A film that does not let people see ambition

Clemens 2022-04-19 09:01:39

Before walking into the cinema, there is always a preset, how much shock I will get when watching this movie, or what kind of feeling I will get. For example, before looking at the picture of living in Fuchun Mountain, you will think how bad it is. Then take a look and be happy; look at gravity, you will think about what the universe can be depicted as, and finally be shocked by the ending; look at the Pacific Rim, you will want to see 3D fighting monsters must be cool, but I am so excited that I want to watch it directly The next one...
is obviously a different movie than expected.
Judging by Cass and the poster, you'd think it's an ambitious cyberpunk blockbuster. The director has participated in many popular classic movies, and several Nolan movies you are familiar with have his credit. All the actors are also Nolan's movie-style acting, so you have to look forward to its achievements. Although it is difficult to say that the director can make a masterpiece when he is newly appointed, there should always be surprises.
It turned out to be a movie with no surprises.
From a morphological point of view, the director has inherited the style of many Nolan movies. The narrative rhythm is flat and even depressing, the quiet scenes, the soundtrack that almost makes people forget whether it exists or not most of the time, the camera language that always makes you feel like you are going to explode in the next second, but it's not a big deal, and the final scene. reversed ending. This movie has all these elements, but it's hard to make you think it's a good movie.
The first thing that makes people puzzling is that in such a movie, you rarely see the acting skills of the actors. Depp is exactly the same as on the poster most of the time, with occasional changes in the eyes and corners of his mouth; Rebecca doesn't have a good emotional effect in this film, which is almost hers alone, but it makes people feel that the character's mentality is inexplicable; Morgan Freeman spends most of the time under the sunglasses and hat, and feels that any actor can be changed; Murphy plays a policeman this time, and it can almost be regarded as non-existent; Uncle Bei... Uncle Bei feels that he has tried his best, but because of plot reasons His plays are extremely incoherent, and the feelings of the characters who should be outstanding appear to be quite ordinary.
Then there is the question of the rationality of the plot. In fact, the explanation and questioning of the science fiction technology in the film is extremely boring, and this is not a science and education film. Of course, if you have to complain, you can also say: For this major worldwide technological fear and ethical crisis, just an FBI and a limited combat team, plus a group of anti-science murderers, formed the protection of the world and the fight against the nano-maniac (actually not) power? tease me?
The real problem is that the author's intentions are not revealed in front of you. You feel that the male protagonist's brain is broken and the world is over. The heroine's reckless killing of relatives should be fought vigorously. As a result, the director finally revealed: it's just that you misunderstood his original intention. This is a pure and great selfless love story.
I think the reason why the director made this film may be because only the audience misunderstood him, and the heroine misunderstood him to be very credible. Unfortunately, it obviously did not achieve the desired effect. Maybe it was interpreted in the way of a novel, which would be A very touching story.
But it is also possible that our presuppositions of movies and viewing habits have caused us to be unhappy. We always think that at such a time, we need the acting skills of the hero and heroine and the second male lead to explode, and a strong tear-jerking emotional catharsis is in place. In fact, I personally feel that Nolan's films usually set the emotional climax in the middle and late stages, and then the ending makes you silent and tearful. This movie is bad because the emotions are not prominent. You even always think that the emotional line is just a movie. As a foil, there was no big scene, and it didn't cause the people watching the movie to cry, which made the viewing experience not particularly good.
In short, we can't ask every movie to be worth the price, and it's not a bad movie.
My only extreme dissatisfaction is: you tm tell me where the 3D of this movie is, what is the meaning!

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Transcendence quotes

  • Max Waters: I spent my life trying to reduce the brain to a series of electrical impulses. I failed. Human emotion, it can contain illogical conflict. Can love someone, and yet hate the things that they've done. Machine can't reconcile that.

    Evelyn Caster: Can you?

    Max Waters: Yes.

  • [first lines]

    Max Waters: They say there's power in Boston. Some phone service in Denver. But things are far from what they were. Maybe it was all invevitable. An unavoidable collision between mankind and technology. The Internet was meant to make the world a smaller place. But it actually feels smaller without it. I knew Will and Evelyn Caster better than anyone. I knew their brillance. Their dedication to what they believed in. And to what they loved.