One of the highlights of the whole film is not the special effects, but the fusion of multiple elements. The most basic fusion of course lies in the fusion of extremely hot action scenes and extremely dark and melancholy internal feelings, but the most important thing It is also the basis for the imagination to form one by one in the film. Brothels, trenches, fire dragons, future city battles, the combination of these elements is enough to show rich imagination, but if these elements are assembled in this way, it will be extremely incongruous, because These four elements involve four types of films, namely desire, war, science fiction, and fantasy. The characteristics of each other will conflict with each other, and the mechanical assembly will make the whole film look like a messy puzzle, but the film also uses Steampunk, steampunk is to combine classical machines with modern and even future technologies, so that the three types of imagination are combined, and a balance is achieved, so that the imagination is not distorted, so as to have a sense of coherence . The special effects are also very good in handling the scene, whether it is the ruins of Notre Dame de Paris in the first dream, the Fire Dragon Warcraft castle in the second, and the Saturn ring in the night sky in the third, all of them can be said to be perfect And shocking! The fighting scenes in the film are particularly exciting. Personally, I prefer the first battle against the Japanese samurai. Just like the game, the action is so perfect. Even when fighting the last boss of the samurai, I directly use a big move to kill in one move. And the fight in the film uses a lot of slow motion. For example, in the fight against the second samurai, after dodging quickly, he jumped up. At this time, he used slow motion, slowly drew his gun, and quickly finished the opponent with three shots. ; Another example is when fighting the fire dragon, the fire dragon chased behind him, jumped up in the flames, using slow motion, Baby floated on the fire, and held a sword in both hands in the fire, one sword will kill. Watching this video is completely watching a game video, and it can be compared. On the other hand, the soundtrack is also quite perfect, whether it is the soundtrack in the trailer or the soundtrack in the film, I like it very much. The only thing that I think is lacking is that the film completely locks the camera on the Baby in the fight. It seems to only focus on the individual. If you add the scene of five people fighting together, I think it will be more gorgeous! I regret that I didn't go to the cinema to see this movie in person. I watched it on a computer, the sound effect was not strong enough, and the color was not good enough!
However, what I value most about this film is the structure of the whole film. The whole film uses five girls as the protagonists, a sense of cruelty in the real world of this film, the sadness of the weak in this world, and A helpless and forced resistance is vividly and delicately portrayed. The five girls are actually the hottest part of the whole film, but also the saddest part. The poster of the movie reads "Violent Lolita Bravely Enters Dreamland, Resists Cruel Reality". This is the best summary. It uses five girls' fights, gorgeous costumes, and hot weapons, so that the visual and auditory are completely achieved. The same explosion effect. But the next sentence of this line is "Revolt against the cruel reality". I once watched a movie called "Assault", which also used the experience of several girls in the cave. The film is unique to women. The fear of darkness and suspicion of others, coupled with the eerie colors, make the audience completely in a sense of extreme terror. The same is true for this film. The film deliberately conceals the life experiences of the five girls, which is also shown lightly in the film, but it is a very light feeling that creates a feeling of real bullying and weakness. The performance of the puppets used is even more bleak through the five girls. The helplessness to resist and the desire to escape dominate them at the same time. This is a terrifying but cruel feeling. However, the director's use of five girls may also be the biggest misleading point of the whole film. Some people just regard the five girls as a gorgeous gimmick, so they commented that it was a bad film, and they could not see the sadness. feel.
The structure of the story can be said to derive its own type on the basis of "Inception". Compared with "Inception", of course, this movie still has some shortcomings. Although the dreams are perfect, the connection between each one is not good enough, especially the connection between the main dream and the auxiliary dream seems to be too sudden and not careful enough. Highlight the imagination, but doing it in this way may make people feel that it is not clear enough, and there will be a feeling of incomprehension. This kind of feeling may not be obvious enough in the middle, but it is more vivid at the end. I think the ending is the biggest highlight of the film. It is not until the end that we know that we have all made mistakes. The protagonist is not Baby, but Sweet pea. She is all in her imagination, and this layer of imagination is still a multi-layered dream. I can't tell how many layers it is, maybe two layers, Baby's imagination is on the first floor, the brothel is on the first floor, but it may also be a mental hospital. It was her imagination, or she was still imagining it now, and she still didn't know what the world was outside. The change of the protagonist in the film at this time confuses our thinking about the whole film, requires us to recall the film again, leaves the whole film blank, and finally tests the audience's imagination. Personal point of view, in the whole story, there is only one person, Sweet pea, who ran away from home because of schizophrenia. As the driver said, he got off the bus and went to the toilet halfway. During the time in the car, because of loneliness, he imagined that his companion was wandering in a dream. Fan, came back and found that everything was imaginary, so the driver appeared in the imagination, and the other four girls, maybe the four people she saw on the road, also put their thoughts into it. But anyway the ending is the most gorgeous ending, unexpected and unreasonable! This is a fan for the audience. Personally, I think the ending is comparable to "Inception"!
The whole film focuses on the dreamland, what kind of dreamland it is, an imaginary world parallel to the cruel world, where the courage to resist, the love and free will of others can be found. What exists in this world is love and responsibility. Rocket protects Sweet pea without hesitation when the sharp knife stabs him. Before dying, he hopes that Sweet pea can bring back his mother's love. In the final escape, Baby chose to sacrifice himself to let Sweet pea leave smoothly. This is actually the best interpretation of free will. What is free will? This is the longing for life and the pursuit of freedom, but it is also a responsibility to others. In the dark and cruel reality, never forget to mobilize the love in your heart, whether it is imagined by yourself or given by others, it will illuminate the world in front of you!
Of all the movies I've seen right now, this one is the one that surprised me the most. This is a contradiction, a fusion of fiery and sadness, a synthesis of cowardice and resistance, like a character that should be incongruous, and in our eyes it does seem so harmonious, even perfect. This movie is a blockbuster, personally the best since 2011, and it creates a genre like no other! Really hope to see Baby dance!
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