The style is too careless

Darius 2022-04-28 06:01:02

Not long ago, I saw a movie "Orange" shot with an iPhone. The color and texture are not comparable to the high-definition camera, but it can capture an incredible sense of reality. Soderbergh's new film also has this advantage, and it also uses a wide-angle lens to change the conventional sense of space and show the strange asylum environment in the eyes of the protagonist. There is still a lot of novelty in the storyline, and the suspense design is straightforward, but the various types of mixing make people feel uncomfortable and abrupt when watching. I feel that the director has been too careless in his style handling, failing to form a coherence in one go. The editing and dialogue design is full of retro flavor, like American dramas in the 90s such as "X-Files", unearthed unexpected absurdity in seemingly ordinary real life, and make better use of subjective perspectives to gradually create a horrible thriller. Atmosphere. This approach is exactly the same as his "Bubble" many years ago, but this new film has a more down-to-earth commercial flavor. The topic of insurance fraud in a lunatic asylum obviously has a strong sense of criticism. The heroine's performance is quite brilliant, and the unexpected ending is also a highlight of the film.

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  • Sawyer Valentini: You say all the right things, David. Or what you think are the right things. Greeting card clichés and romance novel declarations of love. But that's not love. Love is giving yourself over to what someone else wants, even if it goes against everything you believe.

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    David Strine: [narrating] I love it when you wear blue. I mean, I love you in anything. But you wore blue that first time I saw you, so anytime I see you in blue, it reminds me of how I felt at that moment. How I never really knew what being alive was until I saw you. You unlocked something inside me that day, something I didn't even realize was there. And right then, I knew that nothing in my life was ever going to be the same. In that moment, I was transformed permanently. You did that.