A mediocre work that has been overly deified by film clients

Verda 2022-03-19 09:01:02

Yesterday I finally went to the cinema to watch this "Inception" which was praised as a "magic work" by almost everyone in a short period of time. I admit that in the process of watching the movie, I was indeed very involved, following the protagonist in the maze of dreams. I'm just a movie fan, not a professional film critic. I don't go to the movies to find trouble. It's too exhausting.

The two-and-a-half-hour "Inception" has a compact plot, which makes the audience feel dazzled from beginning to end. This feeling is like riding a roller coaster, which keeps you ups and downs in the highest sense of emotion. Time passed quickly, and it was still hard to calm down until I walked out of the theater. I always feel that it was not in the real world just now. This may be the feeling of most people, and I am the same. After all, I am a normal person.

But this feeling didn't last long. When I realized that I was hungry and I was going to find dinner to fill my stomach, the thought of good food quickly disappeared from the movie.

"Pirates of Dreams" has indeed reached the top level among the movies released in Chinese cinemas, because it is at least very IQ-how rare it is in the movies in the Chinese film market, and the visual effects are even more difficult to say. But this is only as a criterion for judging a movie that is shown in a movie theater, because as a movie itself, it is actually not that good, at least not so good that it makes me rush to tell.

I don’t want to analyze the details and content of this movie. There are everywhere about whether the final top has stopped, how many layers of dreams are there, how old is the heroine, and how many hairs are there in Leonardo’s nostrils, etc. Waiting for all kinds of so-called analytical articles, and after watching the movie, there are many fans who are trying to prove whether their IQ is beyond the ordinary level. They spare no effort to carry out various detailed researches, and they want to deepen the director's subconscious mind. The contents are all dug out of ancestral graves. But is this interesting?

The plot of "Inception" is not complicated and difficult to understand. Although it is a dream set with dreams, each dream has iconic scenes. You will not confuse dreams with dreams and dreams with reality. The plot is basically the same from beginning to end. It's fluent, and you can almost understand it with linear thinking. Moreover, it is enough to have an understanding of the plot. Do you really use it as Goldbach’s conjecture to verify it?

But here comes the question, except for the plot, do you remember the characters? When the creators weave the plot like an equation to be extremely complicated, the characters as the core of the art become appendages, or just pieces on the plot board. They have no personality and are basically neglected. You can say that the protagonist Cobb is a character, but as a husband, he is a husband who loves his wife, and as a father, he is a father who loves his children. This is very good and exemplary, but where is his personality? Without personality, how do you remember him?

After all, a movie is a movie. It is an entertainment or art. It is not a math, physics, or chemistry problem. What I call a mediocre work is because "Inception" does not let you remember the characters in it. No matter how complicated and tangled the plot is, I bet you won’t remember at most three months later. Think about it, in the once smashing "Avatar", what else can you remember except the blue-faced person?

A good movie will use the plot to create a unique and unique movie character, allowing you to remember him for a long time. Like the protagonist in "Shawshank Redemption", in normal logical thinking, it is actually difficult to accept a prison escape. This is the uniqueness of the protagonist, but the director can use the movie to make you accept this unique character, and Let you remember him for a long time, this is the quality that a really good director and film should have, and talent is the core.

Of course, I didn't say that we must look at this commercial blockbuster from a serious and orthodox perspective. All characters and plots are all in vain. Let's make an analogy. Movies are simply the entertainment industry, or the service industry. But the service industry should also have different categories, right? It cannot be required by the same standard. The uncle who makes biscuits and fried dough sticks downstairs in your house, you can't ask him for the standards of a five-star chef, but you can still feel delicious.

The same goes for movies. The movies played in the cinema give sensory excitement and the pursuit of monetary benefits. This is like a lady in a brothel, making you feel refreshed. But what happens after it's cool? How long can you remember her? Even if she is the oiran in the brothel, she is dazzling in the brothel, and men are rushing to it, but what about leaving the brothel? She may not be outstanding as a woman herself. So I admit the status of this oiran in the brothel, and the enthusiasm of the clients, but nothing more, leave the brothel, you will soon forget her, because you have a favorite girl in your heart, that girl may look more beautiful than the oiran It's much worse. But what an oiran gives you is sensory stimulation, and what the beloved girl gives you is spiritual comfort, which has nothing to do with the woman herself.

Therefore, the preference for movies should be a very personal issue. The green carrots have their own loves. There is nothing to force. It’s just that there are too many people around me who have been scratched to the G point by Inception. As long as they are mentioned, it seems to have reached a climax immediately. I think Chinese movie fans have no pursuit like this, and they will not use their own brains to think about problems, or they are thinking about whether the top has stopped in the end, such as self-confident mentally retarded problems. People say that this is the most terrible thing. When others say touching, you will cry, and when others say HIGH, you will have an orgasm.

When I went to the movie theater to watch "Tangshan Earthquake", an idiot woman sitting next to her, the movie hadn't even started, and the advertisement was on, she pretended to say, "Oh, when I entered the theater, I wanted to cry." I wanted to turn my head and curse, cry, cry your grandma is a bear! What's so crying about ads?

So in the end, I hope everyone can keep a clear mind after the orgasm in the movie theater, to judge their likes and dislikes, and to think about problems from their own standpoint, otherwise you are really just a clientele. Of course, being a prostitute is also very good. If you are willing, I will raise your hands to support your right to be a prostitute, but also please support my right to think this movie is mediocre.

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Inception quotes

  • Eames: Great. Thank you. So, now we're trapped in Fischer's mind battling his own private army, and if we get killed, we'll be lost in limbo till our brains turn to scrambled egg.

  • Arthur: And you! You knew about this and went along with it!

    Yusuf: I trusted him!

    Arthur: You trusted him! What, when he promised you half his share?

    Yusuf: No, his whole share. Besides he said he'd done it before.

    Arthur: You've done it before? What, with Mal? 'Cause that worked so good!

    Cobb: That has nothing to do with it. I did what I had to do to get back to my children.