The film takes place in a certain small area, and the stage play inserted in the middle not only promotes the plot, but also integrates with the plot naturally. Even from time to time, I will confuse the real shots of the actors in the play with the stage play in the play.
The whole movie is just like that without any sense of disobedience, it's natural. I give it an 8.5 for this show, maybe even higher.
The more I look back, the more I feel how the director can express the human heart so naturally and just right. The changes in the emotional context between husband and wife are clear and reasonable. The manifestations of post-traumatic sequelae are detailed and real. The confrontation between people escalates step by step, and the director has a degree of relaxation. There are no absolute victims and sinners, and the identities of the strong and the weak are reversed. The details and emotions revealed by the actors' expressions and performances make this seemingly unsurprising script complete smoothly and with a high degree of completion.
There are many metaphors and symbols in the play, and the cracks on the head of the couple's bed before the move only felt an allegorical meaning later. The constantly shaking shots in post made me feel the turbulence of the characters' emotions and the relationships between them. The director knows very well how to combine the language of the camera with the plot, and it also drives our emotions smoothly.
To a certain extent, the ending of a movie determines the success or failure and height of the show, so I won't make a final decision on a movie until the last moment. Fortunately, the director has not only skills but also depth, and the ending is not bloody and blank. It is a drama and perfectly reflects realism.
The tone of the entire film is low-key but not depressing, the tone seems stable and my emotions have always been in the film with the director's lens. Movies are about life, and that's how life should be.
The whole article is full of praise, and two questions are raised before the end, and these two questions are also the part that I deducted 1 point from him, and the other 0.5 points is a concession relative to other bigger and bigger movies. In the first half of the play, the wife, who has always been brooding, suddenly said that no one should mention the past. Also, why can't she feel sorry for her husband who has been crusade against bad people, even if she understands it for a moment, it can be hurt by her husband's intensification later.
Finally, a dialogue in the play ends this afterthought.
- How does a person become a cow in reality?
-slowly.
Similar to Wang Xiaobo's "Life is a slow process of being hammered", isn't it?
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