Roman Polanski’s movies are always shrouded in fear and anxiety, but the appearance is always so peaceful and calm. Perhaps violence and panic have penetrated Polanski’s bones. He always likes to express the inner struggles of the characters under a calm appearance, just like the erotic scenes in Polanski’s films. Bai is so thought-provoking. He is still a guy who doesn't like reunion, he always likes to give people some elegant regrets. At the end of [Chinatown], Fei Donnawei died in the hands of the police, and [Shadow Writer] Leewan McGregor met again. He was killed in a car accident, watching the truth blow away with the manuscript by the wind? This is an open ending.
Speaking of the ending, Ivan said in the press conference that he was the ghost of the ghost. On the one hand, he was talking about the dead employer Adam Long. On the other hand, he also alluded to Adam Lang’s political career. He was just a A puppet is an actor who plays his own political role on appropriate occasions. Adam Lang’s political career is the biggest suspense of this story. Why didn’t he suddenly become interested in politics, why he rose rapidly in politics, and who was behind him. These are all doubts. The drowning death of McKayla, the former knife hunter, was also a mystery at the beginning of the film. His death was later proved to be not an accidental death, but how he died is a mystery. Even if it is discovered at the end of the film that Mrs. Lang is an agent of the CIA, Adam Lang had political ambitions from the beginning, or he was willing to become a political puppet for love after meeting his wife. How much of this is voluntary, yes How much is manipulated, we don't know. All this seems to be nothing more than a bigger mystery behind the truth. What people see is only the outside of the truth, and below the outside is a bigger mystery.
Polanski likes this kind of story of finding the truth very much. After McKayla’s accidental death, the knife hunter played by Ivan easily got a job as the autobiography of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang. The guy with a cold, what he did was trying to get rid of the fate of being a ghost. He wanted to dig out the truth about this politician, but he got himself involved in a bottomless pit of politics. Under the peaceful narrative, death is approaching step by step. Knowing that Ivan had lived in McKayla's room and looked at everything in the room, Ivan began to think about his own death, and checked out his own fate that might be the same as McKayla. But he still did. It is also this terrifying political conspiracy that has become logical, and it is the character who sends himself to the edge of danger.
Polanski is not a person who likes hard violence. Even in the film where Adam Lang was shot and killed at the airport, no blood was seen. Lang fell to the ground and the crowd was in chaos. Even the last Ivan's car accident was out of the picture. We don't know what the scene was. This is the same as the ending of [Rosemary’s Baby]. Rosemary opened the crib and instantly paled. As for what the devil’s holy baby is, it has become a mystery and brought a great openness to the audience. ending. The ending of [Shadow Writer] is the same. Everything is an unknown mystery. Whether it is good or bad is the imagination of the audience. At the same time, the soft violence in the film has penetrated every inch of film. The film begins with death and ends with death, just like the full-density dense fog that Polanski likes, in addition to depression or depression. On the one hand, Ivan wanted not to be the ghost of his employer, and on the other hand, he wanted to find the truth behind him. The more he knew, the closer he was to death. Everyone knew this well. But what's interesting is that all this is like a joke. Since the truth he tried to find was in the manuscript left by his predecessors, it was still the beginning. This beginning is not only the beginning of the manuscript, but also the beginning of each chapter.
What’s interesting is that it always feels like Adam Lang is like Polanski himself. Lang was prosecuted for illegal extradition of a British citizen. His life is like being exiled. No matter what he does on the plane, it may be due to a plane failure or docking. Arrested in some small countries that do not recognize the International Criminal Court. Just like Polanski himself, he accidentally went to Winterthur prison for three months because of a thirty-year scandal. At the same time, Ivan’s character also missed Polanski very much, as a survivor of a terrifying disaster. Polanski is a ghost in the hearts of movie fans.
[Shadow Writer] With the shadow of old films and directors, it is like the soundtrack of the film and the strong personal style of the director. This should be the best Polanski movie so far. This is almost the experience of Polanski himself. Watching the documentary [Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired], we also saw the scandal 30 years ago and its subsequent impact, but is that the truth? Life beyond the truth itself may be a bigger mystery, only Polanski himself knows it. This is similar to the political thriller itself.
Text/Peter Chang
PS: Polanski is so bad at filming naked directors, and Ivan is naked again. It seems that Ivan’s theory of acting naked is not casual.
PSS: An introduction to [Weekly Review] Guan Yadi and Xiaobei:
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