Moscow has fallen 2/Doomsday
Seriously, Russian movies have been very active in recent years,
It seems that I just watched the otherworld a few days ago, I watched a few Gogol last year, and the front part of this movie,
So, I thought it was time to write reviews for these Russian films,
Seeing the feeling, not feeling it.
I don't know how to express it, or the producer doesn't know how to tell the story;
As far as this series of movies is concerned, in terms of role positioning, the role positioning in the front is stronger than this one. At least the heroine is an ordinary person, or a mortal person, because it is not ordinary, she is very tall, the general's daughter,
This role positioning, it is estimated that there will be a sense of identity for the second generation of officials, but the audience is the second generation of officials, after all, is a minority, why is the protagonist not an office worker? Unemployed people? Why not cater to the majority of the audience's sense of identity and substitution?
Why be pretentious? The second generation of the female protagonist, the male protagonist is not human at all.... This kind of setting.... has already departed from the universal values,
As for the second part, which is the one being evaluated now, the male protagonist is not a human being, and the female protagonist is not a normal person, and has super powers; and he carries the air of the second generation of officials; this setting is even more imaginative;
As an audience, I don't mind the openness of Yiwei, but for movies, first of all, the worldview of movie design is divorced from universal values, which is fatal! Deadly enough to make a blockbuster fall directly into a niche movie.
Then let’s talk about the plot. There is also a fatal problem in the setting of the plot, that is, the plot lacks a villain who has been successfully shaped [the villain can be human or not, but it must be successfully shaped]
The villain of this movie is AI, and artificial intelligence can be used as a villain, but it needs preconditions. First, it must match the values of the movie. Second, it must be successful. If these two conditions are met, then this villain can completely drive the plot.
Let's look back at the villain AI in this movie; its mechanism and attributes correspond to the bits and pieces of the people's lives in the universal values; but it does not directly correspond to the high values shaped by the movie;
As a movie with the daughter of a general as the protagonist, then its villain should not be AI, it can be the president's second aunt, or the interest group behind the secretary of defense. ; Can deduce a wonderful plot trend, if the villain insists on AI, then I think your protagonist should at least be an IT engineer, right? Or a role position that should be directly or indirectly affected by artificial intelligence; I can say that there are many protagonists who meet AI as villains, maybe tens of thousands, but it is precisely the second generation of officials who are the most mismatched, and The screenwriter of the film chose precisely this role positioning;
In other words, what is the reason for a second-generation official to solve artificial intelligence problems? Because of her best friend? Because of family? Because of willfulness? Because I want to do whatever.... I can, but the movie doesn't explain it directly, but I can understand indirectly, the reason why the protagonist wipes the AI's ass, 1, it is the boyfriend's spaceship, 2, save all mankind . This kind of setting is not helpful for shaping the character!
It's like when someone asks you "Dude, what are we having for lunch?"
You answer "I can pull it out at night"
Your answer is equivalent to nonsense, and it will make others disgusted, but in the movie, the plot is used to talk nonsense with you. As an audience, you can't bear it! Save all mankind! Your character is so great! But you are playing the second generation of the official, not Jesus.
So in this setting of the movie environment, the characters can be said to be overhead in the story. This hurt, it's tough.
Then let's talk about the plot line, the bright line and the dark line;
When we are watching a movie, sometimes we are deeply brought into the plot and follow the plot, which is nothing more than saying that the audience needs to capture the plot line, including the bright line and the dark line;
In the process of film narration, the expression of the open line is the test of strength. [Recently, many movies have dismantled the plot and then randomly made up and mixed the narrative. This is a very bad atmosphere, because it wants to cover up the lack of strength of the open line narration.]
In the film narrative process, the expression of dark lines tests the control of details and the power of control.
There are many, many examples of this;
In "The Pianist", there is an old lady who holds a missing person notice and asks, "Have you seen my son? He is 8 years old..." And this old lady who plays tricks, before and after. It appeared no less than 3 times. This is a dark expression in the pianist's film, and it is also a foreshadowing. This role is very helpful to the depiction of the era environment and era characteristics of the war era. The same lines that appear repeatedly do not feel at all in the plot. Abrupt, this is the so-called control.
Game "The Last of Us"
Among them, the heroine Ellie, the "cold joke" that has been shown off many times is an expression of a dark line. In fact, many players are not only disgusted, but will like it very much. At the same time, in the Doomsday game expansion film, the predecessor of this cold joke is also explained very clearly and thoroughly. The shaping of Ellie's image can be said to be the finishing touch. Of course, Sister Millie, the chief planner of the plot of Doomsday in America He has already resigned, and the recent Doomsday 2... was scolded as a dog by the major anchors of the video site, hey... I think it is also because of the control over the plot, right?
I won't say much about the example, everyone understands it. Going back, let's look at the bright and dark lines of this movie...
First explanation: The movie started 20 minutes ago, and I still don’t know what these people want to do? It's all special effects, special effects, special effects... Incredible
However, there is one thing that is worthy of recognition, and it is very worthy of recognition. I think the production staff worked very hard, at least there was no escape. The portrayal of the film's bright lines did not escape, and there was no use of shuffling, interjection, insanity, etc., said It doesn't sound good, I didn't use the tricks of inferiority, lack of strength means lack of strength, try my best to show it, and come back next time if I can't do it well; this is also the reason why I wrote a movie review for this movie. Changed, but despite this, I give it a low rating because the film is objective and brutal.
Let's talk about the dark lines:
The length of the two films before and after this movie is not short, I don't know what the dark line of this movie's plot is?
Take the women's federation as an example. After watching Captain America 1, in Part 2, if you see that fist hitting the sandbag, you should know that Captain America is on the stage. Wait until the Women's Federation, when you see the hammer, you think of Sol... This is the secret line of success, it's what you left to the audience's subconscious,
But the dark lines of this movie, what can I think of?
Reluctantly to say yes, seeing this male protagonist, I knew this movie was going to have a love triangle. I knew this guy was going to have a love triangle in an apocalyptic disaster movie!
I belong to the kind of viewer who is not very interested in love triangles... well, I belong to the kind of audience who is very disgusted with love triangles, and I am even more disgusted by seeing triangles in doomsday works The plot of love.... this is just crazy,
I know that the disgust towards love triangles will make many people dislike me, but what I do is, don't watch love movies, don't watch domestic dramas... This time I've stepped on a landmine again when I watch disaster movies!
Next, I want to talk about the creation of the characters.
For film and television works, the problem is usually not a single one, just like, as we said earlier, the role is subordinate to the plot, which has a very huge impact on the character shaping. . . .
Let’s put aside this precondition for the moment, [it’s actually hard to put aside]
Well, let me say the correct way first. Then compare it to the way the movie did.
Under normal circumstances, the shaping of the role is the soul of the movie, the environment, the arrangement of events, the advancement of the plot, and the excellent performance of the actors, all of which serve the role of shaping!
Forrest Gump from Forrest Gump, Captain America from Captain America, Joel from Doomsday, and Lord Kui from the God of War series, isn't that one that was created successfully with countless events, countless environments, and countless foreshadowing and foiling?
Especially Kui Ye, in order to create Kui Ye's pure man image, in front of Aphrodite, Kui Ye took off his pants!
Then we go back to this movie, the heroine's father is better, what happened to the other characters? Tool man?
The characters in this movie serve the plot....it's hard to accept...
The secondary role of the tool man is also fine, how can the protagonist be the tool man?
Like [spoilers from here]
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Just like the heroine, who finally shouted to the crowd "kill me! Kill me",
What I want to ask is, why did the heroine do this?
It doesn't make sense at all, if you want to die, there are a thousand ways, why are you screaming?
Then the explanation is that the reason why the heroine shouted is: "The second male must die"
When the female protagonist provokes the crowd, the second male is protecting her; if the second male is alive, the ending of the plot will be difficult to handle, and the second male must be killed, otherwise there will be no ending;
Then, in order to let the second male lead die, it is more effective for the female lead to yell~!
And this kind of shouting, "kill me, kill me", is completely inconsistent with the character of the heroine and her inner attributes, and is very abrupt;
This is what I call the tool man, the tool man of the plot;
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【End of spoiler】
After evaluating the film's values, plot, narrative method, bond and character building, let's take a look at some other things about this film;
I briefly describe [because it's not worth typing too much]:
Very gorgeous special effects, very beautiful pictures, very good dubbing and sound effects
Then overall review:
The character positioning of this movie is out of the universal values, and the scope of the film is very narrow.
The character creation of this movie is very poor, and the protagonist and several main characters are portrayed as tool people; the failure to create the villain will also make it more difficult to advance the plot.
Under the reluctant plot logic, the plot is reluctantly established and has no intentions; there is too little depiction of the main line of the plot, and too much depiction of irrelevant things, such as the dog, disaster scenes of a large number of passers-by, love triangles, etc.; maybe the audience understands The plot causes fatigue, and the design of the plot is unrestrained, which may cause discomfort to the audience of universal values.
The angle and stance as a filmmaker is wrong.
A filmmaker should be a storyteller, not a person holding a shelf; when telling a story to the audience, first put down the shelf,
For example, why can't the heroine be an office worker? Can't be a salaryman? What about the second generation of officials? Because storytellers look down on salarymen? Looking down on office workers? Ordinary people are not worth shaping?
It's very dangerous for a storyteller to give the audience this feeling, which is really bad,
The design, conception, plot arrangement, character positioning and shaping of the film are all failures.
The audio-visual effects, picture sense, and special effects of the film are all very good, but this is not enough to improve the evaluation of this film;
Because the audience is watching movies, not landscape paintings and special effects;
Film is the expression of comprehensive art,
If we say that a movie, human factors [including the producer's attitude, narrative method, detail control, character building, plot arrangement, etc.] no matter how poor the film crew is, these are things you can do well, but you don't. good;
On the contrary, those non-artificial factors [picture special effects, sound effects,] these things that can be done with money and technology... This movie is done very well, but these things are not worthy of evaluation for me. . There is no meaning of evaluation.
What is worth affirming is that they did not cover up their own inadequacies and did not escape their shortcomings.
Final rating 1 star
Recommended index: 3 stars
The recommendation index is 3 stars because I think these people want to make the movie well. Even if the current evaluation is only 1 star, I will continue to pay attention to their works, but I will not report too much hope.
A group of production crews with a high attitude, a big frame, and no storytelling skills, how much hope can you report?
But, writing a movie review is better than not writing it at all, right?
1 star is better than no star;
Note: I was a bit tangled in the end and wanted to give two stars, but I gave "Out of the Darkness" two stars; and I have many movies that I gave 1 star before, which are better than this, so I can only give 1 star
But it is worth saying that this movie is a little bit stronger than the plot of "The Last of Us Part 2". They have the same problem.
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