If you do not agree with this point, you can secret me or open another post for discussion. If you agree, then we go down.
The second step is: What is the main theme (or main line) of this film?
Option A: This is a romance film, which shows the lingering and miserable love of the two people...
Option B: This film shows the fate of Benjamin Button's life... A reminder to cherish life and so on...
Choose A Please skip here.
Different people see different things in the same film. For example, I watched "Born Murderer" as a romantic movie, so I saw Mererley cut his palm and hold Mickey's together, then swore an oath, and then the white gauze fell. I thought it was beautiful. I also saw "Cape No. 7" not as a romance film but as a life film, so I saw the local customs and the cute little people, and I thought it was very beautiful. And if "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a romance, I can only see a mediocre love story.
First of all, personal preference, unhappy with the heroine. In any case, a woman must have the ability to make a man love for life, no matter whether she is a childhood sweetheart or not, or else you and the sow childhood sweetheart will you love you? . Either beauty or gentleness must be exceptional. Take A-Gump's beloved Jenny as an analogy. Jenny is beautiful, kind, and more importantly, she has her own spiritual pursuit. And is there Daisy in this film? First, her appearance does not conform to my personal aesthetics. The nose is too long, and I always feel that the actors are ugly when I look at it. The second female protagonist also had a dance pursuit in the early stage, but later in order to show Benjamin's infatuation like Forrest Gump, she chopped it off. So is this a YY dog-blood drama where Wu Chun fell in love with ELLA? Third, in contrast, Daisy is more like the heroine in "Once Upon a Time in America", she is very vase and her personality is vague. To say that this character has a character is Blanchett's own character. Because of Blanchett's acting skills, Daisy is somewhat of a queen aura, but still can't see what attracts the heroine's obsession, so a little loli ran across the garden, and she was trapped in her life? You think you are Yang Guo.
Well, if you just think that Blanchett is beautiful and you can love her for a lifetime for her peerless appearance, then you can ignore the previous paragraph and enter this paragraph. I think the second reason for the mediocre love is Pete's acting skills. Many people say that his acting is inferior to Blanchett because he is already an "old man" who is accustomed to the world in the later period (this point will be discussed later), so he calms down to the point where he leaves without a trace. Daisy had a grudge on Daisy's face and he had no nostalgia in his eyes. When it was time to meet again, Daisy was full of excitement and there was no joy in his eyes. When Daisy said, "You are so young and I'm just an old woman," I was stupefied to see the sneer in Pete's eyes trying to hold back. And when Pete said "I love you, I will love you forever", he couldn't see the slightest sincerity on his face. Instead, there was only the dandy-like ambiguity and self-sustainment of a day in the world.
What makes me inexplicable is the love path of the protagonist. "Childhood" encounter destined little Lori, a must. Then I experienced swimmers and budding girls, but returned and was rejected. After many years of love in the game, they returned and finally accepted. What kind of experience is this? It's actually quite real. Real to the point of passersby. Feel free to find someone to write a love story about anyone, or maybe you will write it like that. So, such an experience is too characteristic. It seems that the screenwriter has spared no effort to turn the protagonist into a passerby, and passersby have become boring. I also want to sigh with emotion, such as: "Oh~ this person will go around in a circle at the end and still be with the person at the beginning~" Oh SHIT, there are so many plots like this. There is no place in this experience that can make me feel and sigh. The only contagious thing is that the two people drift away at the end of the paragraph. It's a pity that when I finally got into the state and prepared the tissues, the male protagonist suddenly turned his face and didn't recognize people. I froze in an instant. Isn't it about love? Don't you love her very much? Shouldn't you have a blurred vision and hesitated, "Dai...Dai...Daisy?" Then you put your head in your hands and made a headache...?
Well, I don't object for the sake of objecting. In the end, the scene of Daisy holding the baby is still contagious, although it is necessary.
But I want to ask all those who choose A, are you only interested in his tragic love for a person who has an unconventional life? Do you only want to see his love story?
My answer is absolute "No!" Those who
choose B can insert here
as an unemployed who has just graduated and was bound by the financial crisis; as a perplexed young man with ideals floating in the sea of reality; as an experience A little woman who has experienced some love, perplexity and pain; as an ordinary fan who appreciates "Zodiac" and "Fight Club"; as a man who believes in Rachel Green’s vision and thinks she chooses It will be An Fan with connotation and acting skills... I'm disappointed.
What I want to see is how such a person who reverses time sees his own life and the lives of others. How does he perceive the ideals and reality in life, how to perceive the rotation and replacement of this world. How to look at the youth and aging of life. Even, how to look at the love and love itself that I missed when I was young.
But the film, completely, completely without performance. Benjamin is an empty-headed guy. There are very few memorable good lines in this film describing someone's life, and there is no single sentence about the timeless "life is a box of chocolate...".
Those who choose B think this film is about life and life. Has this film made you feel new about life? If you are far-fetched and say that you want to cherish your life (TILDA and the male lead have a similar conversation, you have to do what you want to do), you can replace it with any subject, there is no need to use the concept of reverse life. The special persuasiveness of such a concept for "to cherish life" is different from other subjects, which is not reflected in the film at all.
Most people on the Internet feel that the first half is reliable, because there are still descriptions of other aspects of life, and they have expectations for orgasms. But in the second half, the content of the film completely falls into love. OMG! Is there only love in life? Especially for a person with a mental age of 4 or 50, his most important, all his happiness is the happiness of living with a woman? Does he have no job, is he a gangster?
In fact, here comes back to the biggest problem of this movie, is he physically and psychologically opposite? So 4 or 50 years old is when his hormones are strongest and most idiotic. So is he an old man who doesn't care about everything? Oh, I suddenly realized that the opposite direction of psychology and physiology will turn into Pete's stiff and sluggish face!
Therefore, the film's portrayal of the theme of "life" is very weak. Basically, the deeper level has not been touched. It is also related to expectations. I didn't see what I wanted to see, so I only gave a rating. This piece didn't scratch my itch at all.
The starting score is an affirmation of the director's skills.
If you just feel comfortable after watching it, it is more likely that the director's structural experience and plot mode of the film are supporting it. For example, the visual impact brought by the conversion of several consecutive pictures at the end of the film. For example, the scene where Daisy dances under the moon in the middle shows the director's familiarity with the game. Although I decided at this moment that this is a bad movie. Because I think this kind of bridge is very old-fashioned and tasteless. The whole film is not put into the soul, so it floats on the surface.
Don’t just say “I’m crying so this is a good movie.” Everyone’s crying is different. I watched Yangtze River No. 7 and cried. Because I live alone all the year round, I am very moved by Stephen Chow’s nagging "How many times have I told you..." and his son's impatientness; and the scene of Zhou Xingchi going out early and returning to work hard for his son to study at night. In my rebellious middle school days, I must have dismissed it, but now I am very touched. In addition, I don't see a child crying the most, so I feel very worried. I also cried when I saw Alien Space, because I was rebellious since I was a child and had a poor relationship with my parents, so whenever I saw similar lines like "Dad (Mom) don't want me...", I would get wet. But I can't just give "Yangtze River Seven" and "Alien Space" five stars for this. I am not responsible for the film’s market reputation, but I am responsible for my own judgment.
If you think about it a little bit, is there any innovation in this film? (Except for the creative idea that is inverted. In fact, this idea is basically isolated in the film) Is the main theme clear? In fact, the biggest selling point of this film itself is naturally "reverse." But the whole film seems to say, in fact, there is not much difference between the reverse and the normal, and it means to slap one's own mouth. Some experts have said that the most important actor in the interpretation of the concept of "reverse" should be "time", but he has faded out or even been absent from the film. Without grasping the core, it is not surprising that it is tangible and godless.
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