Upon Steve Jobs’ death, Apple released a one-hour interview from 1994 with Jobs and a computer company called NeXT in memory of its creative father. As a very organized and self-aspired speaker, Jobs always gave the best composed yet inspiring interviews. However, unlike his powerful Stanford Commencement Speech which was about the pride of making history, the back-then already-succeeded Steve Jobs showed his rare humility. On his legacy, Jobs elaborated how Apple and Mackintosh were not Renaissance paintings that would last two centuries for people to admire, they would become obsolete and forgotten very quickly. He repeated the word ‘obsolete’ over and over, emphasizing how what he had done was just one thin layer of sediment in a mountain. People who are enjoying the scenery on top of the mountain would not know or remember the past or the buried. Only some rare geologists may come along and have an appreciative smile about the little obsolete layer he contributed. This humbling remark showcased how much of a visionary and perfectionist Steve Jobs was. It is the ultimate confession of a true artist. Jobs spent his entire life advocating his puristic idealism about the art of technology. Lucky for him, he did not have to make compromises. He made the exceptions into rules. As a survivor and a winner, he was grateful for being remembered by even an appreciative few. Not everyone is as lucky as Jobs. Certainly not the fictional folk singer Llewyn Davis in Coen brothers’ new film “Inside Llewyn Davis”. Llewyn Davis is not Dave Van Ronk even though the script is loosely based on Von Ronk's memoir. He is certainly not Bob Dylan despite of being in Greenwich Village in the 60s. Llewyn Davis is simply not real; or even if he is real, we will not ever have heard of him because he represents the musicians who struggle to make a living out of their dreams, who do not lack the talent but the luck. He is too stubborn in his pursuit of music, too unrealistic in his isolated existence and too lonely even for the cat (who, as it turned out ironically, is called Ulysses). I quite disagree with New Yorker’s interpretation on Coen brothers’ intention with the gloomy weather and constant snow. I don’t think the Coens are trying to make the audience feel sorry for Llewyn (he alienates himself almost perfectly), they merely show that Llewyn Davis is a choice, a consciously desperate yet uncompromised choice. The movie itself is written and directed out of that choice. It’s exquisitely comic yet carefully angry. Every now and then, the audience see hints of Coens’ applause to the folk singer with a cat. Even in John Goodman’s mocking comments on Llewyn’s music partner (who killed himself upon pressure of life): “George Washington Bridge? You threw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally! George Washington Bridge? Who does that?” For the Best Director speech for “No Country for Old Man”, Joel Coen thanked people for “allowing [him and Ethan] to continue to play in their corner of the sandbox”. They are, at heart, just two peculiar film makers who got lucky. Llewyn Davis is the Bob Dylan who never succeeded, and the Coen brothers who didn’t make it. Inside Llewyn Davis lie the genuine, artistic endeavors that insist on its untainted vision; Inside Coen brothers, there is gratitude to luck and salute to persistence. A movie about folk music, “Inside Llewyn Davis” is Coens’ beautiful love letter to the tried, the failed and the uncompromised.
猫像是Llewy自己的生活轮回,带回的猫和Llewyn一样寄人篱下;跑丢又追回的猫却不是原本那只——为交堕胎费放弃版税,结果一事无成;撞伤野猫——先后被两个老板婉拒;跑丢的那只自行回家——轮回。猫叫尤利西斯——希腊神话中漂泊多年的尤利西斯,与Llewy划等。
深夜有人在街上大笑,纽约的确是个可怕的地方,你在好几英里外都听得见笑声,你会觉得那么孤独,那么沮丧。他妈的金钱。他妈的爱情。到头来它们总会让你难过的要命。——塞林格
科恩兄弟用一个有才华的loser永远是个loser的故事让我回到了此前一直纠结的选择之中,他没有用坚持梦想做自己的烂俗蒙蔽你,也没有用认清现实的故作成熟打压你,只是用一首首溢满人心的民谣,一个个猫眼里快速掠过的站名,让主人公回到原点带着同样态度唱同一首歌,讲同一个笑话,告诉你选择没有对错。
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一曲失败者之歌。整部片子形成一个失败者的轮回,从头到尾,仍在原地。并不励志,也不会有什么太深的东西。这大致是说,在那个时代,有这么一群人,他们怀揣有梦想,并为梦想奋斗过,可惜,最终他们失败了。很舒服的音乐,又间有科恩兄弟的冷幽默(可补入很多男主的内心吐槽)。很舒服的电影。
如果一首歌不像是新的,也永远不会变老,那就是民谣。
Bob Dylan时代的前夜,有一个唱民谣的loser抱着一只叫尤利西斯的猫,从纽约到芝加哥,东奔西走,碌碌无为。科恩兄弟在遍地励志的好莱坞讲一个loser的故事,不是说多可悲,而是说既便是loser,也有人这样可爱可恨有情怀地活着 #年度最好听电影 “余音绕梁”#
打光实在太过温柔。给所有曾经或正在被生活击倒的人。生活是个泥潭,我们都身陷其中,没有光辉高潮和灿烂结局,转了一圈什么都没有改变。地铁一站一站行进也是流浪,真高兴纽约还是那个纽约。
这个精致小品,不是奥斯卡的喜好,却是影迷心中的佳酿,散淡平和的情绪和失败民谣歌手刚刚合适。即便这样,科恩兄弟还没放弃一贯的黑色标签,往返芝加哥在路上这一段真有神秘主义气息,雪夜开车就是一首诗的质感,灵魂出窍一般的意境,而那神出鬼没名叫“尤利西斯”的猫就是歌者的灵魂。
开场即抓住人,一秒之内沉醉于那些音乐,美到想哭,给前半小时5星。后面的剧情没有提升乃至一路下滑不痛不痒,好听的歌少了,最抢镜配角的那只猫也不见了,又只能给3星。综合一下,加上之前歌曲印象分太深,还有年度最佳开场,以及《Five Hundred Miles》,4星差不多都是音乐的作用。
我想变成一只猫,和这个loser歌手结伴同行,一起缅怀一个逝去的民谣时代——哪怕最后走了一圈又回到原点。温柔而又冷冽的科恩兄弟,将音乐路上的苦趣一点点抖落出来,那种感觉就像行走在雪开始融化的都市,泥泞中传来乍暖还寒的气息。
没有在深夜后巷被人狂揍,不足以谈音乐、文艺跟梦想啊。在一个谁都可以尽情挤兑、开涮甚至直接否认文艺青年的时代,看这样一部的电影,真是对大家都好啊……
歌好听,中二病部分自行跳过,酒吧老板的名言“有人来听歌是想睡jean,有人来听歌是想睡jim”简直可以裱起来送给婷婷君,嘻嘻。
非常独特的“拍了等于没拍”的,无法定位的电影,神秘的环状结构很科恩,其余彻底颠覆。有后劲,有诗,难以描述。
主角的命运各种失控,其实有点【冰血暴】的意思,但碍于是部关于loser的民谣小清新,这些恶趣味的东西顶多让人觉得是命运的玩笑,也凸显了坚持梦想这一路上现实的残酷和生活压力。出入意料的各种小黑色的转折,但留白式的处理也没改变主角之后的动作,反而开放式的处理相当的欧式文艺片。★★★★
科恩兄弟已把整个电影拍成了民谣,那种年代的香醇,过目即醉,无可救药。
柔光把电影里的每个人都照得好美,Llewyn放弃了三只猫,两个孩子,一个女人,甚至连最后的梦想都要放弃,这样的loser最后在循环往复中原步踏地,却依然为他的坚持心酸难过,谁都有失意的时候不是吗?音乐很美很享受,电影总觉得还少了点触动,四星吧。
生活一团糟 犹如那看起来无尽的寒冬之旅 但当他一开口 天都亮起来了
民谣一分钱也不care。片子看得堵人心口。那双跳过雪后,湿叽叽的鞋子,妈的真像穿上也受罪,脱下又太冷的,尴尬得要死的人生。
撸了几十遍预告,听了两个月原声,换剧照当桌面,心里早就对电影有个自己的大致形象,醉乡民谣四个美好的字眼,和真正看到的这部片子如何都不重要了。