Four hundred years of shock?

Therese 2021-10-22 14:31:27

What kind of love can make people willingly abandon their faith and sell their souls? What kind of love can transcend the boundary of life and death and remain unchanged for four hundred years? "The Four Hundred Years of Frightening Love" seems to tell us that love is eternal. The sublimation of love after the baptism of wind and rain can extinguish all flames of resentment, and can purify the twisted heart, and finally make the devil obtain redemption and eternal life in the great enlightenment. . This is just a cliché story, a love story about a vampire, or, it can be regarded as a horror story, but it is only a third-rate film. Although the director tried to create a horror + bloody atmosphere from the beginning to the end, it did achieve the goal to a certain extent, but the emotions and behaviors of the characters in the play showed obvious clumsiness and ridiculousness, which made people shake their heads and wasted. Such actors, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Gary Oldman who looks like Johnny Depp (this first protagonist should have more room to play, it’s a shame), and There are almost only two scenes of the vase Monica Bellucci (although I have to admit that only a few glimpses, the good figure is already drooling), the facial and surface design of the character design does not require acting skills. . Similarly, the result of ignoring the plot not only weakened the atmosphere that should have been more intense and exciting, but also pushed the whole film into a situation that is not embarrassing or embarrassing. Is Dracula personable? not necessarily. It’s just that his so-called prince status and his unpredictable mysterious temperament are enough to make a young, passionate, unchanging life, plain as water, about to marry a woman and a fiance who is not around, tempted and even enamored, but if you say that it is love , It is too superficial. Knowing the truth, even though Mina could not accept that Dracula was the culprit who killed Lucy, she still had no hesitation in becoming a vampire and never separated from him for life and life. Isn't this a kind of perversion? Even if her mind goes back to four hundred years ago, it is impossible to change the nature of her kindness. If unreasonable is the temptation of love, then this temptation is fatal, if blindness is the power of love, then this power is evil. I can't agree with the screenwriter's good intentions, and I can't accept the sublimation of the ending without a transition. Transformed into an awe-inspiring main theme film that saves the people in a flash, doesn't it feel too far-fetched? The ending is predictable, a damn death or a confession death, but who is the final winner? Is it Dr. Van Helsing? God? justice? Still, love? Maybe both, maybe neither. I only know that this film will not win the hearts of the audience. "Before God, my love frees us from the curse of darkness, and our love is stronger than death." This is an inner monologue like a concluding statement

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Dracula quotes

  • Van Helsing: We have learned much. Dracula fears us. He fears time. For if he does not, why does he hurry so.

  • [last lines]

    Mina: [narrating] There, in the presence of God, I understood at last how love could release us all from the power of darkness. Our love is stronger than death.

    Dracula: Give me peace.

    Mina: [impales him with the sword, then kisses him, then beheads him]