I have two kinds of marks for movies, the first is marked as "favorites" and the second is marked as "read". "Two big smoke guns" is the latter. Even if you have seen it, the screenwriter's skill is really good. The director can shoot such a coincidence plot that is almost seamless and it is indeed very powerful, but then?
The four gangsters were set up to owe £500,000 due to lack of greed for gambling. They were threatened to chop their fingers and use the old man’s bar to pay off the debt. It caused a melee between the various forces, a bloody wind, a landslide, but the last four people gathered in the bar, they felt like "flicking their sleeves and not taking away a cloud." It's not because of their intelligence, or their bravery and decisiveness, but a coincidence of the screenwriter's arrangement.
In my opinion, the plot of this movie is far from the state of ingenuity. All the plots and settings are like a ruler measured step by step. Like a relay race, you can only move on with the baton of your teammates. And because of this, the traces of man-made chiseling are particularly obvious. The point is that what I see is just a Higher Power in charge of all the rhythm and progress. In order to show his rhythm control skills, the director seems to be too hard.
In real life, even if you believe in the existence of God, God will not set your life with such careful arrangements, and even if he sets it in this way, he will not let you observe it. Movies and real life can't find the right intersection, and they can't resonate emotionally. The most appropriate comment is "a very coincidental story", and that's it.
Whether it is the now-famous and fortune-telling director or other directors who are struggling, their debut works basically have a similarity, that is, the scars are too serious, which shows that the description and grasp of the characters is far more than the logic of the story. It’s more difficult to coordinate with the rhythm, but in terms of storytelling ability, domestic directors are still struggling on the poverty line of "how to straighten out the story logic". The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard.
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