The directors Savedy Brothers also brought this kind of realistic image to "Good Times", which was shortlisted for the main competition in Cannes. Perhaps due to the multi-budget and the participation and reconciliation of professional actors, "Good Times" has obviously faded from the independent film texture of "God Knows" that coexist with wildness and sharpness. The real image has entered the flesh and blood of a more genre story. The skin of Elmore Leonard's crime genre novels. Gaspar’s or Refern’s neon lights, Oneohtrix PointNever’s electronic music with a full sense of restlessness, the real image, under the strong rendering of the two, amplifies the expressions and emotions of the lead actor Robert Pattinson’s performance, and also Hold tightly we participated in this "cat and mouse game"-like narrative situation, and rush towards the unknown of the character's fate with Pattinson.
"Good Times" is composed of a criminal day like "Hot Day Afternoon", a disorderly night in "After get off work" and a short dawn after the climax. Since Nick, who has dementia, received treatment from a psychologist, we seem to be unprepared, hurriedly following the day and night of Connie and Nick’s most difficult brothers as a bystander. The reality of the movie situation starts from a moment in life.
The older brother Connie broke into the door. The film quickly focused on Pattinson’s face with a propelling motion with a hand-held telescope. His hair was messy, his beard was shabby, and his clothes were sloppy. Pattinson’s journey of performance that can be called breakthrough and subversion is based on this. The lens with the function of freeze-frame portraits and the distinctive modeling style began. Under the leadership of Connie, Nick followed his brother to a bank robbery and then ran away with the money. Instead, he was caught by the bank staff's plan. Then Nick was arrested by the police unfortunately. To save his brother, Connie fell into a dark humor and Frustrated the sad rescue plan.
In the second half of the story, Connie was looking for a bottle of drugs made by others in order to raise up to 10,000 US dollars within the specified time to save his brother. This bottle of homemade drugs has become the McGoffin in this crime-type plot. . As the official poster showed, he was "blocked" in this bottle of drugs, and he was involved in an accident that moved his whole body. This poster mimics the poster of Martin Scorsese’s comedy movie "After get off work". In the eight-hour night, "After get off work" madly broke the norms of city life, teasing and mocking the protagonist. And "Good Times" also used a bottle of drugs to tease an older brother who was running all night, a hero and a bear coexisting, desperately unable to withstand the destiny of the tenacious and weak.
The Savedy brothers always like to add a magical moment to the real situation where the protagonist encounters a certain frustration or is about to lose control. In "God Knows", it is a witty clip of angrily throwing the phone into the sky and turning it into a touch of fireworks. In "Good Times", when Connie was in a dangerous situation in the playground, the playground suddenly lit up. This seems to be a video signal deliberately delivered by the director. In the tense storyline and the tight progress of the narrative rhythm, it throws out a sympathy and a kind of tenderness to the down and frustrated protagonist.
"Good Times" is not "good times", it is an irony in the title text and an irony of the scene in the ending paragraph. Just like the ending of "God Knows", the man ran away from his girlfriend and hid in an empty room to sleep. The candle lit in the middle of the night accidentally burned a room. His girlfriend could no longer find him. He also died in his sleep and sparks. These lives on the streets of New York, every day For young people who are dependent on drugs and panic all day long, their fate and future are really only known by God. And when Connie was arrested by the police and Nick had to be sent to a school that intensively educates the mentally handicapped, will he spend a "good time" there?
Kasawitz once said that life is not enough and there is a need for "play", because only play is creation. However, play should come from live characters, not stories or plots. When Pattinson was sent to the police car, the movie used a fixed long lens to stare at his helpless and helpless look. This was precisely the closed loop between the focus of the lens when he was on the stage and the close-up of the lens. Connie’s portrait is in The formation of the closed loop under this schedule was his actions that triggered the ups and downs of the plot, and his actions derived the "drama" in the movie. As the absolute protagonist, Pattinson completed a change in this closed loop. A wonderful performance of the image and label of "Twilight Man".
Pattinson’s interpretation is still not perfect and conquering. On the one hand, the real image created by "Good Times" is not pure enough compared with "God Knows". His body performances are complementary, but the short-shot editing of "Good Times" more or less fragments Pattinson in the real situation, and the performance energy is not enough to have a sense of continuity. On the other hand, the immaturity of the play and genre of "Good Times" restricts the creation of characters.
It seems that the transition from independence to genre made the brothers directors feel a little uncomfortable. At the end of "Good Times", Nick's confusion and wandering while playing games can indeed make viewers feel sympathy for the brothers in the film, but it is still It is impossible to reach a higher level of empathy for the audience. Maybe it was because I didn't add a few more emotional narratives about Connie and Nick at the beginning? Or is it that after Nick's arrest, the film no longer focuses on Nick's spur to be developed?
Leave these questions aside for now. In any case, Pattinson is definitely a strong contender for the best actor in this year’s too mediocre Cannes main competition, and the young directors, the Savedy brothers, are early Since the film picker Fu Mao snatched "Good Times" from the parallel unit of the Director's Fortnight, it may have indicated that the 70-year-old Cannes will begin to cultivate its next generation of "direct lines."
5.27 Written at Cannes
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