"A Marca da Maldade" is far superior to the same type of film "Citizen Kane" directed by Orson Welles in terms of the plot of murder and kidnapping, as well as the selection of environment, scenes and stories. By telling stories that took place in small towns in the United States and Mexico, the film mirrored the darkness and decay of American society at that time, described the living conditions of people with depraved morals, and attacked the society at that time with a realistic approach of "realism" Reality. The film uses police films as the theme of the story, but cleverly uses Gothic expressionism to make it have a deeper and richer connotation; it is originated from thrillers, but it has the strangeness and darkness beyond thrillers; it uses black. The film is a form, but it has realism beyond black and a delicate depiction of real characters. At the beginning of the film, a three-and-a-half-minute long shot described the social background of a border town between the United States and Mexico for the audience. The story unfolded naturally in a tense atmosphere. It not only showed the chaotic social order at the time, but also There is a perverted sense of beauty on the screen.
Although the film itself is not a realistic film, in the post-processing of the entire film, the director still made it with the best effect of reality. This can be seen from the director's deliberate damage to the sound to the use of flickering and dimming on-site light and night light in the scene. This rebellious and weird formalism and sharp realism effect were also unacceptable to the producers at the time. This is also the real reason why the audience could not see the version edited by Orson Wells himself, but this form of expression was After a few years, it became one of the most respected movie genres in Hollywood
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