The foundation of the pursuit of depth is to follow the logic

Julian 2022-09-17 21:06:54

At 20 minutes I started wondering if I saw the weird movie of the same name

I really want to say: this is it?

This film feels like the work of a director who has no artistic talent.

You can talk about his shooting skills, the scene scheduling and all the filming with great care, plus the adaptation of real events, it can be said that the filter is full of marks.

From the character setting, it can also be seen that the director has huge ambitions, and the roles cover all kinds of characters of different skin colors, different classes and different positions.

But the plot is really very deliberately superficial!

Characters from different backgrounds are almost always full of symbolism and racial prejudice in this film.

Brave, assertive and witty Americans, dissolute and vulgar but upright Russians, everyone is still in a group to survive, suddenly start racially attacking religions, attacking spy wars, neurotic British old ladies (what? You Anglo-Saxon traditional arts) You can't lose it at any time, right!), the Indian waiter who selflessly serves the guests, and the terrorist who must be brainwashed and ignorant and used by others, and the Asian face who is destined to be cannon fodder in the end.

They seem to be acting in different ways. There is no conflict or collision. Everyone moves on their own lines. They will never meet and will never affect each other. This leads to the embarrassment of the conflict between the two sides. The mother who taught the child was touched, and it was inexplicable.

The focus of the conflict can be on religion. I agree that terrorists are brainwashed, but I can't tell exactly what they were brainwashed by. It's just a simple word of ignorance and a simple seal. Isn't this conflict a meager one?

The plot also forced conflicts and tensions. I knew that the terrorists were still in the building and took the elevator upstairs. I was shocked! Just stay in the room with the child, bro, why do you have to go to the sixth floor to find your wife with the child, are you running drugs? When the poison circle on the fourth floor shrinks, do I have to run to the sixth floor to eat chicken?

The female backpacker was about to die from a gunshot wound. When she heard the police came, she ran out to deliver a wave. The terrorists were not shocked at all when a wounded person suddenly ran out of the door. Flip and go.

Some very powerful operations are too abrupt, so abrupt that it affects the viewing experience, and there are too many characters to be finished at one time.

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Extended Reading

Hotel Mumbai quotes

  • [first lines]

    Man on the Phone: [speaking in Punjabi] You feel strong. You feel calm. There is no fear in your heart. Look across at your brothers... and see me in their eyes. You are all like sons to me. I am with you. God is with you. Paradise awaits you. God is great.

  • Abdullah: [searching the hotel room] Houssam? Houssam, come here! Look at this. Look, they have a machine to flush their shit. Even shitting is fun.