Anticlimactic

Michael 2022-02-19 08:01:43

The movie started so great! Surprisingly, is this still the pop music biography mentioned in the introduction... "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "The Birth of a Star", a strong foreign language film style. The superficiality of Hollywood in the mid-to-late stage came to the face, and the ending concert of Lei's outer focus and inner tenderness had a relationship with the main theme. The characters in the recent films of the queen are all such exaggerated expressions, and there is not much color in "First Lady". On the other hand, the selection of the big cousin is more intelligent than her. Even a quasi-vase like Emma Stone knows how to choose Gongdou Opera. As Judenor grew older, he knew how to hide. Natalie Porter would have to make soap operas if he continued like this.

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  • Anya 2022-04-22 07:01:48

    A hideous satire of pop culture and gun violence. It's actually quite enjoyable.

  • Jeff 2022-04-24 07:01:21

    The episodes of the campus terrorist attack are very exciting. The hidden visual angle of view fully arouses the subjective consciousness and unknown feeling of the subjects and the audience before and after the camera, and this outsider's perspective also brings new tension to the traditional cultural pattern. The outbreak of various political factors laid the groundwork. But in the same way, violent politics is completely reduced to a vague conceptual background, and there is absolutely no reliable reason for the escape of the characters later. The method of dividing into chapters also makes the final concert paragraph become a soft powerless punch. The story looks very bloated and ridiculous and messy in front of it. There is no reasonable channel to connect with each other between pop culture and the crux of violence, and the thematic appeal to be expressed becomes weak. On the one hand, I want to satisfy the image presupposed by the public's psychology, and on the other hand, as the general public, it is difficult to resist the image that they really show. This state of pulling back and forth did not let me see the protagonist's own attitude and stance, which is extremely luxurious. I don't know whose dream created the concert. I would like to ask Bobo, do you believe in your role?

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  • Celeste: [bribing her manager to let her smoke weed] You can fuck me for a little while we're high.

  • Photographer: *Are we gonna be good?*

    Celeste: [and dance extras] *No!*

    Photographer: *Are we gonna be great?*

    Celeste: [and dance extras] *No!*

    Photographer: *Are we gonna be amazing?*

    Celeste: [and dance extras] *No!*

    Photographer: *Then what are we gonna be?*

    Celeste: [and dance extras] *Phenomenal!*

    Photographer: *Yea-yeah! Phenomenal!* Phenomenal! Phenomenal!

    [others join]

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