I think the performance of this film is remarkable in all aspects, but I don't know why the overall effect is not harmonious.
I won't say much about the fight scene. It's very good. There is a certain creativity in this style of play, and it also has a real sense of punching to the flesh. The heroine's struggle reasonably reflects her physical weakness as a woman, and at the same time uses moderate skills. make up.
In terms of atmosphere, the color of music clothing has its own style. It's okay to take it out alone, the aesthetics are all online, but it's embarrassing to put together. I mean mashups can be beautiful or awkward, and this movie is the latter. The main problem I think is that the modern elements are too modern, mixed with the East German environment, and they are seriously disjointed, and they do not bring out the cold and hot strange political atmosphere before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Obviously the film is aimed at this point, but it just didn't achieve the effect. For example, the heroine makes ice cubes and the fireworks carnival when the wall falls. I don't mean that you can't use modern elements, but use the ones that can achieve the effect. I have no problem with what brand the heroine wears, but she can't be completely irrelevant to the atmosphere of the 1980s.
story plot. The story itself is a bit too blank. Just like an ink painting, freehand white space is a very high-end technique, but there are also black and white ratios. Once the white space is excessive, the painting is broken. This film put a lot of energy into fighting scenes, and the literary drama is actually very complicated, and I have no time to explain it, so I am crazy and anxious to end it and reveal the secret. Of course, I don't have time to worry about the loose ends of the minutiae, such as the fake MI6 real CIA assistant brother and the watch dealer, what happened to the two CIA gods who have no skills and explode the watch, just explain their cia status and it's over, it's just people There is no reason why it is so superb, right? And when East Germany was so awesome, it actually got the full list of spies from the Three Kingdoms that the United States and the Soviet Union did not have during the Cold War, so daring is also a hard setting, and the audience only needs to be responsible for accepting it. . .
As for such details, if I approve of artistic expressions such as style expression, I will automatically ignore them, because after all, film is an art, you are creative, and details can be ignored if necessary, but this one The overall dissonance of the film has been bugged to me, so I can't accept it.
I still find this storyline a shame. The director should clearly confirm his position, because he not only tried to capture the coldness of the political background, but also added philosophical attributes: for example, to highlight the suffering of the common people under the three-way power game, but also through Yimei's "frontline fighter" perspective. Strengthened, but also used a lot of visual elements with exaggerated language of comics, which lowered the sense of reality. The two paths could have supported each other, but the actual effect was to drag each other back. Under the capacity of this film length, the director should only choose one way to go to the end. Either simply exaggerate, or simply real.
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