In this era of corruption and feminine men from Japan and South Korea, "Furious" once again proves that there is still a market for pure men. "Furious" is even too pure, and its setting of female characters can make feminists angry.
"Furious" obviously has no intention of guaranteeing its own political correctness. Sometimes it strengthens political incorrectness and achieves a defamiliarization effect, shocking audiences who are comfortable with the routine. The alienation of human nature by war is widespread in the film. Allied forces still commit crimes such as torturing and killing prisoners of war and humiliating women. They are as dehumanized as the Nazis hanging civilians and expropriating children on the battlefield.
If "Furious" can persist such dark temperament and make the audience fall into anger or despair, then it may become a rare and brave work. It’s a pity that it quickly fell into Hollywood clichés, the extremely clumsy so-called love scenes, many times quoted the preaching of the "Bible", and was ridiculed by the audience as the ending of the "anti-German drama"... These clichés are huge and powerful. Wei Aiya's characteristic simple and brutal combat, and the surprises brought about by the actual confrontation between the Tiger and the Sherman tanks, are mostly offset, and the fineness of the work is greatly reduced. The minor details of the dog's blood have also weakened the credibility of the protagonist's character transformation, and the preaching is even more fatal, ruining the tone of the film, because preaching is incompetent.
Perhaps what we should blame is that in this era when war movies are no longer popular, Hollywood has become more and more restrained, or is director David Aiya unable to manage grand narratives?
This is also helpless. Today, when superheroes are flying all over the sky, the appeal of war heroes is not as good as before. Hundreds of millions of dollars are constantly being poured into XX man, they can exchange more dollars, and the profitability of war movies cannot be compared-reality Very cruel, the box office performance of "Furious" in North America and the mainland can be described as mediocre. The US$68 million investment in "Furious" is not a small amount in war films, but it is not even a fraction of "Captain America 2". It can’t support too many big scenes. The 1V4 tank battle is already at its limit. "Furious" only tried its best to show a small group of five people. It didn’t show the clear face of more people. The overall structure is small and universal. The deep theme forms a weird dislocation.
Naturally, the play structure of "Furious" also limits its pattern. In recent Hollywood movies, there are very few examples of such compliance with the trinity. The whole story ended in just one day, so it also inherited the three. The same flaw: the plot is rushed, and the characters can't be three-dimensional.
In addition to trying to see the big from the small, "Furious" also hopes to sublimate the theme with a less reliable literary atmosphere. The protagonist Norman has changed from a weak chicken who resolutely refuses to kill to a "machine" that kills people willingly, and finally encounters it. Just like his own German recruits in the past, the traces of acting are too obvious. "Furious" was suddenly warlike, then anti-war, and vacillating. In the end, it finally painted the path of human nature being alienated by war and then returning to conscience, but the rationality is so doubtful.
Why do you say that? It's not difficult to think about how Laos's "Saving Private Ryan" laid out the plot, how to portray veterans and rookies, and how to embody the theme through the "reasonable" growth of the characters.
Nevertheless, "fury" is always Brad Pitt. Aren't many people watching this movie just for Pete, let alone he showed his flesh for a long time? I have to say that Pete has chosen a cute role for himself. Who is the producer as well? Looking through the films that Pete has produced in recent years, such as "The Tree of Life", "Penalty Kick" and "Twelve Years of a Slave", it is not difficult to find that he is quite smart in choosing films and can do both, even if it is difficult to win an Oscar by acting. , Can still rely on the producer to win the best film award, won't "Twelve Years of Being a Slave" really let Pete really get a golden figure?
Alas, so by the way, I thought of Xiao Li, who was also a male lead and a producer. He just couldn't get it. Oh, Xiao Li doesn't cry, don't cry.
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