Perhaps such a movie is destined to neither take the box office by storm nor make a difference at the film festival. It belongs to a certain part of the audience with special preferences. Those who are interested in film noir and those who are familiar with classic noir films will have a lot of fun from it, and can discover the good intentions of Brian Russell De Palma.
The film dexterously weaves together the oldest elements in narrative film—theatrical tension and noir style, as well as 21st-century film technology. It basically breaks away from the real context and turns the work into a pure confrontation with sin and passion entangled in passion. Image interpretation of punishment. The film is full of bizarre transitions, dramatic mutations, unbelievable coincidences, exaggerated and weird suspense, and the plot develops towards a completely unpredictable absurdity. DePalma re-selected and assembled the essence of the past works into this film. Many shadows of the past films can be found, including almost all the questions he is interested in. At the same time, he also put together some masterpieces and put together the scenes or elements of a number of classic masterpieces. This method of rewriting classics and reshaping types is undoubtedly his specialty. The simplicity and sophistication of film techniques may indeed reach the height that can be included in the college's analysis teaching materials. As for some film critics' claims that this is a work worthy of a fortune, it will be recorded in the annals of history, which is probably a bit exaggerated
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