As a director who has entered the film industry from advertising, David Fincher is undoubtedly standing opposite Ridley Scott. It's not purely because the latter is the only N-generation veteran of Hollywood epic movies, but Finch is more than obsessive-compulsive-like exquisite, in fact, there is a kind of film that can make any subject matter " The ability to be small", aesthetic, or impulsive. I'm not here to summarize his career, and I don't want to recall that "Alien", which Fincher did not admit to be his own work, was different from the style of Lei Gong's first work. Anyway, "Fight Club" was originally a story like "V for Vendetta", but in the end it only turned into a mental illness. And a subject like "Mank", if replaced by a general director, will definitely become a "Great Gatsby"-like spectacle, and Finch handles it more than Woody Allen's "Midnight" "Paris" is even more narrow, basically focusing on the performance of a screenwriter. The screenwriter's social activities are extremely limited, and the screenwriter in the film still has a broken leg, which is similar to the protagonist being a high-level paraplegic. difference. No matter how much Finch was influenced by his father's script in this movie, I feel that the American drama "Mindhunter" may have had a greater influence on Finch himself in recent years. It and "Mank" should both be works that I watch repeatedly and try to get close, but I dare not make sure that I will fall in love with these two one day, because the amount of information is really "dizzying". Moreover, these faithfully recorded information are not attached or parasitic on the plot, but directly crawled into the dialogue. This is actually like reading a collection of letters of one or more historical figures. Anecdotes and whispers that are inhumane to outsiders are contained and condensed together. You can say that it is a very precious bottle of old wine, but I hope it can maintain a keen appreciation long enough before getting drunk. power, not just a faithful record of ecstasy and hangover states.
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