"Demolition" is another film with many translations. Except for "Broken Life" that most Chinese-speaking audiences finally saw in the Chinese introduction of the film, it was once translated. For "Blasting" and "Demolition", they sound relatively simple and rude. The Taiwan translation is called "Broken Life", which seems to be not much different from "Broken Life", while the Hong Kong translation is more interesting - "The First Half of Love · End" , in which the word "End" is used well, which directly expresses the end of past emotions after some tossing and sorting, no matter what the process is.
The film's release schedule in North America is a bit awkward and easily overlooked. Maybe some audiences will classify it as a kind of healing chicken soup. If the existing seemingly solid shell is numbly and painfully smashed, it is possible to get a little new breath. , also counted as chicken soup. There are also people who mistakenly think that the film is rather dull and are afraid to avoid it. In fact, the plot and dialogue of "Demolition" are full of humor. Even the metaphors and puns are full of interest, and the rhythm is as appropriate as its soundtrack. , The progression of the situation has a suitable tone, the structure is an obvious and concise three-stage style, a tragic beginning, a wild and unrestrained process, and a peaceful and warm ending. After comprehensive consideration, it is a good film, regardless of the actor and director. , or the soundtrack of photography, both of which are remarkable.
Inadvertently, Jean-Marc Valet, a director from Quebec, has seen all the main works. This director is good at expressing the broken lives of little people in the background of the big era, such as "Dallas Buyers Club", and is also good at taking it away. Emotional dramas, such as "Out of the Wilderness" and "Flower Cafe", have also performed court historical dramas with a light approach, such as "Young Victoria". This film, which expresses from being suddenly broken to resetting life, seems to have a strange freshness in the hands of Jean-Marc Valet and screenwriter Brian Spur, and it also has a focus that is different from other films of the same type— -Many things can only understand their inner structure by breaking the surface, see where the center of gravity really supports it, and understand the truth of building it. Demolition means rebuilding.
Since "Death Illusion", he has been paying attention to the growth of Jake Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal, who is literary and sullen, seems to know what type of films he should take. Of course, he also has the courage to break through and challenge. Over the years, his acting skills have continued to improve. Even if he is occasionally suspected of being a little more powerful, he has never lacked in-depth analysis of the role. It can even be said that Jake Gyllenhaal eats every role he plays. To be more transparent, there is a trend of integration of some people and dramas. In this play, the widowed elite man Davis played by Jack is not easy to handle. , and the completion is good. Davis's emotional accumulation and retraction are not unusual, and the final "collapse" is also "refined". Although it has been suppressed until the end, it is full of strength. Variety also called the play Jake Gyllenhaal's best performance since Brokeback Mountain.
After a period of time in the film, the heroine Karen showed her feet. The owner of these feet, Naomi Watts, is really an actress who is not afraid to show the traces of the years in front of the camera. This is related to her love of injections. The girlfriends are simply two extremes. In the film, Karen is a customer service staff of a vending machine, and Watts really shows the characteristics of this class of women from the beginning.
What is rare is that there are heroines and heroines who have lived scars in this film, and they do not need to use physical affection to support each other in their minds. , The interaction between him and Davis seems to highlight the part that Davis is repressed by the numb work and life in filling up the gap in his heart. Chris's unruly also makes Davis' unruly more violent.
Before his wife's death, Davis lived a life where everything was arranged, and he followed the steps every day. This kind of life made him accustomed to it. When the car accident happened, Davis was like a patient with a long reflex arc or dry eye. After shedding a single tear, he still intends to continue his step-by-step life. However, after all, life has changed, cracks have appeared, and it is only a matter of time before it collapses. The beginning is that Davis wrote a "complaint letter" to the service staff of the vending machine. As Françoise Sagan said: "Only in the struggle with one's own contradictions, likes and dislikes, fanatics, one can understand a small part of life, I mean a small part", David Stacey seems to have taken pleasure in a series of struggles or acts of vandalism, although his vandalism is euphemistically called repair.
"Sometimes things must be dismantled before they can be reassembled and restored." The refrigerator at home, the company's computer, and the public bathroom were all torn apart, and Davis even paid money to join the "American-style demolition team." , smashed the wall with a sledgehammer, and then he started to attack himself, claiming to "dismantle his marriage". From this set of well-shot and smoothly-cut shots, the audience and the filmmakers listen to the intense rhythm together, watch an otherwise elegant home being violently destroyed by a wave of violence, and experience an alternative aesthetic.
In the film, Davis is seen watching TV alone more than once, and the TV always broadcasts the hot spring "Monkey Life" of Hokkaido Snow Monkeys. The world of monkeys seems to be the epitome of the primary stage of the human world, and the monkey socialization in the hot spring is reflected. With the way of emotional communication belonging to monkeys, the former Davis just watched numbly and indifferently, as if just to pass the time, after a tangled and painful life experience, he seemed to understand the subtlety and necessity of emotional communication, he finally Got it, but Julia is no longer.
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