How can a movie show a person's life through a scene and only use the development of one thing without using side or prompt text?
It not only makes the event ups and downs worth watching, but also shows the rich character and life of a character through this incident, and only uses a small scene. Such a movie, it did it.
Some say it's Al Pacino's best movie, not The Godfather, it's
"Hot Afternoon"
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Sonny and Shal, who had just finished their prison meal, decided to rob the bank, but it looked like it was an unrehearsed farce, because the two of them were too hands-on.
First, the little friend who came to help ran away on the spot, and then went to the vault only to find that the money had just been taken away. After robbing the bank, it was loaded with 1,000 yuan.
So, Sonny thought of going to the counter to get the cash, and after taking it, he returned to the whole body, and even burned the ledger.
When burning the account book makes you feel that they are not hot-headed, or they are ready to rob the bank, and because the cigarettes burned in the account book are not handled properly, they attract the attention of the people around them, and they are directly called to the door. It turns out that the two The feeling that the individual is prepared is really an illusion. Their preparation is really limited to preparing a gun.
Without preparation, the bank robbery was quickly discovered and the police quickly surrounded the bank. Sonny and Shal originally wanted to rob the bank and leave, but they didn't expect that they would attract the police, and they were at a loss.
After finally thinking hard, Sonny decided to negotiate with the police, he wanted a plane, the kind of premium business class that can fly all over the world, and also asked to pick up his wife. Under pressure from the media, the police agreed to his request.
After the police pick up Sonny's wife, everyone and the audience are taken aback because Sonny is gay and his wife Leo is not fully female. (Audience's surprise said below)
Why is he not a full woman?
Because Leo is a man, but he always thinks he is a woman living in a man's body, he has always wanted to have sex reassignment surgery, but he can't afford the cost of the surgery.
Leo's appearance not only explained Sonny's motive for robbing the bank - to raise money for his sex change operation, but also made Sonny's outline clearer.
Sonny is married, has a wife and two kids, and is a totally good dad. Not only that, he is a good son, and Sonny is still very filial in the face of vampire parents.
In the face of his gay lover, even if he had no reason to flee for ten days on the night of his wedding, when Sonny heard that he wanted to have sex reassignment surgery, he still tried his best to raise money for him.
The appearance of Leo, in addition to making sonny alive, also pushed the plot to a climax.
The police asked Leo to persuade Sonny to surrender, otherwise he would also be involved in the crime. In order to get rid of his suspicion, Leo called Sonny under the surveillance of the police.
The difference between the two people is very obvious here. Leo's purpose is to clear his suspicions, while Sonny's purpose is to take Leo with him, but Leo rejected him. The love between the two is not equal.
If the sonny of this call is pitiful, the next call is suffocating sadness.
After Leo rejected him, he called his ex-wife with a hint of hope and goodbye.
The moment the call was connected, his last hope was completely over, because his ex-wife complained and cried endlessly, and he had no chance to interrupt.
Usually when someone is beeping, the protagonist yells and the other party stops talking, but this rule does not apply here, the audience expects Sonny to yell to end her broken thoughts, but the first sentence didn't work, and then the second The sentence and the third sentence are useless. At this time, the audience can feel suffocation and helplessness across the screen.
It wasn't until Sonny calmed down in desperation and asked the other party why you refused to come to see me when the police came to you, because she was speechless and loved herself more than Sonny.
After a stalemate for twelve hours, sonny was surrounded by hostages and walked out of the bank to the airport, but the two were ultimately no match for the police and the FBI. Sonny was finally arrested at the airport, and Shal, who was silent throughout the whole process, was headshot on the spot.
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The most surprising point of this piece is that it only uses a small stage, but it shows a person's rich life, and this kind of display is not a narration-style narration, but a very ups and downs. Natural and gripping.
When the bank is surrounded, Sonny and the hostages are inside the bank, the police and the crowd are outside, the front door of the bank acts as a partition, dividing the inside and the outside into two stages, but the bank is again a big stage, almost a movie The stories all take place on this big stage.
Most of the scenes were completed in the bank scene. It was like a theater stage, such a small scene and a small layout, but it was enough to show Sonny's life - a marginal person who was abandoned by his family and society. But still did not give up love and hope.
On the one hand, it is an intuitive display, that is, his performance to Leo and his ex-wife. In the appearance and on the phone, it is not difficult to see that Leo is more afraid of Sonny than love, but he is even willing to commit crimes for Leo.
In the second phone call, it was also shown that his wife did not love him, but after the two phone calls, Sonny wrote a suicide note and paid both of his death compensation.
The other side is the side, that is, the way to treat hostages, not to treat hostages but to treat partners. He sent away sick bank clerks, ordered food for them, and promised to take them on a plane away, exactly like a gang.
In addition to the small stage, the unexpectedness of the film is also a big highlight. Such a small scene turned out to be a very brilliant suspense film, mainly to say that it is very eye-catching.
The reason why Sonny robbed the bank was that the director put a smoke bomb at the beginning. That is, when Sonny was negotiating with the police, he mentioned the "Attica" incident (this incident is described below), which made the audience mistakenly think that Sonny was creating a platform for himself to speak and teach the government a lesson, so people thought that this A political speech, and the behavior of throwing money on the spot also made the audience feel that it was in line with this expectation.
However, this smoke bomb quickly passed. The real reason is revealed when Sonny asks to take over his wife. But here, the director "misleads" the audience again by editing.
When Sonny asked to pick up his wife to come and walk with him, his ex-wife and two children always appeared on the screen, so when Leo appeared, the audience would really be surprised and feel like they were being played by the director, which is what I said above, Why not only the people on the spot but also the audience were surprised.
Although it feels abrupt, it is actually foreshadowed. Sonny didn't mention the kids when he said he wanted to pick up his wife, which means he was talking about just one person.
In addition to its portrayal of marginalized people, the film also more or less satirizes the American authorities.
The suspense "Attica" incident left above refers to a prison riot in the United States in 1971. Attica is the name of a prison in the United States. This prison is notorious for racial discrimination, and the prisoners in it cannot stand it. The joint protest led to a conflict between the prisoners and the jailers. Later, the police carried out indiscriminate machine-gun fire on the prisoners, and finally shot and killed 42 prisoners.
That's why Sonny said in front of the crowd, "If I hadn't been in the media, I would have been shot." In the film, the shooting of Shal in the car after leaving the media is also a wonderful satire for the FBI.
In short, using a small stage, it not only vividly portrays the life of a marginal person, but also completes a suspenseful story with ups and downs. Coupled with Al Pacino's exquisite acting skills, "Afternoon on a Hot Day" is definitely a good suspense film.
I would like to mention that Al Pacino definitely gave a wonderful performance in this film, and this film can be said to be at the peak of his appearance, and every frown and smile is too vivid!
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