Can "Texas Battlefield" replicate the "magic" of last year's "Somewhere" winning the Golden Lion? This possibility is really not high.
If there is something in common between "Texas Field" and "Somewhere", it is that they both have an excellent opening. "Somewhere" is a long shot at the beginning. The protagonist drives the car round and round the field. The camera is deadlocked. The noise of the car is the only soundtrack, lap after lap, lap after lap. In a lap, the best footnote was laid for the life of the down-and-out actor. I remember that last year the chairman of the jury, Quentin, praised this opening, describing it as a repetitive and desperate life.
"Dezhou Killing Field" also had a very provocative start: the camera opened, a barren and yellow grassland, the camera slowly moved forward, slowly walking forward in a serpentine-like trajectory, and walked to a car that opened the door. In front of the car, the camera poked in, came out, turned a corner, the camera poked in from the door on the other side, looked at the ID card in the car, and slowly approached the woman’s face on the ID card. Become clear. At the beginning, it can be called the most venomous scene in Venice this year. It moves forward like a snake, giving the scene a chilling vitality, like the sound of a rattlesnake flapping its tail in silence.
However, it’s a pity that after this beginning, the film gradually began to decline. The main characters were heavily typified, and the storyline and structure became complicated but lacking in necessity. It slowly became a first-class beginning. Second-rate finishing works.
"Avatar" actor Sam Worthington plays the young detective Mike in "Texas Killing Field", a guy who always irritates people around him and criminals. Sam Worthington signed to star in the movie after filming "Avatar". I don’t know if it’s because the film is too complicated, or the filming of "Avatar" is too tiring. Sam Worthington didn’t get any relief at all in this film. The angry policeman he plays is quite facial, and only does it in the film. Two things: Either raise a gun or quarrel. Chloe Moretz, who emerged from "King of the Sea", has grown a lot, but his personality has not changed. He is still the little adult with an angry face. As for the other actor in the film, Jerry Dean Morgan, apart from the trance that he really resembles JaVale Baden, it is difficult to have more impressions of such a role.
For a crime suspense movie, if the character creation is weak, the common excuse is usually "The director used his skills to advance the plot." However, for "Texas Killing Field", such an excuse is also impossible. Play any role, the movie itself revolves around a wild serial murder and dumping case in Texas, but helplessly, the director insists on nesting another group of criminals in this story. The original intention should be to add to the movie itself. The suspensefulness, like all classic suspenseful police films (such as "Ordinary Suspects"), let the audience take a breath at the last minute and sigh "It turned out to be him". Unfortunately, when the final criminal first appeared in the camera, many viewers had basically guessed his identity-if the director does not pay attention to the storytelling skills and the structure of the film, perhaps the casting director should be blamed: How can you choose such an actor who looks mentally perverted and depressed? !
What's more, this added criminal branch not only has no effect on the promotion of the plot, but also has no effect on the shaping and fullness of several characters. It has basically become a waste line.
"Texas Killing Field" deserves encouragement. As a female director, she did not show her cowardice in the genre of police and criminals with strong male elements, nor did she leave the female director to control the gender disadvantage of this type of film. Of course, this time the performance of the girl is not like Michael Mann himself said at the press conference. It can be compared with directors like Danny Paul-we all feel that it is just the love of the girl.
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