Absolute image-traversing between reality and art

Jaime 2022-04-20 09:01:44

I have no concept of the film itself, such as its classification, whether it belongs to action, romance, fantasy or documentary, etc. But for almost all films, I feel that a simple yet impressive image is enough to impress me and give me a full score.
"Deadly Black Orchid" is a film I accidentally saw in the early morning. The film's inexplicable story background and jaw-dropping action scenes are not very attractive to me. And the heroine Katalia's killer talent when she was still a girl, escaped the pursuit of a large group of underworld "actors" (they played really well~), which made me feel very strange. As for Those action-packed revenge, well, I'll just say, that's what the plot calls for.
But all I've said about these criticized arrangements doesn't affect my rating for it.
An image established in the film, that is, the image that Cataliya's boyfriend left when he took a picture of her when he woke up, turned this film from a nonsensical crime action film into a literary and artistic film. . I couldn't help laughing when I saw this plot. So far, all the previous plot arrangements can be ignored gorgeously.
There is no better memory than a good night's sleep in the arms of a loved one. He made her lunch before she woke up, the sun shining through the window lattice on her quiet face, how can I describe the feeling, like snow melting under the sunlight. Although the director was dealing with this scene only to pave the way for the subsequent plot, so the shooting seemed rough, but it was innocuous, because the image had already been established.
Do you really feel like you know the love in front of you? I'm just trying to figure out how this screenwriter, this diaosi who wrote this script, started this story. If I had to start off with a story about gangsters, about killers, about revenge, then all the starting points would be clichéd and unappealing. But if all the starting points are only derived from one picture, that is, the photo of "Sleeping Beauty", then all the arrangements of the plot are just to verify or establish this image, and the artistic value of the film will be sublimated.
How many people remember when the heroine Katalia woke up late in front of her boyfriend for the first time, that is, the lines she said after she woke up naturally after the hero took a picture of her, just like her snooze girlfriend told you She was going to be late for work, and she hurriedly packed everything and rushed out the door, almost exactly the same. He just wanted to have a good talk with her. I think that maybe this is the source of the screenwriter starting this story, because maybe you have lived with a person who seems to be your favorite for a long time, and you may not know a lot of her thoughts and background. And this lack of understanding deepens her charming qualities. The screenwriter tries to imagine a side that does not exist in reality for his girlfriend, because for most people today, there is not much time to spend with their lover all day long, so in those times that they have not seen, What the hell is that guy with whom you can spend the night?
If we magnify this idea, let our imagination be a little bolder, and let our girlfriend, maybe just an ordinary company clerk in reality, turn into a killer, what kind of feeling is that? In the time you can't see, it seems that the person who gets along with you day and night is a person with unique skills who has murdered invisible people, a person who can travel between two completely different worlds and is invisible. Then life suddenly became less boring because of this imagination. The idea is really COOOOOOOOL.
Therefore, all the development of the plot stems from this idea, so even if the fiction about the background identity of the heroine is so far-fetched and out of reality, it does not matter. Because the image that was established in my mind when I saw you wake up from sleep, when I saw your beautiful face, has taken up most of my life, even if you end up missing from my life, This impression cannot be dispelled.
I think that's what this movie is about.

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Colombiana quotes

  • Genarro Rizzo: [waking with a gun to his head] Who are you?

    Cataleya: Not room service.

  • Richard: The CIA is not an amusement park.