How about the latest bad movie "Growing Old" directed by M. Knight Shyamalan, who has been trapped in Hollywood's Big Six?
Director M. Knight Shyamalan, winner of multiple Golden Raspberry Awards, with a score of 5.8 on IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes is as high as 50% rotten, and he is probably a good contender for the Worst Director Award next year. I wasn't expecting anything before watching this film, but now, five minutes into the film, I'd say it should offer the best high-concept of the year and the perfect match for it. Audiovisual language - put the words like this, I think this is his best work.
What are viewers paying attention to when everyone is aging rapidly?
People ask, 30 minutes corresponds to a year, so 20 minutes of sex with my friends is equivalent to 8 months of sex, can my body stand it? People ask, why are these people still alive without food for fifty years when babies die within seconds of being left unattended? People ask, 30 minutes corresponds to a year, then 2 minutes and 30 seconds corresponds to a month, how to deal with women's monthly menstruation? Further, 30 minutes corresponds to a year, and 4.9 seconds corresponds to a day. Then I should eat a meal every second to ensure a balanced meal, sleep every three seconds to ensure a balanced physiological metabolism, and try to ensure a bowel movement every few seconds. The breathing rate of normal people is 12-20 times per minute. According to the setting of this film, these people can breathe once almost all day, and as we all know, three minutes of hypoxia is already the limit of human beings.
People ask again, how can pharmaceutical companies be so short-sighted, since this beach can accelerate biological growth, why not sell meat products? What about plants? What about leather luxury goods? What about horses? Wouldn't it be alright to take it out of the coral after production? It's hard not to get rich.
So it's a bad movie.
What's even more outrageous is that even if people's biological age is increasing, their minds cannot become mature because of this. How can you learn to make love directly, how can you suddenly reconcile, let alone the dialogue of rejuvenation, or escape without knowledge. password. This movie is full of loopholes. Other movies are looking for bugs in the movie, and this film is looking for movies in the BUG.
So it's a bad movie.
Looking for the movie in the BUG, the result has not been found. Even many fans of director Shyamalan were disappointed. They have to admit that our director Shyamalan is famous for his plot twists under the strong setting. How could he shoot such a boring thing? Can you watch all the highlights in the trailer? The so-called turning point of the climax is explained by words?
No matter how much you relate it and call it Buñuel's "Destroying Angels", the content of existentialism is too low, let alone dig deep into the philosophy of seeing death.
So it's a bad movie.
Now, fifteen minutes after watching this film, I can't agree more. Folks, the movie isn't just a handful of spaghetti, if you hate this movie as much as you fear this beach, then you can just go where you came from, right?
Of course not, viewers, movies are the code. Remember that kid, all the shit he wrote, you thought it was a joke, but it was the only way to connect with reality.
When you come across such an illogical beach, you shouldn't just declare that there is no such thing in reality.
There is such a ridiculous thing in reality!
Its name is "movie".
All the logical flaws in the film "Growing Old" are to remind you that this is a code, and it is so stupid and so clever at the same time. It must be said that this is the most powerful high concept of the year, with a perfect audio-visual scheduling that is different from the usual Shyamalan director's work: this is an anti-genre film in a genre coat, this is an original film. Movie.
The essence of the beach is a movie: a normal person spends a lifetime in hundreds of years, but in a movie it must be measured in hours. The world is no different from a sandbox game, and producing a Hollywood movie is no different from pharmaceuticals.
The characters all appear with their own illnesses. This is the first commonality of the films produced by the Hollywood practice. The rest is just to find a solution for each other. But none of these have transformation value. Soon they will find that the only thing worth fearing is time itself, and it is also the biggest weakness of Hollywood type films in the face of real movie time, but these movie characters have no way to escape, they "go on their own" return".
The Hollywood genre is represented by everyone on this beach: the doctor who punctuates the movie line from time to time, "Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando," a precursor to each of his episodes, but in fact , the setting is meaningless. As a genre film, he just forced the audience to a climax every once in a while, and so did the others; the two parents only solved the irrelevant crisis within a few hours, and they stopped arguing. reconciliation, which is the usual Hollywood finale, and audiences see the so-called Dzogchen end, paralyzed by the hallucination and forgetting the reasons for their conflict; all the adults in the resort All work for the characters on the beach, they make and develop the story, and finally when the assembly line is fully traversed, they applaud some self-righteous feeling or grieve hypocritically, the adults are in, but only the kids Incomprehensible; everyone was shouting after watching it, didn't expect it to be so boring, yes, in essence, all the genres you see are so boring, it's just that they build a better-looking illusion. Movies make lunatics, movies make monsters, movies make heroes, and movies make losers who accept everything, but they are just images.
Producing a Hollywood film is no different from pharmacy: just put samples one by one for testing. Your favorite movie might just be the sum of an algorithm. What kind of genre the audience likes, what kind of effect the setting will give the audience, everything is just a calculation. Even if I send a bad movie to the market, it doesn't matter. It's just a necessary effort to update the algorithm. There are always lessons worth improving on this bad movie, right? What a cruel thing, these people on the beach died like this, but people outside were able to cure epilepsy because of this. Why is there such a film as "Old Age"? Director Shyamalan, who has been involved in six major Hollywood pharmaceutical factories, finally can't stand such a meaningless and emotionless flow program.
Still, it's the most powerful high concept of the year, and it's even the scariest horror movie setting, far superior to the "House in the Woods" list. That's all about movies, and the director is the guy who wants to escape the genre's woes, but when he realizes he can escape, he's too old himself. Like the little boy in the film, director M. Knight Shyamalan just turned 50 this year when the film was released. Remember the question at the end of the film: If a guy in his fifties greeted you and said he was your six-year-old nephew, how would you feel about him?
It should be just the beginning.
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