刚在一起不久的时候，沙希曾对永田说过，家乡像她这样年龄的人都结婚了，而她在永田身上看不到未来，她想离开东京。

永田是给不了沙希未来的，他连自己的未来都不能确定，这一对籍籍无名的人，不过是在东京这个大都市里苟活着，未来是件奢侈品。

沙希也喜欢戏剧，第一次出演由永田编剧导演的小剧场话剧就非常成功，永田却禁止她继续表演下去，因为，那时的永田戏剧生涯进入了漫长的低谷，没有人看好他，他也再也写不出像样的剧本，他的自卑也进一步强化了他回避社会的人格。沙希的闪光让他感到恐怖，他曾说过，我不喜欢走的比我快的人，我也更讨厌走的比较慢的人，我只喜欢和我用相同速度走路的人。

他想留住沙希，他需要扼杀沙希的才华。

虽自知平庸，却又无法坦然接受。在东京这样的大城市里，想出人头地的人千千万，但想法归想法，这千千万万的人中，其实大部分人都像永田沙希这一对、或一家三口、或一大家七八口一样苟且生活，都不过是大城市里的边缘人，勤勤恳恳与投机倒把的结局相差无几。

也许是在外界刷不到存在感的永田，将矛盾转移到了沙希身上，他压抑沙希的快乐、摧毁她的才华，沙希的幸福很简单，只是想去迪士尼玩一玩，永田却认为沙希的幸福只能由他来给，沙希自己都不可以，但他却连让沙希去迪士尼这样的小事都实现不了，进一步加剧了他的自卑和自闭。

第七年的时候，彼此的消耗让沙希变成了一个酗酒的人，也搞垮了身体，她最终还是决定离开东京了。她对永田说，这七年你一直没有变，还像当初的样子，而我一直在成长，但是我还是喜欢你一直没有变化的样子的，希望你能坚持下去。

以下为发到朋友圈后的补充：

1. 虽自知平庸，却又无法坦然接受，总想要证明一下自己的不凡，不要像咸鱼一样生活，其实，即便是有了梦想也不过是一条有梦想的咸鱼，改变不了什么，翻不了身的，这就是都市里大部分人的真实写照，事实上大部分人都是这大城市里苟且挣扎的“边缘人”。

2. 永田是不是渣男，仁者见仁 智者见智，但他在和沙希的感情里更像个孩子。成年人是不能跟孩子谈恋爱的，成人的感情要承担责任，而孩子是不需要有责任感的，一切看心情。

和年龄无关，和性别无关，有人出走一生归来依然还是个孩子。

3. 不谈未来的感情，要么大家也都不是走心的，要么就不是成熟的感情，不谈未来就没有未来。

4. 如果没有永田，沙希其实是那种“知道自己想要什么的女孩”，怀揣着表演梦来到东京，但很快发现其实很难有所成就，便决定离开东京，只不过遇到了永田，用七年的时间彼此消耗，搞垮了精神和身体。

第七年的时候，沙希离开了东京回到了老家，晚上收拾完东西要赶夜班火车回家，永田劝她说反正来了要不就在东京住一晚，沙希说，上班族啊，身不由己的。离开东京和永田的沙希，又变回了那个有智慧的女生。

5. 永田是很难持续的成功的，虽然电影的结尾是永田把他和沙希的故事改编成了舞台剧，似乎成功了一下。归根结底永田在创作上很难用有才华来形容，比平庸强一些，有一些才华，但没有天赋，其实这没什么，绝大多数人都这样。

但人很难只靠熬或者勤奋成功的，还要借助要么就是运气，包括正义的运气和邪恶的运气，要么就要靠差异化优势，人最终能赢的，都是借助了差异化优势，就像乌龟不要和兔子比长跑，但是可以和它比活得久，200年后能赢它好几代。

我或许也能一生守着一座山一条河，终生不跨越半步；或许我还能守在一个人身边，一生不说半句谎言。——吴忠全《海风电影院》

以色列历史学家尤瓦尔·赫拉利在他的作品《人类简史：从动物到上帝》这本书中，写过这样一句话：讨论虚构的事物正是智人语言最独特的功能。这句话里面的“虚构事物”，指的就是我们常说的“故事”。

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张导，老当益壮，人成功不是没有理由的，越出名的人越勤奋，佩服！

第一集里面几个镜头让人感动：

1. 张艺谋导演不断在各个项目之间切换，最多的时候有8个项目。

2. 在摄影棚里面，导演有一个动作是离开椅子，迈着大步走向了一个工作人员，要是没有十足的热爱，那能在古稀之年还能保持激情得做事情呢？ - 我不是在拍电影，就是在拍电影的路上。

3. 张导亲自和张译对戏，在箱子里面迅速转头跑，精力过人，背后还是热爱。

第二集里面，主要在张译、范伟老师和张导之间展开。

张译和范伟都是大咖演员了，怀着谦卑的心态拍电影，这是一部致敬电影和胶片的电影，是出于对导演的尊重，更是希望自己能向电影致敬。张译的独白里面提到担心导演在镜头前觉得自己不行，有着这样的心态和努力劲儿，不成功也难。

里面还有一个镜头是拍开场白的时候，张艺谋真是充满画面感的导演，立马想到由烈日下暴走改成了在风沙中暴走，张译真是敬业。

第三季里面，主要是提携新人了，张艺谋大牌导演，给演员说戏平易近人，教会演员的实在是太多了。剧组里面也是老演员带新演员，张译亲自给女主角演示如何摔倒。记得在《归来》的纪录片里面，就有巩俐教剧中的女儿如何表演的镜头，这是一种传承。

致敬张艺谋导演 - 关于热爱，不是一秒钟，而是一辈子。

转眼，距离2021年过去，只剩不到50天了。

过去一年，对漫威来说，像是在渡劫。

作为曾经好莱坞独占鳌头的吸金巨兽，先是因疫情错过了整个2020，又于2021招致了诸多争议。

如果说小盘口的流媒剧表现尚可，那作为粉丝凝聚点的院线大片，《黑寡妇》的口碑票房只能用“扑街”来形容。

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因为有强迫症所以不敢轻易看一部电视剧，即使看着无聊之际也要看完。所以这部电视剧是我咬着牙看完的。观后感就是一部粗制滥造应景的电视剧。首先这个时期的电影电视剧这十来年了这几位特型演员演了不下十部电视剧了，同样的历史却经常具体事件上一点也不一样。估计这几位特型演员也疲倦了。

首先，剧本写的不算太好，虽然有几位虚构但又有真实人物的小人物这也仅是唯一亮点。整部电视剧的剧本感觉散、乱、杂，无头无尾。

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Two 2019 feature debuts from aspiring filmmakers that hold fast our zeitgeist by putting a female character in the dead center. Kitty Green’s THE ASSISTANT is exclusively lensed from our titular heroine’s perspective to cast a startling light on a salient social issue in the wake of the notorious Weinstein effect; meanwhile, Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ SWALLOW, doggedly builds up a reductive dissection of a young, gravid bride’s eerie disintegration, by dint of uncomfortable body horror tropes to reify her pica affliction.

Adhering to her technique developed as a documentarian, Green adopts an uncharacteristic angle to tackle her unsavory subject matter. In THE ASSISTANT, Garner plays Jane, a junior assistant in an unspecified NYC film production company, and the film takes place during her overlong working hours on a hectic Monday. We watch her being picked up by a limousine to work long before daybreak, and follow her in clerical drudgery, see the big shots from her peripheral vision and hear things only within her earshot. By doing that, Green risks narrative clarity and leaves the scandalous skinny in connotation or off-screen, consequently the film rather invites an immediate revisit to suss the implications of every casual dialogue and throwaway joke, and for better to piece together what is going on.

Green’s strategy, not audience-friendly, but totally chimes in with Jane’s grunt-level existence in the company, but felicitously, do we really need to see those sordid goings-on with our own eyes? We shall all be thankful to Green for being so considerate in her approach, because such a canker, condoned systemically by the industry and beyond is better limned as this immaterial, omnipresent force of vileness, penetrating every couch and behind every closed doors in every office and hotel room, it is everywhere therefore it must be put paid to.

Carrying the entire film on her slender shoulders, Garner exhibits strenuous stamina and restrained body language as the doormat (Jane is a sponge absorbent of the negative outpourings of the boss’ wife) and the dogsbody (she is virtually invisible in front of her superiors and other colleagues), even the two male assistants callously exploit her newness (only being there for 5 weeks), or maybe also because she is a she, and let her bear the brunt of blame and verbal abuse. Yet, in her position, she has no right to say otherwise.

Jane aspires to be a producer, and she knows all too well that she must pay her dues and turn a blind eye on the seedy matters, if she wants to make it. But on the off chance when that actually happens, she will have already become one of the silent connivers in that toxic working environment (implied by the unseen boss’s sinister motivation). Moreover, she should considered herself lucky, according to the head of Human Resources (Macfadyen), simply because “you are not his type”, it’s all so reassuring! Macfadyen has that peculiar air of faux-earnestness, mixed with veiled hubris, to express the warped normalcy as if it is the most commonplace words to utter, whereas Garner is so utterly disconcerted and anguished in her botched worm-will-turn rebel, their exchange is the crescendo of this gritty film.

Incredibly, THE ASSISTANT plays up the working place’s drabness, impersonality and functional symmetry to keep us absorbed with its coded message. However, SWALLOW is so stunning on the eye level, the young couple, Hunter and Richie Conrad (Bennett and Stowell) are gorgeous, their affluent, minimalistic upstate NYC residence with a killer view, is often filtered through prismatic hues to emphasize the magic power of money.

But what happens inside is far less majestic, Hunter, hailed from a lower class, is maladaptive to her new ascendancy as the cinderella, who has a bun in the oven and develops an anomalous appetite for inedible things (including some small sharp objects, those swallow scenes are fastidiously arranged, and not for the squeamish). Does she subconsciously want to lose the baby? and why is that? A thought never occurs to our prince charm Richie, instead, his family hires a burly minder Luay (Nakli), a Syrian immigrant, to keep an eye on her minute by minute to forestall any self-inflict harm, solely for the safety of their precious progeny.

If the plot is piled up with unmitigated clichés (cruel, senseless rich people, good-hearted immigrants, a fable of perfect family of origin, the psychological manipulation of negging and nonpology, the list goes on and on…) and Mirabella-Davis might be a lousy fabulist, what gives vitality to SWALLOW, besides Katelin Arizmendi’s stylish cinematography, is Bennett’s metamorphic performance. A frail flower distressed by her parentage (the cat will be let out of the bag later) and conjugal negligence, Bennett, who looks like a poor girl’s Jennifer Lawrence, grandly inhabits Hunter’s compulsion, disorientation and exasperation with such astonishing finesses, one cannot take eyes off her. Even when we cannot relate to Hunter’s weird condition, we are compulsively intrigued by Bennett’s nuanced delivery and delicate mannerism, hoping some deus ex machina can materialize to save her.

Eventually, Mirabella-Davis grants Hunter a touching closure (Denis O’Hare’s brilliant cameo is exactly what the doctor ordered, he can proficiently pull off a complicated emotional range in meager minutes, though on paper, the reconciliation is still a mawkish cliché) and the final shot statically looking at a lady’s room with people come and go writ large the film's emboldened stance: pro-life and pro-woman.

When all is said and done, both THE ASSISTANT and SWALLOW are promising works well wrought by their emergent creators, together, they paint a vivid picture of the wrongs (in the working place or in one’s own home) inflicted upon women by faulty, haughty, selfish men, but they are not just reproachful to the stronger sex, their artistry underlies more hope in women’s resilience, Jane might walk the plank the next day, she can at least have peace with herself and knows better of her goals, as for Hunter, starts anew and puts aside a failed marriage, together with her psychogenic malady, scrumptious comestibles are beckoning and cinderella can get stuffed!

referential entries: Darren Aronofsky’s MOTHER! (2017, 6.6/10); Cory Finley’s THOROUGHBRED (2017, 6.5/10); Leigh Whannell’s THE INVISIBLE MAN (2020, 6.9/10).

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