It is obvious to all that Director Stone is getting softer and softer, but the anti-government themes of leftist directors are still to be seen. Compared with Citizenfour, this drama is based on Hong Kong interviews and news events and shows the characters' mental journey to complete historical events. The closed-loop happy ending is still a decent Hollywood personal hero mode. The positive ending wastes the natural depth of the 1984-style story, and the image of Big Brother is vague and ambiguous, which is a pity.
The film repeatedly emphasizes that questioning the government's assertion of human rights is the spirit of the founding of the United States (huh? You know), sticking to the mainstream values of the United States in an anti-mainstream attitude, criticizing only "doing bad things" and "the director of national security blatantly lied" In fact, it's not left at all, and there is absolutely no hormonal anarchist impulse that Director Stone used to smash everything. The US official looked at it and estimated that his butt would not sweat: I was wrong. I can't change it, especially if I can't change it. Change and no one knows.
In the end, I rushed to show the real Snowden and used hard objective truth to make up for the disability of artistic level (this is similar to "Hacksaw Ridge"); "the story is not wonderful" and "it is true" are not the same thing, stealing concept. The male protagonist has a similar shape, sweet and affectionate, but the result is not enough, or the pattern is broken. In the end, the real Snowden came out, and his temperament was instantly crushed.
The heroine, Xie Lin, is still OK, with a naturally tangled face, but "Descendants" should have been the limit back then, and the future is not optimistic. The Old Cage, the guest star, is basically the B-side of the textbook-style protagonist. His career is unfinished, and he has a miserable relationship, implying abetting children. Finally, holding a glass of wine, he said leisurely: "The kid did it," dark and cool to internal injuries.
Well, it's very Chinese. No, it's Hollywood.
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