Chapter 2200： lonely flight

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"In the Clouds" is expected to be Evan-Bell's first real work in the post-"Juno" era---"One Day" is not a typical art film, so when it was screened, I actually wanted to There are definitely a lot of people watching the jokes, and you can see a thing or two from the fact that the reporters at the premiere repeatedly mentioned that Studio Eleven is now being excluded from the circle.

In fact, the interests in the entertainment industry are not that simple. Since "Shakespeare in Love" defeated "Saving Private Ryan" and won the Oscar for best picture, Weinstein Company has been a thorn in the eyes of many people in Hollywood, but these years I haven't seen the Weinstein brothers being really excluded. The so-called jealousy, complaining, and exclusion are actually synonymous with negative emotions. The most important manifestation is that it will never end with a simple "I don't play with you" like a primary school student, but to treat it with a more critical eye.

This is the situation that Eleven Studio and Evan Bell are currently facing, and every work is bound to encounter more harsh scrutiny. And this time, "In the Cloud" in the eyes of critical film critics, Evan Bell Yiri handed over a perfect answer.

It is not new for William Wood to write film reviews for Evan Bell's works, but this time, William Zender's unprecedented professional and vivid interpretation of "In the Clouds" is very rare. After all, William Wood is not a professional film critic. , he is more accustomed to narrating Evan Bell's films from the perspective of the audience and the photographer, rather than interpreting them. But this time, William Wood's feelings obviously couldn't be more profound.

"Survival in the Wild, when it was released, some people said that it was the true portrayal of Evan-Bell; when 'One Day' was released, some people said that it was a reflection of Evan-Bell's story; Evan Bell's life trajectory. Is it really so?

Regardless of whether this is the case or not, no one will deny that Evan Bell's footage is still so deeply rooted in people's hearts that it easily destroys all psychological defenses and makes people disarm and surrender.

This time is no exception.

Ryan in the story is a person who lives above the clouds. He regards the airport as a living room and a hotel as a lounge. In the package of VIP cards and membership cards, he welcomes the beginnings and transitions of every day in his life. Of course, his job as a layoff specialist made his status even more special, and that life changed when he met Natalie, who tried to reform his work.

The perspective chosen by Evan-Bell is as unique as ever, and the special interpretation of the story runs through the whole story. Ryan's job of laying off staff has become one of the biggest highlights in the first half of the movie, making the audience feel curious about Ryan's work while suffering from the pain of the layoff process. The humor scattered in every corner of the story continues the joking style that made people smile at the corners of the mouth in 'Juno', and also made the entire viewing process very enjoyable.

Of course, a sense of humor alone isn't enough to make 'In the Clouds' the best surprise of the year. This time, Evan Bell was very unexpectedly sensational, but this sensationalism has a special meaning in the rhythm of the whole movie.

Evan Bell employs a large number of non-professional actors and ordinary people to use pseudo-documentary shooting methods to present the layoffs in a very real way. The real emotions of people who lost their jobs are even exaggerated in front of the camera, and in the middle of the conversation, the audience watched their world shatter. At this time, Ryan's various theories and persuasion sounded like a pile of shit.

You must know that this most real and even some deliberately provocative catharsis comes from the cruelty of life, which not only gives an unpredictable sense of closeness to the aura of the movie performance, but more importantly, through the most direct reaction of ordinary people , which contrasts the coldness and absurdity of Ryan's seemingly perfect Terminator-style work, which leads to the contradiction of Ryan's character, and gradually finds problems in Ryan's body: handsome appearance, dashing behavior, elegant Temperament, after this, also hides the cold loneliness and the helplessness of life.

Therefore, from the very beginning of the film, the aura that was incompatible with Evan-Bell's film style entered the big screen directly. Originally, we all thought that this was a huge subversion of Evan-Bell's film style, but in fact it was Another trick of Evan-Bell, quietly hiding the uneasy emotions in the hearts of every audience, or to be more precise, substituting every audience from the paradise of the cinema into the reality of the snowy outside. middle. Then under the guidance of Evan Bell's lens, the emotions of all audiences draw a beautiful arc from cold to warm, and then from warmth back to the cruelty of reality.

Therefore, when the backpack theory in the movie appeared, the audience would first notice the wit and humor of Ryan played by Evan Bell, and for a long time, the audience would be immersed in his infinite charm, thinking that he Everything told is from the heart of warmth, and then turned around to find that all this is so cold and so helpless. Ryan wasn't just addicted or even caught up in it all.

Evan Bell uses the gorgeous camera trajectory and wonderful picture editing to interpret the procedures of a package of luggage, dressing, going out, boarding, and security check with smooth shots, but it also brings this character nowhere. The dark tide of the footsteps is surging. When new employee Natalie came up with a new way of working with video conferencing, it wasn't so much a change in work as it was a way of life that Ryan had become a system. Therefore, I saw Ryan's first gaffe, competitive, childish but serious.

So far, the film presents two ideas, one is the unknown life behind a special occupation, and the other is a special state of life represented by Ryan. In addition to Ryan, there is also Alex in this state of life.

When Alex, Ryan, and Natalie sat across from each other and talked, everyone realized that this was not just a two-generation conversation, nor a generation gap can explain the problem. It is more about the difference in concept, the collision of two completely different ways of life and life concepts. Even if the age of Ryan and Alex is subtracted by ten years, and the age of Natalie is added to the speech, the lives of these two different types of groups are parallel lines, and it is difficult to have more intersections.

Alex and Ryan are unfettered and have been running wildly on the road to work since they entered the society. For them, family is not the focus of their lives. Hotels, cabins, and rental cars can all be their ports; Nata Li, on the other hand, planned her life early, and the other half was not a so-called love product, but a partner who complemented each other and joined hands with each other. They made plans to tie the child's house and car to the rope of fate. The former behaves like a footless bird with no foothold, flying to the moment when it is exhausted and splendidly falling, while the latter's life is like a play arranged by someone, looking boring but constantly being staged in our lives.

But the problem is, we don't know how long the former's excitement can last, and even the parties themselves don't know, their rationality in life dominates, it's numbers, all kinds of cards, and freedom to wander, but they also have this kind of happiness. Knowing that not only will it be difficult to maintain for a lifetime, but he will inevitably die alone. The moment he hits the ground is the moment of death. As a result, Ryan hesitated at his sister's wedding, got stuck in a theoretical indoctrination speech that looked brilliant but knew it was tedious, and was on the road to Alex's search for happiness. In fact, he has already begun to choose A life similar to Natalie's. It's just a pity that Ryan couldn't find the right path, and he still couldn't park.

At the moment of his heart, Ryan, who had footprints all over the world, disappeared. The fall of the footless bird was amazing, but the sadness of not being able to land was the same for Alex, but she was more flexible, she knew How to find a balance between sky, sea and land to give yourself a short respite. Half of her life is as casual and happy like Ryan as duckweed; the other half of her life is based on reality. In a joyful Chicago house, children play and run, and her husband is warm and considerate. And at the juncture of the two halves of life, Ryan, the footless bird, is Alex's short-lived habitat. When she has enough rest, she continues to fly, while Ryan falls to the bottom of the valley.

After all, Ryan was unable to end the life of the footless bird. He wanted to embrace family, friendship and love, but Natalie, who represented friendship, resigned, and his family, who represented family, stayed away from his life in Milwaukee, and Alex who represented love. Kes disappeared from his life forever So, he knew he had woken up, and he knew he still needed to keep flying, alone.

And when the goal that Ryan has always dreamed of has been achieved, and the unreachable 10 million miles has come at the most incredible moment, what can it mean? Nothing.

So, at the end of the story, Ryan, the footless bird, continues to fly again, moving forward in a world full of contradictions, because if all this is not shaken, Ryan's story is just a curiosity, showing the world of special occupations, But it can't be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people; but if all this is shaken, the audience will see a happy and happy ending. This will be the clichéd love scene ten years ago, and now it no longer exists.

Because in today's society, times have changed, the warmth in the movie is hidden in the details, and the truth of life begins to emerge. Evan Bell seems to be telling you: there are not so many stories of the diamond king and fifth son of his righteousness, only the story of a footless bird flying lonely on the clouds is repeated.

This kind of lonely flight is like a VIP card made of graphite material in the movie. When needed, it is warm and caring in the hand; but when it is far away, it is just an abandoned card, cold and ordinary, and can be seen everywhere.

The life of a footless bird will never stop. When it lands, it is the end of its life. Ryan is like that. "

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