The extra "lens", the extra delicacy.

Reagan 2022-08-18 15:26:52

In the movie, as the plot slowly opened up, the suspense was concentrated in the "basement". There is a series of shots in the basement, which is very good to take the audience to the thinking "forked road" that the director wants the audience to walk into.

Subjective shots of weird and thrilling

It indicates that the "conspiracy" may be exposed

The old man's next intentions

But this is a series of shots with no logic and no motivation, unreasonable, and a lot more. It's just the director's sophistry shot. He is not like the plot of the old man firing the last shot, the narration of the black policeman in the confession footage before the first flash, and the kid behind him entering the old man’s house with a gun. All these are logical and reasonable plot explanations.

Basically, the movie is pretty good. Judging from the movie's name "Good Neighbor", the continuous flashing of the camera, and the plot before the movie, the director has always created a kind of illusion that the lonely old man who does not communicate with others is hidden. What are you holding?

The voyeuristic scenes, the "ghosts" created by two young people, all these suspenseful and horrifying effects make the audience deeply guided. Some people can't help but think of Hitchcock's rear window, "In order to kill time, a photojournalist watched his neighbors and peeped at their daily lives, and from this he saw through the story of a murderous wife and corpse in an elderly room. Unexplained noise", a similar feeling.

The sudden music and the abnormality of the door, a kind of peeping and manipulating God’s pleasure permeated it, and people can’t help but speculate that the next plot may be that two young people discovered a "traumatic" murder case, and then the incident Reach the climax part. It's a pity that the audience was deceived by the director.

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The Good Neighbor quotes

  • Officer Palmer: Got a noise complaint, you mind if I come in?

    Harold Grainey: Um, yeah, yeah I do.

    [smiles faintly]

  • Harold Grainey: [as barking dog runs to fallen trash can] Get out of here! Get out of here, you half-breed.

    [dog growls]

    Harold Grainey: Shut up!

    [as owner catches up]

    Harold Grainey: Get him out of here!

    Neighbor: Hey, come on - what's the problem here, man?

    Harold Grainey: What's the problem? Well, the problem is that your dog is pissing a mess on my property. Let him piss on your property, okay?

    Neighbor: [to still-barking dog] Come on, easy, easy...

    Harold Grainey: Maybe I should teach him a lesson. Keep that son of a bitch on a leash, okay? Because the next time, if it happens again, I'm going to cut him in four pieces and send him home in this can.

    [tense silence]

    Neighbor: [to dog, while looking at Grainey] Let's go, boy.