Score: One-star The
biggest disaster in Cannes this year is born, congratulations to Sean Penn's "The Last Look". The film is a caricature of the director's own filmmaking: a ridiculous love story; a crude political plot that makes you impatient; stupid lines that make the audience laugh out loud; The White Left Humanitarian Manifesto. This movie is amazingly bad. The gap between Sean Penn's ambitions and his directing ability has risen to the point of shame this time around. It's too prudish for a film that's stern and didactic to succeed at being utterly boring.
The movie begins with a flashback. Charlize Theron's heroine (who seems to have "Oh my God why am I filming this" on her face all the time) is the head of an international aid agency who's about to see waste in paying taxes at a glance People speak at an awards ceremony for money. She began to reflect on her time as a medical aid volunteer in Africa, when civil wars were in full swing, and reflected on her relationship with the lead actor, played by Javier Bardem. Their love story thus becomes the axis of the entire film. Other themes the film tries to present, such as war, can only be reduced to the background of their poignant romance, while stumbled upon the romance when necessary.
Ironically, even though this is a movie about black people, the black characters get very few lines in the film. The climax of the film is also handled so clumsily that it can only feel awkward and unresonant. In the context of such a story, there must be some so-called ideological conflict between men and women. Sean Penn does live up to expectations, but the performance of this conflict is not only for the couple to use vague mutual roars and comics at every turn. There is nothing new outside of the performance. The political elements in the film are childish, while the love part is really funny.
There are more flaws in this film. Two expected actors, Adele Xalehoboulos and Jean Reno, are weakened in the film to the point that they pop like botched bubbles. Adele seems to be on the wrong set, while Jean Reno is talking nonsense and loves to spread all kinds of life philosophies, such as "This is not war, this is love." After releasing such lines, Sean Penn will be keen to Insert a close-up shot of a rival actor, trying as hard as he can to capture their stunned, stunned expressions to convey the power of the so-called lines. What are these actors saying? What the hell are these lines? Not even Sean Penn himself. Even so, he is still not willing to give up the use of out-of-focus lenses, maybe he wants the audience to experience the vision of myopic characters more personally! The failure of the film is naturally also credited to screenwriter Erin Dignam. The script she created did not show a little bit of intelligence, imagination and self-consciousness, but instead tortured the audience with dry and inexplicable voiceovers. This movie is a mess, downright embarrassing.
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