It can be seen from the comments that the irony is quite obvious. Everyone knows that this movie is ironic, but when the irony is so heavy, everything and every character presents a completely opposite appearance to the inside, so that the whole movie is like a screenwriter and director. A huge game, it can no longer be called a black comedy. The creator's gloomy mood has permeated his work, and what finally takes shape can only be a tragedy.
The title American Dreamz has actually been revealed. A British person was hired to host one of the most popular programs in the United States. In such an American movie, the core character is an Englishman, and the scriptwriter's malice is about to emerge.
The story revolves around four characters, and we can also discover that these four people also carry the duality.
Host Martin, Hugh Grant is another middle-aged and frustrated role. At the beginning, the screenwriter has sounded the alarm. After an excellent ratings list, he let Martin break up in a state of emotional high, and after the shock of the surprise attack, we are about to be warmed by the thoughtfulness and gentleman he showed. However, he quickly tore off his mask, completely exposing the darkness and struggle in his heart to the camera. The impact was not unbelievable. At this time, his image was first established in the movie. A pessimistic and frustrated man with a successful career but unable to handle his life well.
Next, he slowly showed a prosperous picture of his career, and the irony of his dual identity was also full. As the host of the most popular variety show in the United States, he is humorous and playful in front of others, with a brilliant tongue, but under the camera is the opposite of carrying an unbearable personality. Anti-social and extreme egoist, his self-evaluation words can show himself clearly. His tragic nature is as concentratedly reflected in the scenes. He leaned his head on the portrait of himself in the program poster. He muttered over and over again, looking forward to stopping the show. At this time, the news of the renewal came and he turned around. It is already a chic and happy new image, dressed in sunshine and walked to the recording venue with the staff.
Sally, one of the last two players in American Dreamz. From the beginning of the film, the camera was tightly attached, showing her journey all the way through the competition. From the first re-recording of the screaming scene, we can clearly read the cleverness and informality of this girl. Martin apparently read it too, and only used a moment in the video of her kissing her boyfriend who came back from the battlefield in Iraq.
The duality of Sally's identity is more obvious and direct. She has always been a generous and sleek girl who doesn't mind deceiving people. And all the way she competed, she also rose step by step with the growth of a lie. She dumped the boyfriend she had always disliked or even hated at the celebration party after she was selected. Because the gap between them is so obvious, even we in front of the screen can feel her proud ambition, free and lively temperament and boyfriend's dullness. Cognitive is out of place. But when faced with a choice, she did not hesitate to accept the proposal to exchange love for attention, acting sincerely in front of the returning boyfriend, and be the lover of the old days with him. Although it makes her unhappy, it doesn't matter.
Omer is one of the last two players left. This is the biggest source of tension in the film, and even its irony has been diluted a bit. Omer's dual identity lies in the fact that in American Dreamz, he is a singer who fought all the way to the final podium, and on the other hand he is a Middle Eastern immigrant who is struggling to advance in the game to assassinate the president. As time progressed, he gradually approached his mother's dream and gradually approached the huge conspiracy at the end.
The particularity of the character of Omer is that as a terrorist who was sent to assassinate, his character is actually very pure and good, so he can be loved by so many people in the game. And what this game represents is not just a plan of destruction. Omer loves music. He listened to his mother’s records since he was a child. In a terrible country, he cherishes the pure land that this piece of music can provide. He just rehearsed during the day to shoot and kill the American president, and he returned to the camp at night. The notes dance. American Dreamz is actually an extremely beautiful opportunity for him to realize his dream. Under the heavy task, his kindness and love had to survive, but he couldn't enter the play by himself. After the mission, he became a symbol, but the beauty he felt in front of him made him addicted for a long time.
The president is the biggest joke in the film, but his sadness is not a joke. Having just returned from one of the most important battles in his life, the victorious general lost all his strength and fell helplessly. A newspaper, his eyes linger on, not wanting to let go, the fragility in his heart slowly accumulates. Without changing clothes, hiding in a nightgown, buried in a room full of books, it is difficult to move. From a spirited warrior to a downcast coward, it was only a few moments. Until the device is inserted into the ear, it becomes a puppet and plays a role that must be played. Once the symbol of the most powerful will in the United States, it has degenerated to the loss of oneself. Once lost the crutches, he stays in place and does not know where to go. Go everywhere.
The president must have had time to shine. It will not be the help of loyal colleagues or the oversight of the people of a country that will help him rise to the highest position, but only his ambition and talent. So knocking down the strongest person, and breaking the life that everyone in the film insists on. Especially, their lives were difficult to maintain in pieces one by one. The president’s frustration is not nonsense, because the invasion of sorrow does not vary from person to person. The brightest feel the deepest, and the most self-control suffer the most. However, between heaven and earth, how many people who have been crushed by their lives walk with their bodies, but this person cannot be the president of a country. When he became a symbol of hope, he had been deprived of the right to show sorrow. So when you are in a low mood, you still need to smile, even if you are just a puppet.
The four most important people have been narrated. Their fate has been entangled with each other since the beginning of the film. The trajectory of the forward is so speculative, but the tone is clear at a glance-in short, it will not be facing the good direction.
The ending is a potion of poison. On the way to the ending, bright mushrooms grow everywhere, and if swallowed by mistake, it is a painful pain.
The special thing about Sally lies in the wonderful fit between her and MR. Martin.
I have been thinking about how Martin found his soul friend from just one expression, but a person is always very familiar with his own kind. I could see the similarities between them, but I didn't understand the connection between them, and he caught her in an instant. The correctness of this instinct was quickly proved. On a high-speed conversation, we saw two people who met for the first time revealing their shortcomings. Sally actually said to Martin that he didn't like him, and Martin seemed to have finally caught a moment to rest, completely relaxed in the air where Sally was. The subject of their conversation was not warm, but in a peculiar way, he was soothed by the burden.
Until the last conversation in the dressing room, I don't think I really understood what they mean to each other. Martin and Sally were alone in the room but turned their backs. The five-colored balloons hanging in the air and the beautiful curly ribbons reflected in the mirror also reflected his silent face. A long ribbon dropped before his eyes and then moved away, so quiet and obscure, yet so transparent. Sally is going to the stage to accept her boyfriend's marriage proposal, but it doesn't matter. They looked at each other, and Martin frankly said that once the distance of love and reward is gone, the end of intimacy is to depart from each other in disgust. But when his eyes flashed again, and the corners of her mouth smiled, we knew that they finally gave each other a chance.
By this time, the relationship between them was only gently tentatively brewing, and when the camera turned around again, Martin stood behind Sally, sniffed her blond hair hesitantly, and then dropped a soft kiss. This relationship flew lightly in the breath, and the nectar that was about to mature and fall to the ground could be foreseen.
But the ending is about to be staged.
Omer’s comrades sat down on the stage, waiting for the final assassination. They were in the studio for the first time. They were moved by his singing, and tears fell in tears, and their faces bathed in tears looked harmless and fuzzy. . At this time, we also gradually understand that the leader of this conspiracy does not understand what the heavy hatred is. They have never chosen to live their lives, but they are still ignorant, so they slowly embarked on the road of revenge.
Some people will awaken, but there are still people who have to pay for this nonsense persistence.
Before he walked onto the stage, Omer suddenly realized that he rushed back to the bathroom to dismantle the bomb tied to his body and save his fate. He dropped the bomb in the trash can, turned back to the stage and walked into his dream. Pandora's box is about to be opened by another disappointed person.
Sally's boyfriend, an image that has always been small, suddenly rises towards the end. He is cowardly, ignorant, and reluctant to make progress, and his life is pinned on a girl who doesn't love him. But he wasn't actually that bad, just too ordinary to keep up with Sally's flying thoughts. When he first entered the battlefield, he was stray bullets, holding flowers and returning to his beloved girl, and then he was packaged as a battlefield hero and a happy lover. Originally, his existence was only to accept ridicule, but it was him who made the last shot in the movie.
When the dreams of a lifetime are broken, the memories deeply embedded in the mind suddenly collapse, and they have to face the cruel reality directly, and the quietest person may become the craziest. He rushed to the stage so recklessly, tearing all the masks to pieces without thinking, he even buried his sanity, and this body also followed closely behind.
The president, who had been immersed in grief for a long time, did not retreat but instead moved forward. He threw away the instructions from his ear, and made a speech that was true and moving, but he couldn't persuade him to return to his broken heart. Martin suddenly burst into a rare stubbornness and insisted on keeping the show going. The cameraman had already escaped with the crowd, so he stepped forward and picked up the camera to record the scene.
Sally glanced in their direction and ran away in a panic.
She was moved by him, but it was not enough for her to stay for a while; he also did not change his decision for her.
Their ending was destined from the beginning.
There are only two people left in the studio, one infatuated, one infatuated, and two sad. William spins in front of the camera, singing the song he was supposed to sing to his girlfriend, but there are still dreams in the song, but the singer no longer believes it. That is the final melody. So people in front of the TV voted to pour their support on him, he would not know, and would not need it.
And Martin, watching the picture in the lens intently, his eyes flashed brightly. He clearly wanted to get rid of the repetition of the seasons, but at the last moment of the show, he became the one who persisted to the end. During the show, he often wears a mask; maybe outside the show, he has nothing.
William approached the camera with the bomb and pressed the button. The picture on the TV disappeared and turned into a quiet snowflake full of screen. And there was a sudden explosion in the studio.
What a ridiculous bomb. Originally, I only planned to blow up two people, a president and a good citizen. Now I have changed the target, one is hurt by love, and the other is trapped by life. This death was caused by himself.
This is the end.
Then, when Sally stood on the stage of American Dreamz, he succeeded Martin as the host of the new season. It is not a new beginning, but a continuation of the old. The only ones who have really gotten rid of all of this are those who have been turned into fragments, and those who are left still have to live in this lie and maintain the illusion.
The moment Martin's smiling face freezes in black and white on the big screen is the culmination of sadness in the movie.
Life is just an endless joke, some people's is over, some are still going on.
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