Disappointing results.
The whole film is full of Buddhists, Quakers, Gandhi (it seems that in American movies, Gandhi is mentioned far more often than Confucius), heaven and hell, Jesus and so on. Maybe the religious implications of this movie don't resonate with me as a non-believer.
When I watched Killer, I laughed until the end and couldn't. This movie never laughs once.
The biggest problem is that the movie doesn't tell a story. Just a few short stories. The story of the Vietnamese monk can barely be said to be related to the main line (it is a reflection of the protagonists discussing their outlook on life). The story of the rabbit and the black girl has nothing to do with the main line. The Quakers are also a separate complete story, but the final awakening of the protagonist overlaps with the main line. All in all, it's very messy. "The Hitman," by contrast, is a complete story in which every character has a role to play -- to move the story forward, and each pusher sets the end of the story as the movie presents it. After reading it, I seem to understand something, not to mention, in a word, it is a story with complete twists and turns, unexpected and reasonable.
In comparison, "Shen Qi" is too scattered. What the author wants to express is too divine.
Also, I don't like that lead character. Because of his own paranoia, he killed his friend's wife and friend. It does not matter whether the friend himself begged for death, or whether he was liberated by begging for death. Most importantly, kill an innocent woman. I have the same view as Brother Nongmei on this point. Especially this woman is not very wrong. As she herself said, maintaining a relationship with two neuropathy is the biggest problem.
Well, maybe I didn't get it. But I have to admit, if I make another dark comedy with the same sophisticated design as "The Killer", I may say again: How can it be the same as "The Killer"!
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