I always feel like the main event is missing

Bryce 2022-04-19 09:02:11

To be honest, it's not as good as I imagined, maybe it's a bit numb after watching too much?

The recording of the real case is actually a good selling point. The title emphasizes that everything except the video has been dramatized, but it feels too mild or may have weakened the original ugliness. The expression of the whole film is relatively bland and general. I feel that there is less of the main scene and no biggest conflict. The degree of resonance with the audience is limited, but this kind of calm expression is leisurely and relatively objective and calm, leaving the audience room for thinking.

It is also a sexual assault case that "Focus" has a strong impact on people. Although it is also a relatively bland expression, it makes the audience from a third perspective feel helpless and angry.

I really like the part of Charlize Theron's memory of the pain, the humiliation, the pain and the fear at that time are all in the eyes

In the society of powerful men, women are always so weak, even if they have the opportunity to punish those sinful men, they will still be afraid...

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Bombshell quotes

  • Megyn Kelly: Early on he realized for a network to stay on 24 hours a day you need something to hold an audience. That something is legs. There's a reason for clear desks.

  • Lily Balin: It says you're too sexy to be smart, but not smart enough to be sexy.