The tension of time and story structure

Torey 2022-03-22 09:01:38

Yet another underrated film about a criminal 25 hours before he goes to jail. It's one of the top ten New York stories I've seen, and the top five Edward Norton movies. Since the development of the film, the pictures and special effects have become more and more gorgeous, but the story itself has not changed so much. For a long time, the theater industry believed that there were only 36 kinds of dramatic conflicts worth telling in the world, all of which were played by Shakespeare. As long as someone tells a story, no matter what the medium of expression is, the result is nothing more than these 36 dramatic conflicts or a combination of them. 25 Hours is such a movie that can take a step forward in terms of plot and conflict settings. It tells about the 25 hours before a drug lord was imprisoned, and the limited story structure unfolds with great tension.

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Extended Reading
  • Telly 2022-01-26 08:16:48

    You know how they find people? They find them when they come home.People went away, but they usually come back, that's why they got caught.So you go, and never come back, never come home.

  • Lavonne 2022-03-23 09:01:44

    The humanistic care that Spike Lee gave to the film makes people feel warm, and the title of the film is also thought-provoking, and the translation of "The Turning Moment" is too straightforward

25th Hour quotes

  • Monty Brogan: [puts abused dog in the trunk] I'm trying to help you, you little prick! Huh? Come on, come on... quién es más macho? Monty es más macho!

    Kostya Novotny: What goes on in your little head?

    Monty Brogan: Little the tricks, little the quicks... boom, bam, snap!

    Kostya Novotny: Yeah... little tricks, little quicks. You're bleeding, you get bite.

    Monty Brogan: Dog's blood. You gotta learn to relax a little bit... live a little.

    Kostya Novotny: You have hole in neck and blood is coming out.

    Monty Brogan: A little love bite for saving his raggedy ass.

    Kostya Novotny: Rule number one; you can not grab half-dead animals! We have people waiting for us! People with money! You want to play this cowboy, no... dogboy, in the middle of the highway.

    Monty Brogan: Dogboy? That's funny, Kotsya... you really mastered the language.

    Kostya Novotny: Yes, funny... funny. You're bad luck... you bring bad luck on me. Always everything that can go wrong, go wrong. It's not just you and me anymore, when we go out... it's you and me and Doyle.

    Monty Brogan: Who's Doyle?

    Kostya Novotny: Doyle! Doyle's law. What?

    Monty Brogan: It's Murphy.

    Kostya Novotny: Who is Murphy?

    Monty Brogan: Who's Murphy? Who's Doyle! It's Murphy's law... "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong"?

    Kostya Novotny: Him, yes!

    Monty Brogan: Yes, him.

  • Kostya Novotny: I pick her out special just for you.

    Monty Brogan: The last girl you picked out special for me had three teeth, all in the back.

    Kostya Novotny: Funny you should say that.

    [laughs]

    Monty Brogan: Why? Why is it funny I should say that?

    Kostya Novotny: What you say, it was funny.

    Monty Brogan: Kostya, you can't... when you...

    Monty Brogan: It's an expression. If you say that...

    Frank Slaughtery: It's a, uh, euphemism, right?

    Monty Brogan: Can you explain this? You're the English teacher.

    Jakob Elinsky: Uh...

    Jakob Elinsky: I think what he means, Kostya, is that when you say, "Funny you should say that," that means that it reminds you of a funny story.

    Monty Brogan: Exactly.

    Kostya Novotny: No, no. It was funny what you say... "Funny you should say that."

    Monty Brogan: It still makes no fucking sense. This is what I deal with.