Plot Summary:Bombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea, a man-made sea stranded in the middle of the Colorado desert that was once a beautiful vacation destination for the privileged and is now a pool of dead fish. Film director Alma Har'el tells the story of three protagonists. The trials of Benny Parrish, a young boy diagnosed with bipolar disorder whose troubled soul and vivid imagination create both suffering and joy for him and his complex and loving family. The story of CeeJay Thompson, a black teenager and aspiring football player who has taken refuge in Bombay Beach hoping to avoid the same fate of his cousin who was murdered by a gang of youths in Los Angeles; and that of Red, an ancient survivor, once an oil field worker, living on the fumes of whiskey, cigarettes and an irrepressible love of life. Together these portraits form a triptych of manhood in its various ages and guises, in a gently hypnotic style that ...
太浪漫了 上了这么久课看的最喜欢的一部
music video + sensory immersion. weak story, feels performative, disjointed (which seems to be what ppl like about it). 3 characters feels disconnected, related only bc they live in the same place
配乐可圈可点
原来沙顿海是科罗拉多河改道造成的~“我过了几十年吃了上顿没下顿的日子,我觉得挺好”。昔日的度假地,如今破败难言。导演选了三条线:想参军却因为学历不够,只好和朋友们造爆炸物模拟打仗遭处理的边缘人一家,孩子有精神问题长期服药;兄弟被黑道打死,跑到孟买海滩试图通过当地高考红利上大学的黑人中学生球员(在当地有段感情经历);和孟买海滩一起衰落的破烂老人。几个角色疏离的状态和当地的破败感相佐证,导演MV式的拍法有不少设计镜头,已非单纯的纪录片,通篇像子宫里的呓语,选的几首歌很好,花絮里有导演拍的MV,感觉她把库斯图里卡、费里尼和王家卫的气质揉一块儿了。技巧不弱,但主题不明朗,焦点也分散,还是拍MV或装置艺术的思路
太多创作-12/03/16 at MoMI
3.5 a bit slight
曾经的人造海旅游胜地,繁华一时,如今这片被梦想遗忘的地方,这里的人的梦想呢?电影的骨子很诗意,又是何其伤感,孩子,青年,老年三位主角已经概况了这片土地的现状。曾经幸福过一瞬间,在余生里就努力活在那份幸福感里,到底是很幸福还是很悲哀?幸福是个需要自我定义的东西,梦想也是吧。★★★
用幻想的力量来表达希望。