Unexpectedly, he would be like this in only one year. Handsome was still handsome, but the heroic spirit disappeared from the familiar face, and he was enveloped in a deep sense of fatigue. In the new film "The Americans", George Clooney plays a lonely killer. After an accidental ambush, he decides to leave Italy and take care of his old company. He hides in a small mountain village in the east of Rome. The priest drank, had sex with the same prostitute, and returned to the rivers and lakes. Rather than being a killer, he is more accurately a manual gun maker. In his days in a small town in Italy, his old club introduced him to do his last business, creating a specific weapon for a blonde female killer.
The second part of the film is very slow, so slow that American film critics borrowed the classic evaluation, "Nothing happened like waiting for the painting to do" sneered at it. In fact, if you have painted, you will know that while waiting for the painting to dry, nothing has happened. Time slowly took away the water in the paint, and all the colors in the light were smudged on the paper little by little, following the veins of their respective strokes, and finally staying and deepening. During this period, there was a flow of its own. Of course, this kind of flow requires the quietest eyes. I especially like to watch craftsmen do their jobs, the kind of change from nothing is meaning in itself. Under a large number of long shots, a lonely mechanic walks in the mountains, collects useful parts from a car repair shop, and polishes it with the bells of the town. Finally, a perfect muffler is created, which is more than traditional. The cool shot of the black hot killer is another kind of fascinating.
I think George Clooney's role in "The American" seems to be more in line with his inner feelings than the previous "In the Clouds". What handsome guy is popular now? A pale-faced melancholic virgin vampire, a werewolf with greasy tendons, and a baby-tone Zhengtai singer who just turned fifteen years old is also so cute. Regardless of whether the old Qiao is willing or not, sooner or later this man will belong to the young. Just like in the movie, the gunman who never uses mobile phones but only uses coin phones, even if he does not die today, will he receive the next business tomorrow? Since ancient times, a good general is like a beauty, and he is not allowed to see white heads in the world.
George’s last shot was driving towards an agreed place with his beloved woman. He successfully killed all his enemies and dashed away, always holding a breath of anger. Suddenly I felt something was wrong, and when I touched my stomach, my hands were full of blood, but I was still shot. He slammed the steering wheel, full of chagrin.
It was not sadness, not pain, but the kind of "just one step away" annoyance. His tired face was constantly enlarged on the screen, making it more real than any close-up before.
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