Perfect without theme

Daphnee 2022-03-21 09:01:03

This is a movie that I watched a few years ago, and it seemed that it had only an ordinary post-view evaluation back then. Recently, a colleague heard about my evaluation, and the reaction was very strong, wondering how I would have a dull reaction to such a good film. But I almost forgot the story. So today the movie club in the company replayed this film, and I watched it with the past.

Full score for imagination, full score for special effects, full score for funny, full score for the protagonist's image, full score for visual effects... Overall, it is not possible to score a full score, because at the end it must be said that "Love" is the secret to saving the world. If this is a movie about "love", then you can't help but say that it is a bit hollow and "cheap". But if this is just a comedy where heroes save the world, then it can be regarded as one of the best hero movies I have ever seen. It's been perfect from the beginning, but the last few minutes are a bit of a dog.

Of course we will like good movies with profound themes, but its inverse proposition does not hold. Good movies do not necessarily require profound themes. Just like the heroine, she was still "Perfect" when she never knew how to love.

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The Fifth Element quotes

  • Zorg: I hate warriors, too narrow-minded. I'll tell you what I do like though: a killer, a dyed-in-the-wool killer. Cold blooded, clean, methodical and thorough. Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, would've immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun.

    [Scene shifts to Aknot, who is staring in confusion at the little red button. He shrugs and pushes it]

    Zorg: [Casually smokes a cigarette as the room with the Mangalores blows up] Bring me the priest.

  • President Lindberg: [phone call from President to Korben Dallas] Major Dallas, I first would like to salute a warrior, you are a shining example of this Army's might, in the name of the Federation and it's territory...

    Korben Dallas: Mr. President, Mr. President, any idea when you gonna be getting to the point?

    President Lindberg: O.K. There's a ball of fire, it's 1200 miles in diameter headin straight for Earth, and we have no idea how to stop it. *That's* the problem.

    Korben Dallas: [sighs] How long do we have?

    Scientist's Aide: [off the President's look] If its speed remains constant, in an hour and fifty-seven minutes.

    Korben Dallas: I'll call you back in two hours.