Live in the world, that should be cherished

Rating: 8/10 (25 April 2020)

This is a good-looking movie, why do you say that? When I watched it, I didn't pay too much attention to the progress bar, and when I reacted, the film had reached the end. It is very rare for a film to be immersed in it. "American Beauty" is quite natural and fascinating. After watching it, it can't help but wonder. It is no wonder that it will win five Oscars and 2000 Oscar Awards. 3 nominations.
This movie mainly describes 7 characters and 2 American families. Perhaps many people hate the male type of Leicester, but my favorite character is him. He is indeed "dirty" at the beginning of the film. He was obsessed with his daughter's girlfriends, and was in a dire situation. He faced resignation, became hot and cold with his wife, and became estranged from his daughter. However, after realizing that his daughter's girlfriend Angela was not disgusted with himself and wishing to keep fit, he became quite active after he met the new neighbor, the drug dealer Richie, who was a classmate with her daughter, and started taking drugs. Came alive from a pool of stagnant water.
Although the motivation and reason are not pure, the optimism, cheerfulness, and positiveness of the male lead Leicester have infected me. In the movie, there have been two changes in the male lead. The first time is his obsession with Angela and drug addiction. This change has transformed him from a middle-aged man with a middle-aged crisis, unemployment crisis, and family crisis into a new confidence in life. , Gradually recovering the family who actively pursued love, but at this time he was still quite selfish and morally misplaced; the second change was when he had Angela at his hand and worked hard to get it back, he found that Angela was At the time of his virginity, he felt a sense of protection for Angela and suppressed his desires. He regained morality, cared for his daughter, and the responsibility of a father and husband. His inner integrity became straight.
The transformation of the male host is complete, and the film seems to usher in a relatively good ending, "The male host picks up the goodness of life, improves family relations, finds a job, etc.", but a gunshot sounds and the male host suddenly dies and paints the film. It came to a not-so-complete but perfect period. To quote Leicester, "I guess I should be angry when I die, but the world is so beautiful, I should not be angry all the time." This is the charm of Leicester in the film, calm and optimistic, always with a smile. Compared with the other six characters, I found that perhaps the person who was the most abnormal at the beginning was the most normal at the end.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Photography and Best Film Editing, and the reasons can be glimpsed from many of the lenses. The performance of the two discordant families in the film is described by a three-person long lens. The Leicester family eats at the dining table. Leicester, his wife, and her daughter sit upright, and the ritual is full, but The distance between the triple rooms is very far. As the camera zooms in, the distance gets farther and farther. Although the three people have a dialogue, but there is no lens conversion, this kind of unharmonious expression is most vividly expressed.
Neighbor's house, a family sitting on the sofa watching TV, a very small sofa, there should be a half position between the two, the same three-person lens, the same sense of alienation, no need to describe too much, the internal relationship between the two families The tension was conveyed to the audience.
A lot of symmetrical picture composition is used in the film to make it grand and magnificent, but also give people the visual enjoyment and beauty. The 2.55: 1 aspect ratio is easier to see if it is a symmetrical structure. The house, the movements of the characters, and the symmetry have always appeared. I was impressed by a scene. Leicester came to the daughter 's room to secretly call Angela. The daughter came out of the bathroom. The male owner slipped away from the door. The two doors were in the middle. One is on the right, what to do with asymmetry? The director installed a mirror on the left, symmetrical the door on the right to the left, and created a symmetrical composition.
The use of Richie's camera in the film is unique. I can see these two points. The first point is to use a camera to show Ricky 's love for her daughter Jenny. There is no way to say that Ricky likes Jenny in the film, but the audience is convinced. why? Because many times in the film, Richie was shooting Jenny with a camera, constantly zooming in, and putting Jenny 's face to the maximum. Even though Angela was doing various provocative movements, Richie 's lens was "invisible". The second is that when Jane and Rich talked about hiring Leicester, the camera's implementation of the imagery showed the expressions of the two people facing the same picture, using a lot of picture-in-picture and even making the picture-in-picture symmetrical. Of course, there are more than these. When Rich's father stormed Rich at home, the camera also played a role, so I will not list them here.
Before the end of the film, the dialogue between the male lead Leicester and Angela in the living room was the climax of the movie's soaring acting skills. This was the second change of the male lead and his sublimation moment, a 20-second shot, It is all interpreted by the male facial expressions, "I'm fine," said the male host's sadness, and awakened his love for home.
After the male host was shot, many cross montages were used to explain that the male host 's wife wanted to kill the male host, so the audience had the illusion that the male host 's wife killed the male host, but the male host was clearly affectionate when he was killed. Looking at his family photo, how can his wife get it? I was puzzled. Sure enough, with the monologue of the male lead, a group of pictures with the same scene and the same direction of movement were superimposed by crossing the empty mirror with the reality. Three shots were fired. Six other characters were in the event. The last shot revealed that the murderer was a neighbor-the father of Rich.
It is beautiful to live, just like a plastic bag fluttering in the wind, trying to live as much as possible. This movie makes me feel a lot. It seems to be just telling a story and reflecting a reality, but it contains something else. Leicester: "You must not know what I am talking about, don't worry, you will understand one day."
However, this movie reminds us that if there is a misunderstanding, we must clarify it as soon as possible, or do not lie, because it may even cause the death of a life, let relatives go to prison, and the family broken.