So when 9/11 themes were thoroughly picked up by the media, documentaries and movies, after a lapse of ten years, such a "Sound of Sound" brought us to the scene of the disaster again, with a somewhat bizarre purpose: to gather the audience to mourn and cry ?
There is no shortage of great movies that can make people cry: the kind-hearted dog Hachiko, the great Schindler, and the fiddler on the Titanic, too many to mention. The most important thing that moves the heartstrings is value recognition. "Special Sound" undoubtedly guessed the beginning, but did not guess the ending: it is good to use the growth of a boy to make the audience feel substituting, but the cheap sensational technique gives people a serious sense of violation, no wonder there are many After crying, people yelled and deceived. The lines and plots of the homework, the soundtrack created by the scheming people, are not all directed at the tear ducts of the audience?
It's ridiculous to judge whether you cried or not. Is it a good movie if you cry? Not to mention whether the argument that making people cry is a masterpiece is reasonable, and the crying point of the movie is not bought by everyone. To put it nicely, the story is the growth and transformation of a boy after losing his father. To put it in a simpler way, it is like this: the neurotic boy tossing himself and everyone around him, including the story of a grandfather who can’t speak. Such a story is basically negative in credibility. It is like an essay about 911 for the college entrance examination. It is unfortunately interpreted as a narrative, and the words are very frequent, but the whole story is fabricated. Holding such a work in my hand, neither praise nor scolding, so I have to learn from it and start Samsung.
In fact, the biggest problem with the movie is not the director’s skill. Dadley is undoubtedly a good director. He didn’t use this movie to prove his abilities. From "Out of My World" to "All the Time", to the later "Lang Reader" ", his works always contain affection, telling ordinary but profound stories full and touching. The problem this time is the script itself. The script is like a sprinkled breadcrumb, little clues a little east, a little sweetness, leading the audience to the abyss of tears. The imaginary has its shape, but the inside is blindly piled up. An inspired castle in the sky lacks substantive moving details and authentic experience. Blindly sensational, the method is a bit tricky. It doesn't matter that many professional film critics also think so: This is a movie which you want to punch on the face of.
The acting skills of the two actresses, Bullock and Davis, are basically impeccable, and the acting skills of other actors are relatively impeccable, but unfortunately they used the wrong place. Hanks has no sense of existence from beginning to end. A hardcore acting school like Max von Sidor can only act as a grandfather who can’t speak, but it’s a shame that the new generation of boys can’t stop talking. . Although the boy's performance is good, his character in the story is really unpleasant. It’s not polite to yell everywhere, even if you have Asperger’s disease, even if you are only nine years old, you shouldn’t be a reason to hurt your loved ones at will, so that when he said "I wish you were there" to his mother, I wiped it. Tears while resenting: You are right there! Later, I couldn't sit still when the child tortured the grandpa after listening to the message on the phone. The technique was too hard: Boy, please let the grandpa go! Don't torture him anymore! Excessively deliberately sensational, it really makes people feel like a throat, and I feel sad.
The counterattack of "Special Sound" at the Oscars undoubtedly shows that the film still has a certain level of production. Indeed, in terms of photography, editing, soundtrack, and even performance, the film has achieved satisfactory results at the technical level, but this is just the conventional level of Stephen Dadley, and the core of watching a movie without technology is actually empty. Perhaps the expectation was too high. "Special Sound" didn't even blast a crater in my heart. In the end, it only released a dumb cannon and became what bean friends nicknamed the "fart" --- Special Sound is super close. Isn't it just that? This is like a souvenir that has no place, gorgeous but meaningless.
The haze of 911 slowly dissipated. After a lapse of ten years, some people came out, some were still bloody, and some people couldn’t fight 911 or New York. When asked: "Did you cry today?", it still feels a bit ridiculous. Do people fall in love with the movie itself, or do they fall in love with the feeling of crying? This cost-effective flash back is just an empty shell of the imaginary. After crying, how many people can think about it?
Cheap tears, don’t worry.
Even if you are only 9 years old, you shouldn't shout "I hope you die" to your mother, because your mother is more painful than you. Even if you are mentally ill, you shouldn’t put on a “victim” posture and instead bully your grandfather and expose the pain over and over again. Even if you are only a child, you should not pretend to take advantage of the trust and feelings of others for you.
PS: Finally, I gave it to Samsung. It was not a way of sensationalizing. I just thought that the expectations were too high and the gap was too big. The page was also five stars. Come to a Samsung and pour some cold water. Please be careful if you step on it, thank you.
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