Hellen 2022-04-20 09:01:17
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Shany 2022-03-24 09:01:24
9.5, both the best noir movie in movie history, and the best meta movie in movie history, all those former bigwigs, Swanson, Stroheim, including the glimpse of Keaton actually completed their illusion in one movie When the spotlight finally hit Swanson's pale and terrifying face, the delusion almost merged with reality and completed the actual interaction. In a certain sense, Billy Wilder is the best. The director of the anti-Hollywood dream film, he is the complete opposite of Capra. There is no American dream, but only a fantasy abandoned by the times and a so-called inspiring lie. The influence of the film on the later psychological horror films goes without saying. The desolate old house, the funeral of the orangutan, the handle without the door, the revolving staircase, the film uses a gothic tone to push the horror atmosphere to the extreme, and the corpse tells itself in fact. Intentionally or unintentionally, it played a role in confusing the viewpoint of the mystery novel, which enhanced the sense of suspense in the movie, and it is also quite innovative now. In every respect, this is a work that is difficult to pick out flaws.
Frances 2022-03-23 09:01:24
Typical film noir. The play is perfect. The works of 1950 are still accurate and unique when viewed today. The design of the servant corner is chilling. The complexity of the heroine is also amazing. A person in a state of "manipulation" is full of possessiveness towards everything, and her life is "directed" into a strange tragedy. The mirror and the water in the swimming pool have become the carriers of metaphorical information. The actress's self-pity for the mirror is very much like the self-mockery of the Hollywood industrial system. While being manipulated by capital, she is increasingly caught in the possession and control of others, and benefits from it. People who are flashy in front of them will eventually be killed in the long-awaited swimming pool. Another joke in a special period: stay in the house for a long time, and you will be killed by people who stay in the house longer.
Norma Desmond: You're a writer, you said.
Joe Gillis: Why?
Norma Desmond: Are you or aren't you?
Joe Gillis: That's what it says on my guild card.
Norma Desmond: And you have written pictures, haven't you?
Joe Gillis: I sure have. Want a list of my credits?
Norma Desmond: I want to ask you something. Come in here.
Joe Gillis: Last one I wrote was about Okies in the Dust Bowl. You'd never know because when it reached the screen, the whole thing played on a torpedo boat.
Betty Schaefer: Oh, the old familiar story. You help a timid little soul cross a crowded street, she turns out to be a multimillionaire and leaves you all her money.
Joe Gillis: That's the trouble with you readers, you know all the plots
