The age of elegance is over

Giuseppe 2021-10-20 17:27:35

The beginning of the film quickly brought people into that era.

Simple subtitles.

prison Break. They escaped so easily, they have the strongest firepower, they got into a toast-like car, and they kicked away the impulsive and rude people. This is the chaotic era of the Great Depression, and a mob of gentlemen.

On one side, Bell was kneeling on one knee like a nobleman practicing shooting, sniping the fugitive; on the other side, he deployed a meticulous and unhurried bank robbery, for a small amount of tens of thousands of dollars.

After the three-stage play came down, a word came to mind, decent.

Johnny Depp is the only protagonist. I saw film critics saying that his expression was too single. I think his expression is just right. Without Captain Jack's glib tongue and exaggerated body language, his grace and calmness from the beginning of a sluggish world to the vacant struggle that was abandoned by the times seems to be from the corners of his slightly opened mouth, raised eyebrows and stubborn strands of forehead. Flow out. The film uses a lot of close-up close-ups to capture subtle expressions. The introverted expression of emotion is the style of the gentleman of that era.

It is the age that has abandoned elegance. Bell was forced to accept torture to extract a confession, and Depp had to work with people he didn't like and take jobs that he didn't like. They have both called the wind and the rain, but they are so pale and helpless to face the times.

This is a nostalgic movie. It has no stunning visual effects, no twists and turns, and no thought-provoking philosophy. It only has nostalgia. Therefore, it cannot be a good work accepted by everyone, but it is still a good work.

With a very unique sense of reality, it shows us who are also in the Great Depression today with different elegance from that era.

The photography of this film is very special. Many lenses choose to be handheld and shake slightly, which involuntarily think of "Dog Town" in the same darkness. The sound effect is also very special, as if all the noise in the environment was recorded without post-sculpting. This kind of treatment makes people feel that this is not a movie from time to time, but a cheap TV movie or documentary. I used two specials, just don't want to criticize it too directly. After all, the intention of shooting in this way is understandable, but at least for me it does not increase any sense of substitution or realism. Depp's face is staged, and I think documentary shooting is not appropriate.

bye bye, black bird

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Extended Reading
  • Martine 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    Well, this guy is awesome.

  • Dandre 2022-03-24 09:01:21

    On June 19th, 21:00, Shanghai Studios No. 1 Hall.

Public Enemies quotes

  • [Purvis and Baum are listening in on a wiretapped call]

    Agent Carter Baum: This is a phone conversation from a car dealership twenty-seven minutes ago. Harry Berman.

    [He pushes down the needle to play back an acetate disk]

    John Dillinger's voice: When you drop it, leave the keys on the floorboard.

    Harry Berman's voice: I got a DeSoto.

    John Dillinger's voice: Okay.

    [Purvis takes off his headphones]

    Melvin Purvis: How did we get to Berman?

    Agent Carter Baum: Off the Dillinger coat. The coat was bought in Cicero, Illinois, a few doors down from Berman's dealership. Now we know Berman. He's been supplying cars to the Syndicate since Capone. When Dillinger bought that coat, he must've been at Berman's switching cars.

    Melvin Purvis: Soon as they call to drop the DeSoto, we'll tail it. I want men on this, around the clock.

  • [Hoover is at a Senate Appropriation Committee hearing]

    Senator Kenneth McKellar: Why do we need this?

    J. Edgar Hoover: Because criminals flee in fast automobiles across state lines, thereby defeating local jurisdiction because there is no federal police force to stop them.

    Senator Kenneth McKellar: By my tally, your bureau wants to spend more taxpayer's dollars catching crooks, than what the crooks you catch stole in the first place.

    J. Edgar Hoover: Well that's ridiculous. The Bureau has apprehended kidnappers and bank robbers who have stolen up to and in excess of...

    Senator Kenneth McKellar: Really?

    [Hoover stops midsentence]

    Senator Kenneth McKellar: How many have you apprehended?

    J. Edgar Hoover: We have arrested and arraigned 213 wanted felons.

    Senator Kenneth McKellar: No, I mean *you*, Director Hoover.

    J. Edgar Hoover: Well, as Director, I administer.

    Senator Kenneth McKellar: How many have you arrested, personally?

    [long pause as Hoover stares at McKellar]

    J. Edgar Hoover: I have never arrested anybody.

    [Other men in the chamber gasp in shock]

    Senator Kenneth McKellar: You've never arrested anybody?

    J. Edgar Hoover: Well of course not. I'm an administrator...

    Senator Kenneth McKellar: With no field experience. You are shockingly unqualified, aren't you, sir? You have never personally conducted a criminal investigation in the field in your life. I think you're a front. I think your prowess as a lawman is a myth, created from the hoopla of headlines by Mr. Suydam, your publicist there. Crimebuster? G-Man? You're setting yourself up as a Czar? That's running wild in my estimation.

    J. Edgar Hoover: A *crime* is what runs wild...

    Senator Kenneth McKellar: If this country requires a bureau such as yours, I question whether you are the person fit to run it.

    J. Edgar Hoover: [getting angry] Well I will not be judged by a kangaroo court of venal politicians...

    Senator Kenneth McKellar: Your appropriation increase is denied.

    [taps his gavel, signifying the end of the session; Hoover and his aides get up and leave]

    J. Edgar Hoover: Feed the following to Walter Winchell: "McKellar is a Neanderthal, and he is on a personal vendetta to destroy me." We will not contest him in his committee. We need to fight him on the front page. Where's John Dillinger?