The new Bad Lieutenant is two completely different movies from the old one, which should be a good thing. When I watch it, I basically don't connect the two, and I'm disappointed with the independent look and feel of the movie: the conventional techniques and the loopholes in the content are annoying.
The screenwriter of the film William M. Finkelstein (William M. Finkelstein), the main achievement is to write a lot of TV crime drama series, a few movies are also crime type. The "Bad Lieutenant" rewritten by him, the story also mainly revolves around a massacre. The protagonist "Bad Lieutenant" has a fiery temper, takes drugs, gambles on football, has an affair with a senior recruit girl, and colludes with criminals. He is accustomed to "extraordinary methods" and also makes mistakes when he is doing his business - he loses an important witness in the case . The continuous accumulation and eruption, the "bad lieutenant" gradually fell into a desperate situation. If you are in a desperate situation and cannot extricate yourself until self-destruction, it is a complete noir film; but if it is rescued at the last minute, it is a black comedy. The film takes the latter approach, with the writers setting up a dark crime comedy.
One of the quintessence of dark comedy is the need for careful set-up and pointed sarcasm augmentation at key turns, which Bad Lieutenant lacks. In the end, the gambling debt was simply resolved by winning by gambling, and the violent law enforcement could not be resolved. And because the girlfriend offended the drug criminal, it was absurd from the beginning, and he took the initiative to provoke a policeman of some status for trivial matters? The most critical massacre of the family was brought back to life, involving too many "bad lieutenants" who went in, but was able to escape without any hindrance? No matter what, they should kill people when they are being arrested, just to die without proof. The resolution of the crisis has been handled like a child's play without any power at all, and such "transfiguration into the invisible" is not "black" or "comedy" because of this.
In terms of actors, Eva Mendes is nothing special, Fang Kilmer, who lost weight and became younger, only contributed to the quarrel, and the only protagonist Nicolas Cage became the only pillar of the film. Nicolas Cage, who is very popular among Chinese fans, has actually been bored for many years, but the explosive performance in this film and the "bad" characteristics of the characters are quite remarkable. But the characters are affected by the plot, and the whole character finally seems to have no "soul". The character is completely bad, but it is balanced by the torture of back disease and a little kindness. In other words, "balance" is to deepen the complexity of the characters, but it is complicated but has not been designed with a reasonable outlet. It is not easy to understand how to achieve the final state. Even with a series of unnutritious coincidences, the previous "bad" The accumulation is also wasted and not effective enough.
Herzog is a "madman" and also likes to portray "madman". The classics "Overland Boat", "Aguirre, God's Wrath", and the more recent documentary "Grizzly Man" are all very good. manifestation. So "Bad Lieutenant" is actually very suitable for his old man's appetite, but the overall grasp of the film seems to be better. Somewhat similar is Herzog's last feature film, "See the Sun Again", Christian Bale contributed a wonderful performance, but the overall evaluation of the film was mixed.
What is special about the film is that crocodiles and lizards suddenly appeared inexplicably, and the camera lens was very strange at that time. It was neither the perspective of these animals nor the perspective of the protagonist, but the objective lens aimed at these animals had a strong effect. Subjective color, what is the meaning of these cold-blooded reptiles? Somewhat confused.
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