In addition to the exquisite and authentic depiction of human nature, "Killer Joe" has quite the style of the Coen Brothers film in the plot structure of the entire film screen and story development. In the final climax of the dinner, violence, sex, family affection, and murder were staggered within 20 minutes; the sense of hierarchy of three, four, and five people in the space increased; this ending is a manifestation of the director’s unique skills, and it is extremely wonderful The finishing touch. Because of the excessive sexual and violent scenes in the film, the possibility of this film being awarded in Venice this time was obliterated while praising the film
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The director did not use more pen and ink to describe the background of "Joe", but put him in a position similar to "God", either destroying or redeeming him. Therefore, this role is more to carry the director's intentions. Symbolic role. In the film, Joe is like "God" or "Devil", with only almighty image symbols, lacking human details. This way of handling the characters is intentional by the director. The most obvious thing is that when expressing "Joe"'s identity as another policeman, he only used props such as "police badge" and "handcuffs" to symbolize the performance
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Although "Killer Joe" is a small independent film with only 10 million funds, it is rich in plots, vivid and extreme characters, and the structure of the story is extremely dramatic. The whole film is compact and concise, completed in one go, with peaks and turns, complex and changeable, and the open ending is especially unsatisfactory. The story is actually a typical B-level film subject, crude, straightforward and simple.
The setting of the characters in the film is extremely extreme: the siblings who want to kill their biological mother, the killer who falls in love with children, the stepmother who fools around with her husband’s ex-wife’s ex-boyfriend, and the father of the head of the household who is very uninspired. The director placed these complex and extreme characters in the family unit and vented the deep emotions of each character very deeply and thoroughly through the intense dramatic conflict between them. It makes the character creation both vivid and vivid, and full of tension.
The fate of the characters and the direction of the story are full of twists and turns, full of black humor. It is also a small independent film production. It is also a story that takes place between families and small groups. It is also expressed in a comedy way of grief. The style of the film is quite different from that of " Another Year " directed by Mike Lee . The two styles are very different. "Killer Joe" on artistic conception is not as touching as "Another Year", but it also has a variety of wonderful and ingenious ideas, and the production is of good quality. It can be regarded as a B-level film. Class A scheduling. The last scene was a tense confrontation between the three and was staged into a farce of the collective collapse of the five people. It was all completed in the space of the RV living room, which is similar to Rajmund Roman Liebling 's " Carnage "
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"Killer Joe" describes the story of a troubled young man who hired a killer to kill his biological mother in order to obtain insurance money. The film continues the usual movie style of William Friedkin, full of black humor and full of masculinity. It is a strong man drama. Although the film sounds very similar to the subject matter that Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino are passionate about, "Killer Joe" reduces the comic narrative and rhythm, and is more realistic and hard. It is purely male rugged, and the lens language is very straightforward. Stiff, smooth and precise like a cheetah, and through many seemingly weird settings to show desire and pathological psychology
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