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Compassion spreads
Aracely 2022-12-02 22:51:52
Giuseppe Tonatore's resume has a long list of classic films that have nourished a generation of Chinese movie fans, "Cinema Paradiso", "The Scout", "The Pianist at Sea", "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily"... However, his new work in 2006 is almost silent and rarely mentioned. Maybe people are tired of the trendy theme of female revenge? "The Hidden" still maintains Tonatore's usual classical dramatic tension, full of emotion, rigorous structure, restrained actors' performances, and even those overindulgent erotic scenes, and the ending is just right, but the first impression of the film does not Unpleasant, the intuition it gives is unreal, how it looks like an overly dramatic and abstract social news movie version translated directly from the newspaper, its sublime depiction of motherhood is not so much superfluous as it is It was an inattention that caused the distortion. This is a movie that is too much, lacking novelty and honesty.
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