1. "Spy Sea" was bought on a half-price day, when "Prince of Persia" and "Robin Hood" did not have good screenings, and the good screening tickets were sold out.
2. At first, I thought "Sea of Spies" was a pure Hollywood production. I still thought it was an American film until the ticket window said "Spy Sea" - China. There are two reasons. One is that there are a bunch of foreigners in the introduction of this film that can be seen every day when you transfer to the subway in Zhongshan Park. The second is that the ticket MM firmly told me that the film is the original English version! Of course, the Huayi Brothers Film and Television Company's signboard displayed at the beginning of the film made me suddenly realize that this is a "Daxing Goods" packaged beautifully.
My entanglement:
1. When the movie was in the third, I suddenly realized that I didn't know what they were going to do. I asked the people next to me: "Do you know what they are doing?" She said, "I don't know either...
2. Given what the film wants to express, I have been planning a name for the film critic. Given a A film review can only have one name, but I don’t
think any name can fully express my feelings, so I list the names that were not selected for supplementary purposes. ", "Everything is a Misunderstanding", "The Elegy of the Green Hat" and "A Good Woman Shouldn't Let a Man Die".
What does this film say:
Because the film has no plot and pretends to be suspense, many things are not understood So I can't comment on the logical main line of the photo. All I can do is try to understand the director's intention and structure it so as to enrich the character and fate of each main character.
Protagonist:
I forgot the name of the protagonist, but I found it. It seems to be the hero of "2012". His public identity is that of a reporter - a reporter who published an article in the Washington Post as a Nazi exaggeration. His real identity is a descendant of a military family, a naval officer, and later became spy.
He returned from Germany, the main battlefield facing Europe, and immediately moved to Shanghai, where the Songhu War of Resistance was about to break out. The purpose is to carry out a mission with his friend and partner Connor, but what is this mission? There is no explanation in the film. What is explained is that Connor once told him in Warsaw that he would come to Shanghai to spend Christmas together (actually, the two Why a naval officer + a spy would appear in Poland without the sea is really a puzzling thing, maybe he came to Shanghai just to spend Christmas with Connor).
But he didn't meet Connor because Connor died. Of course, as the protagonist of being a comrade and a friend, Connor's legacy must be fulfilled, and his unfinished business must be completed. So investigation is inevitable. And here we are looking forward to half of the spy film routines have begun to emerge.
Anthony Lanting:
Actually, according to the scene, Chow Yun-fat is not as important as Gong Li, but why put him behind the protagonist? Just because Gong Li doesn't seem to have a name in the film, only Mrs Anthony. And Chow Yun-fat's gang leader's name is Anthony Lanting (this is a very comical Chinese name. If the screenwriter is American and the director is an American, then ignorance can be forgiven, I think Chow Yun-fat and Gong Li should give a rationalization Suggestion. Even if it's called yuesheng•du!)
Chow Yun-fat's films are becoming less and less connotative these days, except after being disgusted in Captain Jack, his performances are still superficial in this film. What's more terrifying is that the character's logic is very confusing. First of all, he loves his wife very much, but when he attended the banquet in the German consulate, he openly took his two mistresses and his wife to attend (compared to me, I think this is the case). humiliation to the wife). After that, he began to show his love for his wife so much that he even shot at Da Zuo (I have to admit, this part is still very much like a little brother). Of course, being shot in order to save his wife would have killed a lot more.
Mrs. Lanting:
Gong Li is a very strange being in this film. She is the wife of a gang leader, the daughter of a Kuomintang politician who was killed in the Nanjing Massacre, and the leader of an underground resistance organization (whether this resistance organization It belongs to our crotch, which is not mentioned in the video).
She is graceful and charming, except that she is a little older and her English is a bit hard, but she can still play such a role of seducing the male protagonist.
She seems to love his gang leader husband, and is willing to take his brethren to avenge his father's killing of a Japanese engineer (of course, every time he leaves by himself, the brethren are almost dead). At the same time, I will do everything possible to create opportunities for the protagonist to get closer to his own life, so that he can disrupt his plans every time, and fall in love with the protagonist more deeply after each plan is disrupted. Of course, this love has nothing to do with the love for her husband, and sometimes it is allowed by the screenwriter to love two people at the same time.
Chief:
Chief is the standard villain, you know every spy movie has a big villain. But we're not seeing diabolical, hysterical villains. He's not an elegant, ruthless villain on the outside. Personally, I think Da Zuo is a person who is gentle, troubled by love, mother-in-law, and unbearable to use. Why do you say that? There will be a clear explanation later, I just wonder, how can the person in charge of the Japanese military's intelligence management agency in Shanghai have such a chaotic position?
Connor:
Connor died as soon as he came on the scene, and there was basically no positive description (except for his coffin). For his description, apart from the murder that killed it, all we know is that he is a naval officer with a sense of justice, blood, responsibility and responsibility as described in the protagonist's memories. It was he who encouraged the protagonist to become a spy with him. Of course, his method of death is to come out of his mistress's house and be physically destroyed by an unknown person.
Connor's Mistress:
It's true, but not accurate, that she is Connor's mistress. She's Connor's mistress and the big boss's mistress, she's a big smoker, and she's where the whole movie puzzles itself. she is a key of this film. But in order to create suspense, this woman only appeared in two scenes. We've only heard of her and never seen her, and her every appearance heralds a great deal of death.
The story goes like this:
After talking about the main characters, I think everyone can understand the story now. In fact, the story is about a spy under cover as a reporter who came to Shanghai from Europe to spend Christmas with his friend Connor, who found Connor dead at the door of his mistress's house. In order to complete Connor's legacy, he began to track down the whereabouts of Connor's mistress, hoping to find something. In the process, she meets Mrs Lanting and discovers that this woman has a very complicated background. She kills the Japanese while her husband works for the Japanese and the Germans, the point is that she loves her husband and probably loves him too. The Japanese spy chief, who had a working relationship with her husband, was very suspicious of the woman, thinking she was the leader of an underground resistance organization.
In such a process of covering and being covered, the protagonist discovered that several Japanese warships parked outside Husongkou had disappeared, and at the same time discovered a few torpedoes sold by the Germans to the Japanese. He thought it was unusual and thought Connor had found the secret and needed to find her mistress to confirm it.
In the end, we found that the underground resistance group led by Mrs Lanting had somehow become the protector of Connor's mistress. After a series of follow-ups, the protagonist, Mrs Lanting and Da Zuo found this girl at the same time, at this time she had been tortured to death by opium addiction. However, the chief said: "What do you think you can know from her mouth? I just knew that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, she can't know!" "Then why did you kill Connor?" the protagonist asked. Da Zuo replied: "Just because I found out that she was having an affair with someone else, and after following her, I found your friend walking out of her room, and I killed him because of my anger and wickedness. "
Speaking of this, we know that everything is a misunderstanding, and everything is just an adultery. Therefore, other people's wives can't sleep casually, otherwise they will take their own lives and waste other people's time and money, especially those of us who watch movies.
In the end, the chief wanted to take Mrs Lanting away, but Mr Lanting came to escort him and had a fire with the chief. Finally, the chief fell to the ground, and Lanting was shot and died. Before he died, he asked the protagonist to take his wife away from Shanghai.
Therefore, at the end of the story, Shanghai Beach, which was reduced to an isolated island, finally broke out the Songhu War of Resistance after the Pearl Harbor Incident. On such a war-torn night, the protagonist did not bring any documents, and escaped from Shanghai with the leader of the underground resistance organization in the rampage of the Japanese soldiers, under the selective blindness of the chief. The whole story ends.
My questions:
1. What is the spy in this film trying to track down? How could her mistress know the information that even the Colonel didn't know? Usually the spies' attack will be accompanied by very conclusive signs of the surrounding before they are tracked down.
2. Mr. Lanting, since he was fighting with Da Zuo, why didn't he kill him? If it is said that he was injured and unable to start, why did the protagonist not kill him? Is it because of sympathy for him that he was given a green hat by his good friend?
3. Since the Chief is not dead, why did he selectively blind the protagonist and Mrs Lanting to let him go since he arrived at the dock? Logically speaking, the first is the enemy of the empire, which must be eradicated, and the second is knowing that he is wearing a cuckold and must also be eradicated. Neither public nor private should let them go, right?
4. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred in 1941, and the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in the 318 Songhu War of Resistance against Japan occurred in 1937. Why is the attack on Pearl Harbor in the film first, and then the Japanese capture of Shanghai?
Summary:
If every bad film I've seen has 1-2 points of merit, then this film has none at all! thanks
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