It is one of the top ten of the year in the heart of Gilmor Del Toro, director of "The Shape of Water", who just won the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, and director of "The Shape of Water".
The spinning top, who is obsessed with monsters and violence, will naturally fall in love with such a prominent movie.
It is the legacy of last year's cult film, a fierce film that is too easy to be
fooled-"Brawl in Cell Block 99".
This film looks like an old-school crime film, but its core is fierce. eat human.
The slow narrative rhythm brings the director’s arrogance. The film begins the first act in an extremely unfriendly way. The long characters pave the way and the delayed stimulus events. This persistence runs through the entire film and pushes the director’s authorship to the fore. The altar has overwhelmed all other film narrative rules.
His film, he decides!
The first act of the film is too patient, but after watching it patiently, you can clearly read the overall narrative style, film elements, and character images of the film.
The film is a metaphorical shot of a train crushing a can.
Soon, the male protagonist, a tall and strong man, a retired fighter with a huge cross tattooed on the back of his bald head, was crushed by life.
After being dismissed from the garage and
returning home, he found that his wife had cheated
on him, and his work and love had both betrayed him. He had to fight hard, rebound, and regain everything.
The entire first act is packed with too many details, revealing a strong authorship.
After being fired, the protagonist drove home alone. This scene lasted for a few minutes,
driving absently,
pulling out the cassette in the car player irritably,
being provocative, unhappy, but still forbearing.
The film's rhythm, texture, and style are undoubtedly revealed in these few scenes.
The next scene highlights the essence of the film, which is the extreme violence that comes suddenly.
The ferocious male protagonist like a beast has a weak heart. Facing his wife's derailment and alcoholism, he did not vent on his lover, but smashed his car empty-handed and demolished his car.
The slow pace amplifies the details of the violence, making the violence like thunder and lightning, swift and deadly.
The first act of arrogance completed the paving of the style from the genre elements, the characters to the story, and then the director did not hesitate to start working hard and implement the style to the end.
The protagonist is forced to find his deceased to live selfishly for drug trafficking.
His wife is pregnant, life is rising, and seeing a happy family, the crisis is coming.
The stupid helper made him arrested and imprisoned, and was sentenced to 7 years without speaking. The boss of the cooperating opponent saw millions of drug money loosing in the water, and naturally couldn't bear to swallow.
Kidnapped the protagonist’s wife and asked him to kill him in the most dangerous prison.
Otherwise, the other party will use a special technique to let him receive a part of the child's body that has been formed.
Immediately, the actor enters the conflict of plotting, fighting monsters, and escalating.
From a generally guarded prison to the infamous Hongye High Guard Prison, he interrupted the guard's arm. The shocking broken bones were extremely eye-catching. The smooth footage accelerated the story, and the characters gradually entered the narrow gate of fate that could not be turned back.
After arriving in the hell-like Hongye Prison, he can finally approach Cell 99 to complete the assassination mission.
But before this, the test is still escalating, mortals are transforming into heroes, and heroes are being possessed by demons.
Dirty cells, cruel electric shocks, humiliating beatings, and a dangerous wife, honed the male protagonist physically and mentally.
Gradually, he became a fallen angel, and the cross on his head was the scars of his sins and the medal of atonement.
In this desperate place of death, violence is his only weapon.
If arrogance becomes persistence, it can still infect people's hearts in the end.
The actor smashed the opponent’s head with his feet, then dragged it until his face fell off,
hitting the opponent’s cervical spine with his elbow, until the cervical spine was completely broken.
Or, use your feet to chop until your opponent's jaw is out of joint, and the teeth fly horizontally.
Controlling violence with violence is the best footnote to the full-blown style of the film.
"Battle No. 99 Prisoner" is a rare old-school cult film in recent years. The gentle emotions and sharp shots combine to produce an irresistible heavy taste. On the
one hand, it does not shy away from blood and violent images, while on the other it has no emotions. Release it sparingly.
The last set of scenes jerked people to tears, and they were also abnormally relieved.
The protagonist and his wife who returned to safety make the final farewell on the phone. The wife lets him bid farewell to the formed fetus for the last time through the mobile phone.
Immediately, he bent his phone, walked into the cell, severely chopped the head of the boss, and stepped on it in the toilet where the feces had leaked.
Finally, he faced the bullet, got a headshot, and was liberated.
The bullet pierced his head, and the cross tattoo on his head shattered.
The director's stubbornness in style won the audience's applause and the style's back kiss. Before the vigorous vitality and the explosive hormones, what movie rules, let them go to hell!
When the devil-like male protagonist finally sheds tears in prison because of not giving up his wife and children, that kind of indistinguishable, complicated human nature is enough to impress every audience.
For the sake of your family, you will see death as home,
and you will die with fate.
This is both magical and real.
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