[Film] Stranger than Paradise

Hungarian woman Eva came to his cusion Willy's home in new york. The story started from here.

"Stranger than Paradise" was very precious film for me. Even thourgh, I don't like to sort "my favorite film" and keep its illusion to mind, this film's memorable theme stimulated me very much. American society in this film is so far from the facet,a common wealth. The dim US (especially in Eva's view) is described there.

I don't know whether this depiction is fitted but, 'one shot is naturally developed to one scene'. Of course, a lot of films in history, showed the soul of longtake, but this film is different at their object. Usually longtake was used in a way to observe landscape or human's identity with long breath. However in this film, Jim Jamushi took longtake in different way. There are no extreme long shot or close up for longtake. Also he ignored highlighting fact on the plot structure. Just take long time in somewhere and show their normal life. Its synery is nothing, even a sence of emptiness is not there.

When I firstly watched this film, I couldn't be stimulated by any artistic element at all or couldn't feel any sence of boring. Just my eyes was kept at the screen... Oops too much talking about only camera:)

"Stranger than Paradise" is divided to 3 parts. 'New world', "After 1 year" and "Paradise". When Eva went and came back again after 1 year, the film starts to have a story. They move to florida, which called as paradise. Nothing happened on the way and nothing there. Willy silently talk to himself. "Everywhere is not different, just stranger than paradise that's it" Just simple style continually repeated, but perhaps we already found something in there and will be symbolizing it into our mind.

(Stranger than paradise, Jim Jarmusch, 1984)