Like other Polanski films, this killing still brings us the familiar introspection and contemplation, full of aftertaste.
Adapted from a stage play, the script is short and powerful but not without skill. It requires not only superb acting skills and lines, but also just the right lens language and clever editing.
In the 80 minutes, Polanski and several movie stars brought us a Ukiyo-e painting of the white middle class in the current American society.
Of course, with the continuous development of Chinese society, the four different images in the film are represented among us, and there are actually quite a few.
The two couples are mirror images of each other, the slender Christoph Waltz and the relatively plump Kate Winslet are one pair, and the slightly skinny Jodie Foster is another pair with the five and three thick John C. Reilly.
Let's imagine, if lawyer Christoph Waltz was not blessed by civilized system, he would definitely not be as burly and powerful as John C. Reilly in the survival of the fittest;
If Jodie Foster didn't have the blessing of civilization, then she must not be as sexy and charming as Kate Winslet in natural selection.
In a civilized society, the congenital body condition is suppressed by the acquired knowledge advantage, so the two people who do not have the advantage of the body can stand out in the choice of mate.
In fact, all of this, from the nature of natural competition, still has not escaped the constraints of the laws of natural competition.
So what this film wants to discuss more may be the paradox between civilization and barbarism.
Our self-righteous civilization may still be essentially a savage package, and sometimes it seems to be an excessive package, like this meaningless quarrel caused by a fight between two children, and the final shot is the two The child's own reconciliation is as good as ever, and the abandoned hamster is not actually dead on the street.
This irony is about to burst out of the screen.
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