A guy who was thoroughly brainwashed by "Avatar", who took the visual revolution as his mission, thought that the film did not need actors, only special effects, and played the Ph.D. Sigourney Weaver It’s even unnecessary. I think she is not only “old and declining”, but also only acting in science fiction subjects, such as the previous "Alien", etc., and her acting skills are ordinary... I ca
n’t agree with this point of view, but it’s not about "Avatar". In terms of performance, Sigourney Weaver has always been regarded as an actress with outstanding talent and excellent acting skills, regardless of whether she played Linda, a severely autistic, bereaved mother in the film "Snowcake" How vivid she is, Paulina, a neurotic woman who has had traumatic experiences in Polanski's film "Immoral Trial," is even more indicative of her acting skills.
"Death and the Maiden", literally translated as "Death and the Maiden", is an unforgettable film after watching it. The film has a very good script, adapted from the classic drama of Chilean writer Ariel Duffman. The character scenes in the whole film are minimal, with only three characters and one main scene-heroine Pauline and lawyer husband Jera In many homes, in such a relatively cramped space, the film is presented with a sense of hierarchy, giving a trembling, gloomy and gloomy story—years later, a tortured person’s private trial of the perpetrator, and consequently The back of human nature in extreme situations.
The overall rhythm of the film is moderate, but it is compact and refined, always revealing a constant sense of urgency and depression. Because of the story itself, the performance of the actors, and the control of the director, the scenes of the three men are shocking and fascinating every step of the way. The creation of such an atmosphere benefits from Polanski's skills in light and shadow, and the technique is less illusory and exaggerated, but the story is well told, it highlights the inner activities of the characters and leaves more subtext to the audience.
Some people say that listening to Schubert's string quartet "Death and the Maiden" alone will give you a sense of horror. If you listen to this film in combination, you will have an unknowable sense of fear. Many years ago, in prison, when Dr. Miranda (played by Ben Kingsley) raped Pauline, who was blindfolded, he played this Schubert string quartet over and over again. The melody of the song itself is very beautiful, but shuddering fear and pressure can be stirred up between the notes, as if you can never escape the boundless darkness and hot magma, like dancing in shackles, and matching the scene of the film just right.
In the film, Sigourney Weaver excavated Pauline’s trauma to the extreme after being inhumanly ravaged. The performance is full of tension. The more crazy Pauline is, the more exhausted her heart is. The more powerful she is, the more fragile she is. Every neurotic behavior aggravated the film’s tense and suspenseful feeling, and the speech and aggressive posture in the later trial reproduced her once purgatory experience. The audience seemed to see a deeply wounded soul crying blood. Trembling, wrestling and entangled...
As for the two actors, Ben Kingsley’s acting skills are remarkable. In the process of being bound and questioned, his performance keeps throwing out the pros and cons of doubts until the final It is certain that Kingsley played very well at the moment when the doctor was pushed to the edge of the cliff and confessed. Stewart Wilson’s husband, Gerardo, played well. Among them, when he learned that Pauline, who had refused to betray him, had not only suffered endless electric shocks in prison, but had also been raped 14 times in such a secret, psychological drama Richer.
Nearly crazy actions, music that triggered the heroine’s suspicion, and pressing questions, the past devastation was revealed. The tortured need the repentance of the abuser to fill the out-of-control heart. In fact, the abuser also needs to obtain Forgiveness can face family life... The film is actually more about human nature, and its significance has surpassed its political appearance. Here, politics is only an extreme factor that brings inhuman torture and painful memories.
At the end of the film, the victim and the perpetrator met unexpectedly. Each and his family members admired Schubert in the concert hall. The woman who was almost crazy and the doctor who was once "freak and mad" seemed to listen peacefully, seeing each other Suddenly, a complicated air current was surging in the air. Listening to Schubert calmly indicates that a woman is detached, and the appearance of a doctor as a husband and father accompanying her family is difficult to compare with a former abuser. It seems that the film wants to show that in certain extreme circumstances, human nature will Distortion, any person who seems to be gentle and amiable can be distorted into a brutal and bloody perpetrator.
(If you listen to Schubert's string quartet "Reaper and the Maiden" used by Na Kuang in the film, you can go to http://nicolew.blog.hexun.com/49094660_d.html )
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