Every country needs a "Standing Man" Every country needs to have its own theme, and the banner of the theme of the United States, it is more appropriate to be waved by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hansk. Starting with "Saving Private Ryan" in 1998, the world has seen what the American spirit is. What was saved was not just a soldier, but a country's commitment to a family and a mother. The process is caring for human nature, respecting life, and infinitely magnifying the responsibility of every ordinary family. In 2015, director Spielberg returned with this "Bridge of Spy", his old partner Tom. Starring Hanks, co-writer of the Coen Brothers. This Cold War theme film is no longer just about right and wrong under the war, but the really difficult part after the war-abiding by the constitution. This theme is still not old and will last for a long time, because it is the main theme of the founding of the United States. Director Spielberg said that when he saw this real event for the first time, he thought it should be a movie. In 1957, Donovan, a well-known commercial insurance lawyer, accepted the government's job of helping a Soviet spy to defend. He did not expect that he did his job well and prevented the Soviet spy from being sent to the electric chair. Instead, he was sentenced. Served 30 years in prison. Soon, in 1960, a new US reconnaissance plane was shot down by the Soviet army during a secret mission. Attorney Donovan became a hostage exchange negotiator and was drawn into the center of the Cold War storm. In 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union exchanged with the captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel on the Glinik Bridge in East Germany in 1962. Not only the pilot of the U.S. reconnaissance plane, Gary Powers, but also the American student Frederic detained by the Germans. Pryor. Although the film is called "Bridge of Spy", it is not a spy film, and its content is more biased towards biopics based on real stories. The title of this film clarifies the standpoint. The story emphasizes the event itself, rather than deliberately creating a hero. The reason why this character is great is that he can stand alone on that lonely bridge and face the silent battlefield. He is not a person, not just a lawyer. He represents the Constitution of the United States and represents In the American spirit of respecting human rights. This is his own job and his principle of life. During the Cold War, it seemed that there was no war, but it was still an armament war between the Soviet Union and the United States. The most important thing in this war without gunpowder is information. Under such a prerequisite, the secret service agencies of the two countries are bound to invade, monitor, and rob all resources and technology without blame. In contrast, Donovan, a lawyer of British descent, started to run his own law firm after the war. With his own skills and reputation in the industry, he used the law to maintain the operation of the national system and society. The spy agency and the legal system are like the two levels of yin and yang. The contrast between light and dark must coexist and influence each other. In this way, the relationship between one and the other is just like what the master brother said in "The Great Master", if you do something wrong with face, you will have to go back and kill a few people. And the story in this film is like, if something goes wrong in the inside, face has to go to mediation all around for perfection. In order to avoid making this representative of justice who adhere to the law appear too preaching and labeling, the film has put a lot of effort in the plot design and character dialogue. (Because it is a real historical event, it doesn't matter whether it is spoiled or not, the following content is mentioned slightly) First of all, the two lines of the plot line merge. Tom. Donovan, a lawyer played by Hansk, is a leader in the industry, a defender of the law, and a benchmark figure in the country, but more importantly, he is the father of a family. This is the most important part of a character's image that has flesh and blood and a foothold. A person who is responsible for his own family and protects his wife and children is the fundamental starting point of all humanity. So from the beginning of the film, Donovan accepted the job of defending the Soviet spy Abel, and he faced the problem of how to confess with his family. In the process of defense and the commitment of the results, he stood with his family and tried to find the best balance between self-principles and family responsibilities. And when Donovan completed the secret hostage exchange, after the exhausted task, he finally smiled and returned to his door. Even though his wife complained about buying the wrong specialty products and was ignored by the children who were busy watching TV, he was at ease, and the only thing he wanted to do was to get a good night's sleep. The film used almost a quarter of the pen and ink to depict the family relationship of lawyer Donovan, from beginning to end, consistently. For this reason, Donovan's first dinner home in the film is very important, and the director and screenwriter's intentions are also demonstrated everywhere. In the scene, the husband and wife insist on whether to accept the different positions of the case, the eldest daughter's stinky face when the appointment is broken, the younger son is resentful about doing housework, and the younger daughter is unwilling to be reprimanded by her mother for stealing food. At a dining table, a family of five sits together, everything that happens is messy and not chaotic, and it is naturally staged in the limited angle of the camera. In the end, all the assistants in the office came to Donovan to work overtime with Cheng Luo's information, and revealed the culprit for the eldest daughter's missed appointment, and also revealed the fact that Donovan had accepted the case. The scene ended. The embarrassed Donovan hurriedly closed his eyes and lowered his head, and began to pray before the meal. His wife could only cooperate reluctantly and stopped talking. This series of shots and dialogues explain the relationship between the characters and the family in a rich and vivid way, which makes people feel close to the big family at once, and the truth is irrelevant. Each character’s personality is naturally revealed and not pretentious. The overall rhythm is lively and humorous. A family where everyone can express their emotions freely is a truly harmonious family atmosphere. It is this sense of family and father's role that makes Donovan truly represent the support of millions of American families, and makes him more convincing and appealing as a national pillar that adheres to the US Constitution. Not a hollowist or theorist. Everything he did was professional ethics, but also for his family, for his children, and for The future of this country is to avoid war. On the other hand, saving spies in other countries is equivalent to saving spies in one's own country, and also saving the country's crisis, which is equivalent to saving everyone in tens of millions of families. This is what Director Spielberg is good at, and what he likes, the way of telling stories-seeing the big from the small. Second, the black humor outside the speech. The role of lawyer Donovan is indispensable, protecting the Constitution and human rights, and in his words, there is bound to be the promotion of the American spirit. How to neutralize such a sense of the main theme, the film allows lawyer Donovan to have a special professional humor in private outside of work, that is, at home and in non-work settings-"unforgiving tongue". In the film, from the first time lawyer Donovan saw the Soviet spy Abel in prison, he was a serious opening, to the dispute with the trial judge, and finally to the Supreme Court's statement. It is a progressive American law and human rights preaching. Lawyers only work for defenders, and are not affected or coerced by the state and any special agencies. Everyone has the right to be defended, and it is the country's constitution that makes up the United States. To prove our principles to the enemy is to emphasize who we are. Such sentences, Donovan will always throw them out on appropriate occasions, until they are clicked, it is a blow to the heart. As the presiding judge emphasized in the trailer, this is a civilized war. In addition to being conclusive from the lawyer's perspective, Donovan is best at using legal regulations and industry rules to "brute the truth". The explanation of the characters at the beginning of the film begins with his debate with another lawyer. Shengsheng ran into a five-person client in a car accident, and solved the consequences of the five issues with one solution, leaving the other's lawyers at a loss. And this also indicates that Donovan, a lawyer who can say five things into one thing, can also turn one thing into two things, and eventually exchanges a Soviet hostage for two detained Americans. Because he is so sharp, he can always cut important things, leave no room, and not lose face. In the face of negotiations between the Soviets, he would complain about the hostage exchange. The first problem is that the name of your country is really too long. In the face of the officials of the German government, he could calmly say whether he could just abbreviate the name of the Soviet Union in order to save time. In the end, despite the warning from the CIA personnel, he ran to Hilton and ordered two breakfasts to be shocked. The film will talk about humor, in addition to lawyer Donovan, there is also a Soviet spy Abel. The difference is that Abel only has a cold Humorous line: "Is this helpful?" I asked Donovan twice if he was worried about the serious consequences of being sentenced to death, and exchanged with the last hostage, asking him whether he would return to the hands of the Soviets. When life is in danger, Abel's attitude is always, "Is worry useful?" The attitude is both teasing and sharp. As a spy intelligence officer, such worries do not have to be found from the beginning. And the friendship between the two seems a little uninteresting. Will an American lawyer really have a respectful friendship with his defender, a Soviet spy? First of all, the film portrays Abel's character image very well, an intelligence worker who understates life and death, is not afraid, and does not give in. Facing the unrelated Donovan, he never questioned his work as a spy or criticized his moral stance, but tried his best to help him fight for his rights. When Donovan's face was embarrassed, he said that Donovan reminded him of an old friend, a "Standing Man", a person who was tougher on him, the more he resisted and firmed his stand. Between the two of them, facing the pressure of the whole country together, because each adhered to their own principles, they gradually developed a good impression of mutual admiration. Secondly, about the handling of the film. In order not to make the audience boring, this film deliberately did not use too many long shots to make the film exaggerate emotions like an epic blockbuster. After all, the audience is no longer paying for the old sensational bridge. The story relies on the Cold War background and is full of debates and negotiations. How to make the film not dull, it uses several exquisite editing to make the rhythm change just right. About the clever switching of the plot. The first plot change was when the spy Abel was arrested. Attorney Donovan accepted his defense. The two talked for the first time in prison. After they reached an agreement, Abel said in a heartfelt voice, there must be someone in your country now, doing follow-ups in the Soviet Union. Same thing for me. At this time, the close-up of Abel on the right side of the camera dimmed. On the left side of the camera, a close-up of American pilot Gary Powers appeared gradually. For the second time, when the film explained the items that the pilots needed for the mission, the camera turned to all the items that Abel had seized in the United States. The third time as an American pilot Gary Powers was arrested and was unable to sleep under interrogation. After a wake-up sound was heard in the blur, it was Abel, the Soviet spy who was sleeping in a US prison, who woke up in the camera. For the fourth time, when the film went to the second round of court verdict, after a "all stand up", the next shot showed children from elementary school, all stood up, followed the teacher, looked at the American flag, and raised their chests. , Read the declaration together. Processing such as this allows the film to appear every once in a while, a scene that the audience can't imagine is inserted in, a jump narrative, but the connection is extremely appropriate, and it keeps the freshness. Clever reconciliation of the plot. When the lawyer Donovan began to defend the spy Abel, the news was covered with newspaper news, and everyone who read the newspaper in the subway cast doubtful glances at him. At the end of the film review, his deeds of exchanging hostages were also published, and people looked at him admiringly. After arriving in Berlin, Donovan didn't eat the double breakfast at Hilton, but hurriedly rushed to the German official's office. He was catching up with the breakfast table here, but he did not catch up with the two meals, so he was really sad. And finally, he witnessed on the subway in West Berlin. People who fled from East Berlin over the wall at night were shot and killed. He returned to Brooklyn, New York. On the subway, he saw the children looking through the fence freely and fell into a deep depression. meditation. This kind of before-and-after comparison makes the film look more integrated, and everything has cause and effect, and is smooth and coherent. Use humor instead of preaching, and use contrast to bring reflection. Finally, about the shaping of the two characters. The creation of Abel, the Soviet spy, is the beginning of a self-portrait in front of a mirror. The self in the mirror, the self in the painting, and the real self all show the complexity of the characters from different angles. A calm, patient, and leisurely intelligence worker came into view. In contrast, the CIA agent appeared clumsy and weak, which is the Americans letting go of their bullish intelligence services. The image of the CIA in the film is ironic on many occasions. They put interests first, used national security as an excuse, ignored the law, ignored human lives, whether it was the lives of Soviet spies or American college students, lives without interests and intelligence. , It is worthless life. And Abel's calmness in the face of all this is admirable. After the image of the lawyer Donovan was shaped, a person faced the power trampling of a two-person country or even three countries, his own country’s non-support, Germany’s non-cooperation, and the Soviet Union’s non-concession all made him bear more pressure. But until the end, he insisted on using one person in exchange for the original intention of the task of two hostages. No matter it looks Is it reasonable to come? His task is to make things make sense and make things happen. At the end of the film, the people of the two countries left separately and walked to both ends of the bridge. The searchlights went out and everyone left the scene. The back of Donovan standing alone on the bridge, with his feet shoulder-width apart, standing steadily like a capital A with the initials of the United States. The camera turned to the front, from the feet to the shoulders, and gave Donovan a bottom-up frontal close-up. Finally, people had the opportunity to face this man silently, the lawyer who avoided the war and saved three lives. Finally, the camera was pulled to the perspective. In the gap between the staggered steel-framed bridges, Donovan was still standing there at the bottom left of the camera. In such a complicated background and historical stage, he was small, but he was the most solid cornerstone. The core rivet. On this quiet morning, 5: 30 The process of exchanging hostages is far from enough to usher in dawn, and perhaps Donovan, who is still standing alone, knows that dawn is far from coming. But at this time, the soundtrack sounded in the film was a snare drum with a strong sense of harmony. Donovan's battle was a victory, but it was a quiet victory before dawn. The result is encouraging, but it is not yet time to cheer. And the really sensational footage of the film is still to come. After returning home with the excuse of "going to London for salmon fishing", the father of the three children who didn't care about "Returning from Fishing" all watched TV attentively and the news was being broadcast. This morning, the news about the release of the American hostages. The children called to their mother, and when the four finally heard the news broadcaster finally said that the whole thing was done with the assistance of lawyer Donovan, the whole family froze. But the wife couldn't find Donovan everywhere, and finally saw the husband lying on the bed without changing his clothes. He was really dumbfounded. The soothing piano and violin accompaniment came, and a short saxophone melody, accompanied by the morning sun, fell on the bed from the swinging curtains. The peace and serenity moved the audience in a mess. Everyone is the most ordinary little person in life. What makes a small person a big person is just to stick to the law and respect human rights and life consciousness. It's that simple. When you have much heart, your behavior will be multiple. The whole movie is of course the main theme, but it is not tiresome, because it is based on small people and tells big events. Not deliberately exaggerating history, creating epics, and using heavy themes to influence people's hearts, but let us see a real image of a person, a real body to defend the authority of the law, to resolve the crisis of the country, and to save the lives of ordinary people "Standing Man" ". October 28, 2015 Toronto Xiao Xuan Er Ji------------If you like my article,
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