The advantages and disadvantages are obvious

Avis 2022-09-06 14:25:06

It can be seen that the director is a guy who likes nostalgia very much. I mean he is the kind of person who is pregnant more than ten years ago, just like we like the old songs of Jacky Cheung and Li Zongsheng more than ten years ago. I also believe that the director really loves Disco music. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to make this kind of music so charming in a movie.
The performance of the actors is very good and can be regarded as a model of group performance. Among them, what I admire the most is Chloë Sevigny's acting skills, which are restrained and never ostentatious, but her deep acting skills are exactly in line with Alice's seemingly conservative, old-fashioned, but actually restless mental state in the film. You can learn from young actresses in our country. Have you found an actor with such superb acting skills? I'm afraid it will be difficult.
I don't know if the director himself was born and raised in the UK, but that kind of British black humor is everywhere in the film. Alice has always been a conservative, old-fashioned woman, but at the instigation of her friend Charlotte, she had a one-night stand with someone, but she contracted a venereal disease because of it. Des's pornographic joke about women's breasts in the movie, (true event?), although vulgar, it really makes sense if you listen carefully. It was this Des who, in order to get rid of his ex-girlfriend, actually came up with the lie that he was actually gay. In the movie, Josh and Des seem to be friends, but in the process of competing for Alice, they secretly intrigue and attack each other with strong black humor. All of these are different.
Having said the advantages of this movie, I want to talk about the disadvantages of this movie now, yes, this is a movie with very obvious advantages and disadvantages. The most important disadvantage is that as a "group drama" movie, its structure is too loose, so loose that it lacks a main character line. I know that the director's intention is to use the form of Disco to reflect the living conditions and life trajectories of that group of people in that era. But I always feel that a movie should have a character as the main story line. But our director will talk about this character at one time, and another character at another time, just like a person chatting with you. The monk was confused and didn't know what he was going to say. In the end, my conclusion is that although this movie has all the advantages I mentioned above, it seems to be more suitable for a TV series, because the TV series is an artistic type that has more time and space for our directors to play.

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The Last Days of Disco quotes

  • Jimmy: [to Alice] There's no chance of you getting infatuated with me again, is there?

  • [Josh describes Lady and the Tramp]

    Josh Neff: [referring to Lady and the Tramp] There is something depressing about it, and it's not really about dogs. Except for some superficial bow-wow stuff at the start, the dogs all represent human types, which is where it gets into real trouble. Lady, the ostensible protagonist, is a fluffy blond Cocker Spaniel with absolutely nothing on her brain. She's great-looking, but - let's be honest - incredibly insipid. Tramp, the love interest, is a smarmy braggart of the most obnoxious kind - an oily jailbird out for a piece of tail, or... whatever he can get.

    Charlotte Pingress: Oh, come on.

    Josh Neff: No, he's a self-confessed chicken thief, and all-around sleazeball. What's the function of a film of this kind? Essentially as a primer on love and marriage directed at very young people, imprinting on their little psyches the idea that smooth-talking delinquents recently escaped from the local pound are a good match for nice girls from sheltered homes. When in ten years the icky human version of Tramp shows up around the house, their hormones will be racing and no one will understand why. Films like this program women to adore jerks.