"Love Is Complicated" is actually a simple story. Jane and Jack, who have been divorced for ten years, have maintained a good relationship. Jack remarries a young beauty, while Jane falls in love with Adam, the architect who renovated his kitchen. However, when they left the town to attend their son's graduation ceremony, their respective new loves began to sprout, whether to reunite or break up completely. The two people spun and struggled on this issue, but the result was embarrassing.
Meryl Streep, such a monster-level character, the only thing that needs to be done is to constantly surpass herself - my mother can act. I can put it like that in "Mama Mia" and "The Devil Wears Prada", and I can make it like that in "All the Time" and "Child Abuse Suspect", not to mention the hardcore "Sophie's Choice" and "Sophie's Choice". The Moleks. So it's pretty safe for Streep to portray a half-old milf in this film.
Steve Martin, who has spanned almost half of the history of Hollywood entertainment, is known as an evergreen in the film industry, and the screenwriter and host are no problem. The super dad in the basket of children has seen the funny skills of this white-headed fairy, and when he was talking about the performance, Martin was actually able to do it well. Therefore, Martin created a difficulty in this film. A small divorced old man is also safe.
The inscrutable Alec Baldwin TV series has been favored by major TV awards in recent years, "I am a comedy maniac". Nominated, he will play a romantic old man who is a sweet wife with white eyes and a gentle ex-wife on the other side. It is not so much that art comes from life, it is better to say that it is a true performance, so relatively speaking, it is not so "successful". Fine" Baldwin, still safe.
Looking at the main actors of "Love is Complicated", almost all the roles are familiar to them. The director has poisonous eyes when choosing actors, because he knows that these actors have nothing to do with this kind of actor. The challenging role, no matter how you say it horizontally or vertically, is impossible to play. The script is in place, and the beginnings and transitions are smooth and free. The art is in place, and there are many shots and character costume designs that have left a deep image. The director wrapped himself in the safest area for her, and made the ground as a prison, so that monsters and ghosts couldn't get in, and he couldn't get out. This is a standard work, but this is not a representative work.
What I want to talk about here is the average score of a director. In my opinion, for artists, safety is never enough. For example, our Aunt Xu, the abnormality of "Aunt" is particularly surprising, but I really can't say that "Aunt" is not cute, and it is not Aunt Xu's temperament. Another example is Chen Kaige, he can make a masterpiece like "Farewell My Concubine", but after losing people in "Wuji", people also dare to slap the shoe prints on his body in the face of infamy to fiddle with Peking Opera master "Mei Lanfang". Relatively speaking, Ning Hao, who is the director of the "up-and-coming", has a lot of money in addition to investing in the crazy two. I really don't see where the cutting-edge and revolutionary. Feng Gong, who is the best cross talk talker in the director world, has fully demonstrated that he can act in other people's plays, as long as he directs it himself, Any movie will make him a sketch. Dare to toss, in my opinion, it is actually one of the criteria for a good director.
The pain of mediocrity lies in the fact that everything is qualified, everything is reasonable, everything is done step by step, like a cup of warm water, it is bland and tasteless. Needless to say, Sister Nan's next movie is probably still the way of tenderness. But in retrospect, "possibility" is a beautiful thing, and "possibility" is also a very terrifying thing. What if her style changes and the next step goes directly to the shameful doom? Small investment and big names all have to cut the flesh, and there are no men and women who are jumping in the front line of $180 million. No one can be a good person and learn from Lei Feng. In this shadow, mediocre America can be found. The Hollywood script is so ridiculous that basically all the best-selling books have been scoured over and over. It is very rare to have a woman who can maintain a high level of production, director and producer, and has a good reputation. Sister Nan will continue to be very successful. , but she will never win the Palme d'Or or the Golden Bear because of this way. Maybe people's ambitions are not here, maybe they still want to make a little love and earn some money to repair the roof. After all, for the business operation For the film of the movie, the temptation of a Palme d'Or is far less than the reality of making a lot of money. Therefore, Sister Nan, please feel free to be mediocre...
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