――Han Xi has
done a lot of similar films in the United States, a closed environment, a perverted murderer, so the bloody crime began to be staged. In such a film, escape is an important storyline. How to escape this enclosed space and escape the murderous pursuit are the highlights of the film. More importantly, this kind of chase and escape contest is very suitable. Hollywood-style image style, but this film is somewhat different.
Obviously, the director does not intend to repeat a chase and escape story. Instead, he hopes to find this environment and the hidden murderer’s panic towards the characters. In other words, what the director pursues is a kind of psychological thrill. From the film, Jennifer's phrase "fear of the dark" has been fully realized.
For a model who has just finished her career, most of what she faces is the sunny side, including her confidence in beauty and all the posters posted. This kind of sunlight makes her completely unable to resist evil. So, when When the kidnapping happened suddenly, everything changed.
Jennifer woke up from the darkness and saw a beautiful view of the beach, as if she was a professional place to visit, but it was just an illusion, an illusion, and in an instant, the beauty disappeared, and she found out that she had been kidnapped. , Being imprisoned in a completely enclosed space and almost impossible to escape, this blow is undoubtedly huge. Jennifer is facing collapse.
Facing the cold wall, all Jennifer could do after a moment of emotional excitement was compromise and obedience. She tried to escape from this place, but all her efforts ended in failure. As a result, the whole person began to despair. We know from the film that the two perverted murderers seem to be playing a game about despair. They use the same methods for every woman. To see how long they can endure despair, this is an extreme test. , And Jennifer, a woman who is afraid of darkness, will also face despair.
At this time, another detainee appeared, a man. When any person is desperate to the extreme, what she can accept is to find someone who is in despair as she is, and two desperate hearts will inevitably be combined in a desperate space. Of course, the film paved the way for this combination.
We know that Jennifer’s despair has a process, that is, to find that she is in a desperate situation, run away, and then fail. When another imprisoned man appears, this desperate process needs to be repeated again for two reasons. When a desperate person meets for the first time, there is a possibility of hope. In other words, despair + despair is hope in the first place, so the two people started a new round of escape. Everything seems so real that they can even sit on the car, but the power of this desperate space is Unparalleled. The escape of the two ended in failure again, so the despair of the two truly reached unity.
Obviously, the process of Jennifer's two escapes and the final failure only added a heavier weight to her despair. Realistically, there is a sense of interdependence between Jennifer and the man. Darkness seems to no longer play any role, because since despair itself cannot be changed, then who cares if despair continues? For a woman, the biggest support at this time is the appearance of a man. Purely out of a female consciousness, Jennifer asked the murderer not to kill the imprisoned man, and therefore forget the desperate situation. Making love is a metaphysical thing. In a desperate space, making love in a desperate mood is obviously another kind of despair, but this kind of despair makes people subconsciously strengthen the ability to endure.
There is nothing new in the next plot. The man is obviously a criminal. He fell in love with Jennifer witlessly. Of course, this is due to Jennifer's plea entirely out of female consciousness. Female consciousness is very important in this film. Jennifer was caught as an individual. The film contains four sets of clothes. The first is a short skirt, which means that Jennifer has fallen from the sunny world of the model to the dark world. This beginning has a social instinct. The second set of clothes is the existence of individuals. Jennifer has been dominated by the dark space. She has lost her freedom to become a person. The third set of clothes is very short and the style is very strong. It represents a serious gender dislocation. , And the fourth outfit is the return of female characters. It can be seen that in this desperate space, Jennifer's physical attributes have been changing. When the true face of the man was revealed, we saw another change in Jennifer's costume. An almost male costume made her independent, resisting deception, and even replacing criminals, until the criminals were punished.
Therefore, the clothes actually represent Jennifer's transformation as a woman in the film. Models in the real world, ignorant, are peeped by all men. After being arrested, they lose the sunshine and become ordinary individuals in the dark. After double despair, they return to the men who "have pity for the same fate". Female identity, at this time, is more of a woman's role. After finally facing crime and male deception, Jennifer replaced the male role. Especially at the end of the film, when Jennifer walked out of the room alone and walked on the cold street, she She is already an absolutely independent individual, and more importantly, she is no longer afraid of the darkness, nor will she be afraid of deception and evil from men.
In fact, the film is very attentive in many places, especially the creation of a claustrophobic environment. It can be seen that the director did not create a chaotic and bloody place in accordance with the conventional American film. On the contrary, the room is clean and tidy, but all the walls The furnishings and furnishings all have a cold gray tone, especially the mirror that reveals the true color of the glass after peeling off the gray and silver powder. This is an anti-feminine environment, and it is also the color of the mechanical world. On the one hand, it deepens the damage to the female identity in the subject, while on the other hand, it shows the social nature of this closed environment. Therefore, we heard the dialogue between the hero and heroine through the glass, without any secrets between each other, and in equal despair between each other. It was a direct connection between the upper life and the lower life, and it was not difficult for us to understand the gray layer. What does the silver powder represent?
The idea of this film is absolutely high-level. Many details can show the director’s extraordinary feelings and meaning to be expressed, but it is a pity that the Hollywood-style ending makes everything dim. , And the label made in the United States will somewhat mislead some viewers' attention to this film. I am afraid that this is the real reason why this film is not highly rated. Objectively speaking, the content of this film is not enough to fulfill the director's wishes, but compared to other desperate space films of the same kind, this film is obviously superior!
2007-9-17
Han Xi in Tongzhou
View more about Captivity reviews
