Insert clips to deal with multi-character appearances and multi-narrative viewpoint world-building challenges

Brett 2022-03-14 14:12:23

From the large number of descriptive sentences in the script, it can be seen that the director is very patient in building a real world. There is a loose, illogical fragment inserted at the beginning of the film for fifteen minutes, which actually solves the problem of the characters appearing on the scene. Clooney appears in a melancholy gambler state, and then uses a very lengthy scene dealing with civil cases to write the character's exhaustion and powerlessness about his current career state. The focus is on the handling of the female lawyer. This woman is completely irrelevant to the clues, and the re-appearance of the filming for a lot of time later-repeatedly practiced and recorded the speech of the advertisement-emphasizes her vulnerability and anxiety. and low mental capacity. This kind of preprocessing is all about getting the characters established in the audience's mind quickly, but basically, the film's over-complexity of events and over-construction of the world in the first hour makes it close to losing its audience.

We spent that episode back four days ago, we went to the character's family to see his family situation, usually the description of the character inevitably needs to be written with his problematic family or his absence at home. Existence, we see his ex-wife living in a cramped apartment compressed by a telephoto lens with an aging-looking figure, a man described as wearing a casual plaid shirt, bald early, always at home A typical example of the image of the grandma that appears. In fact, Clooney's character traits and dramatic choices do not appear many times, and the drama and family settings also appear traditional. The boss solves the economic problem, meets Arthur to talk about the main event (morality).

Another centrally portrayed female lawyer shows the audience her identity as a villain at the end of the first act, so that Arthur's identity becomes clearer. Precisely, at the midpoint, the character who inspired Clooney's action is removed, and Clooney begins to intervene in the event, and basically, the film's processing is not suspenseful at all, and the multitude of viewpoints makes the audience both have a sense of the event. The density feels complicated and the characters' characteristics are ambiguous. The characters' efforts in the second half are almost doomed, and the ending is not unexpected. However, when the character holds his commission check in the left hand and the "moral truth" that was not given to the boss in the right hand, the movie shows the character's due meaning, and he has to buy it with morality to give him his unfortunate life and happiness. Broken Family A better answer - buy that restaurant and gamble with the rest to escape life for a moment, and then the movie goes to the opening credits. At this time, we can see that the female lawyer was not related to the clues explicitly alleging Clooney and the killer when she was doing psychological rehabilitation training in the toilet, but only made this suggestion and dealt with it in parallel.

What the film does its best is obviously how to wrap up the story, always even someone in his family who can help him at the police station, or a brother of a poisonous alcoholic who can take him by accident after he nearly dies. a ride. However, where can there be a round story and a perfect drama?

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Extended Reading
  • Sigurd 2022-03-21 09:01:46

    A very meaningful movie that needs to be watched several times

  • Jasen 2022-03-24 09:01:41

    Good movie, full of ideological lies, another Jewish movie

Michael Clayton quotes

  • Player #2: You don't remember me, huh? We played a couple of times at that lamp place. On Bowery. That guy's showroom. All the lamps and shit?

    Michael Clayton: Galaxy

    Player #2: That's it. You had that restaurant you opened, right? On Franklin? 'Cause my old partner bid that job, the plumbing. You don't remember me?

    Michael Clayton: I remember.

    Player #2: I lost a lot of weight since then.

    Michael Clayton: You bought some hair.

    Player #2: Yeah, with your money.

  • Marty Bach: And if it's nostalgia? "Oh boy you should've seen me when I was a D.A. back in Queens." Let me give you a serious piece of advice. Leave it there. God forbid you're not as good as you remember because I've seen that happen too.