Dark Place ,before dawn

Reese 2022-05-29 18:28:10

Here today, my film review will be divided into four parts, the first three parts all contain spoilers, please pay attention to dear readers.
Let's stop talking now, let's get started.
PART I Story
Libby is a 7-year-old girl. She walked to her mother’s room one day while sleepwalking. Her mother suddenly woke up and turned to her, telling her that she loved her very much. Then, the sweet atmosphere was broken, and someone rushed in. Upon entering the house, blood washed the whole room.
Libby escaped from her mother's room. Afterwards, based on her trivial and chaotic memory, she testified that his brother murdered her mother and her sisters.
28 years later, Libby, in order to make a living, agreed to Lyle telling the story of the massacre to a member of the murder club. The members of the club believed that her brother had not murdered her relatives, and hoped that Libby could help them to repay their innocence. And time is pressing, the case will be destroyed in 3 weeks.
Libby was reluctant at first because she always believed that Ben was indeed the murderer. However, after talking with her brother, she gradually changed her mind, and then she started chasing the past of herself and her brother, trying to find out the truth. At the same time, more people were involved, and more mysteries emerged. Where was Libby's father that night? What did he do? What did Kreich, the child who claimed to have been sexually harassed by Ben, conceal? Ben had a pregnant girlfriend? He is actually a believer of Satanism? What did Cui, an Indian who mixed with him, do with him and his girlfriend? Who was the mysterious man Libby's mother saw?
Watching this movie, you can solve all the mysteries.

PART II endorsement
Ande only speaks for the deceased. Here, I don't care about life and death. Today, I am going to speak for three people.
The first person is Libby.
When she was 7 years old, she was a person with infinite possibilities. Unlike her sister, she did not speak too much, she was not depressed, she was a hopeful person, and loved her brother Ben, even though there was nothing else. People like him.
She is no different from an ordinary girl.
When she suffered the tragedy of killing the door, she was encouraged by the police to testify that her brother was a murderer.
She lied, even though she didn't know she was lying.
Her life was subsequently ruined, but not by the case, but by herself.
She doesn't work and lives on donations from others, even though she will no longer be a little girl after 28 years.
A disaster can destroy a person, or it can make a person.
She didn't choose either. She would always freeze herself in the moment after the disaster. She felt pain and anger, especially towards her brother Ben.
But at the same time, she loved her brother in shallow consciousness, blood was thicker than water, and she couldn't get rid of it. So she was imprisoned by herself.
When she finally discovered the truth, she broke free from the cage and began to grow.
This cage is anger, and there is only one key, and that is forgiveness.
The key is not in her hand, the key is in the hands of the second person.
The second person is Ben.
He was a 16-year-old Satanist that year. He hung pictures of Satan on the wall, wrote down Satan’s evil in his notebook, or killed a cow with an axe.
But none of this can change what kind of person he is.
At the age of 16, he is a helpful child. He taught a child to paint, but the child falsely accused him of sexual harassment because he refused to fall in love with her. He is another person with love in his heart. Her sister spreads about her and his girlfriend, causing him to fall into isolation, but he never thought of hurting her, not even dissatisfied at all. His girlfriend is crazy, or perverted, but he tolerated her.
And at worst, he is a shy person. When they hear a cruel word, what people hear is the emotion in the word, but what they can't hear is the emotion behind the word. Ben barely speaks, and because of this, Ben is labeled as evil and perverted.
After the incident, people walked in and out of the crime scene, and no one was worried about destroying the evidence because they had identified the murderer. In the court, he didn't know how to express, and he couldn't speak rhetorically, because of this he was charged with a crime.
But unlike his sister, Ben was not really imprisoned. The body is restricted, but the soul is free. His 28 years of forgiveness protected his girlfriend, daughter and sister. He had 8 chances to appeal. He gave up. He doesn't need others to set him free.
As he walked out of the cage, his inmates applauded him.
The last person is Ben and Libby's mother.
She has many names. Superwoman, murderer, idiot and bitch.
Her sister called him Superwoman, because she raised her four sons alone, confronted power, protected the farm left by her parents, and protected her dignity.
She was called a murderer by me because she signed an agreement to support her children with life insurance. She asked others to kill herself according to her own wishes, but she also took away her two daughters because of something wrong. life.
She was turned into a fool by those with power, because she insisted on protecting the land left by her parents and never leaving. She was made a bitch by her husband because she couldn't sell her family's cross.
Her problem was that she was a too good person, so she died in the end.
The real question is, what kind of person do you think she, Patty, is?
PART III
The role selection of the film is very good. Charlize Theron is famous for playing a depressed woman. Her performance in this film is quite good, but at the last moment, she can express a little more emotionally. After all, she has been imprisoned for many years, if she shows a fragile side. On the contrary, it is more contagious.
Nicholas Holt performed Lyle perfectly. It's a pity that there are too few scenes and there is no room for play.
Moretz finally became a Badass completely, and his acting skills improved slightly, but his expression was a bit stiff after the murder, and his tone was better panicked, or his tone was crazier before the murder, otherwise there would be some inconsistencies.
The editing level of the film is quite good, and the script is excellent. At 65 minutes of the film, Ben and Libby had a very clever dialogue with Libby through the glass. Ben took the initiative to put down the microphone and said, "You are imprisoned like me. At this time, the roles of the two were completely reversed, and they confirmed her words."
However, the film caused the destruction of the atmosphere when the TV news revealed the truth at 99 minutes. At this time, it was when Libby's heart was mixed, and the sound of the news broadcast to narrate the follow-up state did not make the viewer's mood enter the state. , Especially after the last news broadcast, the camera change was too sudden, and it was a failure. According to my imagination, the cliché method can keep the news footage away, and finally turn to the scene where Libby is watching the news, and ask Libby to remain motionless until the news is broadcast for tens of seconds, or it can be relayed to Libby by Lyle. This is a bit cliché, but it can be effective.
In addition, when Libby’s mother turns around and tells Libby that she loves him very much, it’s best to split into several shots, each of which is interspersed with the film information and fades in and out, so that the reader can be confused but understand. Know the significance of this passage.
PART IV Tucao Sailong
sister, please don't be depressed anymore. From Burning Plains to Prometheus, you have almost snatched the role of depressed women.
Brother Holt, please stop playing the young sunshine boy, except for The yong ones and Crazy Max. I think you have been playing the same person all the time. There is only one person who has been acting one person and then became the most versatile Oscar winner, and that is Chaplin. So please, please be more mature in the X-Men Apocalypse.
plus I think this is you, uh, forget it. . . . . .

View more about Dark Places reviews

Extended Reading

Dark Places quotes

  • Libby Day: There are few phrases that annoy me more than "I won't bite". The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: "Smile, it can't be that bad!" Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.

  • [last lines]

    Libby Day: Ben learned something in his prison that I never learned in mine. Forgiveness. My mom told us to make a useful life. Nothing big. Nothing grand. Just a start. Finally, a start.

Related Articles