like on pins and needles

Through this film, the Darney brothers can almost hold their heads high and tell the world that they are the absolute masters of rendering emotions with images, and they have reached the pinnacle of excellence. The Darney Brothers' handheld DV photography has already demonstrated its power in "Rosetta", with a large number of close-up shots, close-ups of faces and body movements, and documentary-like recording and display of the characters' life details. , it is easy to bring the audience into the life and state of the character, experience with the character, breathe together, cry together, and despair together. And this "Son of Others" is more self-reliant on this basis, the camera almost hits the face, the carpenter's work process and methods are shown in a lot of truth, and the core contradiction of the story is revealed in the middle of the film, the first half of the film is revealed. The film is almost entirely propped up by Oliver Gourmay himself, with his incredible facial acting ability and ambiguous plot guaranteeing the film's looming suspenseful color.

From the start of the carpenter Olivier's stunned expression and instantly frozen posture when he saw the list of apprentices who signed up, and his behavior of waking up Francis after he quietly walked to the sleeping apprentice Francis and stared for a long time, all conveyed to the audience. Judging by the unusual relationship between the two, and when Francis woke up and saw Olivier without showing any strangeness, it was clear that Olivier knew the boy, but the boy did not. From this point on, what is the relationship between them and what is the past has become the most compelling core point of the film. In the process of teaching apprentices, Olivier always looked at Francis with strange eyes, but his teaching attitude remained absolutely serious and rigorous. And he sometimes even dine with Francis and had a small chat, which was different from his attitude towards other apprentices. It was not until he had a conversation with his ex-wife that we learned the truth. Francis was the murderer of their children. Now that he was released from prison, he came to Olivier to learn his craft. So, what exactly is Olivier going to do? He always carefully taught Francis without revealing any information. He even stopped his ex-wife wanting to confront Francis face-to-face. What is Olivier trying to do? No one knows, this is the biggest suspense, and it also makes the tension of the story reach its peak in an instant, making people feel on pins and needles. In a film with almost no story, just shots and acting, it's amazing to be able to achieve so much emotional tension. Olivier kept asking Francis why he was in jail in the car, and Francis confessed that he had been murdered because he was caught stealing the car stereo. Oliver asked him if he regretted it, and Francis said of course, for which he spent five years in prison. Francis answered all of Olivier's questions, what's next for Olivier? When Olivier gave Francis the wood test in the warehouse, he kept watching him from behind Francis, would he kill him, he could easily succeed in a sneak attack now, think about how he has been doing crunches at home all the time. , It seems that it is precisely for this moment that such plot brain supplements keep appearing in my mind, and all the tension in the film comes from the audience themselves. We're here with Olivier, we've become him, we're making choices for him, we don't know what he wants to do, but we know what he should do. When he finally said you killed my son, the two started a chase, Olivier finally grabbed Francis by the neck, but let go, he didn't kill Francis, maybe he didn't even know he was What to do, the complexity of human nature often can't even understand itself. In the end, the two embarrassedly carried the wood into the car, and all the revenge plots that we had made up for in the dark or bloody were not released. When he was born, Olivier reverted to the image of a serious master, and Francis became an obedient apprentice. The Darney Brothers' formal anti-climax film is actually a cranial orgasm throughout.