If you don't want to pretend, this is a bad movie, it's rubbish, but it's a fine piece of rubbish. Many people may be fascinated by "refinement" and ignore the essence of garbage. Of course, there will be many people who use this kind of "exquisite" to pretend, which is the normal state of the Internet.
The movie adopts a two-line mode, which we will see in "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and "Blind Assassin". The two-line model is not just about telling two different stories. The key is that the fictional and real stories must have an external or spiritual inner connection. In "Nocturnal Animals", I think the two stories are disconnected, and there is no connection in fact. Of course, between any two things, as long as you want, you will find some kind of connection, and it is easy to be far-fetched.
In addition to the lack of convincing connection between the reality in the movie and the fictional story in the novel, another serious problem is that the two stories are surprisingly boring, and they are both old memes that have been used thousands of times. The fictional revenge story, the real marriage is the story of love's grave, it's really hard for me to feel it. Judging from the story and meaning, it is indeed rubbish or boring.
So why are so many people rounding up and praising this movie? Of course, it's to pretend to be a force, and the "exquisiteness" in the movie and the identity of the director's fashion circle will make petty bourgeois talk about it, such as the dance of the two women at the beginning of the movie, and some "golden sentences" of the actors, etc., It is basically useless for the plot, but it will make the Internet petty bourgeois reverie (or fantasize). We must know that the Internet discourse is mastered by the petty bourgeoisie.
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