(First of all, the film is a 93-minute version seen at the First Youth Film Festival, which is different from the 110-minute version screened in Cannes)
Adapted from real events, the theme of the story to explore the truth behind a rape and murder case, with the Indian settlement in Wyoming in the western United States as the background of the story, remote areas and ethnic minorities are not a very popular movie, but watching At that time, because of its subject matter and background, including the cruel natural scenery shown in the lens, I was always distracted by the American dramas "True Detective" and "Wild Hunter". I couldn't help but compare it with this movie while watching it. .
The director edits and guides the best. The script is very solid, mainly reflected in two aspects. One is the plot. It is not like many inference stories that can rely on the speculation of the audience to find the murderer. It does not only concentrate the plot on a few characters for reasoning. Equation. In the case-related reasoning settings, the overall evolution is very reasonable and you can’t guess, because it combines the local geographical environment, cultural ecology and case facts very well, but it has a sense of social reasoning. Make the whole story have a very unique local color.
The second is the characters. Previously, the publicity mentioned the highlights of this movie. Most of them said that the film is a collaboration between "Eagle Eye" and "Scarlet Witch", but in fact this is just a gimmick, and only Jeremy Renner is the whole film. The real soul, a wise and courageous hunter with extremely high emotional intelligence, in a harsh natural environment with year-round blizzards and temperatures as low as minus 20 or 30 degrees in the Indian settlement, centered on this hunter’s perspective, showing People either live stubbornly, or renounce themselves, or desire to escape from the sentient beings. Traveling among the people, wanting to play such a nearly perfect real hero, the mature wisdom shown by "Old Opera Bone" in the movie is something that people can believe. good. This film was released by Weinstein in North America, and I feel that Reiner is also very hopeful that he will get another Oscar nomination with this film.
What moved me the most in the movie was the old Indian whose daughter was raped and killed. He cast a cold eye on the strange FBI detective, and then immediately collapsed in front of a familiar hunter and cried out about the pain of bereavement; but he didn’t. A hopeful life, but because of a renewed call from the son who once gave up, the hope of life is rekindled; as a minority, they are struggling with self-identity and adapting to the real environment. These contradictions and oppositions reflected in the individual are distributed. After the different plot points of the movie, it seems that they are just a few idle pens, but they reflect very moving human characteristics.
On the other hand, the rookie FBI detective starred by Elizabeth Olsen has nothing to do with acting. This role once made me a little confused. Who is she? If her gender is changed to be similar to Matthew McConaughey's dual male lead partner Woody Harrison in "True Detective", it seems that the story is still completely valid, but the character is slightly different. This character is heavily symbolized, a "new intruder", a "rookie detective" who knows nothing about this place, and its function is only to bridge the hunter played by Renner-letting the hunter's pursuit of murder have a role Reasonable reason.
Let’s come back to the director’s 47-year-old "old debut". Li Ziwei, the executive officer of the first screening before the film, could not help but express his envy for the high starting point of this overseas "first work". Indeed, it supports this film. The team behind the work is hard to compare with many young directors in China. In addition to the cast, the excellent photography in the film, Ben Richardson, who took the spotlight for it, has already become famous with "The Beasts of the South" and "The Fault in the Stars"; the legendary musicians Nick Cave and Warren Ellis made the soundtrack for the film and continued from the previous film "Walking Through Water and Fire." 》The partnership formed. If this film is a beautiful "black poetry" visually and audiovisually, the harsh blizzard, the frosty snow-capped mountains under the lens of Ben Richardson, and the gloomy and gloomy soundtrack of Nick Cave, the combination of the two makes a great contribution. In addition, the producer of this film also mentioned in the post-screening interview that in the bad weather environment, as the movie said, "Here was a blizzard an hour ago, but now it’s sunny again." Although the filming stops, but he is very patient, in line with the director's rhythm, this kind of creative team that can "wait for the cloud" together is very important for the growth of a new director.
Finally, let me talk about some of the regrets of the film. In addition to the symbolic and functional issues of the female lead mentioned above, this version is only 93 minutes compared to the 110 minutes of the previous Cannes screening, which is a lot less. The relevant staff said this is because The director's own choice, re-edited the film, including additional shots added to the Cannes screening, and this version will only be shown once in the current first, and will be modified later, the North American version and later The Chinese version is probably different from this version. However, the shortcomings of the current version are obvious. The performance of some sensitive details of the key plot is too little, which leads to the end, the hunting is very strong. In contrast, the emotional side is due to the insufficient layering of the previous scenes, but there will be some This kind of imbalance of excessive force/insensitivity cannot form a real resonance in what you see and feel.
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