Let's first introduce the director Alex de la Iglesia, a Spanish film director who won many nominations and awards at the 67th Venice Film Festival with "Sad Trumpet", and is also the director of "Perfect Stranger". "The director of the film.
When it comes to Spanish films, one can't help but think of terms such as low-cost, responsive to human nature, intense indulgence, intense excitement, high scores, and so on. If you are a person who likes intense plots, then you must not miss this "El Bar", let's briefly describe the plot of the movie.
A group of 11 people, they are the heroine who is beautiful, dressed elegantly and has a disorderly private life, a middle-aged man who sells sexy lingerie and a neat suit, a mentally ill homeless who used to have a happy life, and a middle-aged man who often goes to bars to play slot machines. Women, bearded male protagonist of an advertising agency (Perfect Stranger), a controlling retired police officer, a colonel who rushed into a bar toilet, a cleaner, a female bar owner and beat her for fifteen years clerk, and a complaining man who appeared on the scene for less than three minutes.
Eleven people with different occupations, experiences, and personalities gathered in a bar because of coincidence. When the complaining man walked out of the bar, he was shot down to the ground, and the cleaner was also shot while he went out to rescue. Shot to death, while everyone was discussing, the two corpses disappeared and the blood was washed away. The underwear man suspects that some of them are bomb terrorists, and the government intends to sacrifice everyone in order to eliminate hidden dangers. The bearded male protagonist secretly went to hide his backpack, but was found by everyone, so he started a bag search storm. During the whole process, no bomb was found, but the box of a middle-aged man with a straight suit was found. All were women's erotic lingerie. At this moment, the bar toilet made a sound, and after opening the door, he found a dying colonel lying on the ground. At this time, the car of the government army was parked at the entrance of the bar. The army did not enter the bar, but set up tires at the entrance and burned them, causing thick black smoke. The news was also broadcast on TV, but the shooting was not reported. It was reported that there was a fire here. The crowd once again fell into panic. At this time, the colonel walked out of the toilet stiffly, lay down straight in front of the crowd and died of bleeding from his ears. The crowd dug out the major's mobile phone and found out the identity of the colonel and the fact that the colonel was suffering from an African infectious disease. At this time, the male protagonist discovered that the mobile phone had a signal, but the noise of the clerk and the competition for the mobile phone attracted everyone's attention. At this time, the underwear man reacted that the person who touched the colonel might also be infected with the infectious disease, so he used a gun in the retired policeman. Under the coercion of the shopkeeper and the underwear man, the rest were rushed to the basement storage room for isolation. After a long time, the army entered the bar and shot and burned them. The people hiding in the underground storage room were spared, and the outside of the bar was also blocked by the army. They looked through the colonel's mobile phone and found that the colonel had injected a drug that may not be effective. Resist the medicine, and there are four left. The homeless man rushed into the toilet and got the injection first. The male protagonist and the homeless scuffled. During the fight, the resistance medicine fell into the sewer, so everyone decided to let the slender female protagonist apply oil through the entrance of the sewer to get the medicine and become a woman. After the Lord got the medicine, he hid the resistance medicine and let the rest of the people come down to get it through the entrance. Everyone decided to use an iron pillar to smash the narrow entrance of the sewer to escape. Then a new problem was coming. The resistance medicine only There are three remaining and there are four at this time. After entering the sewer, the beggar and the male protagonist scuffled. After a few shots, only the male protagonist crawled out of the sewage. In the process of looking for the exit, the clerk accidentally fell into the water, and the middle-aged woman wanted to take advantage of the chaos to drown the clerk, but was found by the male owner, and the middle-aged woman was also ashamed of everyone and decided to commit suicide to solve the problem of insufficient drug quantity. At this time, wandering Han suddenly appeared and beat the clerk to death, chasing the hero and heroine. As he ran to the exit, the heroine's medicine dropped, and the homeless chased after him. This was the hero's decision to deliver the medicine. For the heroine and the homeless to die together. At the end of the film, the heroine was injected with drugs and walked into the crowd, as if she had been reborn in her soul.
The language, actions and expressions of all the characters in this film are vividly interpreted, and each person's character is very clearly shaped and has a strong sense of immersion. However, there are still many problems in the overall plot, such as:
1. Two people were shot and killed outside the bar, but everyone could sit in their respective seats and watch TV shows
2. When I first met the male protagonist, I was very daring to touch the female protagonist's body, but the female protagonist didn't mind or agree with the male protagonist's small actions, which made people feel inconsistent with reality and very uncomfortable.
3. There are no shameful things in the male owner's bag. Why should he hide the bag?
4. The image of the colonel is thought to be a zombie movie, which is slightly off-screen
5. Middle-aged women with strong desire to survive commit suicide
6. Why didn't you break the sewer entrance in the first place?
7. The character of the male protagonist is changeable, and it feels like a forced play
And I think the most successful characters in the whole film are the heroine and the homeless. When entering the bar, the heroine dressed in noble clothes but still living in material life and the heroine who escaped from the dirty sewers formed more than appearance. In contrast, the bible recited by the tramp from time to time is also the finishing touch, and the chase scene of the tramp at the end of the plot is also very immersive. The homeless man has taken off all his pretense and has always shown his true nature to the public, while others have done a lot of ugly things in appearance.
Overall, this movie is still worth watching. If the plot is more detailed, plus a reversal (a middle-aged woman asks the male protagonist to shoot and kill the drug) I believe it can still be better. floors.
Quoting a sentence from the male protagonist in the film to end the review: "Fear makes us expose our truest side!"
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