A movie with flying leaves

Greyson 2021-12-20 08:01:06

1. A good movie made with a low budget.
2. Scenery big jump shots and fast editing-a youth movie for young people!
3. Comic-style capricious characters, capricious plots, and capricious plot trends.
4. A movie about flying leaves.
5. The Chinese translation of the protagonist's name is very good...

I saw a special screening at Guangyuan today. The above are probably the five most impressive points of this film. Overall this movie exceeded expectations. At the beginning, the drama was played in minutes. With the small brain holes and small details that burst out from time to time in the movie, I became more and more attracted by its story. Finally, I accepted the low-cost fact and started to enjoy the plot and fight with the protagonist. Started to sigh, and smiled relaxedly after the film ended.

1. But to tell the truth, the crew looked really poor, and they couldn’t even afford group performances in the movie... In the first few shots on the street, there weren’t even passers-by, the poor uncle who worked in the CIA. , The sparsely three or two people in the cubicle office of Norwegian University looked super deserted and it was distressed. All the characters on the stage were important roles. Watching the actors work hard in the empty and deserted scenes, I really wanted to give the actors a message. A little red flower.... The background sound of the film is also like free sound effects downloaded from the Internet. The suppressed buzzing sound accompanies most of the cutscenes, but in this movie with such a low budget, the police station exploded. The car exploded, and finally the scenes and movies of the decisive battle in the supermarket began to compare, I can only sigh that the funds are burning! It turns out that the director spends money in such a place, so the previous low feeling seems to be tolerated, haha
2. There are a lot of fast-paced montages in the movie, which look very lively and a little dazzling, with various props in the middle from time to time close-ups, some of which are small literary close-ups with large fronts, bright colors , I see this kind of lens, the feeling is that the youth film is not only visual sense, I want to come to this film is also aimed at young people. There will also be quick cutting and assembly of very fast sports lenses. I feel that this type of lens is quite dazzling, but I understand that the protagonist is actually a relatively split image. Before awakening his own skill point, he was a quiet and kind-hearted weak chicken + addict. Once he was awakened, he immediately entered the acceleration mode in the battle. The speed and slowness of this shot actually matched the protagonist's brain. However, I feel that many of these fast-paced shots are not good-looking or lack emotional paving, so it may make the audience feel a little alienated or incomprehensible when watching them, but it doesn’t matter, this movie is probably stunned anyway. Medicine
3. The brain holes in the movie keep getting bigger and smaller. It really makes people call the screenwriter a lunatic (a compliment). The protagonist Mike seems to be on the verge of flying and not flying. The visual observation was that the gay CIA assistant uncle suddenly received a call when he took a photo and pressed the camera shutter. I have had a similar experience and shared this sourness with him through the screen. Aunt CIA was framed in the news [BEEP] A group of monkeys, the hearty laughter and weird silhouettes of the man who laughed wildly, as well as his later knocked out front teeth, rocket monkey and brick-splitting dog, the male protagonist with super abnormal brain circuit unexpectedly I lit fireworks and fired cannons all the way to save the heroine...Although the logic is unreasonable and not well-formed, it is really a group of super cute characters. The big white teeth of the laughing man and the thugs sitting obediently in the truck are enough for me. It's been a while. I think the character of this movie is very "caricature": exaggerated character and graphic actions, reactions, performances, nonsensical behavior and very concise lens framing, seem to be able to cover up a lot of character creation problems. Screenwriting omissions and inability to recover the budget...
4. In general, the story of the movie has a few very simple clues: the mob leader chases and kills the male lead, the CIA aunt wants to save the male lead, the proposal prepared by the male lead and becomes the savior, very regular content. But the whole movie feels like flying leaves, half dream and half awake. Sometimes the narrative is well-regulated, and from time to time, a lot of messy things are shot in, the psychedelic basement of the male protagonist's gangster friend, and the ending animation (the monkey is finally satisfied with one at the end)...Although it doesn't feel too much Strong emotions, but tired of watching the explosion of a sufficient budget and destroying the dead-light mecha body, let’s take a look at this very stylish film, which is actually not bad~
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  • Mike Howell: Hey Phoebe! Phoebe?

    [over intercom]

    Mike Howell: Hey Phoebe. I just wanted to say that I love you and that everything is going to be okay. I mean, not perfect, obviously, but better. Like, we'll probably have to get a new house. and also cars. But I'm coming to get you and this will all be over. Soon-ish.

  • Laugher: I'm sorry. I can't control it. The things that they did to my head. They made you like they made me. But you're better than me. Who told you what to do?

    Mike Howell: Nobody.

    Laugher: That must be nice.