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
  • Blaze 2022-04-20 09:01:40

    I still love this show!

  • Elsie 2022-04-22 07:01:15

    "Language is something to be in awe of, and it would be foolish to judge a film in another language with subtitles." . . I pinched my nose and divided the films I watched 4 times. After reading the film review, I found that I didn’t understand it at all. I will go back and watch it again today. . .

Michael Clayton quotes

  • [first lines]

    Arthur Edens: Michael. Dear Michael. Of course it's you, who else could they send, who else could be trusted? I... I know it's a long way and you're ready to go to work... all I'm saying is wait, just wait, just-just-just... please hear me out because this is not an episode, relapse, fuck-up, it's... I'm begging you Michael. I'm begging you. Try and make believe this is not just madness because this is not just madness. Two weeks ago I came out of the building, okay, I'm running across Sixth Avenue, there's a car waiting, I got exactly 38 minutes to get to the airport and I'm dictating. There's this, this panicked associate sprinting along beside me, scribbling in a notepad, and suddenly she starts screaming, and I realize we're standing in the middle of the street, the light's changed, there's this wall of traffic, serious traffic speeding towards us, and I... I-I freeze, I can't move, and I'm suddenly consumed with the overwhelming sensation that I'm covered with some sort of film. It's in my hair, my face... it's like a glaze... like a... a coating, and... at first I thought, oh my god, I know what this is, this is some sort of amniotic - embryonic - fluid. I'm drenched in afterbirth, I've-I've breached the chrysalis, I've been reborn. But then the traffic, the stampede, the cars, the trucks, the horns, the screaming and I'm thinking no-no-no-no, reset, this is not rebirth, this is some kind of giddy illusion of renewal that happens in the final moment before death. And then I realize no-no-no, this is completely wrong because I look back at the building and I had the most stunning moment of clarity. I... I... I... I realized Michael, that I had emerged not from the doors of Kenner, Bach, and Ledeen, not through the portals of our vast and powerful law firm, but from the asshole of an organism whose sole function is to excrete the... the-the-the poison, the ammo, the defoliant necessary for other, larger, more powerful organisms to destroy the miracle of humanity. And that I had been coated in this patina of shit for the best part of my life. The stench of it and the stain of it would in all likelihood take the rest of my life to undo. And you know what I did? I took a deep cleansing breath and I set that notion aside. I tabled it. I said to myself as clear as this may be, as potent a feeling as this is, as true a thing as I believe that I have witnessed today, it must wait. It must stand the test of time. And Michael, the time is now.

  • Karen Crowder: Who's this guy they're sending here? Clayton? I never heard of him.

    Maude: Michael Raymond Clayton. Born September 9, 1959 St. Joseph's Hospital, Bronx, New York. Father is NYPD patrolman Raymond Xavier Clayton. Mother, Alice Mary Clayton. Graduates Washingtonville Central High School, Orange County, New York in 1977. Graduates St. Johns University 1980. Fordham Law, '82. Eighty-two through Eighty-six he's ADA with the Queens District Attorney's office. And 1986 he's with the Joint Manhattan Queens Organized Crime Task Force. And then in 1990 he starts with Kenner Boch and Ledeen.

    Karen Crowder: So he's a partner?

    Maude: No. He's listed as "special counsel." Says he specializes in wills and trusts.

    Karen Crowder: He goes from criminal prosecution to wills and trusts? He's been there seventeen years and he's not a partner? This is the guy they send? Who is this guy?