A brief introduction to the film of the shadow of heaven

Willie is a Hungarian immigrant from new york, whose original name is Bella. His menstruation called and told him that Ava, a Hungarian cousin, was going to find her in Cleveland, USA. I will stay in new york for 1 days.

Ava came, took her "brick" tape recorder and a rock tape, and lived in a small single apartment. Life in new york is extremely boring. Two people who watch TV, eat fast food and talk little often watch cartoons the next day at the sports competition the night before. Occasionally Willie's friend Eddie came to see them, and then the two of them went to bet on horses, leaving Ava alone.

As the days went on like this, ten days passed. Before Eva left, Willie gave her a dress. Although Eva felt ugly, she still put it on. Ava left, changed the dress outside the house and left in the trash can. Eddie came to see Willie, and both of them felt that life without Ava seemed more boring.

A year later, Willie and Eddie won a lot of money by cheating at cards. Willie asked Eddie to borrow a car from his brother-in-law and go to Cleveland to find Ava. In Cleveland in the snow and ice, Willie met menstruation, whom he hadn't seen for ten years, and went to the hot dog shop to pick up Ava from work. However, the life in Cleveland is not very interesting. They still stay at home, either watching TV or playing poker with the old lady menstruation. At most, Billy, the young man who pursues Ava, invites them to see a movie. Everything is still the same in new york. It's just that on their last day, Ava took them to see Cleveland's famous Great Lakes in the ice and snow.

On the way back, Willie saw that he had enough money in his hand, so he decided to go back and ask Ava to go to Florida for a holiday. They took Ava on their way amid menstruation's complaints. There was nothing to say all the way, near Florida, and they stayed in a small hotel. Willie and Eddie left Ava in their room to gamble on dogs themselves, and they lost all their money. Willie insisted on gambling on horses to earn money back. Ava went out for a walk when she was bored, but she was accidentally mistaken for someone by a black man, stuffed her with a bag of money and left.

Ava left a little money for two people and went to the airport alone. Just a moment later, there was a plane to Budapest. Willie really won the money back, but the meeting room found that Ava had left. The two packed their things and rushed to the airport. The people at the airport told them that a girl had bought a plane ticket. They found that the plane was about to take off, and Willie quickly bought a plane ticket to bring Ava down. But she didn't get down after the plane took off, so Eddie had to drive away by himself.

Ava didn't get on the plane after all. She went back to the hotel room and sat on the bed.

This is Jia Muxu's masterpiece stranger than paradise. All the films are in black and white, with few characters, few dialogues and few scenes. There seems to be no logical relationship between paragraphs, just the passage of time. Most of the time, we see the three protagonists sitting there with a dull look. In the first half of the film, there is almost no drama. The three protagonists don't even reveal their inner world. They can only find clues about their psychology and feelings from their few actions and words. But in the last short film, the emotions accumulated in the first half of the film were vented in the dramatic changes. Ava got a large sum of money out of thin air, Ava left, Ava was going back to Hungary, and Willie also won money. Everything was great. Ava left, Willie caught up, the plane took off, and the two were reunited on the plane. The happy life in Hungary was just around the corner. Ava didn't get on the plane. She returned to the small room and sat down. These scenes broke out, and the director still handled them as calmly as the first half, without vulgar sensationalism or deliberate avoidance, but handled the only climax paragraph in the film with his usual attitude.

"stranger than paradise", new york is a paradise, the United States is a paradise, and people who immigrated to the United States thousands of miles away are strangers in this paradise. Life in heaven is nothing more than watching TV, playing poker and eating fast food for them, and the only jobs they can do are betting on horses and dogs. Is this really a new world? Is it really heaven?

Jia Muxu's film is simply a classic teaching material for independent films, which is almost a model of saving money and making a difference from the theme, plot, characters, actors, photography, lighting, scenes and paragraphs. Almost all the things that shine in the whole film don't need much money but brains. With this, Jia Muxu is a figure among American independent producers.