In fact, this is a literary film.

Ruben 2022-03-21 09:01:18

"Constantine" was watched by borrowing a disc from a classmate during a summer vacation in the second year of the junior high school. The owner of this disc is known as the (self-proclaimed) movie madman, and his favorite disc is "Kill a Mockingbird" starring Uncle Gregory Parker in 1962.
For this reason, when I got the disc, my whole soul was burning for literature and art.
At that time, when he was still young, when he mentioned keanu Reeves, the inexplicable words "The Matrix" and "Wind from Hawaii" came up directly in his mind. So that when the woman first exorcated ghosts, the woman's hideous struggle made me feel more beautiful, thinking that the plot was "compact and interesting".
But because while watching the movie, my mind kept reverberating with "Story of Meigang City", "Story of Meigang City" and "Story of Meigang City" (another translation of "Killing a Mockingbird"), so Until the herd of cows died out, one couldn't concentrate on the movie itself. When plot and thought meet, weirdness abounds.
However, the more I watch it, the more mystery of the movie itself is felt. As far as it successfully expelled the six words "Story of Meigang City" from my mind, I think the content is still very fascinating.
Of course, keanu Reeves's handsome and brutal smoking posture I still have endless aftertastes. After watching the movie that year, I begged my father to change my smoking posture without success. I decided to include smoking posture as one of the criteria for mate selection.
Therefore, what "constantine" really attracts me is the feeling and experience it brings to people. Starting with religion should be more mysterious to the Easterners, because we don't know much about Western religions. Whether it is "The Bible" or Satan, Gabriel or Mammon, they can all have a lot of charm in this movie based on gods and demons. But the movie madman himself is a Christian, and he is said to be able to recite the "Bible" fluently. He told me that for people who understand the history of religion, the ones in "Constantine" are nothing fancy or attractive.
However, because of the personal charm and temperament of keanu Reeves, constantine is given a very vivid texture. His paranoia and scorn, peculiar values ​​and worldview, against his religious background, have become the unique temperament of the movie. Rachel Weisz also acted very well, making the movie as real in the gods and demons.
But as far as the classification of "constantine" is concerned (its plot classification is [plot/horror]), it is not attractive at all. But Uncle Midnight, who is dressed in the wind, later drove the bumblebee to soak the horse, but in the movie Shian LaBeouf, who still drove for Constantine, throughout the show "Hello, Mr. Running", especially this "Hello, Mr." ".running", all makes this film full of literary and artistic atmosphere. It is also possible that this is the illusion that Meigang City gave me.
"Constantine" is adapted from comics, but the characters in the comics are obviously more sad and more literary.
——"John Constantine, his mother died because of his birth, which aroused his father’s deep hatred and hatred. His father finally drank and went to jail. The 10-year-old Constantine found a child’s skeleton while playing in the wild, with a middle one in the middle. A red gem. After taking the red gem home, he gradually became irritable and irritable, so he threw the gem on the roof of the neighbor’s house, but his momentum passed through the roof and killed the neighbor.
This was the first one he killed. People. At the age of 14, Constantine escaped reality by reading a large number of books about gods and demons, and was obsessed with mysterious events. He was expelled from school, and all his books were burned by his father when he returned home. He snatched some books from the fire and put them in the books. He found a curse to curse his father. He found the black cat, cut off one of its legs, and wrote a curse. But when he discovered that the curse was really effective, his father was aging and dying, he panicked again, and it could only dig out the black The cat's body was soaked in formalin to keep his father alive.
Later, Constantine indulged in a life of emptiness, played rock music, had incest with her sister and gave birth to children. He occasionally eliminated some demons, but after causing the death of an innocent girl, he was taken to a psychiatric hospital and tortured there. After being released, he went back to his original decadent life, playing with demons and humans, being mixed in a filthy environment, watching others die tragically because of him, and living a life that he didn't feel. If you see him on the streets of London, you will find him always surrounded by gangsters, ruffians, low-quality tobacco and evil spirits. "

However, the film has adapted many plots of the comics. Although the "anti-heroism" of the comics is retained, the negativity and obscurity in the comics are not present. Constantine's entire character image is also fuller, but it may also be the personal reason for keanu reeves. Although I have not always had much resistance to the dark system, the film is obviously more rhythmic for such a tragic character in the comics. The same is a portrayal of a character with a complex personality, but the two are completely different. . At the
end, Satan is unexpectedly in love. From the cool-Fashion to the messy suit and sunglasses, it really makes people yearn for hell.
Although the constantine in the movie is still accompanied by inferior tobacco, he still hates the devil and Hated by demons. He is not human because he can see demons. But he can’t go to heaven.
But what about the indifferent and paranoid face under that black suit, even if it’s inferior tobacco?
I often don’t see things. He thinks too much, Mr. Tao has the most logical saying, "Read the book well, don’t ask for a deep understanding." After watching the movie, he automatically falls into the superficial group, and doesn’t think too much about its meaning. However, after watching "Constantine", I can't help but think that the director and screenwriter What I want to express is more than what my worthless eyes see.
But back to the beginning, in fact, I understand that this is actually a literary film, and maybe I can understand everything. Because the so-called literary film is " I want to express a lot of things". As for what I want to express, it has nothing to do with you.

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Constantine quotes

  • John Constantine: Close your eyes. And whatever happens, don't look.

  • John Constantine: Why me, Gabriel? It's personal, isn't it? I didn't go to church enough, I didn't pray enough, I... was five bucks short in the collection plate. Why?