"The Lone Killer" was ranked 39th in Empire Magazine's "100 Best Movies in the World" in 2010. Roger Albert's comment on this is: The greatest enjoyment of watching this film is to slowly unravel its complex plot, starting from the dim light of the first act of the film, when Alain Delon is alone in a room.
Melville has made a series of films with strong personal style and distinctive style, "Lone Killer" is one of the best works. It is considered to be the best psychological suspense work, about honor, loyalty, betrayal and other issues. For starring Alain Delon, this is also a very important role in his life, and this is his second film in color.
The film tells the story of Alain Delon's cold-faced killer, who lives in a dim, dingy apartment with a European songbird as his only companion. He managed to shoot the owner of a filthy club, only to spare a woman (Natalie Delon, Alain's wife at the time) who saw his face. In this murder, he completed it very calmly, and he escaped the pursuit of the police and the pursuit of his employer.
The killer played by Alain Delon has a Japanese Bushido spirit. Another title of "Lone Killer" is "Samurai". He broke the rules of the killer. First, he could not let any witnesses go. Second, Instead of hunting down the witness, he fell in love with her. When the killer's emotions overwhelm his rationality, all that awaits him is a fatal outcome, as Melville put it, "laid out in death". Therefore, at the end of the film, his "cutting the abdomen" style act, his pistol was not loaded with bullets at all, and he was shot dead by the police.
Melville's film borrows elements of classic Hollywood film noirs, with a sultry atmosphere, incorporating the sensual parts of European films, and has a lot of emotional tension. Under Melville's lens, Paris reveals its dark and sinister side. When the film begins, Delon sleeps in bed with dim lights, as if to imply a sense of "fatalism," an uneasy, hypnotic feeling that permeates the film. Since there are few lines in this film, the solemnity and tension have never ceased.
"Lone Killer" has a dark romance in it. Melville arranged a Paris subway chase scene in the play, showing the killer's exquisite escape skills, which is also a famous action scene in film history.
Film critic Dennis Schwartz said on the Rotten Tomatoes website: "This film had a huge impact on subsequent crime films." Indeed, I believe that many of my friends, like the author, have passed the "Buy the Killer Shoot" directed by Peng Haoxiang. People" knows this movie, in which the killer played by Ge Minhui often talks to Alain Delon who is hanging on the wall and regards him as his idol. In addition, Walter Hill's film "The Driver" borrows the plot of "The Lone Killer", but the witness is still a beautiful woman, and the killer becomes the driver. John Woo once admitted that his "Blood Two Heroes" The Killer was greatly influenced by "The Lonely Killer". John Woo said that this is a movie he has seen that is infinitely close to perfection, and even the English names of Chow Yun-fat's characters Jeffrey and Alain Delon played the same role. In addition, Jim Jarmusch's "Ghost Dog Killer" is also affected. The killer in it has an electronic key that can open a luxury car, while Alain Delon has a large set of keys in the film, which can open any Citroen car. .
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