After watching the independent film "Black Widow", I am really not satisfied. Johansson Scarlett is still loved (3.99 stars), but the content of the film is difficult to give praise.
As a Marvel movie, the popcorn nature is anticlimactic in this film, and it is the kind with a short head and a long tail. The beginning of the foreshadowing was very good. Miss Widow is very cute, and the scene of grabbing the plane to take off is not bad. When it comes to the first duel between Sister Widow and the imitator, it can be said that the audience's taste is hooked. But the handling after hanging up is difficult to satisfy.
Budapest, the hole dug since the reunion, was filled sloppily, the widow sister and the eagle eye did not show at all, there was only a fight scene between the sisters (no one in the audience took this seriously), and then there was a lackluster chase scene . The chase scene is the most eye-catching part of an action movie, especially a special agent movie, but this time it's very old and bad. During a dialogue at that time, the widow sister said, "What's your plan?", and the widow sister said, "drive us out". The result was really only driving, and it was a long drive. In comparison, the section of Captain America 2 is shorter and more powerful, and there is a shooting in front and a Winter Soldier blocking the road, which is tight and exciting; the three-person race of Team America 3 Black Panther and Winter Soldier captures the audience more, especially outstanding The superhero ability of running is very impressive; here is simply dealing with driving. On the one hand, it is more difficult to deal with four-wheeled vehicles than running and motorcycles. The performance of this kind of drama is extreme. Although "Black Widow" is not required to be a superhero movie that exceeds Fast and Furious, the standard of the audience has been improved a lot. It is difficult to fill such a long chase with the outdated handling here. .
The chase scene here alone won't drag down the whole film, but the problem is that when the audience watches the whole film and finds that this may be the most exciting and popcorn part, it is unacceptable. After a loving conversation between sisters, go to save Dad. One episode of Prison Situation is over before you can taste it, and you can't add many points. The handsome and refined man at the beginning is gone, replaced by a fat middle-aged man who is also sentimental and talkative, which in itself is a challenge to the audience's aesthetics. It's not that such an image is impossible, but it does not meet the general aesthetic standards, so it must have its own special attraction, or play a pivotal role in the characters' emotions in the plot, or make the audience complete to understand how it came to be and to highlight certain good qualities in the transformation. But the image of the harlequin jumped out of nowhere, and it has no effect other than pointing the way (pointing the way is meaningless, because the widow sister finds him directly, so it should be able to point directly to Melina and skip Allie. Ke Xie), and did not make any achievements in the following family emotional scenes (the dialogue with the widow sister and then the sudden singing effect is very blunt and negative). The introduction of this character also slowed the narrative, which was a failure.
When the widow sister's family finally came to the red house of the air fortress for a decisive battle, the climax of the movie was coming, at least it should have come. But I never imagined that the master imitator happily went downstairs to fight with the fat man, leaving the widow sister inexplicably with a villain who has no fighting ability and no scheming. Widow sister is also an avenger anyway, so she is looking down on someone like this. So the villain can't be killed at one time unexpectedly, and then the scene collapses, and everyone starts to run and run together - if you don't run early, when everyone is waiting for the climax, you can just leave it running. The Widow Sister and the surface imitator lacked the tension they should have, and they both ended up inexplicably after spraying a potion. The audience couldn't help but check the label of the movie action movie.
The movie is below the normal standard of the MCU. It is not that the technology of the movie is going backwards, nor that the audience is too demanding, but the chaos of the core of the movie. After watching this movie, I can feel that the movie seems to have many ideas, whether it is feminism, or family, or some ideology, but there is no complete idea to express any of them. It is a mixture of various expressions. There are only certain fragments, which of course do not present a satisfactory result in the end. When "Avengers 4" was released, everyone was asking: Where is the next step for super-English films? The shooting of "Black Widow" represents a kind of attempt, a kind of breaking the circle: it hopes to present a more three-dimensional work by introducing more and deeper themes. It's a natural idea to incorporate the good points of other films. But "Black Widow" is first and foremost a Marvel superhero movie. Its narrative structure is constrained by traditional superhero movies. To express more diverse and deeper themes through such a structure, it needs to be more ingenious. For example, the failure of "Creed" stems from the fact that it does not handle the narrative structure of the good guy against the bad guy delicate enough, and blindly piles technical details, which naturally makes the audience tired. It is already very difficult to introduce one more theme, and it wants to be greedy. Success is a highlight in film history, but the difficulty is almost impossible. In fact, Marvel has been successful in introducing more themes. The attempt of "Black Panther" in terms of skin color is an example, but the attempt made by "Black Panther" is more tricky, it mainly highlights the "belonging to black people". "Superheroes", which itself is directly based on the narrative structure of superhero films; and "Black Widow" wants more, it wants to express the theme of family that has no direct connection with the superhero narrative. The independent film of the widow sister has almost zero foreshadowing in this regard. It has to highlight feminism and engage in some other ideological things. The result of this attempt is that the film has lost more things, popcorn movies. The original stimulation has become weak, and an excellent material for imitating the master, an anti-hero, has become a tool man. This is the loss of the advantages of the super-hero movies; and the themes such as feminism and family cannot be supported due to the lack of performance space. this movie.
Not only that, but certain ideological things are also affecting the film. The movie seems to think that mentioning the Soviet Union is brainwashing and oppressing human rights, and using drugs to control pigs as a metaphor for Soviet agents, is this correct? The movie has the following logic: the Soviet Union is equivalent to brainwashing, and the people under its control are equivalent to pigs controlled by drugs. They are eagerly waiting for the rescue of Western "freedom", so those widows immediately turned their backs as soon as they were sprayed with the drug. This approach not only seriously undermines the rationality of the film, but also tries to portray Widow Sister as a golden sign and a special role model of Western liberalism against "evil" communism. As far as the work itself is concerned, this is also a serious damage to the characters.
Looking forward to seeing the trailer of "Spider-Man no way home". Playing the multiverse card is the most feasible and best operation for Marvel. It is not so easy to break through the natural characteristics of superhero films. Do a good job in superhero films It is the foundation itself, otherwise it can only become a collapsed castle in the air like the red house in "Black Widow".
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