At that moment, often alone, while watching a movie, I would turn off my phone.
The charm of the movie is that it can make people forget everything in the world within one or two hours and fully integrate into the movie world.
I watched "World Trade Center" this morning.
The film has three major attractions for me, one is starring Nicolas Cage, the other is director Oliver Stone, and the other is about the 9.11 incident, such a film should not be missed.
Despite the sluggish, lengthy negative reviews of the film, in my opinion, it's an excellent film.
I have to admit that in 130 minutes, I cried 3 times, and I was moved silently by the plot.
In a big event like 9.11, we hardly see politics in this film, we don’t see the whipping of terrorists, we don’t see how the US president calls on the people, we only see two police officers in predicament (the WTO). After the center collapsed and was buried underground), they supported each other and were finally rescued.
There is a line in the movie: "The world saw the devil on this day, but the two policemen saw something else", reflecting the big event from a small angle, which is the most successful part of the film.
I have probably seen nearly 20 Nicolas Cage movies. It is a pity that most of Nicolas Cage's faces in this film are covered with dust and blood, which somewhat limits the performance of this actor. The evaluation remains the same as before.
As for Oliver Stone, he directed "Field Platoon", "Born on July 4th" and "Kennedy Assassination" and many other works can be ranked in the list of my favorite 100 movies, like his majestic, Take it easy. He did not show the crash and collapse of buildings in a conventional manner, but looked down on the long-lasting dust and smoke on the ruins from above Manhattan many times.
For Oliver Stone, what he values more is the performance of the film, as he said in an interview with reporters, "their protagonists are all low-level characters or small people without exception, and they use their destiny to rise and fall. Telling historical events and showing macro events from a micro perspective is the consistent style of my films.” Let’s
talk about the third attraction, about 9.11.
For this generation of Chinese people, there are not many major events that they have experienced. Perhaps the night of the successful bid for the Olympic Games was the most exciting, and the two days after September 11, 2001 were the most exciting.
I use the word excitement here, and I don’t want to re-describe it, and I don’t want to directly point to the hearts of the people. I just want to say that many Chinese people were excited spectators in those days.
Fortunately, with the Internet, there are more and more exchanges between the world. Fortunately, more and more Chinese people have learned to walk out of orthodox and traditional education and start to think independently.
I never wanted to sing the meaning of the so-called American spirit. I just wanted to look at this historical event from the perspective of human nature and national quality, and look at some of the things interpreted in this film.
When I was a teenager, I watched a lot of Hong Kong police and gangster films, which left a subconscious impression of the poor quality of Hong Kong people. In fact, the quality of most Hong Kong people is much higher than that of mainlanders.
The development direction of human civilization is the same. In the long history, spiritual civilization often moves forward along with the prosperity of material civilization.
I'm not familiar with the actresses in "World Trade Center", in this film they seem to have one thing in common, they're all smart, sensual, and tough, it's clearly arty, but every time I get tears in my eyes, it's Because of their sensationalism, they acted very well.
If you want to find fault with the film, the retired Marine Corps sergeant looks a bit abrupt and neurotic, and is a deliberately shaped hero. But when the two policemen were lifted out of the ground, we could see many hands, and it is possible that there were indeed many such unsung heroes on the ruins of the World Trade Center.
The last thing I want to say is that this film is definitely not suitable for watching discs at home.
A friend said to me on skype after seeing my "World Trade Center Aftermath" from a blog, "The whole movie must be bloody and tragic right?".
Today, after watching Demi Moore's latest movie "The Mysterious Islands", which also shows the content of death, I found that there is one less reflection on death in "World Trade Center", and I will add film review 2 today.
In almost any ancient religion in the world, its teachings must first address three questions: who God is, where do people come from, and where do people go.
In the film "World Trade Center", there are basically no bloody and scary scenes. In the excellent soundtrack, viewers often think about things other than disasters, such as love, such as death, such as human nature.
If love is a thousand-year-old topic, then death is an age-old philosophical proposition.
When I was a child, I watched "Smart Yixiu", and I still remember the content of one episode. An evil benefactor asked Yixiu to express his life in one word, and Yixiu wrote a big word "death" on the white paper.
The understanding and perception of death accompany the life of human growth. In the happy events of relatives and friends, we gradually mature, from not being confused to knowing the destiny, and walking towards death step by step.
Towards the end of "World Trade Center", some subtitles listed the death toll, which seemed to be more than 2,300 people.
And "World Trade Center" shows only a police death process.
Nicolas Cage vividly interprets the policeman McLaughlin. When faced with death, he began to reflect on his relationship with his wife and the life pressure of his four children, which made communication and affectionate expressions between the couple less. When his life was dying, His commitment to his wife's life kept him alive.
When facing death, policeman Jimero turned from fear to calmness. His innate optimism and religious belief allowed him to see Jesus deliver mineral water when he was dying. A few scenes of what the name of the child to be born will be called, which become the wonderful passages of this film that make people cry.
Maybe the director of "World Trade Center" has written too much about the survivors, but he has touched the unfortunate and their families, so that the overall tragedy has not been able to reach a higher level, but death is not the opposite of life, but a part of life. forever.
Demi Moore's "Mystic Islands" has a wonderful line at the end: "Forget death, remember life."
There is a word about death that modern Chinese rarely use, and that is - rebirth.
Death is rebirth.
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