it's a game

Javon 2022-04-20 09:02:14

I didn't read the entire synopsis of this film, just because of the last sentence. "Andrew thought everything was going well...". "Thinking" this is the drunken love of reasoning fans. That turning point is so understated, yet melodious.
When the film ended with Michael Caine's sad face, I looked back and saw the name of the writer. I laughed, like the grim soundtrack in the film. Not to mention the scripts on the shelf, just those proud prologues. I can't help but feel ashamed that I almost fell asleep in midfield.
As far as this work is concerned, from the set to the soundtrack to the choice of actors, it is Pinter's style. Just like every time the soundtrack gives me the impression, it is cold, gloomy, silent, explosive, and tactful piece by piece, like snowflakes that suddenly appear in winter. Sometimes gray, sometimes bright, mottled in traffic.
However, there is only one house, four rooms, two people, three kinds of alcohol and a gun. Not sure why a watermelon knife is used. Haha, maybe to match Tindo's vulgar dialogue? Or nakedly show Andrew's cunning and cruelty.
That being said, I still like the feeling. As a playwright, Harold Pinter was a Shakespeare executioner. He inherited elegance, but added social blackness. That metallic-toned set is proof. Maybe it's down to the director, but I think it must have been heavily influenced by the writers. Because the spirit is in the script.
When Andrew stood in front of the twisted wire-carved villa in the hall, everything became so wonderful. Is this the last? I think everyone is asking. Should we pity this WITTY OLD MEN and find a suitable excuse for what he has done, or should we sigh for the life he has been worthy of no matter what.
They all compliment each other as wise men. However, cleverness is their Achilles heel. For a woman who only thinks about money, for a war that is doomed. Play with yourself~
Yes, at the end of the film, Andrew's love and sorrow. It hurts. It was very interesting to be clever but to be mistaken by cleverness. I don't know when the black script turned him into a deep pain and stabbed us hard.
It's a game and it's a war. Tinduo was still too young to see his siblings dancing and calculating the score. I can't help but feel sad. It hurts my eyes deeply because we do it every day. In fact, the exchange is only a lose-lose. The woman is back, and Tindo doesn't care. Is he right? If you are married, you can get a divorce, if you can't get a divorce, you can still cheat.
I love Jude Law's crazy expression as much as I love Johnny Depp's exaggeration. Needless to say, both are handsome, but handsomeness cannot explain their mentally ill acting skills. They always face the old actors and show their disrespect calmly, even the same-sex kisses, trampling among the elders is just a sublimation of art.
However, compared to Michael Caine, Jude Law is just a child. No, it should be said that, relative to the basic social principle of being able to bend and stretch, a momentary victory and a momentary calculation are not enough. The most important thing is the power of the final blow.
It's just that, like all songs, there is an ending. What I lament is that since it is a game, the principle of two wins in three games cannot be violated and subsided. As an actor, Ting Duo relied on her own acting skills, and the old and declining policeman was just as eager for quick success in her heart. As a result, things had to go to a dead end. That leading score doesn't end the game, only the death of one side does.
Is it too scary? I think more than 30 years ago, maybe someone would have thought this way. So far, it has been indifferent. There are more and more people who are still smiling and pulling the trigger, and we will only get more and more out of control and have to die.
Ha ha. I've been a little negative lately. So, this is just a game. GAME OVER just fine $$$$

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Extended Reading
  • Jaleel 2022-03-25 09:01:18

    Kenneth Branagh made another stage play, the script is Harold Pinter, the whole film has two actors, and the scene did not show this mansion full of postmodern design, a crime novel writer who likes to control people , an unwilling actor, these two men involved in a triangular relationship had a clear three-round battle. The first two were just tricks to compare who could fool who, and the third was full of specious - old man really Are you in love with young minds? Is the young man really the lover of the old man's wife? Was the purpose of his second return really to avenge his teased pride? The first two scenes were reversals, so the plot of the third scene was unbelievable, and the audience's guesses about the characters were meaningless. This is the price that must be paid for this kind of trick script, you always cry wolf. , no one will take you seriously. The lighting, lines and narration are full of stage feel, adding a layer of pretentiousness. Branagh used a lot of monitor perspectives in the opening scene, which seemed to explain the suspiciousness of the objective picture. There are many such tricks in the whole film, which make people feel that this film is just a recreational commodity showing off tricks

  • Zelma 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    British accent judelaw hairline!

Sleuth quotes

  • Andrew Wyke: What sort of parts do you play?

    Milo Tindle: Killers, mostly. Sex maniacs, perverts.

  • Andrew Wyke: So you're not well-known.

    Detective Inspector Black: No, I'm a common-or-garden copper. Just catch sex criminals, perverts.

    [sniff]

    Detective Inspector Black: Homicidal maniacs.

    Andrew Wyke: And what do you do with them when you catch them?

    Detective Inspector Black: I generally cut their balls off.

    [laugh]