Section 247 Ordinary Love
December 25th is the day of Christmas, which is the most important holiday for Americans, and it is also the most important day for people in the film industry, because this day means the arrival of the last week of the year.
According to the practice of the year, when it comes to Christmas, some good movies will also be released one after another. And when it comes to the last week, it is often not those big-budget movies that will be released, at this time, some films that are in a hurry to participate in the awards season will be released on a small scale at this time, and these movies are more worthy of attention for fans.
Like this year, there is one such movie. Levy's film, Eternal Sunshine of the Beautiful Mind, was released at this time of the year.
At this time last year, Levy's film was lost in Tokyo and chose to be released on a small scale, and at this time this year, his film is also released on a small scale. Although there were only more than 30 movie theaters, this did not affect the enthusiasm of fans, and when Levy's movie was released, fans still came to the movie theater early to watch the movie.
Levy's romance movie, the level is quite good. Especially this one, Levi himself said that the movie is in the style of angels who love beauty - how can you miss such a movie?
Therefore, at Christmas, many couples all chose to go to the cinema and enjoy a movie. Couples have always been one of the main forces of watching movies, and their enthusiasm has also made the movie theater almost full.
The screen goes dark and the movie begins. After a short opening credits, the light begins to light up on the dim screen, and the movie begins.
And people's emotions were also mobilized at this time.
The story of the movie. It looks rather monotonous. A man who got up from his bed, for unknown reasons, went to Montauk. After the movie starts, the man's flat voice introduces his situation, and all this seems to be very bland. Not only is the story bland, but even the man's voice, his story, seems to be just as bland.
And. The style of this movie is also very strange. The tone of the movie is very different from the bright and vivid tones in Levy's previous films, the cold gray-black color makes the whole picture look quite lifeless, which also makes people see a trace of difference from Levy's previous films in the movie.
This movie is supposed to be depicting a love story, but the male protagonist who appears in the movie seems to have absolutely nothing to do with being handsome. His appearance is quite ordinary. Whether it's looks, dress, or the prosaic lifestyle in the self-narrative, it seems to prove it. He's a normal person.
However, this is the protagonist of the story - what is this story trying to tell? Is such a boring male protagonist really the protagonist of a love story?
With doubts. People continue to watch the movie, and at this very moment, on the platform. The heroine has appeared.
Her appearance is extremely eye-catching: she is wearing an orange down jacket and dyed blue hair, all of which attract people's attention to her at once. This kind of dress, even in ordinary life, is not very common, let alone in such a dim movie, when such a 'dazzling' person appears, people know at a glance that she is unusual.
If the blandness of the male protagonist surprised people, then the excessive brilliance of this heroine also surprised people.
This is the heroine? The question is even greater. According to the introduction, the male protagonist should be a person who lives quite well-behaved, how can a person who lives a well-behaved life fall in love with such a woman?
This seems incredible.
But the unthinkable happened. As they boarded the train, the woman who was just curiously looking at the male protagonist on the platform began to take the initiative to contact him.
It was just a brief encounter, and as with all romance movies, they fell in love. However, it was only then that people began to discover the charm of the hero and heroine. The heroine who takes the initiative to talk to is not a stupid woman, on the contrary, she has rare enthusiasm and frankness. In this process, the actor has always had a gentle smile and responded to her words, but in his flat tone, he showed his tolerance and generosity towards people.
The charm of these two people was all on display in just a few minutes.
Everything is normal with their communication, everything is natural. There are no special amazing scenes, no particularly charismatic characters, but they are so harmonious. The honest male protagonist and the passionate heroine met like this, and the two seemed to know from the beginning that they would meet each other and fall in love with each other.
Everything seems so plain, but it doesn't seem to be real.
And in this process, the tone of the film gradually becomes brighter: this film, from the shooting technique, is shrouded in romantic colors.
Like all love movies, such a heroine just makes the male protagonist excited. When he walked out of the train station, he took the initiative to drive to catch up with the actor Joel, who asked for a ride, and rarely showed his initiative.
Then, the relationship between the two people immediately deepened. Like all love at first sight, their love process is so romantic, and it doesn't take long for the two of them to love each other deeply.
However, at this time, Joel, who was waiting downstairs for the heroine Clementine to get something, was knocked on the glass of the car window.
"Do you need help?"
The seemingly extremely simple question made the actor stunned for a moment, he didn't understand why someone would ask him this question, as if he didn't understand why he went to Montauk, why he fell in love at first sight with this strangely dressed woman.
Everything seems to have its own providence.
If one is an accident and two are coincidences, then more than three times is definitely a problem.
And at this moment, words began to appear on the screen.
Looking at the watch, 17 minutes have passed since the beginning of the movie, and this extra-long opening is quite surprising to people.
Could it be that this is to show people all aspects of their love experience? However, what about the fantasy elements in this movie? Shouldn't those things be more important? People want to see these things, why can't they see them now?
If it's just a romance movie, people will be very satisfied with filming to this extent. To be able to bring such two seemingly impossible people together, the director is full of skill. But if it's Levy's film, people aren't very happy -- they ask for more.
With some doubts, people continued to watch.
When the beginning of the film passes, the movie cuts back again, and it is already the male protagonist chatting with his friends. The topic of their conversation is the upcoming Valentine's Day, and it seems that the male protagonist seems to have a hint of irritability about what to give his girlfriend: he and his girlfriend have a quarrel.
This result was not unexpected, his girlfriend's temper did not look at all the same type as him. Their contradictions are not unexpected.
It's just that the attentive viewer, at this time, seems to have noticed something: at the beginning, when the protagonist flips through the diary by himself, he said the date, and at that time, it was obviously just after Valentine's Day. But now, Valentine's Day is approaching again, could it be that their love has been more than a year?
These questions did not cause people to reflect too much, and then the actor bought a gift and wanted to apologize to his girlfriend. However, when he met his girlfriend, he found out that his girlfriend had married a new love. Moreover, what made him even more unimaginable was that his girlfriend looked at him as if she had never known him.
What's more painful than being betrayed by your girlfriend? Especially the audience, who just saw how they fell in love. Joel's pain in the film seems to penetrate the screen directly and reach the hearts of the audience.
The miserable Joel complained to his friend, but his friend was not on the list, on the contrary, he quarreled with his wife, watching his friend and his wife quarrel, Joel's mood became even more depressed - when a person's love is frustrated, seeing others are just as unhappy, pain can be contagious.
However, he was still depressed, but at this time, he saw the advertisement of the Forgetful Clinic.
This strange name made Joel begin to understand something. With a glimmer of hope, he went to the Forgetfulness Clinic, hoping to get a negative answer. It's a pity, as he expected, here his moral message is the same as he guessed: his girlfriend went to the Forgetfulness Clinic, washed her memory, and therefore forgot about him.
Obviously, for the failure of love, his girlfriend chose a more radical way than him.
Joel is obviously difficult to accept such news. He was desperate to ask for the Forgetfulness Clinic to treat him as well, to forget about Clementine. As instructed by the doctor, he took everything about Clementine to the clinic, and then, at the request of the clinic's doctor, Howard, prepared to erase his memory of Clementine.
And Dr. Howard said yes. After what seemed like a fairly simple preparation, he was about to erase Joel's amnesics.
All of this seemed rather bizarre and bizarre - how could the memories be erased? It doesn't feel like something in a normal movie at all. However, just like the scenes where angels love beauty, after experiencing the change of color, the change of scene, the romance of love, and the guidance of the shooting method in the previous films, people are not surprised by this.
This is a credit to the filming of the film.
And just after the instrument took Joel's head, in a trance, Joel seemed to leave his body and came to the room a few minutes ago.
Suddenly, he began to understand: it was his memory.
The process of cleaning has already begun. (To be continued......)