But he is not completely black, the witch-like heroine, the mentally distressed hero, the Goya painting "The Witch in the Sky" that should have been stolen in the photo, but the movie has really become an untenable castle in the sky. Noir films almost never have a happy ending, but the director made a happy ending: the femme fatale relied on a series of hypnosis and two sex scenes to guide the pirate painting five-member group, and finally took control of the overall situation and walked away alone. people. How many people can be satisfied with this ending? I admit that the character design of the male protagonist is full and believable - gambling addiction, infatuation, control, artistic sensitivity, perfectionism, and violent tendencies can indeed be many facets of a person. But the sex scene is embarrassing, the heroine sleeps with two men who are too handsome to fall in love with her - not to mention how charming James McAvoy's blue eyes are, and Vincent Cassel is Monica Bellucci's husband! The former loves her so much that she turns gambling addiction into crazy possessiveness towards her, risking death and committing crimes for her, even hypnosis can't sway her subconscious infatuation, while the latter's passion for her erupts as suddenly as hypnosis, and She is willing to be played around by her, and the strong black accomplices are inexplicably violent... Since the director wants to make a commercial film that sells all over the world, please consider the aesthetics and receptivity of most human beings, at least please make up the love story more Be convincing. As for the judgment and intelligence of the second male lead, how could the judgment and intelligence take a turn for the worse, and even let the black eldest brother take advantage of the situation, this is not a pity for aesthetics! Also, is there no such thing as a policeman?
Obviously, the director's mind is not on the screenwriting, but on challenging the audience's intelligence, or he thinks that the picture editing, narrative style, and background music are cool enough to make up for the imbalance of the plot. On the one hand, he buried a lot of detail clues to make you separate the dream and reality, such as the repeatedly replayed goal, the same courier and the ipad entering the memory mode, but at the same time he deliberately blurs the dream and the real in order to create unexpected and surprising effects. Boundaries, but the audience will not sympathize with the hero and heroine like watching "Shutter Island", but will accompany the protagonist to be played. He does not consider whether the audience's understanding is correct, and some audiences even interpret it as a "Fight Club"-style double split personality story. In addition, the director's signature gameplay is still so striking, that is, challenging the audience's visual tolerance, he asked the femme fatale to open the car trunk with a carrion and take out a Goya painting worth tens of millions - instantly I remembered that from Ivan comes out of the filthiest toilet in Scotland ("Trainspotting").
However, the film needs to be cool and touching, and this matter is difficult to complete, so let's wash it and sleep.
Highlights: James McAvoy and Vincent Cassel are two handsome acting guys; you have to sort out the timeline yourself to get the thrill of watching suspense movies; the background music is great.
You can also watch: Inception, Memento, Shutter Island, Trainspotting.
This article was published in the August issue of "Global Screen" (seemingly), and it is estimated that there will be deletions. Rarely complains in published manuscripts. . . But this movie really can't hold back my rants.
Additional points:
1. A few days after this article was written, Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci divorced. (Cat, you are also auspicious, you are about to catch up with the prince...)
2. The femme fatale should have only slept with Caso, not Yimei, but hypnotized him.
3. I still can't accept the interpretation of schizophrenia, and still think that this film is a double male protagonist.
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