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Text: Alice
"Pretty" is a compliment.
If it is followed by an object, that object has at least considerable aesthetic value in appearance.
If it is used to describe a person, it will bring people to mind words such as kindness, beauty, and appearance.
But director Felix van Gunningen told the audience with a "Pretty Boy" : the more beautiful things are, the more profound toxins they contain. (It's a bit like Zhang Wuji's mother)
Last month, "Pretty Boy," released by Amazon Studios and based on David Sheff's memoir of the same name, opened in select U.S. theaters.
In addition to telling the story of "detoxification" with profound social significance based on real events, they also recruited "sweet tea" Timothy Chalamet to play a "drug-addicted teenager".
It's also a gimmick.
In addition, Steve Carell, who plays the teenage father, is also a well-known and powerful actor in North America.
When I watched the preview before, the sparks of the two were collided a lot.
Coupled with such a serious plot suitable for the Olympics, it seems to be very explosive.
It's a pity that I can only regret after watching the film.
The director abruptly made such a good subject mediocre and wasted a lot of actors.
It is no wonder that before the release, the production company ambitiously arranged the film's schedule in the fall, and said that the two actors had signed up for the Oscar for the actor award.
However, after the poor word of mouth on a small scale leaked out, they quickly withdrew this decision.
What is this movie about? The following is a spoiler, warning!
The film tells the story of David, the father played by Steve Carell, after learning that his son Nick (Timothy Chalamet) was seriously addicted to drugs, he took him to various drug rehab institutions and actively helped him. A story of detoxification.
The full title of the original memoir is "Pretty Boy: The Journey of a Father of a Drug-addicted Child".
emmm... As the title suggests, the story unfolds from the perspective of the boy's father.
The movie doesn't change that perspective either, so the actual protagonist in the movie isn't "Pretty Boy" Nick, but his father, David.
Moreover, the biggest failure of the film is the various flashback clips that make people crash.
Obviously the tome story should be put on Nick's detoxification process, but the director frantically used montage flashbacks during this process to non-linearly review Nick's growth process, as well as the bits and pieces of his relationship with his father David. The opportunity for drug addiction, and the repeated drug use in the past few times.
Such fragmented collages make it difficult to figure out the timelines of the characters’ lives, let alone whether they can effectively relate emotionally to current events.
On the contrary, more often it just feels that the director is mechanically filling in the background plot of the characters explained in the book, in order to try to enrich the characters.
But it didn't work... So what is this movie trying to say?
The director's focus is on the dangers of drugs? The painful process of detox? Or the relationship between father and son?
The two points that could not be in conflict, but because of the immaturity of the director's style, not only did not become a relationship of mutual assistance, but it was very annoying.
I was trying to understand that the director desperately put in flashbacks to demonstrate the intimacy between father and son.
But this kind of deliberately established close relationship is to pave the way for the father to spare no effort to help his son get rid of drugs in the later period, and thus to praise the greatness of the father's love and the pain caused by the drug addicts to the people around him? ? ?
Director, wake up! ! !
What does sweet tea come from, do you remember?
What was the reason behind young Nick getting into drugs? There was absolutely no sign of him needing drugs, either in family relationships, in character, or in the school environment.
Is he really on drugs? Or did you imagine it?
There is no reason or opportunity for a person to be infected with drugs, it seems to be just an accident. Is this what you're trying to say - there's no particular reason for teenage drug use?
Teenagers will get angry when they see it!
This does not seem convincing at all, like turning into a dead end, the pattern is too small.
The film just stares blankly at one family, but instead covers the many families behind it with similar situations.
So the movie becomes just the personal emotional catharsis of the father of a drug-infected teenager.
Just to tell the world how difficult it is to be a father, and the process of detoxification is even more difficult than for a child who has been abused by drugs.
......Are you kidding me?
What are you kidding? This movie is called "Pretty Boy" or "Pretty Daddy"!
The self-composed and self-sung hymn is completely moving in the opposite direction of the story about drugs that the audience thinks, and the director's skill is clearly visible.
There is no personal and social reason for drug addiction, no touching family support in the process of detoxification, and no self-awakening of drug addicts.
Most of the time I watched the old man frown on the phone.
The film is depressing and dull.
Although he is praising his father, there is always a lack of touching moments of warmth.
Judging from the setting of independent film production, the director wants to take the road of independent small films with realistic themes, and what wins is style and emotion.
If the director is deliberately avoiding the mainstream didactic and provocative methods, why do you hear the densely provocative soundtrack?
Since we didn't put an end to sensationalism, why not design a few moving scenes?
Steve Carell's performance still has the strength to win awards, but the film itself can't help him.
Sweet tea, which is thin and has a melancholy temperament, is useless in this bad setting.
There is no "beautiful" topic, and even the performance is too lazy to be lazy. It is lighter than "Please Call Me by Your Name", and there is no breakthrough at all.
When you were in the heat of last year, let that same-sex love story take place in the romantic Italian countryside in the late 1980s, with the sweetness of peaches and the heat of summer.
At that time, the seventeen-year-old boy Elio you played was sensitive, literary, erudite, and rebellious.
His own temperament and performance make this role a classic.
It's hard to beat a classic.
The industry and the audience are looking forward to Tiancha's next performance and feel that the future of the youth is promising.
I also had this expectation, but I was disappointed after watching his new work "Summer Night" during the summer vacation.
It was still summer, and Tiancha also met a love (this time it was a girl), but her heart and youth were completely covered up by the director's unintelligible dazzling techniques.
It is said that sweet tea is the best boy for summer.
Fair skin and curly soft curls feel warm.
This kind of image can be reused, and it will inevitably cause aesthetic fatigue.
While watching "Summer Nights," I see Elio in pink shorts from time to time.
And it's hard to say whether Tiancha's role in the past two years is more powerful, or whether the role is more powerful, and the role image is in a fixed danger.
Two new works in a row are not satisfactory, sweet tea really needs to be refueled.
Otherwise, your youthful face with timeliness, once you encounter a killing knife, there will really be nothing left.
Thinking about it this way, on the contrary, the scumbag in "Miss Bird" has slightly improved with that little fingernail.
As a result, now, basically, there is no more scumbag left in the acting.
And next year, Sweet Tea will have a new version of "Little Women" with an all-star lineup, the already completed historical biopic "The King of Lancaster", and the sci-fi blockbuster "Dune" directed by Villeneuve has also finalized him as the starring role. .
Even the second part of "Please Call Me by Your Name" is definitely going to be filmed... I can't always act in this state.
Wake up, sweet tea comrade!
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