The great master of conspiracy movies~~~
Hitchcock used cinematic footage to pave the way for suspense.
Martin Scorsese uses fear to foreshadow suspense.
Polanski, on the other hand, uses the story itself to create suspense.
Every master handled it very well.
I believe that the audience of "Mysterious Island" will also like "The Shadow Writer", but the styles and plot worlds of the two films are quite different.
But the pleasure is the same. (I
am not writing a movie review, but I really recommend the movie.) I think the success of "Shadow Writer" is because of the ending. If it weren't for that touch of gold, the film would have been reduced to a middling hit. rather than being a classic.
But the master is a master after all, and "Shadow", like "Mysterious Island" and "Memento", gives people an unforgettable ending. And "Shadow" is even more powerful in that it gives people two memorable endings. Intertwined, people constantly recall that the first two hours of the movie have been making a strong foreshadowing for the ending, but no one knows it.
The entire movie plot is arranged by the director in an orderly manner, all the places that should be explained are explained, and the places that should not be confounded are not played deeply. Together with the protagonist, the audience uncovers the mystery layer by layer, until the end. The audience, like the protagonist, reminisces about this ending.
The characters in the whole film are the key, and the clues really come second. The opposite of this element completely subverts the rule that suspense films focus on clues. Characters that cannot be guessed, clues that are neither true nor false, justice and evil that cannot be understood. The whole movie is full of conspiracy theories. People who like politics must not miss Polanski's "Shadow Writer".
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