatient and immature in dealing with these details, and at the end of the film, Anna vomits in the bathroom after drinking the whiskey she once loved, and Jacob's sketches lose their former spirituality and begin to become mediocre.

This makes the function of the details deliberately highlighted, showing the director's intention vividly, but lacking some space for the audience to think. To some extent, the film gives the director's own answer.

But undoubtedly, this is still an excellent film, relying on a simple to pure love story, but interpreting a completely different style and depth. In this regard, 'Love Crazy' is more profound than '500 Days with Shamo', but slightly inferior to 'Blue Valentine'.

It is worth mentioning that Lan Li Hall, this film is only his second big screen work, but his performance has become the brightest shining point of the whole movie: delicate and profound, restrained and complex, as if nothing has been said, but as if everything has been said, the precipitation and changes of time, emotional turmoil and entanglement, under his performance, become vivid and real.

Amazing, in addition to being amazing or amazing. After 'Buried Alive', Hall once again gave a wonderful performance at the Oscar level!"

After writing the film review, Elizabeth carefully read it and found that some of the sentences were not too smooth, and the traces of personal emotions could still be seen more or less.

There is a good chance that the editor-in-chief of the New York Times will be picky and may even be shot, but ...... That's all she thinks at the moment, she loves the movie, she loves it very much, even more than "Blue Valentine".

Is this a perfect movie? No, from a technical point of view, there is still a lot of room for improvement, and the script is slightly inferior to "Brokeback Mountain". However, this does not affect her personal preferences in the slightest.

Suddenly, Elizabeth somewhat understood Roger Ebert's scoring system, objective comments are one thing, subjective judgments are another.

After thinking about it, Elizabeth finally gave a 90 percent rating, and then sent the manuscript out. Last year, she gave "Blue Valentine" a rating of 88 points.

After making sure that the email had been sent, Elizabeth let out a long breath and leaned back in her chair, her shoulders drooping heavily. Picking up the coffee cup and looking at the snowflakes falling slowly outside the window, the irritable mood finally calmed down. It was nice to come across the movie "Love Crazy" at the Sundance Film Festival.

Elizabeth wasn't the only film critic to be trapped in personal emotions during this sleepless night, and Variety's Stephen Hodden also found it tricky.

This "love is crazy" film review, he has deleted and revised it five times, but he still feels not very satisfied, but he wants to continue to revise it, but he doesn't know where to start.

This movie is very special, it doesn't seem like anything, but after savoring it, there are so many things to think about. In fact, Stephen's first feeling after watching the movie was like "Blue Valentine", but not as good as "Blue Valentine". That's what he came to say.

Last year he gave "Blue Valentine" 85 points, so ...... "Love is crazy" hovers between 75 and 80 points.

But after sitting in front of the computer and writing a movie review, he found that the thoughts in his mind were always tumbling and surging.

He's not a rookie anymore, having been writing film reviews for Variety magazine for four years, and the experience was even longer before that. Being recognized by the most authoritative and professional magazines in Hollywood is in itself a recognition of Stephen's ability. But for the movie "Love is Crazy", after he slowly reminisced, he always found more.

When the ending song of the movie began to play, the audience sat quietly in their chairs, savoring the ending left by the movie, with a hint of helplessness in the bitterness, trying to find an accurate word to describe their feelings, but ultimately failed, and all emotions finally turned into a sigh.

This means that 'Love is Crazy' has been a success.

In 1989, 'When Harry Met Sally' was released, a delicate and authentic film that shows two strangers becoming friends and eventually lovers. 'Love Goes Crazy' reminds me of this movie.

Unlike 'When Harry Met Sally', which clearly presents fifteen years in the form of coordinates, the timeline of 'Love Goes Crazy' is very vague, and even almost lost in the hazy mood of the movie, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will miss the passage of time.

The screenwriter hides all the details in the dialogue, and then shows the powerful power of this time change through the transformation of the plot and the performance of the actors, the seemingly rough but delicate emotional subtle changes, which are vividly displayed under the camera, from meeting and falling in love, to parting, staying together, to exhaustion, and finally to discouragement. The process of love from budding to disappearing, real to cruel.

At the end of the movie, everything is so natural, it naturally connects from the unreal to the reality, it leaves a puzzle, a problem, a myth, to be solved by every viewer in reality. There is no hope, no despair, and no answers. This is also where the movie is better than 'When Harry Meets Sally', it's not a Hollywood romantic fairy tale, it's a part of life.

"Love is Crazy" has completed an almost impossible task, showing the process of love's beginning and ending completely, without blaming anyone for the fault, and presenting the most primitive face of love. Perhaps, it is not as cruel and bloody as 'Blue Valentine', but it is fuller, more vivid, and at the same time, more complete.

This is Drake Doremus's third feature film, and with its richly colored shots, real and interesting details, and just the right amount of control, it makes for a very well-finished work that is eye-catching, but the real success of the film is in the casting, and Felicity Jones and Ranley Hall give some of the best performances since the Sundance Film Festival opened.

Twenty-two years ago, the audience witnessed Harry and Sally's fifteen-year long-distance run, and the lovers finally got married, and twenty-two years later, the audience witnessed the heartbreak and romance of Jacob and Anna, but the reunion ended almost breathlessly. ”

Stephen extinguished the cigarette butt in his hand and read his manuscript again.

At this moment, the image that came to his mind was not the suffocating brutality of the second half of the film, but the scene where Jacob and Anna traveled to Catalina. Jacob did everything he could to amuse Anna, even dancing clumsily, which really made people laugh.

Once, he had done everything he could to win the girl's smile, but now, they were separating, waiting for the time limit to expire and then automatically divorce.

They have tried, tried, persevered, and struggled, but they have finally come to this point, they still love each other deeply, trying to find a solution, and trying to find a way out. But now, he finally understands that he is not wrong, and she is not wrong, it's just that they missed each other, that's all.

Just like Jacob and Anna.

After thinking about it, Stephen added another paragraph at the end.

"It's a movie about love, but it's also about reality. We are looking for the truth of reality in the movie, and we are looking for the illusion of the movie in reality, and Drake Doremus has done a great job with this film. Wonderful and moving, real and profound, delicate and brutal, it is definitely one of the best works of 2011!"

Then, Stephen typed the score at the end and sent the email straight away.

Stunned to look at the mail, and then dialed the familiar number, he thought he had forgotten, but his fingers could always press the number effortlessly, it was already one o'clock in the night, the phone rang for a while, and then it was connected, she didn't speak, just silence, but he knew that she was on the other end.

After a short silence, he spoke, "Let's get a divorce." ”

After waiting for a while, her familiar voice came from the phone, "Okay." ”

Stephen's eyes fell on the computer screen.

Ninety points. The end of the email is marked as such.