This film is a pure-blooded Irish film, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Colin Farrell, and the place where the story takes place is also a small fishing port in Ireland. This is also the return of Neil Jordan to the Irish team after [Breakfast on Pluto] in 2005. Small format, small production, no commercialized packaging, and no overwhelming publicity, and it will be offline after only a week of release in my city. Come silently, leave silently, and it only occupies a corner of the page of newspapers and magazines. This is a film without commercial appeal that is easily overlooked. In front of the box office tycoon [Alice in Wonderland], which was released at the same time, it was as small as a grain of sand. Although they are all related to fairy tales, one is a 3D version of the dazzling starlight and magnificent fantasy with 200 million US dollars, and the other is a plain and almost boring old-fashioned story. Interestingly, after Depp and Pharrell parted from [Dr. Parnassas' Fantasy Theater], one returned to Tim Burton's arms to continue his gorgeous life, and the other returned to his hometown Neil Jordan to return to the original .
The theme of the film is indeed not uncommon. Humanoids claiming to be non-human break into the owner's fair and ordinary life, the peace is broken, all kinds of feelings are accumulating, dark forces are secretly intervening, and in the end, they are separated or together. , some were healed, some were punished. From the perspective of intervening in secular life as an outsider (non-human) and ultimately changing the attitudes of people around, [K-Star Alien] is a leader in this type of film, and the whole film is blurring the true identity of Kevin Spacey , although the results are biased towards agnosticism, but did not give a clear answer until the end. This film does not do too much concealment on the identity of the heroine. In the second half of the film, it is very clear through the heroine's dictation and flashbacks. After all, the focus of the film is not there. But in the middle of the film, it is unavoidable (or functional) to add unexplained mysterious events that fit the fictional identity of the heroine, that is, the heroine's singing can attract a large number of fish, so that usually no fish can be caught. Colin Farrell's nets are full. John Cusack's [Mars Child] also has a similar plot, and the themes of the two films are also similar. But [Mars Child] is more of Cusack's unilateral emotional output to the child, and the role relationship between the two is not balanced. However, in this film, the emotionally weak side looks more like the down-and-out fisherman played by Colin Farrell, and Farrell's sickly daughter plays a very heavy part in the film, even reaching the height of the third protagonist. It turned the original single-line emotional interaction into a three-line intertwined joint and cooperative mode, which increased the visibility of the film without expanding the field of vision.
Judging from Neil Jordan's previous works, the personal style of this film is extremely weak, and most of the inner drama is shown through the interaction between the characters. Except for Farrell's daughter, the camera is often based on her The line of sight moves as the first point of view, which may not be unrelated to the fact that the photographer of this film is Du Kefeng. Du Kefeng, who was a sailor, has returned to the port, fishing boats and the sea this time, which can be regarded as a return in a sense. After cooperating with Chen Kexin [If Love], Du Kefeng has successively acted as the photography of Gus Van Sant's [Psychedelic Park], Jim Jarmusch's [Limit of Control] and this film, and these strong personal styles What kind of lens style will be born from the director's cooperation is also what we are looking forward to. Another big name behind the film is Sigur Ros, a post-rock band that is almost a national symbol of Iceland. The soundtrack of the film is mostly from their previous albums, including the song that the heroine has been humming, Farrell He always thought that the song was not in this world, until he saw Sigur Ros's concert on TV and realized that the heroine is not a mermaid.
As far as the actor's performance is concerned, Farrell's interpretation of this humble little person in a pure native dialect is still very convincing. "Empire" and "Guardian" praised the performance of the hero and heroine, and the heroine. Alicja Bachleda-Curus was born in Mexico and became Pharrell's real-life girlfriend because of the film. Neil Jordan's royal actor Stephen Ray still appeared in the film as always, playing a very present priest, and his humorous dialogue with Farrell assumed the role of adjusting the atmosphere of the film, although the ending of the film It is bright, but the process is relatively gloomy, so the existence of this role is still essential. The young actor who plays the daughter is of a high standard, not the kind who wins by eyeballs. At the end of the film, Farrell and his lover held their wedding on a fishing boat in the presence of their daughter, and ondine got happiness, got rid of the shadow of the past, and truly regained her soul.
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