The translation of Chinese film titles is not accurate. It is not a spy film about "secret dens". It is actually a movie about marriage and family. It is similar to "Marriage Story" (2019). In the bubble, when it may even fall into the abyss, only the family can drag people back to reality.
The Nest refers to "home", but the definition of home may be different for everyone. Does it mean a big house and a glamorous life, or just the family around you?
In life, you often encounter a class of people. They live in luxury houses, drive luxury cars, use luxury goods, and talk about lofty ideals and personal achievements. However, after understanding them, you may find that the house is rented and the car is rented. It's still repaying, there is not much left in the account, and the experience is all bragging. . . Some people will consume before they have it and become debtors; some people will choose to be down-to-earth and consume according to their own ability. There are indeed many ways to live in life, and there is no real right or wrong. It's just that if you get married and have children, if you can't do what you can, it's not just yourself, but your family as well.
When the film's leading actor comes on stage, he gives the impression of a successful career and a happy family. Especially when he returned home with his whole family in clothes, bought a big house (actually rented, and spent all his savings), let his children go to the best school, and bought a fur coat and a horse for his wife. Everyone around him thinks that he is a successful person and his career is in full swing. However, after moving back home, everything changed.
The advantage of this film is that it creates an atmosphere of suspense at the beginning, giving people an illusion, as if there is a problem with the house they live in, or there is an evil force, and the family is starting to become wrong. Later, people gradually realized that, in fact, all this is because they are living a life that is not their own, living in a big house but can't even pay the phone bill, all the promises of the male protagonist have not been realized, everything It's all an illusion created by him.
This is also the biggest difference between this film and family movies like "Marriage Story". It starts to make people feel like a suspenseful and horror film, but in fact, the most scary is not that gods are not ghosts, but the most realistic content in life: poverty.
The film takes the audience to follow this family to understand what exciting wealth is, and then go through the cruel process of piercing the lies and seeing the reality clearly, as if they have had a dream. After waking up, although they feel lost, they are also conscious. What is the most important.
The ending is very evocative. After all the beautiful ideals are disillusioned, only the wife and children are still there. Is this a tragedy for the male protagonist who has always been difficult to satisfy?
Jude Law's performance in the film is worthy of attention. He is very suitable for this role. He performed the protagonist's eloquent, high-spirited, personal charm, but also showed his paranoia, likes to live in his own ideals, and showed his frustration and hysteria when he was hit. It is really the best performance in recent years. Carrie Coon, who played his wife, previously played the younger sister of #Ben Affleck# in "Gone Girl", and she also has a wonderful performance in this film.
This film will resonate with many people, because there are so many people who live like this, especially in the financial and business circles. Many people often have to package themselves as "rich people" like the male protagonist in order to do business. They must learn Bragging is the only way to attract customers. Such a person may be very successful in his career, but if he becomes a marriage partner, he will always feel unreliable and difficult to distinguish between false and true. In the end, even his wife can't bear him to continue to lie and brag.
Whether to pretend to be rich or to live a life of truth from facts, both men and women will have a lot of thinking after watching this film.
The disadvantage is that the rhythm of individual passages is slow, especially the wife's certain behaviors feel incredible. On the whole, it lacks the bright, vivid and direct characteristics of "Marriage Story", which is slightly dull.
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