Chapter 428: Wonderful
"I've never told anyone about this before. β
Shamo falls in love with Tom and she finally takes him to her residence, Tom enters her world, a world that few people can enter, and Shamo wants him to come in, him, and no one else. She began to tell Tom stories that were not just casually told to people, which only qualified people could hear, and Tom wondered if anyone else had ever been here, and Shamo's words made him understand something, and he said, "I guess I'm not a 'somebody'." β
Tom couldn't figure it out, so he could only explain to his close friend that "we're adults, we know how we feel, and we don't have to put those labels, like 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend', these are too naΓ―ve." He didn't think that the two sworn friends were love experts, and the desperate Tom approached the dog-headed military advisor Rachel Jr., "Obviously, you're just afraid that the answer is not what you want, and that will shatter all the illusions that have been around for months." He decided to ask.
"What's the situation with us?" On the big screen, Tom and Shamo are driving to the cinema, and Shamo keeps a smile in the face of his sudden question: "I don't know...... Who cares? I'm happy, aren't you happy?" Tom immediately replied with a smile, "Happy." β
"That's right!" Sammo laughed a few times, she blinked a few times, smiled and leaned into Tom's shoulder, nudged his head, and played with his ear, Tom laughed happily, he didn't continue the conversation, but Samo looked a little disappointed.
Tom is such a fool! I don't know how many of the same silent curses were generated in the 3351 North American theaters, listening to the somewhat sad soundtrack, watching the car drive towards the dark tunnel, many audience members felt a sense of helplessness, Rachel could also see that Shamo was flustered and nervous, she said something against her will, and tried to attract attention, but Tom thought that this was the case, just like when the restaurant broke up, Shamo wanted him to confess, and he didn't know it.
"It would have been fine if I had just made it clear. Rachel has already invested in the screen story, and can't help but feel sorry for Tom and Shamo, why can't people who love each other get together?
Sometimes Tom just needs more courage, and Shamo hasn't fully understood her heart, and she's been disappointed again and again, which makes her feelings for Tom cool. "Really, that's for me!?Don't do it next time, I don't need your help!" After Tom and someone violently clash at the bar, after returning to Shamo's house, the two argued, Tom said that he fought because she was molested, but Sam felt that he had been silent because he was ridiculed by the accoster for "I can't believe he's your boyfriend".
On the big screen, which is divided into two halves with different images, Tom and Shamo, who are arguing on the left and right, are lying on the beds in their respective residences, silently looking at the phone at the bedside, waiting for the other party to call, Tom took the microphone several times and put it down, his head on the pillow.
"Don't fight, don't fight......" Jessica said nervously and silently, "Come on, fight!" Rachel also nervously silently said, and there were countless spectators; "This bastard." Helen took a deep breath slowly, calming down her unspeakable mind, she was so stupid to pick up the phone, so stupid to wait...... In the middle of the night, the doorbell rang suddenly, and Tom got up and dressed and walked to open the door.
"I'm sorry. Sammer was a little worried about his angry look, but Tom had a condescending haughty, in fact, neither of them wanted to lose each other at this time. Tom sighed annoyedly, "Okay, we don't need to put a label, that's fine, I get it, but you know I just need some stability, and I wonder if you're going to wake up one morning and suddenly feel ...... It's changed. Sha Mo said in a rare soft tone: "I can't give you this guarantee, no one can." She gently stroked his beaten forehead: "Does it hurt? I like you......"
The conflict seemed to be resolved, and the audience laughed from time to time in the screening room, especially when they watched Tom and Summer do stupid things together. But the atmosphere of the story inevitably enters the main stage of lovelorn and heartbreaking, after losing Shamo, Tom is a mess in both life and work, and even the best greeting cards can't be written, when he was in love with Shamo before, he was so inspired, she is his muse, and now, from writing happy greeting cards to sad condolences.
"I hate Shamo, I hate her rude short hair, I hate her duck-like voice, I hate her bumpy knees...... I hate this song!!"
On the once romantic tram, Tom, who was wearing headphones, roared madly, his eyes sprayed with murderous rage, everyone on the train was frightened, and when he arrived at the station, the black driver said with a serious expression: "Young man, you must get off." β
"Oh my God!" Except for the secretly happy Yanghei, audiences all over North America can't laugh, they really can't stand it, watching a lovelorn movie before Christmas! Will it be okay in the end? It will be a Hollywood-style ending, right!? Kelly silently shouted: "It must!" The renewed hope soon came! After many months of trying to forget Shamo, because he went to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of a company colleague, Tom and Shamo, who had been resigned for a long time, met on the train, and the two laughed, danced, and Looking back, she felt like she was back with him, everything was like it hadn't changed, and Summer invited him to the party again, Tom was looking forward to it, and so were the audience.
In the split screen, the left half is what Tom is looking forward to, and the other half on the right is the reality, he expects that when the door is opened, Shamo will kiss him and praise him for his handsome clothes, but in reality she only gives a small hug; he expects that his gift of architecture books will surprise and intoxicate Shamo, and she thanks her very politely; he expects that at the rooftop table, he will have a good conversation with Shamo, and the reality ......, "Tom, what do you do?" I write congratulatory messages for greeting cards. Shamoga explains, "Tom would be a great architect if he wanted to. Summer's friend was surprised, "That's weird, I mean, how could you give up being an architect?" Tom explained, "My idea is...... Instead of making one-off things, like architecture, you can make timeless things, like greeting cards, you say?
Tom giggles to himself, but no one responds, no one laughs, and Shamo just smiles.
"Hey, who thinks it's better to write a greeting card?" Claire looked at the audience around her, and thought that a few people would say "YES", which highlighted Tom's immaturity and inability to give women a sense of security, but the biggest problem was that he was obviously fascinated by architecture, but he didn't dare to pursue his true inner thoughts, and chose to write greeting cards in a passable way, just like his previous relationship with Shamo.
As the melancholy soundtrack grows louder, Tom looks forward to an intimate relationship with Sammer and a formal reunion, but in reality he is left out in the cold, and suddenly sees him wearing a sparkling diamond ring and happily showing off his ...... Disillusioned!
"Oh!" there were sighs of surprise in the screening room, and the last glimmers of hope vanished, Evelyn opened her mouth wide and Linda opened her mouth wide...... Oh my God! They're totally finished!
On the big screen, Tom was stunned, he quickly escaped from the rooftop, ran down the stairs to leave the apartment building, and stood in the dead street, standing dejectedly, Shamo was getting married?...... The whole colored world gradually fades into a black and white pencil hand-drawn with his sadness and loneliness, a gray, a blur, and the lines of the gaps and shadows of the gradually blurred street scene are framed into a dead blue bird, symbolizing the dead blue bird that has lost its ideals and innocence.
"Awesome!" critics marveled at the film's meticulous work on the art side, with the black-and-white hand-drawn scene not only highlighting the texture, but also fully expressing Tom's frustration, skillfully setting the story and performance, and contrasting with the surreal song and dance scenes that preceded it.
Not only is this final discoloration treatment, but the split screen just now makes a subtle contrast between Tom's mood gaps, so that the falling, depressed, sour, painful depiction, and even a little cruel, when the expected picture shrinks until it disappears, it is difficult for the audience not to experience Tom's heartbreak at this moment.
From the cartoon hand-drawn in "Juno", the pseudo-documentary interview footage in "District 9", to the surreal special effects in "The Hangover", the sharp editing in "MIT-21-TEAM", and the split screen in "The Demon Wears Prada...... If "Firefly" gave up those fancy camera techniques and shocked people with absolutely unimaginable picture power, and Magic Yang played enough at one time in "500 Days with Shamo", and all the skills of the past came here, then it is perfect and easy.
"Liars! We're all goddamn liars, think about it! Why do people buy these greeting cards? Not because they want to say these things, it's because they can't or dare to say what they want to say, and we offer our services to get them out of it, you know?!
Tom erupted! At a company meeting, he suddenly sneered and counted his boss, his colleagues, and the card itself, and the audience was silent as he listened, right? Sometimes it is.
"It's these cards, movies, pop songs......" Tom gasped a few times, his eyes were still red, and he looked at his colleagues, his voice trembling a little: "They are responsible for all the lies, the heartache, the fantasies, and all the things that were made up for them...... We are responsible, and I am responsible! I think we are doing bad things, and people should be up to themselves to say how they feel, what they really feel, instead of letting strangers say it for them, like 'love' ......."
Under the 360-degree rotating panoramic lens, Vince, Mitch and others at the conference table were either stunned or expressionless, Tom suppressed his emotions and said much calmer: "That will be of no value." Sorry, sorry, I resigned. He pointed to the greeting card on the table: "There is enough bullshit in this world, I don't need to make it again." With that, he turned and walked away.
"Go open the room, really. Tom walked on the street in a bathrobe and pajamas during the day, the whole person was sloppy, decadent and sluggish, and when he saw a couple walking by and making mocking remarks, he naturally didn't get any good looks, "Haha." He shook his head and smiled, and went on his way, suddenly singing "Herees-Your-Man" with impunity: "Outside-theres-a-boxcar-aiting!Outside-the-family-ste......" and all the passers-by in the street looked at the crazy guy.
As the high-pitched and loud singing gradually became like a cry, the camera switched, Tom punched a black sandbag in the apartment, he was sweating profusely, panting like a cow, I don't know if he was unable to punch or stopped distractedly, but the sandbag suddenly bounced back and hit him, "Ahββ!" He roared uncontrollably, pushed the sandbag a few times with all his strength, almost unsteady on his feet, and suddenly rushed to the kitchen, came back with a fruit knife, and stabbed the sandbag with a knife, just like Sid stabbed Nancy, stabbed her body, and her heart ...... "Herees-your-man, Herees-your-man......"
Who's Sid? Who is Nancy? The sawdust in the sandbag fell to the ground, Tom stopped, looking at it all blankly, he sat down slowly, sat down on the sandy floor, his eyes were red and he looked at the tattered sandbag, and he was silently choking up and crying, and the illusory shadow of Shamo walked around the room, cleaning, reading, Dancing and all sorts of things increased to the full room, and then disappeared one by one, and Tom, who looked around, suddenly laughed again, crying and laughing, his face red, as if he was laughing at himself, and as if he was laughing at something.
"It's miserable. Looking at the crazy Tom, the audience could feel his pain, the atmosphere in the screening room was oppressive and heavy, I don't know when it started, Evelyn covered her sour nose and muttered in a choked voice: "Oh my God, my heart hurts...... Viewers who have recently experienced a heartbreak and broken love have burst into tears, and soft sobbing and sighing have resounded all over North America, why did you leave me?
"I did a lot of crazy things back then, and it was funny. Thinking of Wang Yang's words, Natalie's heart was full of slurs, and her underdeveloped tear ducts felt a little surging...... Seriously, what else has he done?" Rachel's eyes, completely immersed in the story, were teary-eyed, "Jan, were you so sad at that time...... The past is the past. Helen looked at this scene, she couldn't help leaning back in her chair and tilting her head, her heart was not a little happy, but there was an indescribable feeling, she knew that everyone should cherish the current happiness more.
Joshua thought that he had fallen out of love several times, and none of them would have been as bad as Tom, but how to lose Ali, and looked at the goddess next to him, he would ...... What's the point of life, what's the point of working hard? The film will definitely give an answer, but he will still ...... Crazy.
"How could she make Jan so sad, how could she! No one could...... I can't give it up!" Jessica was so angry and crazy at the thought that Jan had gone crazy for Helen before!
Wang Yang gritted his teeth in pain, did this guy think he was a Transformer? Suddenly, Jessica said to herself, "I'm going to San Francisco to beat her." Wang Yang was surprised: "Are you kidding?" Jessica turned her head with fire-filled eyes: "What do you think?" Wang Yang nodded without saying more: "I think it's a joke." Jessica looked at the screen, "I don't think so." ββ¦β¦ But this solo scene of "Tom" is also the scene that has been NG the most times in the whole film, "Can't you just break down a little?" Wang Yang's voice on the set loomed in his ears, and Nancy smiled, he was always dissatisfied with Gordon Levitt's performance, which is obviously very good now.
"Wonderful, classic. Film critics agree with this point of view, Wonder Young played his usual style, this scene through the clever use of props, with sandbags to represent Shamo and ideals, so that Tom at this time with a devastating sadness and indignation, life attitude to explode, Joseph Gordon Levitt's acting skills also got the opportunity to explode, and the surreal Shamo also continued to highlight Tom's longing feelings for her, this ** one-man show the "charm of lost love" to the fullest.
"Tom, I know you think she's your destiny, but I don't think you only remember the good things, and next time, when you look back on the past, I think you should think about it. β
The story continues on the big screen, and under the reminder of Rachel Jr., Tom began to re-examine this relationship, and one flashback shot after another connected those beauty, misunderstandings, mistakes, and disagreements, such as whether to watch the re-screening of "The Graduate", Tom doesn't care, Shamo wants to watch it.
The ending scene of "The Graduate" appeared on the screen, Benjamin, who successfully robbed the marriage, took his bride Elaine and ran on the bus, the two smiled brightly, and gradually became expressionless, and the bus drove towards the ignorant ahead. Summer in the audience burst into tears, but Tom didn't react, and when the two walked out of the theater, Tom asked, "Are you okay?" Shamo wiped her tears and said, "It's okay...... I'm just, just a. β
"It's more than just a movie. In front of the big screen, Linda was pleasantly surprised when she heard her boyfriend Seth suddenly say this: "I'm glad you think so." Seth wiped his warm eyes, "Yes, I know. β
Little by little, Tom dismantled the ideal Shamo in his heart, and he wiped all the contents of the greeting cards written on the big blackboard at home, and drew a new architectural drawing on it, and he seemed to cheer up, sorting out his grooming, self-study books on architecture, and looking for a job as an architect...... At the same time, Sha Mo over there tried on wedding dresses and bought rings, preparing for the wedding.
Seeing the appearance of "The Graduate", the audience has a glimmer of hope or extravagance, will Tom be like Benjamin, rush into the church to rob Shamer's wedding?
(To be continued)