FIFF20丨DAY4 "The Postman Always Rings the Bell Twice": Beautiful and fragile but casts an indelible shadow

Angelita 2022-06-20 12:27:08

The 4th screening day of the 20th Faroe Island Film Festival brings you "The Postman Always Rings the Bell Twice", please see the evaluation of the men and women on the front line who have evil in karma!

Fruit trees:

Extremely disappointed, the whole film has no aura, and just completed a lifeless narrative film in a satisfactory manner.

Bao Song:

You said it was adapted from the Water Margin, I would definitely believe it.

The song is wrong:

Karma will always come, beautiful and fragile but cast an indelible shadow

Morning:

Plot movies that ignored psychology in the early days were sometimes dealt with twists and turns for the sake of twists and turns. The plot was like water poured out, the value was quickly evaporated, the story lacked some focus, and the characters became the most important support. To a certain extent I gave a demonstration of writing characters first for such films in the later period, but the faces and performance styles of several actors in this film seem to be too "current" and not cunning. This story is very similar to the legal system and people's livelihood on the Internet today. In the story, there is an unusual relationship that you have a hunch in the dark, but the film just explained the plot in a hurry.

Not Here:

The plot-driven design is very weak, and the male and female protagonists are very pretentious. After watching these films too much, I want to complain that heterosexuality is so naive hahahaha.

Midnight no one:

Telling a well-crafted crime story so beautifully, the movie mood that continues to unfold and magnify along the way is "doubt." From the closeness of the relationship between men and women to the final development of the torture of God, this transition has been completed in one go, especially the "stumbling block" that was killed, as a functional role, it can be written in a more nasty way. , but he is really just a cheerful innocent old man. This torment of guilt was released from the beginning, until he completely collapsed and overturned after his death, and piled up into a vicious circle of cause and effect.

We Min Hee:

Before the court trial, it was nothing more than a cookie-cutter wife hooking up with a man to murder her husband, but the surprising length of time that remained after that revealed some clues. Emotional distrust and confrontation add emotional color to the ending of evil and evil under the inevitable restrictions of the times, and it turns into a touching love movie. Pickpocket and Europe in 1951.

SONGMJ23:

It is still a typical Hollywood narrative. The great thing is that what really drives the development of the story is not any formulaic script design, nor is it blindly reproducing the original work, but the director's meticulous image presentation of every important moment in the relationship between the hero and the hero, which is the lens. The energy of the characters themselves endows the story with a strong realistic appeal.

FranzCamus:

Maybe I would have liked the movie more if Gene Tierney played the female lead.

Poem to Edlin:

If only it could be less dark drama

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Extended Reading

The Postman Always Rings Twice quotes

  • [Arthur Keats enters, closes the door]

    Cora Smith: If it's the last thing I do, I'll put you out of business. There must be a law, even for lawyers.

    Arthur Keats: Of course you know the district attorney fooled you into that confession, don't you? And you fell for it, both of you.

    [small hrmph]

    Arthur Keats: He planned to get you working against each other. Don't you see?

    Cora Smith: You bet I see.

    [turning to Frank]

    Cora Smith: So when Sackett couldn't get anything out of me, he started in on you, and right away you turned yellow.

    Arthur Keats: Yellow? Yellow is a color you figure on in a murder, and nobody figures it better than Kyle Sackett.

    [to Frank]

    Arthur Keats: That was Sackett's trump card. Once he tricked you into signing that complaint against her, he knew no power on earth could keep you

    [to Cora]

    Arthur Keats: from turning on him.

    [back to Frank]

    Arthur Keats: That way he gets you both.

    Cora Smith: If you knew all that, why didn't you stop me from confessing?

    Arthur Keats: Oh, I tried. I tried, but nobody could've stopped you. However, now that you've got it off your chest...

    [moving to door, opening it]

    Arthur Keats: Kennedy?

    Ezra Liam Kennedy: Yes, sir?

    [enters]

    Arthur Keats: [closes door] That confession Mrs. Smith signed. What did you do with it?

    Ezra Liam Kennedy: I gave it to Jimmy White to lock up in your safe like you told me to.

    Arthur Keats: [opening door] That's all.

    [Kennedy leaves, he closes door]

    Cora Smith: You mean he's not from the D.A.'s office?

    Frank Chambers: He's a plainclothes dick if I ever saw one.

    Arthur Keats: He used to be a dick, but he's not a dick anymore. He works for me now. He's my gumshoe man. With the district attorney using high-pressure tactics, I had to fight fire with fire. Since you were due to spill the beans anyway, I figured you better do it to my man rather than to Sackett's.

    Cora Smith: Why, you...

    Arthur Keats: That's why I said we'd plead guilty, so as to stop everything cold in that courtroom before you blew your topper right there and then.

    Frank Chambers: Then the district attorney's got nothing against me.

    Arthur Keats: No, Frank, you're not even under arrest.

    Cora Smith: Oh, sure, he goes free, and I get tossed in for murder and attempt.

    Arthur Keats: Unless... unless you let me handle it.

    Cora Smith: Ha!

    Arthur Keats: Listen, my girl, you're still in plenty of trouble, 'cause we don't know exactly what evidence Sackett's got against us. From now on, you speak only when you're spoken to, and in that court tomorrow try to look as young and innocent as possible under the circumstances. And remember I'm the only hope you've got.

  • [last lines]

    Frank Chambers: You know, there's something about this that's like... well, it's like you're expecting a letter that you're just crazy to get, and you hang around the front door for fear you might not hear him ring. You never realize that he always rings twice.

    Father McConnell: What's that?

    Frank Chambers: Well, he rang twice for Cora... and now he's ringing twice for me, isn't he? That's about it. The truth is, you always hear him ring the second time... even if you're way out in the backyard. Father, you were right. It all works out. I guess God knows more about these things than we do. Somehow or other Cora paid for Nick's life with hers. And now I'm going to. Father, would you send up a prayer for me and Cora? And if you could find it in your heart... make it that we're together, wherever it is.