[This article involves spoilers that have nothing to do with the direction of the big plot, read carefully]
The first reaction out of the movie theater was really cold. This time, Jarmusch abandoned the "educational film" of the past, that is, "I want to convey all my knowledge of literature, music, history and philosophy to you", and took a satirical and strange style. Probably the director was sympathetic to the audience and friends that it is too hot in the summer, and turning on the air conditioner is too energy-efficient.
Overall, it was quite successful. After the popular vampire theme, Jarmusch extended his hand to the zombie theme.
The whole movie is in one sentence: Wearing Jarmusch's clothes - if you want to be deliberate, you must be deliberate in the end. Filled with embarrassing police teams, out-of-place morgue bosses, and soy-sauce town residents and visitors, almost no one's setting is so-called in line with movie common sense, but it is this abnormal feeling that makes the movie straight. Send cold air to the audience and show an embarrassed yet polite smile. I can still quite understand why this film does not have such a high reputation in Cannes - this film with a strong director's style, full of personality and satirical nature, and an R-rated nature at the same time, is indeed difficult to win the unanimous love of mainstream audiences.
A few details:
The ending of the trio of teenagers was not explained very clearly. I checked with my partner. It should not be that I overlooked it. The trio of guests is also a bit cannon fodder. Maybe the purpose is to crush the smart with their own car;
The dialogue in the cemetery police car is interesting, although it is somewhat guessable from Adam Driver's lines about the theme song at the beginning;
"Wifi" made me see myself as I was, even though I might not be holding a banged iPhone but a 5s;
I don't shoot animals probably because it's too difficult to shoot, thanks for the friendly appearance of chicken legs;
I don't know why Bill Murray's appearance in "Zombieland" has been lingering in my mind for a long time. Adam Driver's keychain is a little easter egg. I think the scene of Tilda Swinton with two corpses in the morgue is well designed. The whole person shivered while holding back laughter;
I think the details of the film itself are well done. Many things are either playing tricks or have meanings, plus two brainwashing soundtracks (I also watched the end of the film, and there is really only one Dead Don in the song. 't Die) and a fairly appropriate upgrade and slow release made the atmosphere very good, and really achieved the dual effect of horror and funny at the same time, but this made me feel that the character design made me a little confused, maybe the director wanted to In this way, so many characters have been placed on behalf of various groups of people, which makes the story a bit fragmented and deliberate-this kind of deliberateness has more or less lost the ironic deliberateness of other plot settings, which makes people feel a little dramatic. , this includes some news, broadcasts, commentary, special effects, and camera performance. The special effects can also be said to be quite fun, but everything summed up in the last short lecture is really disappointing, in a sense It fits the "this is gonna end bad" prophecy. All in all, Jiamusu is very happy, the actors are probably very happy, and the filming team is also very happy, the audience is almost thrown to the North Pole, and they have to be forced to say "it's a real nice place". A film that is difficult to grade, and finally gave it 6 points after thinking about it.
Finally, a word of my own nonsense: If I make a zombie movie myself in the future, I will give each character a name when rolling the subtitles, and then write "in the memory of".
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