"Chicago" Review

Madelyn 2022-03-18 09:01:03

This film shows the feasting Chicago in the 1920s vividly, with rich three-dimensional characters, wonderful song and dance performances, reversal plots, and satirical details are the highlights of this play. Lawyer Flynn's testimony to Roxie made Roxie more eye-catching. The more dramatic the story, the more in line with the public's opinion. The real facts have been ignored, and the dramatic plot is what the media favors. At the same time, the lawyer's method is even more admirable. Roxie's diary is a reversal climax. Let Velcro report this diary to kill two birds with one stone, and rescue Roxie and Velcro at the same time. But the tribute to this process is money? Money can buy "mama" in prison, $100 a phone call, $5,000 can win lawyer Flynn's defense. This drama reflects the social status quo at that time, so why not now. Money comes first, entertainment to death, we are like the spectators in the ups and downs and the protagonists. The most ironic thing in the movie is that the newspapers had already printed "innocent" and "guilty" newspapers before the results of the Lockhey trial came out. What is even more ironic is that when Lockheed ended the trial and was eager to become famous, she was no longer the focus of society and the darling of the media. Attorney Flynn looked at her and said with a smile: "In Chicago, kid, you can't beat the fresh blood on the walls".

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Extended Reading
  • Tiana 2022-03-23 09:01:30

    The Cell Block Tango six-person tango and the marionette We Both Reached For The Gun are really great!

  • Martina 2022-03-22 09:01:25

    [A+] That's all I can say, I have absolutely no resistance to this kind of "movie" movie. Before watching this film, I had no idea that "singing and dancing" could be perfectly integrated into the film narrative in such a seamless form. The surreal part composed of songs and dances complements the realistic part of the film. With the feasting stage set and lighting settings, as well as rapid montage editing, each song and dance is full of full expression and spicy irony. In terms of the expressiveness of audio-visual language alone, the Oscar for Best Picture deserves its name. The core of the story is also absurd to the extreme. It can be said that "good people don't live long, bad guys live for thousands of years". In my heart, it surpassed "Singing in the Rain" as the best musical in film history.

Chicago quotes

  • Velma Kelly: Oh, you're gonna see your sheba do the shimmy-shake... And all that jazz. Oh, she's gonna shimmy till her garters break... And all that jazz. Show her where to park her girdle. Oh, her mother's blood'll curdle if she'd hear her baby's queer for All that jazz...

  • Roxie Hart: [singing] Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes we both, oh yes we both, oh yes we both reached for the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun. Oh, yes, we both reached for the gun, for the gun.