"That cliché story" refers to the conspiracy films that "blame the CIA, the FBI, and the multinational corporations" that have emerged in Hollywood in recent years. The plot is generally like this: an innocent person dies inexplicably, an unrelated person accidentally becomes an investigator, under a cloud of suspicion, he discovers that the death of the deceased is "not that simple", and a step-by-step investigation enables him to uncover an unfathomable mystery. Conspiracy, and knowing that led him to the fate of being hunted, he finally managed to reveal the secret - wow, so appalling! It turned out to be a conspiracy of the CIA, a conspiracy of the FBI, a conspiracy of multinational corporations - it doesn't matter which of these three, they are all one family anyway.
Otherwise how can I bemoan "it's not like that". In the Bourneaux series, the CIA is a training camp for killer machines; in The Immortal Gardener, a congressman and a pharmaceutical company team up to murder the poor in Africa; in Syriaa, the CIA and an oil company conspire to assassinate the Middle East Prince... After having been baptized by so many political conspiracy films, I thought that with Mr. Polanski's background in making literary films and his shocking life, he could make a good chess game on the subject of the Iraq War, but he The raised pawn stayed in the air for a long time, and finally landed on the cliché of "CIA conspiracy".
"Shadow Writer" is almost a film of critical realism: the former British Prime Minister Long has stepped down, but he has almost become a street rat for involving Britain in the Iraq War and prisoner abuse scandal while in office, and has been prosecuted by an international court. At this time his biographer Mike suddenly committed suicide, and a new shadow writer came to Lang's house. Originally, the writer just wanted to make some "quick money", but he discovered all kinds of doubts about Lang's life through Mike's relics. He began to investigate the real reason why Lang pushed Britain into the Iraq War. A thrilling investigation began, and finally He found...what else could he find, like other directors with excess sense of justice, he found the unlucky CIA.
Also, no one is criticizing who the CIA criticizes now. Criticizing religious extremists may be subject to their fierce protests, criticizing terrorists, beware of people wearing suicide bombs to visit your house, criticizing dictators in authoritarian regimes, beware of foreign ministry protests, persimmons still have to find soft pinch, only scolding CIA politics The safest place to go - the CIA can't organize employees to protest at the director's door. Besides, this CIA with a bruised nose and a swollen face has already had 10,000 feet on it, so why not get 10,000 and one more. Criticizing the CIA is not only safe, but also gorgeous - the righteous hormones in the audience's blood vessels at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour are looking for an exit, please give the verb "down" an object, a concise object, an object that screams crisp , now Polanski handed this object to the audience, thank you director, bring down the CIA, oh yeah.
The plot of the conspiracy theory is understandable in a movie like The Bourne because it is originally an action movie for entertainment purposes, but it is disappointing in "The Shadow Writer" because it chooses a reality Doctrine, because Polanski seems to have bigger ambitions than entertaining audiences, because it could have been a platform for a serious debate about the Iraq war to really unfold.
The appeal of conspiracy theories is clear at a glance: the world is screamingly complicated, and the answers provided by conspiracy theories are simple and straightforward. It simplifies the world from a question-and-answer question to a true-false question, from an intellectual question to a moral one. When a country is involved in a war, there must be comprehensive factors of national interests, private interests, values, ideology, government, and the people driving it, but the “national interests, private interests, and values” must be promoted. , ideological, government, and civil factors" as the object of "down" is too long and too convoluted to meet the needs of the people to raise their arms and shout. Thus, under Polanski's lens, such a complicated matter originated from a female college student who accidentally chose a course from a professor 30 years ago.
Of course, it's not that the director didn't tell the story from Lang's point of view at all. After being indicted in court, Playboy Long finally got a chance to say: "These are strange times where people who fight for freedom are punished and terrorists are seen as innocent victims." Written later with Shadow on the plane During the hand-to-hand debate, Lang got another opportunity to counter the accusation, but it was a pity that Polanski was so stingy with Lang that he seemed to have less than a minute to defend himself. The scene on the plane made me almost think that the movie was about to turn a corner, turning from a glass of Coke into a glass of vodka, but Polanski's hand hesitated for a moment, and he gulped the Coke down.
But Sky is still Sky after all, and while the plot is disappointing, the cinematography is still poetic. In the final scene, after the screeching of the car, the draft of Lang's biography takes off page by page on the streets of London, very literary, very tragic, very Polanski. I was puzzled by the style, but I almost laughed out loud: Wow, Lang's wife Ruth is too amazing. She has been loyal to the CIA for 30 years without any regrets, betrayed the country for it, used her husband, and devoted her youth and love. He almost took out seven matches from the pool of blood. I don't think poetry can save mediocrity, and elegant mediocrity is just mediocrity. I don't think Mr. Shadow is a writer. How can there be no stapler at home.
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