First of all, spoiler warning, one of the great joys of this movie is to see how the director reveals the intricate relationship between characters little by little, and how to lay out contradictions, suspense and turning points. Therefore, spoilers will damage the look and feel more, so the most Statement first.
This film uses the classic three-one-uniform playwriting method, giving full play to the advantages of this form, setting the contradictions and relationships between the characters to the fullest, and creating a dramatic effect of undercurrents and turbulent inside a cocktail party that is not long. It's very well done and layered. This film is also a black and white film, which fully shows the director's confidence in his own story. Laota once said that color is the latest technical issue that affects the director's complete control over his own film. As long as you have enough confidence in your own story , Abandoning the cluttered eyes, the movie is even more brilliant.
The cast of the movie is luxurious. At this small reception, you can see seven excellent old actors playing together on the same stage, which is very refreshing. Many actors' memes laid out by the director in the plot are also very interesting. The actor who played Apple once accused his husband of being a Nazi, and the actor Bruno Ganz who played Gottfried was the one who played Hitler in "The Destruction of the Empire"; and Cherry Jones, who played gay, also played other gay characters. .
All seven characters in the film are clearly represented. Tom is a banker, and plays the modern virtual currency game, he symbolizes the capitalist with little culture; Bill is a literature professor and a staunch materialist atheist; Janet is a political strong woman, a symbol of hypocrisy Politician; Apple is her so-called realist, and she is also a feminist; Martha is also a professor of so-and-so, whose field of study can’t be remembered, anyway, it is such a special niche that sounds useless; Gottfried is a rambunctious life mentor; and Ginny, a lesbian senior chef with androphobia.
Sally Potter explores issues such as politics, economy, love, sex, etc. with the relationship between these seven characters and their comedic behavior, and has his own distinct directorial point of view. Bill, who has always been a self-proclaimed atheist, became interested in Gottfried's life energy theory immediately after learning that he had cancer. The arrogance of the so-called materialists - the contempt for the world and the many unknowns of life; and Gottfried was not completely approved by the director. After Bill fell to the ground, Gottfried and Tom passed the constant exchange of ideas. The music tried to revive Bill's "life energy", but no one thought of giving him a CPR. It can be seen that the director only expresses his views through these characters. They do not have an absolute positive or negative character, and some are just completely related to their thoughts and characteristics.
In addition to mocking the hypocrisy of politics, the cruelty of economy, and the pedantic intellectuals, it also mocked the powerlessness of love. Aside from the tumultuous love relationship, the director's handling of the gay couple Ginny and Martha is also very interesting. Ginny and Martha quarreled in the yard, Ginny threatened to leave Martha, Martha said "don't be stupid" very confidently, and then threw out the remark that she did it because she was afraid of losing Ginny, Ginny sure enough Back in her arms. This fully demonstrates the hypocrisy and cruelty of Martha's use of her intellectual intelligence to control the other half in the relationship between the two.
At the same time, the comedy section of the film is also very interesting. In addition to the excellent performances of several actors, the director's skill is also evident. The use of the gun is very similar to what Chekov had mentioned, the use of subtle props. There is also precise dialogue and mirroring. As the plot progresses, the director of a later play naturally divides the characters into three "battlefields" - the toilet, the living room and the courtyard. The camera switches between the three scenes in parallel, and the last three groups of people Get together and push the drama to its climax.
When Bill woke up, he asked Janet the most important question in the film, and it was also the director's question to everyone in this film: "Why have we come this far?" But the director did not stop here, she was very Another shocking reversal is about to be thrown, and Marianne, who has never shown up, comes, and then we know that she is Janet's cheating object, and she slept the couple! Janet raises her gun to the camera (Marianne), and there is a scene exactly like the beginning of the film, and then it stops abruptly.
After the screening, the archives rang with the warmest and most heartfelt applause I've heard in days, and the audience really enjoyed the exquisite theatrical setting.
One last weird thing. During the screening, the audience was made to laugh frequently by the comedy in the film. Just as another laughter came, a girl suddenly shouted: "Don't laugh!" The voice was full of dissatisfaction and anger . The audience's laughter stopped, but fortunately everyone didn't seem to be affected, and the subsequent comedy paragraphs continued to laugh. I can't help but be a little surprised that extreme feminists who are self-centered like in the movie and even want to control the minds of others live around me, even in this archive!
I don't know if laughing while watching a movie is just as bad as making a phone call, but what I'm sure about is that if the director herself is sitting in the movie theater, she finds her carefully crafted comedy sequence When she appeared, the audience did not respond, and if no one laughed, she would have been injured a lot. So if this happens again in the future, please don't mind and laugh as much as you can~
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