Viggo's "The Promise of the East", the plot framework is actually very simple, and the result of the guidance can be seen at the moment when the foreshadowing appears. It can be said that the overall context can be seen at the beginning. The one-and-a-half-hour film can tell many stories, but this film is a segment that is steadily advanced, the background is quickly explained at the beginning, the timeline in the middle is straight without jumps, and the ending is too hasty. Says "open ending", but that's not really a qualifying "open ending".
In such a simple story, Viggo's characters are so distinct, which must be attributed to the actor himself. Nicholas played by Viggo is a stern and dangerous man, but his mystery and demeanor bring unspeakable sexy charm, like a cold snake spitting letters and wandering silently, it is chilling, but its The scales are shining, and the cold light of green and blue circulates, dazzling and charming. This is a man with a story.
Knowing this movie is naturally because of the most gimmicky "bathroom full nudity drama". When I chose to watch it on Youku, I had expected that the bathroom segment would be cut, but I didn't expect it to be cut so thoroughly that there was nothing left. It was the first time I saw such a brutal editing, and I cut the plot directly, so I finally couldn't help but start searching for the uncensored version when I saw it for 1 hour and 17 minutes. The difference between 100 minutes and Youku's 95 minutes is only 5 minutes, but it cuts off the climax of the whole film. The fighting scenes are so exciting. The few minutes of footage and the rich and refined action design make the previous 77 minutes worth it. Typical Western-style fighting, ruthless and efficient killing techniques, Viggo's muscles are well-proportioned and lean, and his skin is very white, especially his thighs that are not exposed to light are almost pale. Compared with the blue tattoos and red blood, they form a strong visual impact. The skin, flesh, muscles and bones all over the body are all beautiful, and the nudity has nothing to do with pornography, just a vigorous and powerful sense of strength, and my poor language can't describe it, I can only keep repeating in my heart: "It's so charming! It's so charming! It's too charming! Charming!"
When I looked back at the plot, there was an unexpected harvest: Viggo had a cut-out bed scene after picking a girl, which later implied that he was white. The bed scene casts a beam of ambiguous light on Viggo's well-packaged and cold image, showing rare emotions, showing a kind of wild nature after stripping off the suit. I started to think: what has he been through? Which ones are he willing and which ones are he not? Will he keep smiling? Or will you be expressionless?
Another impressive scene is Viggo being half-naked for the tattoo artist to get tattoos on his knees, the mechanical hum makes people tremble, and there are incoherent fluctuations as it wears away the epidermis, while he sips a swig from time to time, his calm expression doesn't changed. He doesn't care that there is another imprint on his body that can't be removed, just like he doesn't care about the unhealed wounds.
In this way, all the beautiful and shocking scenes are centered on Viggo, violence and aesthetics are combined, and the director clearly has the right use of Viggo Mortensen. He shows Viggo's almost perfect body from various angles of sky light, cold light and warm light, adds color with his deep eyes and magnetic voice, and supports the whole film with a person's charm, although there is no story of ups and downs. , but it does create a striking image. If there are more and more complex plots, this character will inevitably burst into more brilliance, and the 100-minute film length is still too short.
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