As a spy thriller, "Red Sparrow" is not as hopeless as many people accuse it, and it is quite remarkable in terms of atmosphere creation, art design and performance, which is barely worth watching.
The reason for the poor reputation is that the director and screenwriter are too unfamiliar with the real world of espionage and take it for granted.
It is not impossible to fabricate, but it is laborious and troublesome to find an "insider" as a consultant. Most of them are like 007, Mission Impossible, Byrne, and Shorter, and they go all the way to the surreal action route; , pay attention to characterization and dramatic conflict, highlighting the sense of reality.
"The Red Sparrow" is a bit unreliable. It wants to go realism, but it is too dramatic. The characters, especially the Russian faces, have become hollow. The cognition and aesthetics of international relations are still stuck in the 1990s. The tone of an American model drama, full of Cold War flavor, is not only boring, but also outdated.
In recent years, the eldest cousin's taste in film selection has become more and more eccentric and cunning. They are all films that are difficult to simply comment on whether they are good or bad. Joel Edgerton had an unconfident passer-by face, and he forced himself into some scenes and reluctantly gave himself a male No. 1 seat. The relationship with his eldest cousin was purely embarrassing. The credibility and presence are not as good as the villain's uncle.
The female spy Yegorova is tailor-made, has a rich performance space, expresses extreme emotions and complex emotions, and has enough texture. However, as I said at the beginning, the story of the whole movie is a castle in the air, extremely frivolous, and it is difficult for the eldest cousin to make a profound performance on such a script.
Spy, or beauty, the movie routinely gives a lot of benefits.
The eldest cousin gave a very large-scale performance in the movie. Violence is also portrayed in detail, especially in torture and slaughter. In order to highlight the cruelty of Russian heresy, the bloody index has soared, but the bloody torture method is completely gangster-style, pompous and inefficient, and the spies of the big countries are always doing it. The house was full of blood, and at every turn, he would use his own people to stand up.
The director did not intend to put the United States and Russia on an equal level to express, but blindly blackened and blackened. But please don't forget that great duels are often built on equal footing, and you make the enemy extremely stupid, which will only lower your level. So in the whole movie, the CIA's performance is not as good as Russia's, and it can only afford the word "stupid".
So at the end of the movie, there is only the only big heroine left. She counterattacked quietly, turned the situation around in adversity, solved the evil perverted uncle without any blood, and protected the real "inside line". On the side of absolute "justice", the whole body is shiny and flawless.
It must be admitted that the beginning and end of the film are still wonderful. The montage at the beginning and the sudden reversal at the end show a very good level of emotional arousal and narrative rhythm, so if the audience accidentally takes a nap in the middle, it is not too bad. Will miss the essence of the movie.
But these bright spots can't hide the problem that the movie is sloppy and messy for most of the time. It can even be said that the design of the entire movie is wrong from the beginning, and the behavioral logic of the characters cannot be well supported. All efforts are to make the movie move towards moving in the wrong direction.
But it doesn't matter, more people may just pay attention to the nude and passionate scenes of the big cousin, and no one even tries to tell her that her face shape is really not suitable for wearing that thick bangs hairstyle.
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