When I saw Anya's famous work "The Witch" take off her clothes and fly from the ground to the sky, I was convinced that this girl will do a lot.
Within a few years of her debut, Anya first took root in horror, horror, and suspense movies with her outstanding temperament ("Witch", "Morgan", "Split", "Breed Animals", "Secrets of Ma Rou's House" and "Mr. Glass" is only a supporting role).
After that, she began to expand her acting career to a wider world. Last year, in "The Mobi Kid Adventure", which few people knew about, she had a rare singing and dancing performance and also provided a voice for the animated heroine. Soon she Also dubbed the heroine in the puppet animation "Black Crystal: Age of War of Resistance".
In this year’s three consecutive episodes, she starred in the biographical "Radioactive Matter" as Madame Curie’s daughter, in the super-English film "New Mutant" (New Mutant) as a stunning secret guest, in the love comedy " In Emma, I had a great addiction of dressing up.
However, even more potential actors also need opportunities and good scripts. Except for the debut of "The Witch" and Shamaran's "Split", in fact, Anya's more works are not well-known, and they have finally participated in the X-Men World View. "New Mutants" suffered repeated setbacks, and the final word of mouth was really miserable.
Fortunately, "Back Wing Abandoned Soldier" (also known as "Queen's Chess Game") uses its almost perfect rhythm of the play, beautiful photography, and Anya's increasingly skilled acting skills to complete a pleasing game of chess.
Soldiers to the bottom line, incarnate as a rear.
Spoiler alert
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When watching the play "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing", apart from "Anya is so beautiful", the biggest feeling is the smooth development of the story. In the words of a friend, it is like "Dove Chocolate, silky smooth".
Works adapted from the theme of "chess", even if they are overhead, require considerable courage. Unlike many fiercely contested sports themes, playing chess cannot make the game ups and downs through physical conflicts. Life and death are all on a black and white chessboard. The competition is brainpower and mentality, and with the level of the competition. Increasingly, the commandment of "happiness and anger do not show color" makes it difficult for the film to analyze the inner changes of the characters in the chess game.
So many people will have this question before watching it. I don't like chess and may not understand it. Is this drama really suitable for me?
This is the most successful point of this play. It subtly blends the "professional chess game" and "the ups and downs of the characters' life experience" without spending too much time describing the rules that are boring to the audience. The torment of the game and so on, but every moment in the life of the protagonist Harmon seems to be inseparable from the gifts and imprisonment given to her by chess. Under the long-awaited reunion ensemble, "The Rear Wing Abandoned Soldiers" completed an intoxicating performance.
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No one can refuse a story about Long Aotian.
Because there was already a child in the orphanage where Harmon lived when he was a child called "Mary Su," so compared to being sought after by everyone because of his natural beauty, he would still be more refreshing to use his talents and hard work to open the benevolent plot.
Relying on a small chessboard in the basement and playing short games a few times a week, Harmon can continue to reproduce the advanced skills of the chess game in his mind, and easily defeat the middle school chess art club as soon as he makes a move.
He hadn't touched a chess piece for several years. Soon after he was adopted, he participated in the state competition and won the championship, and won the joint championship in the national game shortly thereafter (although he lost the last game). Going to Mexico City to leapfrog to challenge the world champion Bogov naturally fell into the sand, but as the final boss, if he was easily defeated by the fledgling Harmon, it would be too shameless.
Harmon, who was rejuvenated, won the well-deserved national championship, and later used his weak fast chess to directly hit the original national champion mentality collapse. Although he made a lot of preparations, he went to Paris to challenge the game for the second time. Gove still fell short because of his alcoholism.
But at the most depressing moment in her life, her former friends all stood up and encouraged her. This time, she went to Bogov’s home court and won the world championship.
At this time, Harmon was only twenty years old.
No one will refuse a refreshing story, especially when the story is full of twists and turns rather than a smooth end. People will get more enjoyment in the subsequent victory due to the short trough, and it is better to beat the opponent with brain power than with It seems much more elegant to subdue the enemy by force.
But the so-called "Dragon Aotian" is not limited to the chess game. The "coming from behind" in every bit of life is also a wonderful recipe for this play.
When she first entered school, Harmon was hitting a wall because of her loneliness, and her shabby dress was ridiculed by her classmates. After she was promoted to a genius girl and earned the first pot of gold in her life, the attitude of the people around her would naturally be reversed. The audience felt proud.
Speaking of it, the audience followed the poor Harmon, who had no money to buy magazines, no money to buy chessboards, and no money to pay the registration fee, to the state championship and took a one-hundred dollar prize. The face of his adoptive father swept him out. Does this feel a bit like "Don't bully young people"?
In terms of politics, the film also has an attitude of "An Neng can fold the eyebrows and bow down to the dignitaries and make me unhappy". Chess is chess, and there is no ideological dispute, so that she will express against her intentions for a small sponsorship fee. Manifesto, that I simply raise money by myself, it won't make me a political plaything.
What’s more commendable is that the play’s description of this “oppression” is very restrained. In a circle where men are widely present, the play can easily go to the route of exaggerating sexism if it is not careful. This play uses some very small ones. The details repeatedly repeat the existence of such environment and public opinion pressure, which not only makes people feel the pleasure of settling chaos after victory, but also does not allow these negative factors to dominate the host and make people feel noisy. This is very brilliant in "The Rear Wing Abandoned Soldiers" A little bit.
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Although Harmon smokes and drinks alcohol to make a man, she eventually becomes a good girl, and we still love her very much.
The life behind the aura of genius is perhaps the most important theme outside of the "chess game" of this film. Under the dazzling, beautiful makeup, the drug addiction from childhood, the uncontrollable alcoholism from the youth, and the adoptive mother may die because of long-term alcoholism, and the mother may commit suicide because of grief. The information that the famous and blessed genius players in history became crazy, or chose to commit suicide, etc., all make us have some hidden worries about Harmon's life.
The clever thing about this play is to tie Harmon’s life to Harmon’s chess game. There are three major losses in a play, and one fall is worse than one.
Lost to Barney for the first time, but because of his historical record, he was still tied for the championship, so the result was not too bad. And with the encouragement of her adoptive mother, Harmon quickly cheered up and happily made a shot with his classmates. We noticed that this was the time when Harmon began to drink heavily.
The second loss was to Bogov. Harmon, who had no resistance against the world champion, lost and was shocked by the sad news of his mother's death. Fortunately, little Harmon, who was so hit, was accompanied by Harry for a while (a shot came as usual).
The third defeat was also lost to Bogov. Unlike the last time they were unprepared, Harmon and Benny trained for a long time, but they fell short because Harmon himself failed to resist the temptation of alcohol. After this, it was naturally even more unrestrained depravity.
Fortunately, Qiao Lin's appearance rescued Harmon.
Harmon is lucky. In her darkest moments, someone will always lend a helping hand. What has happened cannot be changed, but you can choose to change tomorrow instead of just indulging in it.
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Home sweet home. Family is the main thread of Harmon's inner feelings.
Although she is not overjoyed and does not seem to be so emotional, but she really hopes to have a perfect family and relatives.
The original parents parted ways at the beginning of the film. Harmon, who lost his mother, is in the orphanage. Only the big sister Qiao Lin and Sabe in the basement can make little Harmon feel a little caring.
After being adopted, the role of adoptive father quickly disappeared. Harmon gradually formed a relationship that surpassed friendship with her adoptive mother and was a little closer to family relationship. The adoptive mother didn’t understand chess at all from the beginning to the end, but she was willing to listen to Harmon. Tell about her inner changes in the game (you can notice that when the adoptive mother died, she no longer used her to reproduce the editing method of the chess game), the two people sometimes dislike each other, but more often support each other. This is already A way of "home" in Harmon's heart.
The death of the adoptive mother naturally caused the family relationship to collapse. However, before her death, she spent a few rounds of Spring Festival evening with her pen pal in Mexico City.
Harmon finally found his family through chess.
In a narrower sense, Benny, Harry, Jolyn, Towns, and those friends who supported her, planned for her on the day against Bogov, and helped her make suggestions.
But broadly speaking, through chess, she won the respect of all chess lovers. When she walked onto the streets of Moscow and was surrounded by many chess friends, she was no longer alone, Kentucky or Moscow, ideology What is the difference?
5
Of course, what impressed me the most was the ten dollars that the school workers Sabe and Harmon never paid off.
Just like Harmon, Sabe is also a very lonely, reticent, and bad talker. And it was such a person who inadvertently enlightened Harmon. Although he was always unwilling to lose, he still found someone more powerful and tried to lead Harmon to a wider world.
Sabe, really a good person, Harmon’s entry fee for the first competition was paid by Sabe. Sabe was not rich even if he wanted to come, but he should have helped Harmon with the money without hesitation. .
However, Harmon finally forgot to pay the money.
It seems that soon after, Harmon forgot Sabe.
Until Sabe's death.
Harmon returned to the small basement and saw the newspaper clippings about Harmon that Sabe had been collecting. Think about it, Sabe is much lonelier than Harmon. He doesn't have the chess skills of Harmon. In the orphanage, it can be considered as the lowest-level employee, no one cares about him, no one thinks of him, even if it is a funeral, it is just the pastor who is writing the text, and it may be quickly forgotten.
He was even forgotten by Harmon, who he has been paying attention to and thinking about.
At that moment, I was really touched, but Harmon's revival was not only because of the guilt of not paying a return visit or paying back the money, but also because of her depravity and betraying the trust of those who regarded her as the world.
This part of Sabe is really the most eye-catching and most tearful part of the film.
From an orphan to a world champion.
Just like in chess, when a soldier reaches the bottom line, he can become a queen and kill all quarters.
Anya has also completed a transformation from "familiar actor" to "chess queen".
Think of Harmon in the play. He won the world championship at the age of twenty, and his future will be downhill.
However, there is more than one thoroughfare in life. Anya also has unlimited opportunities after expanding her own drama, whether it is returning to the horror film "Soho Fright Night" or the hot ip prequel "Mad Max: Furiosa", I want to come. Anya will be active on more and more larger stages in the future.
In the play, Harmon’s mother said something like this, and I like it very much.
Don't be a puppet in the eyes of others, but be your best self.
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