After watching Ang Lee's "Gemini Man", I personally feel that the novelty of the film does not lie in the visual effects technology, but the groundbreaking grafting of the lens language of the drama film into the action film.
Ang Lee makes extensive use of the usual facial close-ups in feature films, and even unconventionally uses telephoto close-up shots in action shots, while relatively slowing down the editing rhythm.
Let’s talk about facial close-up first. Its advantage is that it can describe the psychological activities of characters more delicately, while its disadvantage is that it completely ignores body language and the environment.
For action movie fans who seek sensory stimulation, they have no interest in observing the psychological activities of characters. Only the parts above the neck are shaking on the screen, which will only make you drowsy.
In addition, close-up and panning, although the audience can experience the chasing and fighting process, but when used in 3D, it will make people feel motion sickness. "Transformers 3" is a warning.
Therefore, since the audience for the drama is not the same as the audience for the action film, this innovation will certainly not be a commercial success.
But I still admire Ang Lee, after all we need to see something new.
As for the plot, the film points out two paths for the development of human cloning technology. One is to create human flesh tools that eliminate emotions and pain, and the other is to retain the human nature of cloned people and turn them into life continuations similar to their own descendants. However, Ang Lee doesn't seem to want to be a wall-riding faction - after the fight in the pile of skeletons, the focus of the camera did not shift to the protagonist and his clone, but unconventionally stayed on the skeleton head, it seems, he is more inclined to Cloning is associated with destruction.
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