The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Norwegian writer Ju Nesbo.
Yu Nesbo is the best-selling writer in Norwegian history, not one of them. He is known as the noble son of the literary world, the rock star of the music industry, and the king of crime in Europe. All of his 18 works have been ranked No. 1 on the Norwegian bestseller list, and he has won various book awards many times.
The original novel "The Snowman" is the seventh novel written by Yu Nesbo with Oslo detective Harry as the protagonist.
If "The Snowman" responds well, Yu Nesbo's other six novels about Harry will also have a chance to appear on the big screen.
However, this plan may have failed.
Once "Snowman" was released, it received rave reviews. The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes was only 8%, with an average score of 3.1.
The metacritic score is only 23,
The production cost of 35 million U.S. dollars only earned 42.67 million U.S. dollars at the box office. After the box office split accounts, the cost cannot be recovered at all.
The producer of "The Snowman" is Martin Scorsese. His "Shutter Island", "Angry Bull" and "The Wolf of Wall Street" are all well-known masterpieces.
The director of "The Snowman" is Thomas Alfredson. He became famous in 2008 with "No One Who Lives" and won various awards at various film festivals. In 2011, he directed "The Potmaker, Tailor, Soldier" "Spy" was also nominated for Oscars, and the performance is fairly stable.
The "Snowman" has three screenwriters, namely Hossing Amini, Peter Straun, and You Nesbo.
Among them, Yu Nesbo is the original author, while Hoshin Amini and Peter Straun have been nominated for Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
In addition, the starring actors of "Snowman", Fasha, Chloe Sevigny, and J.K. Simmons have all been nominated or won Oscars.
It is very unexpected and very regrettable for such a strong team to shoot such a disappointing work.
There are many problems with the movie, the most intuitive point is that it is too plain, ashamed of the positioning of the plot/suspense/thriller/crime.
Farshark plays a detective named Harry, who still keeps in touch with his predecessor, Raquel.
Rackel now lives with Matthias. They also have a child, Oleg, but Oleg's father is not Harry or Matthias, and he does not know who his biological father is.
Harry and partner Catlin (Rebecca Ferguson)
Three and two cases of missing or death of adult females have been received. The common feature is that there is a snowman at the scene of the crime. Harry and Catlin discovered that this was a serial murder, and the murderer always commits the crime when it snows.
The clinic’s Dr. Willison has a major suspicion because both of the victims are his patients. Later, Harry found Willison with his head in a different place in the wooden house, as well as the bodies of several victims. Harry suspected Willison was homicide, but the police determined Willison committed suicide and declared the case closed.
Harry did not stop there, and finally found out that the murderer was the current Matthias of his predecessor, Laquer.
It turns out that Matthias doesn't know who his father is, so he wants to kill all women who have cheated and let their children do not know who their father is, or women who have an abortion because of cheating.
Matthias and Harry faced each other on the ice. Matthias, who was holding a pistol, was in control of Harry's life and death. However, when he was about to shoot, he stepped on the ice and was drowned alive.
The film uses a multi-line narrative approach, with many side plots.
For example, nine years ago, a policeman named Rafto (played by Fang Kimmer) was investigating this case, but in the end he committed suicide in a wooden house.
In fact, both Rafto and Willison were killed by Matthias and created the illusion of suicide.
There is also a businessman named Alf (J.K. Simmons) in the movie. He is one of the suspects.
We can see that the whole story is quite complicated, and the above plot is only part of the movie.
The first feeling of watching a movie is two words: ugly.
As a drama / suspense / thriller / crime movie,
There should be ups and downs of drama conflict, giving the audience a tense and exciting experience.
A good suspense film can be very attractive, allowing you to put all your energy into it, not thinking about doing other things, or even going to the bathroom.
But "Snowman" has no waves, as light as stagnant water, the whole movie is too flat, boring, dull, no climax, no twists and turns, full of pee spots, and the only thing you can see is the scenery.
If this is a literary and artistic film, then there is nothing wrong with being plain, but it is very serious that suspense, thriller, and crime movies make people feel plain.
Secondly, there are so many plots, characters, clues, and details in the movie. All of them are concentrated in 110 minutes. The result is that many foreshadowings and foreshadowings are understatement and superficiality. At the beginning, it was very bluffing, but there was no more information. Echoing back and forth, leading to anticlimactic.
For example, the murderer's behavior of building a snowman after committing a crime has not been successfully turned into a unique logo or totem.
For another example, the threatening letters that Harry received, and the similar letters that Rafto had also received, were also false and bluffing.
Hannibal likes to eat people. After the clown commits a crime, he will leave a playing card. The V freak of "V for Vendetta" always wears a mask. "play a game", "The Seven Deadly Sins" is to write down the crimes of the victims at the scene of the crime... These behaviors have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and have become a symbol that people will not forget for a long time. After watching the movie for three years and five years, they can still be remembered. New, this is a successful case.
But in "Snowman", whether it is a snowman or a threatening letter, they are all dispensable elements and have no practical meaning.
"The Snowman" has too many roles, limited space, and the director and screenwriter did not perform well, resulting in no role in the whole film being sufficiently successful. Each character appears for a few minutes, and the audience can't be impressed at all.
Since Harry was dumped by Raquel, we can speculate that the director wanted to portray an image of Harry that values work and neglects family, but Harry’s behavior was very ordinary from beginning to end. It was nothing more than two experiences with alcoholism, and after alcoholism. He didn't do anything illegal, just sleep on the street, making it impossible to understand why he was abandoned.
The director also wants to shape the father-son relationship between Harry and Oleg, creating an effect in which Oleg does not know who his biological father is, but Harry treats him as his own.
However, Harry gave Oleg a concert ticket from start to finish and watched his game once.
Harry agreed to participate in the father and son camping organized by Oleg School as his father, but he did not go there in the end.
The audience imagined that Harry would feel guilty at the end of the movie, and there was no bridge to make up for what activities to accompany Oleg.
At the end of the movie, it was over, only a shot of Raquel and Oleg survived, and there is no explanation for the others, just as the two characters of Raquel and Oleg are not important.
Rafto and Alf's image creation is almost zero, falling into the embarrassing situation of being tasteless and discarding.
These two roles didn't play much role, giving people a feeling of "I might as well remove them"; but removing these two roles, the movie will indeed lack many clues, resulting in a lack of fullness in the plot.
As a suspense film, the black hand behind the scenes must be unexpected, reasonable, and refreshing and enjoyable.
However, when you know that the murderer is Matthias, you don't think the plot is so exciting, you just think: What the hell is this?
It feels like a waste of two hours, and the answer is very mediocre, and Matthias's modus operandi and criminal motives are also very ordinary, and even seem very slotted.
If the audience had already guessed who the murderer was during the viewing process, there would be nothing to watch.
The ending of his falling into the ice lake is also really ridiculous. The audience wants to see the IQ between the police and the bandits like "Cat and Mouse Game", not that the criminals have been stupid by themselves before the police have had time to use their ingenuity. .
Fasha once nominated the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor with "Twelve Years as a Slave" and "Steve Jobs" respectively, which proves that he is a powerful actor.
However, his recent appearances in "Assassin's Creed," "Singing Endless", and "Snowman" are very poor. "Alien: Contract" has a good reputation, but the box office is not as expected, resulting in a worrisome future for the "Alien Universe". His recent film career has repeatedly suffered setbacks, which is really distressing.
As we mentioned earlier, "The Snowman" is very powerful from producer to director, screenwriter, and actor. In the end, the collective performance is abnormal, which is the result that everyone did not expect.
The most terrifying thing about an actor is to repeat himself, which leads to narrower and narrower play, especially for actors in commercial or superhero movies. It even leaves an inherent impression of being labeled as "Magneto", which makes people think that he is just Magneto, ignoring his other movies.
If there are no other excellent works, it means that once he does not perform commercial films, or the contract expires, he can only act in bad films.
(These two paragraphs are not talking about sharks, they are just an analogy with sharks)
This is why Gary Oldman, Matthew McConaughey, and Christian Bale, while starring in commercial films, also continue to appear in various movies and various roles to broaden the play road, thus a virtuous circle; and Bruce Willis After Nicholas Cage played several bad films, he could no longer receive a good script, which resulted in a vicious circle.
For a long time, Fasha wanted to play some excellent works other than "X-Men" to prove that he can play anything.
As a result, he has recently acted in several movies that are not as good as the "X-Men" series in terms of word-of-mouth and box office. It is safest to play "X-Men" over and over again.
Just like the movies that Wang Jing made seriously, the box office is often not high; and his high box office works are often bad movies. This result makes him very confused.
Feng Xiaogang was also angry, and even complained to the audience and the market many times, saying that the movies he made seriously were not easy to sell, but the "blind shots" were always able to buy big money.
As netizens said: The depression of many literary and art workers is that their most popular works are probably not what they want to create.
Although the "X-Men" series has a good reputation and box office, Fasha understands that he can't play Magneto for a lifetime.
I can only wish him an early end of the Mercury retrograde, and some more masterpieces such as "Shameless Bastard", "Twelve Years as a Slave", "Steve Jobs" and "Brothers" to prove that he is not just Magneto.
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