"A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Donkey Gets Water" belong to this category. In the future, there will be non-adapted stories that were filmed directly in a limited time and space, such as "A Man From Mars", "The Night When Comets Come", and "Dreams Brought into Reality" etc. I can think of.
Screen stage plays have the following characteristics: 1. It must be performed in a limited space. The story usually takes place in a room, sometimes with toilets and kitchens—like this movie. 2. The time is limited to the present, and there are almost no flashbacks, subjective memories and other methods. 3. The characters are closely related, and the drama conflicts strongly. 4. In the performance, the actors are full of emotions and have strong traces of drama performances. 5. The story has twists and turns, and the ending is reversed.
Throughout the film, it also has the above characteristics. Its advantage is that the tense and dramatic story is easy to attract the audience and watch the film in one go until the end of the film. However, this type of film has some technical difficulties, which are not easy to handle well:
1. Strong dramatic conflicts will reduce the credibility of the story. A person is about to be promoted. She invited a few close friends to have dinner. It happened that her husband had an incurable disease, and the husband’s girlfriend’s husband also happened to know about it, came to seek revenge, and became another same-sex couple. My friend, I’m about to have my own offspring... Too many coincidences, too many staggered reversals and reversals, it looks very lively, but it is easy for the audience to think that this is an impossible farce . It will also weaken the seriousness of the film.
2. I want to say too much, unclear. When a female minister took office, she felt disillusioned about the realization of her political ideas and the meaning of real political activities, and she did not know the meaning of her work. My friend lesbian has hopes and doubts about raising children (this part is the worst expression in the whole film, and I don't know what contradiction between them is). Her husband’s serious illness originally made the female minister guilty of her long-term neglect of the family, but the sudden exposure of the derailment made her furious (please find a slightly charismatic uncle next time to play this role, now this image is too sloppy Up). Plus a jealous, daring, emotionally unstable husband with a green hat (modern version of Hamlet)...The theme of the story is messy and unreasonable.
3. The overly dramatic arrangement makes the story out of shape. In order for the heroine to finally get the gun, how is the movie arranged? First, ask the financial green to throw the gun out of the clothes into the trash can for a while, pick it up again, and then throw it again. Then, when the key scandal appeared, the pie happened to be baked. Once again, it is also the most hilarious one. The female minister, who was in grief and anger, suddenly emptied the baked snacks to find the pistol she raised to the audience at the end of the film...
4. The performance was overwhelming. , Exaggerated to the point of loss. In this kind of intense drama, the actors' facial and body movements are more exaggerated, and it is inevitable. But if you add a close-up to show it, the audience will feel very uncomfortable, and everyone seems to be crazy. This will not appear on the stage, after all, there is only one first row. And the audience's psychological positioning is different when watching a performance on the spot and facing the screen. It’s a regular performance there, and it’s hysterical here.
In short, it is a decent film. Remove all the location scenes and add no lyrical scenes. I will always have the urge to tell you a hearty story. Don’t believe me watch "Dog Town" or "A Woman in a Fur Coat". This one is only slightly worse, I give three stars.
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