Who said it was the Chinese version of Lust Caution?

Johan 2022-04-21 09:02:42

This movie is very exciting. Before watching it, some people compared it to the Chinese version of Lust and Caution. After watching it, I realized that it was not a good movie at all.
The story mainly revolves around the three "deaths" of the heroine. Under the background of history, some people are often given different fates. Just like Alice in the story, the first time she died, she was so dead that she was shot by a gun and could dive into the water. The second chance coincidentally was rescued that night when he was dragged to the execution platform the next day. What I can't understand the most is the third time, obviously I was injected with a potion and almost lost my mind. Now that I ate a piece of chocolate and jumped from the second floor, I became more and more energetic. But that only proves one thing, and that is that she is someone who has been given an important mission by the director.
Rather than the heroine, I actually prefer the German captain portrayed by the director. Munts is a very three-dimensional figure. Although he was an accomplice of a German Nathan, he was a "pessimist" who hoped that there would not be too many bloodshed incidents. There is a small episode in the story. When Alice questioned Munts that she was married, Munts's answer reflected the damage to his family that the war had brought to him. In fact, it already reflected his tired attitude towards war. . Therefore, he was willing to make an agreement with the resistance organization and fulfill this agreement, so that he would not hesitate to disobey Hitler's orders and reduce bloodshed as much as possible. In this scene, the complex psychology of the characters and the inability to help themselves under the political form have been portrayed very vividly by the director. However, it was not enough. The director also specially arranged the last scene. At the same time as the final victory of the war, Ellie died with the help of Monts and decided to clarify her innocence, but because of this, they also became impossible when they got the truth. lovers. And the peaceful life that Munts said he wanted to live with Alice turned into an extravagant dream.
War is like that, the truth the director wants to tell people is not the truth revealed in that black book, not telling people who the real betrayal is. Although this unexpected plot is the most exciting part of the whole film, and it is also a highlight of the audience, I believe the director wants to say that what we usually think of as justice and sin is sometimes not a simple definition. Nor can it be a destiny that individuals can control themselves, and sometimes we do things we cannot do because of external drives. But the external driving force may be desire, greed for life, or fate that puts you in an embarrassing situation, and then you are pushed forward by the great wave of historical trends. Perhaps the director knew very well that even if he had a trace of kindness in his heart, an important narcissist during World War II could not escape the crimes he committed. And whether the inversion of justice also does not allow the hero and heroine in the story to be married, so arranging a death is an obligation that has to be fulfilled.
In short, the plot of this movie is very compact, and it gives you a suspense when there is no suspense, and it is really frightening. It turns out that heroes are not heroes, and demons are not all demons. Correspondingly, at the beginning of the story, the members of the resistance organization who helped the Jews escape, as well as Frank who played the devil image from beginning to end, etc., the director did not write too much on each character, but with the With the development of the film, each character is organized sporadically through some fragments to form a flesh and blood image. This is very charming.
The last thing I want to say is that Alice has faced the death of two lovers. The first time was seeing family members killed by German guns during the war, and the second time was hearing about the death of a loved one after the war. The historical environment of the two deaths has changed, the environment of the two deaths is also embarrassing and strange, and the emotions expressed are also very different. This is actually an appreciation for the senseless spirit of women during the war. Grief is weak, and only the power of hatred is enough to support her in the future. But once the war is gone and hatred has less power, then sadness will be Only sadness remains. So we see the female side of the heroine who has a great contrast before and after.

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  • Rachel Stein aka Ellis de Vries: I never knew this would happen. To fear the liberation...

  • Gerben Kuipers: We will kill that girl! However, wherever, whenever.