War is the art of deception, cinema is the art of the picture
In fact, there are not a few movies of this kind of American personal heroism, but because I am a die-hard fan of Mike Banning, and many scenes in this movie are really wonderful, I decided to write some of my own thoughts.
I have always felt that the core of novels and movies is always a good story. Mike Banning is a well-deserved central figure in the stories told in the "Fall" trilogy. He is an ideal image, strong, loyal, brave and fearless. Such a role is really rare in reality. But an imperfect audience like me needs such an ideal character in a film and television production. It's as if I can map myself to him, put myself into his world, go deep into danger again and again and save it from danger again and again, and I can still strengthen my belief when everyone around me doubts it.
The subject that touches me the most is war. Born in a time of peace, I have never experienced war, and all my knowledge of war comes from film and television works and books. Many movies depict soldiers returning to their own countries after the war at a loss, finding that the creed they once fought to the death was no more than a creed, and tormented by the scenes they saw during the war. In Angel Has Fallen, the character is Mike's father, a man who abandoned his wife and son, a father who only remembers his son's full name and place of birth, and a soldier who spurned war but had nothing but war. The happy thing is that at the end of the movie, he arranged a very happy ending, and he returned to his family.
The role of the villain Wade is very interesting, and he has been saying "We are Lions" repeatedly throughout the film. War can change a person and imprint a trace in his soul. Therefore, to talk about war from the perspective of a person, to see the big from the small, after returning to a peaceful life, he still yearns for war, and even starts war at all costs, it is a terrible thing. We can't say he is evil, he is a victim of war himself, he just doesn't know it. In war, there are no winners. And those who were born in peaceful areas should cherish this luck even more.
In addition, the use of two tinnitus effects in the movie is very attractive. Movies with gunfights generally have a similar tinnitus effect once, but this arrangement is very unique. After the climactic shootout at the end of the film, when the villain thought he found the president but found it was just an empty house, the continuous perspective transformation in the next few seconds, coupled with the mildly epic background music, is my favorite in the whole movie. The clips, especially the office’s main tone of mint green, lend a beautiful coat to the dusty, corpse-strewn shootout scene. However, there were too many shots for FBI agent Thompson in the early stage, which made me think that it would be a main character, and it was very abrupt that the villain killed him directly in the middle.
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