Chapter 354

"The lens of doremus always has a sense of indecisive detachment, as if the dream is flowing all the time, stripping the happiness in the story from the basis of reality, creating a split illusion of viewing the film, so that every audience can easily find their own familiar shadow in the film, In a trance, you can see not Jacob and Anna on the big screen, but yourself and the memories.

Drake doremus and Ben York Jones wrote delicate and insightful scripts. The special feature of the film is not to tell a simple love story, but to explore the original appearance of love: there is no right or wrong, everything is a matter of timing, even the two people who love each other deeply, also miss each other under the circumstances.

The same story, if put in the background of World War II or the era of racial discrimination, may be endowed with a heavy history and epic magnificence, and the interweaving of fate makes people feel sad, and then it will become a masterpiece like "the wonder of Benjamin Button".

But the beauty of the film lies in stripping all these additional factors, suppressing the grandeur of fate to the minimum, returning the power of society to its essence, and then amplifying the emotion of love. At the expense of the pattern and framework of the film, every audience is successfully included in it. He told a story about love and only about love with one heart and one mind.

People who study screenwriting can study the details of the film, Jacob's sketchbook, Jacob's chair for Anna, Anna's favorite whisky, Anna's diary... All these details show exactly the sense of belonging, which gradually brings two people closer and pushes them away.

What's gripping is that doremus seems impatient and immature in dealing with these details. At the end of the movie, Anna drinks her favorite whisky and vomits in the bathroom; But Jacob's sketch also lost once spirituality, began to become mediocre.

This makes the details of the function are deliberately highlighted, the director's intention to show incisively and vividly, but the lack of some space for the audience to think. To some extent, the film gives the director his own answer.

But no doubt, this is still an excellent film, relying on a simple to pure love story, but the interpretation of a completely different style and depth. On this point, "love crazy" is more profound than "and summer's 500 days", but slightly inferior to "blue Valentine's Day".

It is worth mentioning that this film is only his second big screen work, but his performance has become the most brilliant point of the whole film: delicate and profound, introverted and complex, as if nothing was said, but as if everything had been said, the precipitation and change of time, emotional turbulence and entanglement, under his performance, Become vivid and real.

Amazing, in addition to amazing or amazing. After burying alive, hall once again presented an Oscar level performance

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

The editor in chief of the New York Times is likely to be picky or even shot, but... That's all she thinks at this moment. She likes the film very much, even more than blue Valentine's day.

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

All of a sudden, Elizabeth began to understand Roger Ebert's scoring system. Objective comment is one thing and subjective judgment is another.

After thinking about it, Elizabeth finally scored 90 points and sent out the manuscript. Last year, she gave "blue Valentine's Day" a rating of 88.

After confirming that the mail had been sent, Elizabeth took a long breath and leaned back in her chair, her shoulders drooping heavily. Take the coffee cup, looking out the window slowly falling snow, irritable mood is finally gradually calm down. I met the film "crazy love" at the Sundance Film Festival. It was very good.

In this sleepless night, Elizabeth is not the only film critic trapped in personal emotions, and Stephen Holden of "variety" magazine also finds it difficult.

He has deleted and revised this "crazy love" film review five times, but he is still dissatisfied with it. However, if he wants to continue to revise it, he doesn't know where to start.

This film is very special. It doesn't look like much, but after careful taste, there are too many things that make people think deeply. In fact, Steven's first feeling after watching the movie was like "blue Valentine's Day", but it was not as good as "blue Valentine's Day". That's his conclusion.

Last year, he gave "blue Valentine's Day" 85 points, so... "Crazy love" hovered between 75 and 80 points.

But after sitting in front of the computer and writing a film review, he found that his mind was always rolling and surging.

He is not a rookie. He has been writing film reviews for "variety" magazine for four years, and his previous experience is even longer. To be recognized by Hollywood's most authoritative and professional magazine is to recognize Stephen's ability. But for "crazy love" this film, he slowly aftertaste, but always have more discovery.

"When the last song of the movie starts to sound, the audience sit quietly in their chairs and savor the ending of the movie. There is a trace of helplessness in the bitterness. They want to find an accurate word to describe their feelings, but they fail. All their feelings turn into a sigh.

This means that crazy love is a success.

In 1989, "when Harry meets Sally" was released, this delicate and real film shows the process of two strangers gradually becoming friends and finally becoming lovers. The success of details makes a wonderful love film and becomes a classic in history. " Crazy love reminds me of this movie.

Unlike "when Harry meets Sally" which clearly presents 15 years in the form of coordinates, the timeline of "love crazy" is very obscure, even almost lost in the film's hazy mood. If you don't pay attention, you will miss the passage of time.

The screenwriter hides all the details in the dialogue, and then presents the powerful force of this time change through the conversion of the plot and the performance of the actors. The seemingly rough but delicate emotional subtle changes are vividly displayed under the camera, from meeting and falling in love, to parting and staying together, to exhaustion, and finally to despair. The process of love from germination to disappearance, from reality to cruelty.

At the end of the film, everything is so natural, naturally from the illusory to the reality, it left a puzzle, a problem, a myth, to the reality of each audience to solve. There is no hope, no despair, no answer. It's also a better place than when Harry meets Sally. It's not a romantic fairy tale in Hollywood. It's a part of life.

’"Love crazy" has completed an almost impossible task, showing the whole process of love, but without blaming anyone for the fault, showing the most original appearance of love. Maybe it's not as cruel and bloody as blue Valentine's day, but it's Fuller, more vivid and more complete.

This is the third feature film of Drake doremus, full of color lens, real and interesting details, just right control, showing a very high degree of completion of the work; But the real success of the film lies in the casting. Felicity Jones and Langley hall contributed the most wonderful performances since the opening of the Sundance Film Festival to make the film.

Twenty two years ago, the audience witnessed Harry and Sally's 15 years of long-distance running, and some lovers got married; Twenty two years later, the audience witnessed the heartbreaking romance of Jacob and Anna, but the reunion was almost breathless. "

Stephen put out his cigarette and read his manuscript again.

At this moment, the image in his mind is not the cruel and suffocating scene in the second half of the film, but the scene when Jacob and Anna travel to Catarina island. In order to amuse Anna, Jacob did all he could, and even began to dance awkwardly, which made people laugh.

Once upon a time, he tried his best to win that girl's smile; But now, they are separating, waiting for the time limit to come, and then divorce automatically.

They have tried, worked hard, insisted and fought, but they have come to this point after all. They still love each other deeply and try to find a solution and an exit. But now, he finally understood that he was not wrong, she was not wrong, just, 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, and it's also a movie about reality. We are looking for the truth of the reality in the film, and also looking for the illusion of the film in the reality. Drake doremus completed the film excellently. Beautiful and moving, real and profound, delicate and cruel, absolutely one of the best works of 2011

Then, Steven typed the score at the end and sent the email directly.

Staring at the email, he dialed the familiar number. He thought he had forgotten it, but his finger could press the number effortlessly. It was one o'clock in the middle of the night and the phone rang for a long time. Then he got through. She didn't speak. It was just quiet, but he knew that she was at the other end.

After a short silence, he said, "let's divorce."

Waiting for a while, her familiar voice came from the phone, "OK."

Steven's eyes fell on the computer screen——

90 points. This is the last sign of the email.