I am really a person who doesn't watch movies, and I was invited to go, but this film was proposed by me, the only reason is MIYAVI . Actually, I'm not a fan of MIYAVI either. I know that this film is only because of a piece of news about "Unbroken's Miyavi Signs With WME", and WME is YOSHIKI's agency...Anyways, I was seriously surprised by the pictures in this report, what? , Is MIYAVI so handsome? Among the four members of YOSHIKI's short-lived SKIN group, including the borrowed Ju-Ken, MIYAVI is the least familiar to me, nothing else, he is really not my type in makeup.
But now MIYAVI is a handsome man who is close to people's hearts, and his temperament is like he just came down from Dior Homme's runway. His fashion is in a mess. Some bloggers commented on him as "outshines Jack (O'Connell) and Angelina". Although he is still not necessarily my type, but from the perspective of watching the fun, I am also happy to see this (former?) visual rock musician making a move internationally.
In the case of Unbroken, MIYAVI did attract a lot of buzz, and while it was his first real film, Huffington Post had him early on at No. 7 on "The 22 Most Likely to Win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor" During the Sydney premiere, there were tabloids rumors that he had a special intimacy with Angelina Jolie, which caused Brad Pitt to get jealous and quarreled with Angelina on the balcony of their Sydney hotel room. In terms of media exposure, Daily Mail, The Guardian, Vanity Fair and other well-known media, not to mention it, even the New York Times ( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/movies/miyavi-on-his- unbroken-experience.html?_r=0) and TIME ( http://time.com/3629038/miyavi-unbroken/ ) also published feature articles about MIYAVI on the eve of its release, coupled with controversial topics such as the Japanese right-wing boycott of the film, it can be seen that he is promoting an important role in the process.
So I went to contribute a little bit of the box office today. However, due to doing a lot of background research before, and the embarrassment of zero nominations for the Golden Globes, I didn't expect too much from this film. After watching it, I feel that it has met my expectations, and it is not bad at the average level, and MIYAVI's performance, especially from the perspective of new actors, is quite good.
The biggest problem is undoubtedly that there is no story, no climax, the plot is a bit repetitive, and the audience gets tired easily. For example, when I floated at sea until Day 3, I already thought "it's okay", when I was catching seagulls and fishing, I thought "it's almost there", but I didn't expect to float for forty days, catching birds and sharks... The deceased comrades did not receive much condolences from me, and the Japanese finally sighed with relief when they found them.
And the plot in the POW camp is also somewhat self-repeating. Of course, people who have grown up in China have long had unlimited imagination. The corporal torture of prisoners in this film could not cause the Chinese audience to exclaim, at most when the bird suddenly beats someone, "ouch", but also regret this. Just saying "you are enemies of Japan and you will be treated accordingly" is really insipid.
It's worth mentioning that the flashbacks of Louie's past in the first half are still pretty good, but his brother's shouting "if you can take it you can get it" to him is a bit of a sermon.
MIYAVI's role is a little less for a nympho like me, and it can be seen that there is no plan to dig too much into the hearts of the characters, even the protagonist Louie has no inner drama. However, he could still vaguely see his unhappiness, so when he finally asked Louie to lift the wood, Louie's persistence was like a punch in his face, and at this time, the Axis powers were over, and he could see that his heart was collapsing. In this scene, MIYAVI's performance can be considered brilliant, the change of expression is very good, it is worthwhile for him to vomit out of the pressure when filming.
Of course, in terms of "urinating spots", this film is full of peeing spots, which is probably the rhythm that can be picked up when you go out to the toilet at any time and come back. The most outstanding point is the real photos of Louie and others at the end. This is probably the true story that Zhang Ailing said has its own unique charm. Especially when Louie passed the torch for the Nagano Winter Olympics, the theater broke into applause, I was also infected with some tears, as MIYAVI said in the interview, "everyone was smiling and that's the message".
Speaking of MIYAVI, the problem now may be that his most core fans, the people who have liked him since the 2000s, are disapproving of his current "washed-out" style of surrendering to mainstream aesthetics. Attitude, and some people even sarcastically say marrying a good wife. Even if he does win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, which is virtually impossible, this crowd doesn't care much. Ordinary viewers who are attracted by his current appearance as a good citizen may feel quite high when they see his visual attitude back then. Perhaps the biggest obstacle is that Unbroken's subject matter is controversial in Japan, which has led to the fact that Japan, which likes Japanese people to be active internationally, has not paid enough attention to him. For me, although I want to add wax to the visual department, I still hope that he will take this opportunity to develop further. Don't you see RollingStone ( http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/miyavi-unbroken-20141224 ) are also interested in the rock musician's film appearance?
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