"The Nightingale" presents more realistic and violent scenes than the director's last work "Ghost Book", rather than the horror scenes of handmade texture that the characters imagined in their minds. Through the structure of a revenge thriller, the film tells a story that transcends differences in search of understanding. The structure is very large, and it also covers a bunch of complex themes, as well as the director's views on the status quo of today's society. In many ways, it was successful. Most of the performances in the film are very good, vivid and atmospheric. It's just that the Gothic style in the film is a bit exaggerated, and the evil feeling is not very coordinated. The bigger problem is that the heroine Claire has been spinning around in her own story, and it is difficult to fully present the structure of the story. These obvious narrative flaws and the display of extreme violence scenes may affect the film’s box office. Performance. Nevertheless, "The Nightingale" still has a lot to appreciate, it shows a director's control over the performance, and the wonderful script also makes up for many of the director's weaknesses.
The ambition of "The Nightingale" is very large. The background of the story is set in 19th century Australia. The starting point is women's revenge. It largely conforms to current political topics. However, as the story develops, the role of Australian aboriginals has gradually been unearthed. , The film also adds the level of anti-colonialism, and ultimately is the convergence of the two major issues of feminism and anti-colonialism. In fact, the idea is quite good, but there are big problems with the implementation. The whole film took two hours to avenge the heroine. In these two hours, the villains and the white men represented by the villains unrestrainedly trampled on women and black aboriginals, a lot of abuse, rape, Many of the killing scenes are meaningless. They are repeated repeatedly just to show how bad the white colonial men are, but they do not give the audience a happy ending with revenge. They are performed purely to show torture. Although the production level of the film, including the director's skills, was pretty good, the whole idea of the film collapsed because of the narration method adopted.
