After more than nine years in the film industry, the American director Miranda Jolie , who won the Cannes "Golden Camera" debut award, finally released his new work "Billionaire" . This is her third feature feature film. It was shortlisted for the Sundance Film Festival at the beginning of this year and the "Director's Fortnight" in Cannes, which was forced to cancel due to the epidemic. It has become the French "Cinema Manual" just like the debut film "Love Me You He". Holding object. Before I watched it, I was curious about the title. I guessed it was a story about a girl who was born with a golden key. I guessed this conclusion from her beautiful long blond hair on the poster and the objects around her. The result was from the film. The first act completely overthrew my guess.
The film opens with a plot of a family of three cooperating to steal parcels from the post office. Parents watch the timing and give orders while the heroine sneaks into the post office with the passionate soundtrack and performs strange gestures and moves, and carefully steals the parcels under the eyes of the staff. This scene is a bit like the classic scene of Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible". According to the director herself, the plot in the script comes from many thief movies she had seen when she was growing up . Could it be that the female director who made emotional art films dormant for many years and then turned to the Hollywood blockbuster camp?
The answer is of course no. This "Billionaire" is still Miranda Jolie's "weird" theme that has always been good at. Although the film is full of all kinds of scams, from stealing parcels to defrauding gift certificates, to making money by taking advantage of free returns, and forging signatures on checks to redeem money, there are many tricks to make the case, such as taking the wrong luggage at the airport. The design is typical. These low-level and cunning deception plots seem to be moving closer to Hollywood genre films such as "11 Arhats" , but their core is obviously not to show off the family's reliance on the three abuse methods to get rich, and it turned into a "billionaire" story. In my opinion, this weird family is more like a reappearance of Hirokazu Kee’s Palme d’Or’s film "The Thief Family" . It is also a low-level, precarious little figure in the bottom of society, exhausted to support his family, and emotional fetters have become the most interesting portrayal, especially It is the emotional bond between the daughter and the parents. The only difference is that this is a family with a blood relationship.
Strangely, the background of the three members of this family is very few. We don’t know why they fell here, and we don’t know when they started stealing for a living. The director seems to have done it deliberately, allowing the audience to speculate on the family's previous experience through their respective actions. The most curious thing is how the heroine grew up under the care of the liar's parents. The evolution of the heroine 's mentality in the growth process has gradually become the main theme of the film. The director used two key points to enlighten and stimulate the heroine to think deeply about her parents' emotions. The first point is that she learned the baby’s fascination and crawling with the mother’s breasts while attending classes for pregnant women. This repeated knowledge points suggested that she lacked maternal love during her growth, which led to the dislocation of her relationship with her parents. The other is to introduce a young female novice as a new member to assist them in completing the "big case". This new female player has a dual function in the script. On the one hand, it makes the heroine reflect on her position in the family, as well as fosters the relationship between her and the heroine.
The thinking of Westerners is really interesting. If a person is separated from his parents and family, truly independent and grows up, the first thing he has to face is sexual enlightenment and love . I can only say that the homosexuality between the two actresses is a bit abrupt. In the eyes of us Orientals, even if the two are in friendship, I think it is enough to fully explain this wonderful script. Perhaps Westerners regard love as the supremacy. Bar! In fact, in my opinion, the heroine's feelings for novices are more mixed with a similar attachment to her mother . She wants to compensate for her mother's love from the other party, rather than just love. In the scene in front of the convenience store, the heroine's design imitating the baby crawling clearly showed this point.
The second is growing loneliness , which is also the focus of the film. With repeated thefts, the heroine's loneliness continued to surface (she shed tears during massage, feelings in front of the preschool lecturer, etc.). She constantly struggled and reflected on the torture of her moral conscience, but found that her parents stood forever The opposite of herself, until she met the female novice, brought her fresh perspectives and attitudes towards life, which allowed her to gradually get rid of the shadow and loneliness of her parents, and thus gradually turned from an atmosphere of despair to a bright ending.
This script structure echoes the director’s debut "Love Me You He", and even the loneliest weirdo will find happiness . In the final battle between her and her parents, it seems that she has already lost the battle, but please pay attention to the number of cash back on the computer screen of the cashier in the supermarket, which is exactly the amount of reward she deserves. This laughable ending turned around to prove the blood bond between her parents and her . Her parents are not cold-blooded animals who do not care about family affection. This inconspicuous detail is the same thing as the last scene in "The Thief Family" where the son quietly waved goodbye to his father in the car, but the position was reversed.
Miranda Jolie still does not forget her small and fresh nature in dealing with this genre-colored theme. From the costumes of the heroine to the choice of the soundtrack, she has fully demonstrated her careful thoughts, one that she hasn't heard for years. song Mr. Lonely sudden I touched endless. Many whimsical ideas are even more of Charlie Kaufman , such as the cubicle with pink foam at regular intervals, the small earthquake that scares a family of three from time to time, and the most amazing thing is The two girls saw the vast starry sky in the dark toilet, which fully demonstrated the director's skillful author style, and always made people feel overjoyed and sweet and humorous in a sad atmosphere.
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