4.5/10
The action elements are over-satisfied, the negative characters of the plot are pale, and the soundtrack and editing are barely maintained.
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One, the action element is over-satisfied
So far, the positives in the reviews for the film focus on appreciating its action-scenario design. After reviewing the full action scenes, I have reservations about this.
Let’s start by explaining what it means to be “over-satisfied with an action element”.
The big action scenes that appear in the whole film are mainly the heroine before the plastic surgery at the beginning to open the unparalleled mode to single out the gangster's lair, and the scene of the "Kill Bill" at the end. The rest of the action scenes mainly include: the scene after the heroine wakes up in the secret service school, the fight between the secret service school and the bitch, the motorcycle racing after graduation and the death of the cannon fodder woman in the tavern, as well as the interspersed interspersed The memories of Jiaxi's rescue also include some action scenes.
The above is the link where the action scenes appear in the whole film. If you can distinguish a little, you can find that the insertion of some plots is purely to enrich the action elements, that is, the action elements are over-satisfied. Next, I will explain why the action elements are over-satisfied by analyzing the role of action scenes in promoting the plot in chronological order.
The Wushuang play at the beginning has very few lines, so basically it is impossible to tell the plot from the play, but only through the actions of the whole large paragraph: the heroine fights very hard, these gangsters should know more or less that she is coming, In the end, she killed and cleared the level, which should indicate that this gang has been taken away by her. (There should also be a line from the National Intelligence Agency: "Park Taichun and his organization who were going to be cleaned up a month ago were destroyed by that woman")
The school wakes up, the set design is very eye-catching, and I feel like watching Snowpiercer again in a trance. Especially after such a long boring drama that is both suffocating and plastic surgery, the scene where the heroine gets out of bed is not too much, but it should still be classified as an action scene. This paragraph actually has no substantive impetus to the plot. It is actually a plot of "freshmen visiting campus".
The scene of beating up a bitch does not promote the plot, and the main purpose can be understood as shaping the characters. Show the character of the heroine's powder keg, and at the same time, it seems that she wants to bury a hidden line of resentment with a bitch. This dark thread later had no practical use either. Because the bitch girl interacts with the heroine later and promotes the plot of the plot. In fact, even if this hidden line is not buried, it will not change.
In the two scenes of the mission, the former one has no effect on the main storyline, and is to bring out the former situation of the heroine's story. Including episodes of father being killed and father showing off gems in front of friends. The latter scene seems to be motivated. It can be explained that she and the cannon fodder girl have problems with their mission and will transfer the bitch girl back to Seoul. Actually, this reason is not satisfactory. You are willing to let the bitch girl come, Cannon fodder women can come. Of course, this scene has caused the heroine's psychological fragility, which has an effect on promoting the emotional scene between the heroine and the hero.
After the death of the cannon fodder girl, the plot of the spy war continued to reverse until the heroine found out that she had been deceived by Agassi, and found that the hero was the true love but had already died. At this time, I went to take revenge and found that Agassi's assistant was playing with the gem that caused his father's death - wow, the human heart is really sinister. After that, the biang-biang-biang shot all the way. After finding Agassi, he threw away the gun and started a gun fight. It was not enough to hit him and fell downstairs. He arranged a line of "the police killed him", and the bus started to hang people in the carriage. Finally, It ended with a ceremonial axe to kill the father-killing enemy.
To be honest, the over-gratification of the action elements is not a big problem to be nitpicked at. As an action type movie, there are more plots of fighting and killing, which is completely irrelevant. But why this question is raised separately in this film is because, except for the big fights at the beginning and the end, all the action scenes in the middle do not carry the role of promoting the plot.
To illustrate how action moves the plot, let me give an example: The Bourne Bourne (2002) is a good example of how action moves the plot. Byrne's fighting and chasing scenes at the US consulate in Zurich emphasized that he was escaping for the purpose. After emphasizing this point, it can be seen that his fights were all quick and neat, and the premise of his own escape was unhindered. Therefore, the audience will follow him to explore the route of escape, and at the same time be delighted and frightened by the fight along the way. As a result of this scene, Byrne desperately needs to escape Zurich. This drives the rest of the plot, and then Byrne and Marie arrive at their apartment in Paris, where the killer chases after them, and they fight again in the apartment. This fight showed the urgency of the pursuit and killing, and there was no room for breath. It pushed Bourne to continue to escape. There is also an episode in which Byrne asks Marie to go to the police to disassociate herself from him, also motivated by the dangers displayed by the Paris apartment fight. When the content presented in the action scenes can really promote the development of the plot, and even complete the details of the changes in the relationship between the characters, this kind of action scenes are closely integrated with the entire movie.
In this way, we found the real cause of the problem: this film is actually a spy war romance film, and the action elements are simply added for the sake of color! //Some critics even think that the director just made up three-quarters of the plot just to shoot the one-fourth of the action scenes. =. = Okay, that makes sense
Okay, the analysis of the action scene is over and we move on to the second part.
Second, the negative characters of the plot are pale
When it comes to the plot, many people may think that the dating plot that is extremely incompatible with the bloody and violent action scenes is its failure. I think this is only a small part of it. In fact, the plot problems of this film are far more than this Korean drama's strong emotional drama. Equally unbearable is the pallor and thinness of the character designs.
This part may be a little confusing, and the complaints about the plot and the characters are interspersed with each other.
The order of the events should be [my speculation in square brackets]: The young heroine saw her father take out the gems to show off to her old friend on the river bank [the old friend should have been malicious at this time] -> childhood The heroine hid under the bed and witnessed her father being beaten to death. Before she died, she gave the murderer something like a red cloth wrapped in a red cloth. Then the old friend appeared and found the heroine -> the heroine was tied, and the old friend chatted with a certain woman in the wild [The old friend sold the heroine to this prostitute as a young prostitute, and it can be inferred from the money and lines in his hand, he is still haggling. Sell it for a good price]->The heroine was sitting on the bed, a client came over and set up a flag of "who is there", and then Agassi killed the heroine who attacked Agassi at the same time. -> The young heroine competed with a dragon mantle to match the gun, and she was stunned for a long time. The dragon mantle finally installed the gun and was ready to shoot and kill Agassi [It can be seen that at this time, Agassi had already taken the heroine from the old bustard. It has been a long time since she was rescued from here, and she has learned to carry a gun] -> The heroine is already a young man, Agassi tattooed the heroine's chest, and the heroine mentioned her father and revenge [Agassi is still completely I didn't know that I was the heroine's father-killer] -> The heroine played diving with Agassi's gang to escape. The very angry heroine pretended to be drowning to deceive Agassi to save her, but she was flirting anyway. The timing of this plot is doubtful, and it should be at the latest before seeking revenge from an old friend, because Agassi has no gunshot wounds on his face] -> The heroine chased and killed her old friend alone, and was ambushed and tied to a chair. In this line, the old friend It was revealed that someone else killed the heroine's father, that is, he was just the murderer, and then Agassi appeared to kill the old friend and others, and before hitting the old friend, he looked at each other for a second and was stunned [Of course, the old friend is not dead. , and the details of this mutual look prove that they met each other, it should be when they were invited to kill before] -> After the melee with his old friend ended, Agassi sewed the wound on his face. One day he woke up from a nightmare where his old friend was looking for revenge. He heard the heroine's words about the two being together and giving up revenge. Only then did he realize that the heroine knew that the enemy who killed his father was someone else. . [Agassi would have such a nightmare, indicating that his relationship with his old friend should be unusual, but it is difficult to judge the specific relationship; Agassi has already taken the initiative to kill the woman at this time]-> The heroine is tying Agassi's tie and is about to get married. Agassi's assistant greeted and said to go to Seoul to prepare [in fact, to kill the heroine]. Agassi married the heroine and immediately went to Seoul, answered the phone and left the heroine. When I turned around, the assistant came back and told the heroine that Agassi was killed, and took her to a door [the place at the beginning of the film], and she rushed in eager for revenge. At this time, the assistant was still limping. After the hostess entered the door, the assistant took a few steps and then stood up straight, apparently uninjured at all. The plot after this is the main content of the film. The heroine killed all the people in the den -> was caught -> had plastic surgery -> went to school to give birth, train, learn to act -> was assigned a task, killed a Japanese "chairman" -> graduated from school and lived in an apartment Fang, the male protagonist lives next door at the same time, the two have a long relationship scene -> another mission, the cannon fodder girl dies, and the relationship heats up -> the two get married. Failed -> Agassi found the heroine and found out her true identity -> The heroine was robbed under the escort of the National Intelligence Agency, and went to pick up the child just to witness the hero flying from the explosion site with the baby in his arms (at the same time, the hero went to I went to Yanbian to find an old friend to learn about the situation/Or revenge? It's hard to say -> I was ambushed by Agassi's assistant after returning) -> The heroine collapsed, went back to school to find the director, and learned the truth from the video -> Find Agassi's revenge -> Finish
The plot process is roughly as described above, and then the advantages and disadvantages of its plot and characters are analyzed based on these contents.
Advantages: Starting from the time point of "After Agassi's fake death", the linear narrative shows the follow-up life of the heroine while revealing the story of her first 7-minute fight. At the same time, it gives various flashbacks to explain the character's history and why Agassi The issue of suspended animation is selectively ignored and finally brought out to make a big comeback. I agree with this design. Although it is very rough, at least I dare to design it like this.
In terms of character design, I agree with Agassi's character design. From the very beginning, he has been a conspirator hiding in the dark. On the surface, he is chivalrous and righteous, but he is actually a person who hides in the countryside or the city with many secrets. And the temperament of this character is very detached from the whole movie. The heroine is in a hurry to avenge being kidnapped, and Agassi turns on the cold-faced killer mode; After the Lord's graduation, the assassination failed, and Agassi came to spy. He was also holding a gun under the table, with an old friend reminiscing on his face... It can be said that when other characters are happy and angry, no matter what this character is in The environment has not changed much, this is a big man with a deep city. Compared with the male protagonist horizontally, except for being young and handsome, there is no character depth at all. When I was doing surveillance, I fell in love with the female protagonist inexplicably. When I was working as a spy, I talked about state secrets in the toilet without seriousness. Ugh.
Disadvantages: The linear narrative part is protracted and lengthy, and many plots are completely unnecessary or can be handled more concisely but not. The plot of the flashback is intricate, making it exponentially harder for the audience to understand the plot. Some of the plots do not explain the antecedents at all. For example, how did Agassi's assistant finally find the place where the gem was hidden? I played over and over again for more than ten minutes without finding the antecedent, and it completely contradicted the previous plot where Agassi was suspected of taking the gem from the heroine's father. It may be that my understanding is low and I can't connect this paragraph. If there is any understanding, please comment / DouPost tell me =. =
The characters are all flaws except Agassi. The male protagonist has already complained. The problem with the female protagonist is that such a starting character of Uma Thurman in "Kill Bill", after a long-term imprisonment and education like "Old Boy", came out as a Korean drama heroine can you believe it? When I first saw that the heroine was caught in that school, I was very much looking forward to the change in the arc of the character behind, but I can only say that maybe my expectations were too high. My father's old friend is a completely functional role, a face-up anti-bone boy; the school's female director is also a functional role. The tearful confession to the heroine in the last paragraph is inexplicable to me. Why did you go earlier? You don't even know the background of the recruited students when you are working as a spy. Don't you deserve the heavy losses? I'm too lazy to talk about some of them. Apart from explaining the clues of gemstones and the revenge of killing the father, does the father role have any practical significance for characterization? Besides doing dirty work, does Agassi's assistant have a bit of a personal touch?
Three, the soundtrack and editing barely maintained
Without this level of cinematography and editing, the film would be worthless.
Photography and Editing:
The first is a presentation of fight scenes, including the first-person action sequence that parodies Hardcore Henry. A very clever point is that the director understands very well that this kind of action scene attempt cannot go all the way to black, otherwise it will become a copy cat, and the way to escape is very surprising - the heroine is grabbed and slammed into the wall. (this is the first appearance of the heroine's face before plastic surgery), and then the camera is pulled back, and it is found that it has changed from the first person to the side view. This connection is very smooth and natural, and it also interacts with the action itself. The only downside here is that there's a brief sense of consternation when action is taking place that the first-person view can't capture. The most obvious thing is that when the heroine was dragged from behind by someone, the camera took 1 or 2 seconds for the audience to realize what might be going on. This shortcoming is actually unavoidable in this way of shooting, because the film is always an audio-visual art without physical contact, which means that the protagonist can feel being dragged away, but we can only guess by what we see. There is another point worth noting and complaining: the action of the heroine changing the clip in the opening scene is very obvious to show the audience, and it is compared to the same change of the heroine in the last shootout scene. The action of the clip is completely different from the previous one here. This is actually an obvious flaw in the action design.
Then there are many flashbacks in the middle of the plot-a lot of similar transitions are used here. For example, the moment the heroine comes out of the water after falling into the water, she suddenly flashes back to the moment when her father was holding a gem by the river as a child. This transition is an important reason why all the flashbacks in this play are not abrupt - the main plot has entered a dormant period, and then returns to a similar moment in the heroine's memory through a similar transition to show the corresponding Character history. If the plot characters weren't so bad, this treatment would be really advanced.
In addition, many parts of the plot continue to respect the language of the film. For example, the middle part connects to the scene before the opening fight - showing the process of Agassi's assistant from pretending to be lame to standing upright, suggesting that this is Agassi's conspiracy, and The subsequent panning jump, which only took a few seconds of footage to span at least 7 minutes of real time, jumped to the scene where the heroine jumped out of the window. And after the final battle, the heroine hacked Agassi to death, the sound of rain suddenly started, the camera quickly approached the top of the heroine's head, and then pulled up to show the full view of the bus. It's been a while since Agassi was hacked to death. In this way, the frontal close-up of a female protagonist surrounded by police is very smooth in the end, and the state of the female protagonist after killing the gangster's lair in the first scene is intertextualized, which is very neat.
Soundtrack:
This bonus is mainly in the coordination of action scenes and musical rhythm. As well as the important action that undertakes the dramatic conflict, the soundtrack appears appropriately. Just mention a few time points and experience it, the fight at 00:02:45 and the sound of percussion instruments in the background sound; 00:12:32 I rushed into the ballet room and the background music changed from exciting drum beats to melodious dance music , highlighting the dramatic tension; at 00:29:30, a tense scene in the heroine's memory is matched with a tense soundtrack, and suddenly turns to a real scene. A similar transition The heroine changed from a child to an adult, also holding a gun And stepped on the moment when the music suddenly stopped and fired a shot, and at the same time upgraded the camera to show the process of the bitch girl falling. And my personal favorite, Agassi's dying whistle, which begins and ends at the end of the show.
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