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“Doremus's lens always has a sense of wandering stripping, as if a dream is flowing all the time, stripping the happiness and beauty in the story from the basis of reality, creating a fragmented viewing illusion. Every audience can easily find their familiar shadow in the movie. In a trance, they can see that it is not Jacob and Anna on the big screen, but themselves and their past memories..
The script written by Derek Doremus and Ben Yorke-Jones is delicate and insightful. What is special about the film is not that it tells a simple love story, but that it explores the true face of love: there is no right or wrong, Everything is a matter of timing. Even two people who love each other deeply miss each other due to some strange combination of circumstances..
If the same story is placed in the context of World War II, or in the era of racial discrimination, it may be given a historical heaviness and epic grandeur. The intertwining of fates will make people sigh, and then become "Benjamin" -A masterpiece like "The Curious Case of Patton".
But the brilliance of the movie is that it strips away all these additional factors, suppresses the grandeur of fate to a minimum, returns the power of society to its essence, and then amplifies the emotion of 'love', sacrificing the pattern and framework of the movie, but Successfully let every audience take part in it. It tells a story about love and only love with one heart and one mind..
People who study screenwriting can study the details in the movie, Jacob's sketchbook, the chair Jacob gave to Anna, Anna's favorite whiskey, Anna's diary... These details all show the sense of belonging, which will The sense of belonging that gradually brings two people closer, but gradually pushes them apart.
What is depressing is that Doremus seems a bit impatient and immature in the handling of these details. At the end of the movie, after Anna drank the whiskey she once loved, she went to the bathroom and vomited; and Jacob's sketch I also lost my former spirituality and began to become mediocre..
This makes the details and functions deliberately highlighted, showing the director's intention vividly, but it lacks some space for the audience to think. To a certain extent, the film gives the director's own answer..
But there is no doubt that this is still an excellent movie, relying on a simple to pure love story, but interpreting a completely different style and depth. At this point, 'Crazy Love' and Summer's 500 Days' is more profound, but slightly inferior to 'Blue Valentine's Day'’.
It is worth mentioning that Renly Hall, this film is only his second big-screen work, but his performance has become the most dazzling highlight of the entire film: delicate, profound, and restrained And complex, it seems that nothing has been said, but it seems that everything has been said. The precipitation and changes of time, the turbulence and entanglement of emotions, under his performance, become vivid and real..
Stunning, not only stunning, but stunning. After "Buried Alive", Hall once again gave an Oscar-level performance！”
After writing the film review, Elizabeth read it carefully and found that some of the sentences were not very smooth, and traces of personal emotions could still be seen more or less..
“The editor-in-chief of "The New York Times" will most likely find fault, and may even get shot, but...that's all she can think about at the moment. She likes this movie, very much, even more than "Blue Valentine"”.
Is this a perfect movie? No, from a technical point of view, it still has a lot of room for improvement, and the script is slightly inferior to "Brokeback Mountain". However, this does not affect her personal preference at all..
Suddenly, Elizabeth somewhat understood Roger Ebert's rating system. Objective comments are one thing, but subjective judgments are another..
After thinking about it, Elizabeth finally gave a rating of 90 points and then sent the manuscript. Last year, she rated "Blue Valentine" at 88 points..
After confirming that the email had been sent, Elizabeth let out a long breath, leaned back on the chair, and slumped her shoulders heavily. She picked up the coffee cup and looked at the slowly falling snowflakes outside the window. Her irritable mood finally calmed down. .I encountered the movie "Crazy Love" at the Sundance Film Festival. It was quite good..
During this sleepless night, Elizabeth wasn't the only film critic to be troubled by her personal emotions. Variety's Stephen Holden also felt troubled.
He has deleted, deleted, and revised this movie review five times, but he still feels dissatisfied. However, he wants to continue revising, but he doesn’t know where to start..
This movie is very special. It doesn’t seem like much, but after you taste it carefully, there are so many thought-provoking things. In fact, Stephen’s first impression after watching the movie was that it was like “Blue Valentine’s Day” ", but not as good as "Blue Valentine". This is his conclusion..
Last year he gave "Blue Valentine" 85 points, so... "Crazy Love" will hover 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..
He is no longer a rookie. He has been writing film reviews for "Variety" magazine for four years, and his experience before that was even longer. Being recognized by the most authoritative and professional magazine in Hollywood is in itself a recognition of Stephen's ability. .But for the movie "Crazy Love", after he slowly recalled it, he always made more discoveries..
“When the ending song of the movie started to play, the audience sat quietly on their chairs, savoring the ending of the movie carefully, with a hint of helpless sadness in the bitterness, trying to find an accurate word to describe their feelings. , but failed in the end, all the emotions finally turned into a sigh.
That means 'Crazy Love' was a success.
1989In 2017, 'When Harry Met Sally' was released. This delicate and realistic film shows the process of two strangers gradually becoming friends, and finally becoming lovers. The success of the details creates a wonderful film. love movie, and has become a classic in history. 'Crazy Love' reminds me of this movie.
Unlike 'When Harry Met Sally', which clearly presented fifteen years in the form of coordinates, the timeline of 'Crazy Love' is very obscure, and is even almost lost in the hazy mood of the movie. If you don't pay attention, you will miss the passage of time.
The screenwriter hides all the details in the dialogue, and then uses the transformation of the plot and the performances of the actors to show the powerful power of this change of time. The subtle changes in emotions that seem rough but are actually delicate 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 budding to disappearing is so real and cruel.
At the end of the movie, everything fell into place so naturally, and it naturally transitioned from fantasy to reality. It left a confusion, a problem, and a myth to be solved by every viewer in reality. There is no hope, no despair, There is no answer. This is also what makes the movie better than 'When Harry Met Sally'. It is not a Hollywood romantic fairy tale, it is a part of life..
’"Crazy Love" has completed an almost impossible task, completely presenting the process of love's ups and downs, without blaming anyone for the fault, and presenting the most original face of love. Perhaps, it is not as good as "Blue Lover" The plot is so cruel and bloody, but it is fuller, more vivid, and at the same time, more complete.
This is the third feature film of Derek Doremus. The colorful shots, real and interesting details, and just the right control present a very complete work that is eye-catching; but the movie The real success lies in the casting. Felicity Jones and Renly Hall gave the most exciting performances since the opening of the Sundance Film Festival, making this film a success..
Twenty-two years ago, the audience witnessed Harry and Sally's fifteen-year long run, and the lovers finally got married; twenty-two years later, the audience witnessed Jacob and Anna's heartbreaking romance, but the happy ending almost left them disappointed. One can't breathe.”
Stephen put out the cigarette butt in his hand and read his manuscript again.
At this moment, the picture that came to his mind was not the cruel and suffocating scene in the second half of the movie, but the scene when Jacob and Anna traveled to Catalina Island. Jacob wanted to amuse Anna. , tried his best, even danced clumsily, which really made people laugh..
In the past, he also tried his best to win a smile from that girl; but now, they are executing the separation, waiting for the time limit to expire, and then automatically divorce.
They have tried, worked hard, persisted, and fought hard, but they have finally reached 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 No, he was not wrong, and she was 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.
“This is a movie about love, but it is also a movie 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. Derek Doremus completed this movie brilliantly .Beautiful and moving, true and profound, delicate and cruel, it is definitely one of the best works of 2011！”
Then, Stephen typed the score at the end and sent the email directly..
He stared at the email blankly, and then dialed the familiar number. He thought he had forgotten it, but his fingers could always press the numbers effortlessly. It was already one o'clock in the evening, and the phone had been ringing for a while. , and then the connection was connected. She didn't speak, there was just silence, but he knew that she was on the other end..
After a short silence, he said, "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 minutes. The end of the email is marked like this.
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