【Recollections】"Anna (2019)" Luc Besson Expression

Michele 2022-04-19 09:02:30

The "Russian Nesting Doll" in "Anna" "Anna" adopts a multi-line intersecting narrative method throughout. The director divides a complete story into several small paragraphs, and each paragraph will be divided by time markers, such as "Three years ago", "three years later", "three months ago", "three months later" and so on, each story is "present the results first, then explain the reasons". This narrative method not only makes the beautiful agents beat their opponents This climax scene was fully displayed, and it happened that Anna and the three lovers, the female model, the KGB agent, and the FBI agent, had their own alone time, and no one took the scene. In fact, this also shows that in Anna's heart, these three people are just "helpers" on the way to achieve "freedom", the ultimate goal of life. , both can be thrown away.” All along, Anna knew what she wanted. The film is full of tension, conflicts, and reversals. The story structure of the whole film is like the "Russian nesting doll" sold by the heroine pretending to be a vendor, interlocking and unexpected: at the beginning of the film, Anna accidentally enters a modeling agency, but later The answer to the mystery was revealed: this is just an agent mission, and even the process of "discovering" her at the market by scouts was designed. For another example, Anna thought she had deceived the FBI, but in fact, the FBI had already seen through Anna's identity, and made a decision to let Anna fall into the trap; also, Anna thought that she was also serving as an FBI spy, and would not be discovered by KGB, In fact, her immediate superiors have long been aware of it. At the end of the movie, the shooting in the park is a "play within a play": the FBI sends Anna to kill the leader of KGB, and Anna succeeds and escapes successfully. When Anna was in the park and both lovers "delivered" and were ready to leave, the second-in-command of KGB (that is, Anna's immediate superior) rushed out, scolded Anna as a traitor, and shot without hesitation. When all the audience thought that Anna was sure to die, the director gave another reversal, and the suspense was revealed: this was just a scene between Anna and the second-in-command, because the second-in-command wanted to kill the first-in-command, so she always knew that Anna was going to kill the first-in-command thing. The second hand was holding an empty gun, and Anna had already prepared a blood pack and an escape route. This "play within a play" was beyond everyone's expectations, and the audience was amazed. The mashup of violent aesthetics and beautiful agents in the movie made the audience addicted, the control of the timeline and the rhythm are very good, and the repeated reversals at the end awakened the audience's fatigue of watching the movie. It can be said to be a very successful commercial blockbuster . Violent beauties, interlaced time and space, and distinct themes, at a time when online streaming media has an increasingly important influence on film distribution, Lu Ke Besson's "Anna" is a typical case with a great sense of the Internet. "Anna" presents people with a rhythmic narrative style: one is the bright and publicized style of Hollywood entertainment blockbusters. But one thing is very important: storytelling is a process of constant conflict creation and conflict resolution. If the conflict in the story doesn't interest the audience, then the audience isn't interested in how the characters deal with it, and the film largely fails. The conflict in "Anna" is often a purified, sharply opposed binary conflict, neat and tidy. For example, Anna really hated the photographer pointing fingers at them, so she beat the photographer directly. The "007" series and the "Fast and Furious" series are real commercial cool films - just do it, you don't need to think too much about value and meaning, once you think about it, it is also nationalism, and relatively grand propositions such as love and family. But judging from the several female spy films in front of you, including Luc Besson's previous work, the female spy films seem to have a core theme. This theme has nothing to do with the righteousness of the country, and it has little to do with the struggle for interests. The most important thing is Self-awakening and finding freedom. A stalk related to the Russian native matryoshka runs through the movie. As soon as Anna appeared on the scene, she was selling nesting dolls in a market. The nesting dolls were layer upon layer. She uncovered the exquisite doll images layer by layer. What was the one left in the innermost? She wanted to take a good look. Tasks, money, men, one's own body, and even feelings are nothing compared to freedom. Matryoshka-related memes run through the film throughout. As soon as Anna appeared on the scene, she was selling nesting dolls in a market. The nesting dolls were layer upon layer. She uncovered the exquisite doll images layer by layer. What was the one left in the innermost? She wanted to take a good look. Tasks, money, men, one's own body, and even feelings are nothing compared to freedom. Matryoshka-related memes run through the film throughout. As soon as Anna appeared on the scene, she was selling nesting dolls in a market. The nesting dolls were layer upon layer. She uncovered the exquisite doll images layer by layer. What was the one left in the innermost? She wanted to take a good look. Tasks, money, men, one's own body, and even feelings are nothing compared to freedom.

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Extended Reading
  • Mitchell 2022-03-26 09:01:09

    6.3 Whether kgb or cia are played by British people, it is no wonder that the heroine played with applause. Luc Besson is still filming this old-fashioned plot for so many years, and he has designed so many natural reversals. It can only be said that it is too much It's comedic fun. Of course, it is for the heroine itself, and it is indeed social security.

  • Chelsea 2022-01-05 08:01:56

    As Luc Besson, this is not a masterpiece, but the audience is not critical. The supermodel with a leg length of 1.8 meters wanders between two handsome guys in Russia and the United States, as well as a girlfriend who has the same legs under the belly button. These are not enough to look at. If you have to focus on logic problems, you are really buying cassines and returning pearls.

Anna quotes

  • Olga: You Don't Fuck With The KGB

    [last lines]

    Olga: [on Anna blackmailing her] Bitch!

    [is forced to erase Anna's entire KGB file]

  • [last lines]

    Vassiliev: [while playing chess] Check

    Anna: [shoots him point blank] Mate