Starring Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore (Drew Barrymore), Julia Roberts (Julia Roberts), George Clooney and others participated in the American movie "Confession of Dangerous Mind" (Confession of Dangerous Mind, 2002) based on a real-life story. Is the legendary life of a TV show producer.
The father of the TV producer named Chuck Barris was a dentist, but his real biological father was a serial killer and had already been sent to the electric chair (this is not even clear to his mother) , But what the CIA learned). He has had a special sexual addiction since he was a child, and he did not hesitate to spend a dollar to entice his sister to taste the "smell of strawberry" of his stuff, and he began to look for flowers at a very young age.
When he grew up, he went to NBC to apply for a job, but was fired shortly after his job. Then he was hired by ABC and started to make experimental programs on TV based on his inspiration. At first, the "dating game" he made was rejected by the board of directors. When he was down, he was recruited by the CIA and trained as a CIA agent.
Since then, he has started his dual identities: On the one hand, his experimental programs "Dating Game", "Couple Game", and "Cause Club" (a show mainly for ordinary people to perform and make fools) have been launched one after another, and some even Once received high ratings, he has also become a well-known host and producer; on the other hand, he is still an agent of the CIA, performing assassination missions from time to time, and even taking advantage of the opportunities produced in foreign countries to perform assassination missions.
But in the end, boredom and fear made him not want to do it anymore. After killing the female agent who wanted to murder him (CIA rape) "in his own way," he chose to marry and lead a normal life. .
In terms of personal life, Chuck was a swinger when he was young, and his sex life was messy. He and the female agent (played by Julia Roberts) also had a leg, and almost died because of their ambiguous relationship.
But Fanny (Drew Barrymore) insisted on staying by his side, even if Chuck's request for marriage was bluntly rejected. But Fanny's waiting is always severely beaten by the ruthless reality. Until she is told the truth about her biological father and starts confessional reflection, Chuck is always keen on chasing beautiful women. Their relationship was on the verge of collapse. After painful closed-door thinking, Chuck finally bid farewell to the past and chose to marry and choose a normal life.
In the plot where the killing of the spy in the film and the noise of the TV show are intertwined, the audience finally clarifies their thoughts from the final ending. Love is great, and it is always the key force that awakens humanity and true feelings, so it is always an indispensable content for all kinds of movies.
Overall, the film is not wonderful. The rhythm is slow and the plot is too slow. These may make the audience less interested, but I think some clips are still worth remembering:
Fragment 1: At the beginning of the movie, Chuck, who was in pain and reflection, watched the TV news about Reagan’s president-elect naked in the room, narrating his inner words: "When you are young, you can imagine yourself as any big person. You can imagine Become Einstein yourself, or imagine that you can become Reagan, but one day you will find that you can neither become Einstein nor Reagan. You are just an ordinary person. "Yes, young dreams are often wonderful, but It is inevitable that there will be a broken day. This is the solemn reality. However, dreams are always beautiful, even if they are empty and short-lived.
Fragment 2: When Chuck was at a party when he had become famous, his glamorous eyes caught a beauty in the swimming pool and followed her to the rockery to seduce her. The beauty said that I know you, and you are the one who presided over the "Cause Club". Chuck was suddenly refreshed, thinking that she would hold herself up, and then took the bait easily. I don’t know the beauty said: “You just use ordinary people’s desire to get public attention to make them make a fool of yourself, so that you can profit? I hate you!” This is actually quite deep, worthy of all this kind of despicable fame or Psychologically profitable TV program producers reflect and stay alert.
Fragment 3: Awakening. Chuck was almost killed by the female agent. After killing the female agent, he said that now he understands that the most precious thing in his life is Fanny's love. "True love is supreme", people often experience the twists and turns, even when they lose it. The film, which does not take love as the theme, once again interprets this principle of life from the side.
Fragment 4: Wedding. Although Chuck removed the traitor, he still had lingering fears. He felt that many people attending the wedding looked like murderous agents. He and Fanny got into the wedding car and confessed that they were CIA agents and killed 33 people. After a brief surprise, Fanny laughed and said that he was really joking, and Chuck couldn't help laughing too. Although the film did not continue to show Chuck's life thereafter, we can imagine that the shadow of the past will never dissipate easily. It will accompany Chuck for life in terror. Perhaps it is also an obstacle to this family.
Fragment 5: At the end, in 2002, Chuck, who was old in the voice-over, said that he had another new program idea, "Old Man’s Game", to let the old man recall the past, "If anyone didn’t blow his head off", he would be fine. Win a refrigerator. This black humorous narrative actually contains not only Chuck’s infinite repentance of the “33 people” he killed, but also a heavy induction of the helplessness of ordinary people’s lives.
Note: The film is a very orthodox film. All "sex" content is shown in speech or back shot, don't think it is a very "sexy" film!
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