here is my mentality of viewing
the film outset throw two clear expectations, but the story is his story on ...
1 began with an intermittent shots of the trial, apparently protagonist now facing a career In the face of the challenge of the opponent's lawyer, what choice should the protagonist make? This diamond-ranked lawyer with a winning rate of more than 95% at first glance, will he defeat his opponent again this time and successfully kill the super god? How will he behead the opponent's lawyer in a dashing, eloquent and witty way? The unresolved aspect of the protagonist's work has left audiences old and new with anticipation.
2 shots then orderly outline the various midlife crises of the protagonist's standard middle-class life, including his telling his daughter that he thought his father was dead , and his wife's various complaints about him neglecting his family because of his work. A man with a successful career, a father, and the backbone of society, why does he describe his father like this? So is it his father's problem or his character flaw? Unhappy childhood? .. What are his ways to kill two birds with one stone in the face of the balance between career and family that urban white-collar workers will face? What truths of life will be uncovered at the end of the story? Unresolved aspects of the protagonist's life. It also makes new and old audiences full of expectations.
In other words, the screenwriter's plan was to successfully make the audience find the feeling, and find a feeling of spiritual baptism, spiritual return, and emotional catharsis relying on this film. (At this time, as an audience member, my expression shows the joy of finally looking forward to being like "The Weatherman" and "Becoming Flynn", with family affection, inspiration, and a good film time)
Then the story can be unfolded very logically, through one incident to solve all the contradictions, return to one's own life, solve all contradictions, resolve the contradiction between father and son, resolve the marital crisis on the edge, and get back as a lawyer profound meaning. An unexpected and reasonable move made the opening trial come to a successful conclusion. After viewing, the audience in this class will empathize with this, and cause reflection on themselves: in their successful career, why would there still be such and such loss control? Why is there always so much focus on winning? Why lose more in the pursuit of winning? Such reflections, every time the audience sees this, due to the inertia of thinking generated by American imperial films, what the audience often expects in their hearts is actually four words: benefit a lot.
The ingeniousness of the screenwriter lies in the setting of the father's role, from occupation to character, a father in the same industry can easily help him find his professional mission as a lawyer by example, from how to think about the extension of the law to how to think about justice. Justice, from the meaning of work to the meaning of life. In such a structure, the screenwriter can not only design the personality conflict between the two in life, but also design the conflict of views between the two in work. The more conflicts there are, the more opportunities to create meaning. It can be said that it is difficult not to shake you to death if you use the space.
Even more ingenious is the design of the core story. The father, who is a justice, is charged with murder, the person who defends the law has broken the law this time, and the person sitting on the trial table is tried this time. How dramatic is this? The theme of the story, what a rare good story, in the process of developing the main line of the story of the son saving the father, the deep digging of concepts such as law, justice, and morality has provided sufficient space and extension for Expand the process of the son reading the father.
But why didn't the film show the tension it should have? Or, when you look at it, the initial "beneficial" expectations for it have failed. In general, the homework on the layout, conception, and conception has been done very standard, and there are tricks that keep pace with the times on top of the standard ----- the current nonsensical style sideline incest task. But the main reason for failure, I think, is the most critical,
1 The screenwriter's multi-line battle leads to the final unfinished end (Wu Dan Sanlu, Er and other junglers) is like playing a big early stage hero in Dota. The most taboo is to be too confident. , Although there are a lot of people, there are also a lot of gifts, so in the later stage, various problems are exposed, and it becomes more and more powerless. The sense of expectation that was cultivated for the audience at the beginning was dissipated one by one in the process of the story unfolding. The main foreshadowing at the beginning was lost at the end, or it was nothing, or it ended hastily. This is all caused by being clever, such as the protagonist at the beginning. The result of the court trial that I faced was left unresolved, perhaps because the screenwriter confidently thought: "This story is written, the subsequent court trial and the outcome are what you should be concerned about, and the outcome of the previous matter is irrelevant." , and just ignores that the appearance of this court trial is to serve to recover the father-son relationship and the sense of professional mission, so as to give a clear answer to the various contradictions in the protagonist's previous work and life, at least there should be such a scene. Otherwise, why are you paving it?
As well as the marriage crisis faced by the protagonist at the beginning of the chapter, there is no text at all. Instead, a new relationship that rekindles an old relationship has developed instead, making the burden of the opening chapter and the result of the story that follow.
In addition, a ridiculous incest subplot that was originally designed to cater to the elements of the times, like the soundtracker of this film, frequently appeared in the wrong place, when the "paternity test" result was arranged at the end, it just disturbed the cohesion at the end. The touching effect of emotional strength can be said to be seen here. The screenwriter wants to bring in all the elements, but when they collide, they have no ability to break them apart, resulting in no one succeeding.
2 The director's grasp of the emotional release of the story is not enough, the emotional point is inaccurate, the impact is not strong, it is loose and scattered, and the detail carving is insufficient. So not only failed to make up for the shortcomings of the script, but made the failure of the script more obvious. The most obvious is that the ending is split into two scenes,
The first scene is fishing with the father. This bridge echoes the father and son's childhood fishing experience is a very standard routine, but the emotional introduction is very weak, so that the audience will not have a strong emotional impact after seeing this scene, and burst into tears. Because the director's content design for the father and son fishing incident in childhood is not detailed and rich enough, the fishing plot can be paved in detail before, creating a little tension. For example, the father and son fishing incident in childhood is designed as a not very satisfactory. The experience eventually broke up, and it turned out to be one of the unfulfilled wishes of the two. Now that the son's emotions have returned after the incident of his father's imprisonment, the two have the opportunity to sit down and fulfill this wish, but the dramatic thing is that this little thing is the last thing that can make up for communication with the father. This kind of emotional tension of "the son wants to be filial but the relative is not there, can't wait to express family affection" will strongly bombard the audience's emotions, generate resonance, and pay attention to tears.
The second scene is when the two brothers say goodbye after the funeral. The older brother lost the chance to become a star because of the mistakes of the protagonist. This incident is repeatedly brought up in the film from different angles, but the younger brother has always remained silent about it. The impression of the expression, this is still a burden, and at this time, it is necessary to accumulate all the emotional power before it erupts in this scene. It is expressed directly by the protagonist, or it may be expressed laterally by a simple sentence from my brother, such as this dialogue with
my brother: "Hey, boy, I know you are going to leave again... (a few seconds of silent staring at each other)
"Listen , I know that you have been worried about that car accident,"
"No matter when, you know that I never blame you, you know, this is life" (truly revealing the eldest brother's simple and ordinary outlook on life in the film)
and the younger brother still It's that cynical, yuppie, cold-hearted, just nodding perfunctorily and walking out (the scene where the protagonist is wearing sunglasses outside the door), but the protagonist should suddenly stop on the road, making mixed feelings and complicated , Thoughtful, the expression of an adult man does not reveal the slightest remorse and sadness, but it surpasses all the emotional impact of tears to the audience. The audience is thinking that although the prodigal son has not looked back, he is no longer the prodigal son.
Instead of walking away recklessly, as shown in the film.
3 Unlucky Downey. If the expressive effect of this film is as expected, then Downey's acting skills are unique. Now, many people have attributed Downey's acting skills to a key point of the film's inadequacies. Why is Downey still acting? Statements like Iron Man is more appropriate, this is not very appropriate.
4. There are many screenwriters and directors of movies with flaws, but because the emotional effect of the soundtrack is too tear-jerking, the movie has also become a classic inexplicably. Obviously, this most perfunctory way of success does not belong to this movie. , the final savior of the composer was also an unsatisfactory player, and finally chose a good work by an independent singer called holoence (this is not a new song), but he used the wrong place twice, and this inspirational routine A very "retro" film lacks a theme motivation in the soundtrack to run through the whole film (such as the theme motivation of the soundtrack that emerges from time to time in "Happiness Knocks on the Door")
. The sense of play is very strong, and even makes the audience think that they are Truman from time to time. For example, in this dialogue
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"it 's you", "what?"
"You asked me before who is the best lawyer I know, it's you"
is actually similar to It's okay to use this kind of family plot that has been abused by many movies once. The film has been tried and tested.
6 The most touching thing is the ending of the main story. It is not whether the father died or not, but how he died, whether he died on the back of the crime, or because the murderer was cleared of the crime and died in a righteous image.
There is a gap between the version in front of me and the excellent works. The screenwriter's handling is not clever and profound, and it is somewhat ambiguous. It is obvious that the screenwriter is in a dilemma and perfunctory.
As an audience, I am more looking forward to an ending where the murderer is someone else. The film repeatedly gives some close-ups of the deceased's mother's expressions and reactions, and leaves more room for fuss about the behavior of the deceased's mother. Maybe The writer considers an ending where the murderer is someone else. For example, the deceased died in a drunken accident and rolled off a cliff by himself. At that time, the justice happened to drive his car into a tree near the deceased's accident site and was knocked unconscious. The mother of the deceased smeared blood on the justice's body in order to frame the crime and avenge the justice. in the car.
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