*** This review has serious spoilers, so be careful~ Those who haven't watched the movie, be careful! *** (Yingren) Duck's first review, thanks to my son who is much smarter than Ben Ma Ma for his contribution.
1. The three subtleties of the film (and on the character of the protagonist)
Neighbor Boy) is slightly overinterpreted. The revelation of human evil is the film's greatest subtlety. Another film critic repeatedly talked about 50 reversals, but did not give details, but there were many reversals. The second half of the plot was extremely compact and ups and downs, which is indeed one of the subtleties of this movie. This subtlety requires attention to detail. Such as ghost masks, such as lost sunglasses, such as Coke cans, such as a lonely tree shaped like a liver, a blind rabbit and a rabbit head cane, etc. I also want to give some details that I haven't seen in other film reviews so far: Simi the femme fatale Before leaving, he did not forget to delete the video of the neighbor boy, and took away the bait of the money he had just given to him. He is such a rich and prestigious person that he cannot even give this little benefit to others. Another detail was dealt with about the police chief. He was injured at the time. In the big office, he did not forget to walk along a small golden Buddha before leaving. There is no description of his greed for money in other places, but this point made him completely exposed. . As a film related to music, the piano music and Indian songs are really beautiful and won the hearts of ducks, so this is the third point of my review. At the same time, some people may not see the final credits when there is a small short film, which pays homage to the piano bridge in other movies, which is very worth watching. But Duck also has to say that this is also one of the saddest parts of the movie. In such a pure field of art, music gives people such a beautiful enjoyment, but the artist himself is actually very terrified. Among all the characters The darkest, most sinful one. Because he may have pretended to be blind at first just for the benefit of some disabled people and the so-called focus on music, but this is actually a big deception and hypocrisy, and later movie plots exposed his cowardice, revenge (of course More so to be able to find money, to treat his eyes), choose to kill (though the one who was killed is a man who deserves the death penalty), choose to continue to live with a huge (to all) deceit and pretense . A lot of other villains (femmes, police chiefs, etc.) are just bad and try to cover up crimes when they have to pretend, but they don't have that much disguise. Or they are trying to make money (fake doctor, wife of a tuk-tuk driver who sells lottery tickets), but they are not hypocritical and cowardly. But I make these moral judgments, in fact, purely out of film criticism. Because we ourselves are faced with these choices, when our own interests are so at stake, can we really stand up bravely? When we went to report the case, when we saw the police chief, when we were forced to write a false confession, before we signed it, can we bravely say it? Based on our preliminary understanding of the Indian criminal investigation system, there is really nowhere to find refuge for justice. , to tell the truth is to die. And what Sofie said at the end, isn't it our intuition? "She's a damned person, what's wrong with taking her cornea?" This is such a great sadness, and at a great scale, the sadness of our entire society. With the development of the plot, his eyes are truly blind, and he needs to get 1 million rupees for corneal surgery, and there should also be revenge in it. Although the film still creates an illusion that he is still kind-hearted and will not be as ruthless as the femme fatale, but after watching the final ending and the story he made up, he is very terrified (the following about the ending of the male protagonist) Presumably, the result of discussions with my son). Although the finale is relatively open, many details show that he got the cornea and regained his sight. Some film critics have already mentioned that the detail about him knowing that the bunny-head cane is himself without looking at it, reveals that he is not completely blind now. At the end of the film, it becomes more obvious. How can a blind man hit the can with a stick accurately, not just touch it, so the can is hit so far. The director exaggerated the loud noise of the can, Guess the director's intention is to let the audience understand that he is lying, and now he is pretending to be blind. The reason from blindness to regaining sight should be done according to the plan of the fake doctor. Think carefully about the story he made up, why the fake doctor and the femme fatale disappeared. It is estimated that because he first cooperated with the doctor, he got the money to sell the liver, kidney and cornea, and he regained his sight. But it can be inferred that he is not satisfied with what the doctor promised. I will give you 60 million yuan and give you 10 million yuan. After success, I will find a way to kill the doctor and take it for myself. He had to make up a story to be able to justify it, why did both of them disappear? And the most justifiable thing is that he is still blind, so he must continue to deceive. Even a black-hearted fake doctor, because of his life-saving grace, would have a heart attack, promised to take her for corneal surgery, and even gave him 10 million, and the artist's male protagonist. . . If the analysis is logical, it can only be said to be extremely fearful. Whether it is his nature or the change of circumstances, if the male protagonist is really like this, his viciousness will definitely overshadow all the people in the film, including the femme fatale (see below). A final subtlety worth mentioning is the mix and match of styles. Not only the identity and status of the characters in the film are very different, and they are mixed and matched, but also in the narrative style, they shuttle freely between music, lyric, funny, suspense, thriller, crime, etc. And the many details of the film echo each other, the echoes of the beginning and the end, and some tribute bridges, it is really worth taking a closer look. Not only is this film unique among Indian films, it is
2. Several unreasonable settings in the video
After talking about the subtleties, I have to talk about its dressing, which is actually not a real dressing (the title party), but an unreasonable setting. I don't usually watch it so carefully, and this movie hasn't had a second brush yet. But I still want to write down a few points that I remember deeply today. This is also the first film review of Duck. Everyone is welcome to resonate or argue. 1). The biggest gang was the pianist who chose to come to the house of the slain movie star to teach his daughter to play the piano (in fact, to find a chance to kidnap the femme fatale). According to the original plan, he followed the femme into the car, but how did he know the femme fatale? The female driver took him the route that was so accurate that the tuk-tuk driver and his wife could block in front of him (and didn't see any details of calling them on the phone, and didn't have the opportunity)? But the son said that this is not actually a gang, because there is a detail that the tuk-tuk car follows the car downstairs, and probably knows which routes (it is estimated that killing a person, that is, going up the mountain) can go down to the bottom of the tunnel to block it. But I still think that the car is faster than the tuk-tuk after all, so it's not particularly reasonable. 2). When the femme fatale met the tuner (pianist) for the first time, although she was bumped into by the old neighbor, there was no need to invite him in. After all, she had just killed someone and the scene had not been cleaned up. Isn’t she guilty? ? You can find an excuse to take him away, of course, so there are not so many plots in the back. At that time, the old neighbor came out and she had to invite the pianist to come in, but even if the old neighbor saw through the lie, it was more reasonable than inviting an outsider to see a scene, even though the outsider was blind. I think this is unreasonable. 3). The third unreasonable is related to the previous one, but the nature is different, that is, most people can know that the blind man's hearing is very good, so the pianist was playing the piano at that time, and the femme fatale and the police chief were very unusual when they dealt with the corpse. There was a big movement, and the zipper of the suitcase was being pulled around, etc. At that time, he had not yet made up the lie that his husband had come home. And the blind man seems to hear nothing. This kind of treatment is actually not reasonable, and the two of them can actually believe that he is blind to that extent, or deaf to the point of hearing nothing, and has no awareness of what is going on. , is not reasonable. Later, I took out a recording to deceive and create the illusion of my husband coming home. A film reviewer also mentioned that it is easy to be smuggled, because the recording is different from the real one, and the blind should be able to hear it. 4). The last one is still related to the femme fatale, of course, because if these are not set up like this, there will be no good dramas to watch later. That's when she promised to take the pianist to the bathroom. In fact, such a big mansion can't have only one bathroom. You can choose other bathrooms, and it won't appear, so that the pianist can see the side of the police chief. . Of course, this is a very small detail. In fact, even if you don't see it in the bathroom, you can see it later when the police chief will come out.
3. The character and details of the heroine
Duck thinks Sofie is not the female number one, and the second is the female number two. The real heroine is the wife of the former movie star, a femme fatale. Here I will talk about the film's treatment of the femme fatale. On the surface, there is not much hierarchy, and it has always been ruthless. Her ruthlessness can be ranked in a crime movie. For example, there is one detail. She didn’t forget to take off the watch from the hand of her husband’s body in the suitcase. She thought it was greed for money (high-end watches can’t be thrown away for nothing), but later she went to a high-end restaurant that night, but she thought it was just to continue Fulfilling the promise of coming to dinner on the wedding anniversary, I found out later that I quietly went to the men's bathroom, and put my watch in the wash basin to frame another innocent (one of the unreasonable small places here is , such a high-end restaurant, but the innocent person who was framed looks like a person of relatively low social status, how could he eat there, but this is unreasonable and can be ignored). So the snake girl is really a snake and scorpion, not forced to kill in a hurry, but has such a deep viciousness in her heart, which is really scary. After she was kidnapped, she was basically extremely vicious. Even her ability to successfully break free in the closet is a pure crime movie, which is a brilliant deal. In the end, if she can reverse and kill the doctor from the trunk, it can also fit the human design. Of course Duck thinks this is not the setting of the film (analysis above). Having said that, there is no sense of hierarchy in the shaping of the femme fatale at first glance, but when you think about it carefully, there is actually a hierarchy. So when I got to the pianist's house, I chose not to kill him but just blind him, which is also in line with the character. Maybe the heroine is a person who likes music after all, and she saw with her own eyes that he is a cowardly and silent person, and wants to leave him a way to stay alive and continue to play the piano. At the same time, she also told the police chief that you let me do all these crimes and murders (dirty work), and it is understandable that she does not want to kill one more person. But soon, she didn't want to stay alive and returned to the vicious character. When the police chief was with her in her (husband's) office, she also said that the blind is not dumb? It meant urging him to rush to kill. Even so, she should still be slightly inferior to the male protagonist.
4. Two marriages and two loves
Finally, I want to talk about marriage and love. The two couples in the video, the two cheating people are definitely wrong. This is a moral judgment, although in real life, we should try our best to do "you don't judge others, lest you be judged. Matthew 7: 1 ". But morality is not without the value of existence, and it is not non-existent to society. This kind of moral judgment can still be written in film reviews. I'm talking about two other people here. The former movie star is a good husband. He shoots videos for his wife, surprises her on her wedding anniversary, and knows what kind of music she likes, but two details reveal him, and he doesn't know the real and deepest needs of his wife's heart. No effort was made to satisfy her. One is that they seem to be watching a movie together in bed (presumably a movie she starred in before), and he wants to share the beauty of this movie with his wife, but in fact the wife is tired of watching it and has no interest. Another detail is that the wife especially wanted to be able to get the opportunity to appear in the movie, but he was not seen in the movie to make efforts for it. With his previous status, he should be able to have some results, even if it is not the protagonist or something, at least it can be given to him. She has a chance to act, and he should also know that the heroine is a very beautiful person, and also has acting skills (the movie star made a video for her before the beginning of the film and she became a mental patient in seconds), so it shouldn't be that difficult, right? . Of course, the length of the film is limited, and it is impossible to show so many details. It's just that Duck was thinking a bit about the character when he wrote the review. The other is the wife of the police chief. She is loyal to her husband and cannot tolerate her cheating. But the interactions between husbands are very simple and rude. Going to the police station at work and opening the car window is a stern training. When a colleague from the police station came to the house, she also showed that she hoped that her husband would get a promotion and a raise (perhaps she didn’t think that her husband’s work pressure might be really high. Big), after learning the truth, she fired angrily, which is also in line with her irascible temper. In the first half of the film, the handling of the love between the pianist and the restaurant girl is still relatively good. The pianist chose to remove it to make him truly invisible, which can be especially like a blind person's contact lenses. The most likely reason is that he wants to see what Sofie looks like, In just about 20 minutes, the development of their relationship was not particularly far-fetched. I personally think that several songs at this time were also inspired by Sofie. It is a pity that such love is so fragile in the face of cruel reality. I have to say that there is a cowardly side of the pianist, and there is also the reason why Sofie only sees the appearance and does not use his mind to analyze it. After the fight, there should be special circumstances, but how could another girlfriend be asked to come when she was there. Of course, when she saw such a situation, she was swept away by anger, and she was understandable. We are just movie viewers, and we are all about it afterwards. (By the way, the femme fatale actually didn’t know that the visitor was Sofie, but she still created such an illusion of cheating in a very short period of time. Such a way to face any visitor.) At the end of the film, Sofie meets Akash in London, and the song he chooses to sing sounds like it was written for Sofie. He didn't have the courage to find love again. After the chance encounter, he chose to seize the opportunity to invite his ex-girlfriend to his concert. After being politely rejected by her, she was very angry and went to hit the cans with a stick. Maybe he is just like the love he met after being knocked down by Sofie last time. He still wants to get love by chance encounters. In fact, the film tells us that this is impossible. A film reviewer replied asking what happened to those two good lucks? One is about Sofie saying that bird poop brings good luck, the other is about Simi saying that broken glass brings good luck, these did bring good luck to Akash, but in the end a person's fate cannot be determined by good luck. When Sofie came across the poster, she still couldn't help but go in to see her old friend, but we can also see it indirectly from her rejection at the end. Sofie has grown up a little from a person who only looks at appearances and is dazzled by love. If I have time, I would like to rewatch this video. I think it is also very good to translate the title of the film into "Invisible Melody" (the French micro-film is called a tuner, but in this film, the protagonist is actually a pianist rather than a tuner), and " Invisible Guest" can be echoed. This movie should have more layers than that one. The song he chose to sing also sounded like it was written for Sofie. He didn't have the courage to find love again. After the chance encounter, he chose to seize the opportunity to invite his ex-girlfriend to his concert. After being politely rejected by her, she was very angry and went to hit the cans with a stick. Maybe he is just like the love he met after being knocked down by Sofie last time. He still wants to get love by chance encounters. In fact, the film tells us that this is impossible. A film reviewer replied asking what happened to those two good lucks? One is about Sofie saying that bird poop brings good luck, the other is about Simi saying that broken glass brings good luck, these did bring good luck to Akash, but in the end a person's fate cannot be determined by good luck. When Sofie came across the poster, she still couldn't help but go in to see her old friend, but we can also see it indirectly from her rejection at the end. Sofie has grown up a little from a person who only looks at appearances and is dazzled by love. If I have time, I would like to rewatch this video. I think it is also very good to translate the title of the film into "Invisible Melody" (the French micro-film is called a tuner, but in this film, the protagonist is actually a pianist rather than a tuner), and " Invisible Guest" can be echoed. This movie should have more layers than that one.
5. Tribute to the French micro-film "The Tuner"
Extra: My son is 18 years old. When I was choosing a movie tonight, I originally wanted to watch "Thunder and Sandstorm". But we forgot to bring our own 3D glasses, and I mentioned that there is a tuner, which is a plot of a person pretending to be blind to witness a murder. He had seen a ten-minute French micro-movie before, and was very impressed, so he chose to watch this one, but after entering the set, he realized that it was not from France. The plot of killing the rabbit at the beginning also made me puzzled. Did you buy the wrong studio? This is not a tuner. My son didn't think highly of this Indian film, and felt that it was too long. The original micro-movie was pretty good. This morning he also specially found the micro-movie and invited me to watch it together for 13 minutes. The style is very different, and some details are handled more logically than the Indian film (like how the tuner went from being a failed piano genius to being a tuner, and why he chose to be blind, and how he was The inner monologue when forced to play the piano piece, and the open ending, etc. are all very good).
In fact, this Indian film just draws on the inspiration from the core of the film, and then performed a lot of interpretation and play under the background of India's bizarre society. After all, it is still a plot style and a mix and match style. But this is also its own style and subtlety, and it is worth a second brush.
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