P2: I just want to be your friend

Elisha 2022-03-21 09:03:19

I like this simple structure: a period of time, a closed space, a linear narrative from shallow to deep. Especially in action thrillers.

The novelty of "P2" is that this closed environment is placed in the parking lot. In fact, this film can also be called "The Nightmare Before Christmas".

But as a horror movie, it's not scary at all. First of all, I thought the security guard played by the handsome Wes Bentley was not a bad guy at all. He didn't kill to the point of being insane, and he didn't have any plans for how to kill. All his motives and fundamental purposes His closing words have already made it very clear, but there is a problem with the means to achieve the goal.

So when the handsome security guard said, "I'm lonely, why are you doing this, I just want to be friends." My heart softened. This is the core of the film. In the end, the heroine was forced to kill without blinking. Because the handsome guy called her a bitch next!

There are too many security guards similar to this "perverted" in the film. Due to loneliness, loneliness and love, when all this is not vented and cannot be talked about, anyone's mind may be destroyed, and it will be derived Excessive behavior leads to burns. So we have every reason to believe that the security guard is out of true love, but the way of expressing it is not so appropriate and unreasonable. Because it is impossible to express oneself through common sense. People with small status and shy, cowardly and kind-hearted nature cannot have Christmas dinner with their beloved woman in common sense. When huge emotions cannot accommodate a person's small carrier, Such leaks are often unexpected and even lethal. It will become unscrupulous, ignoring the feelings of the other party. At this time, the love in the heart will change in quality and become an ugly and absurd expression, such as the two women's expressions of love in "The Sun Also Rises". So the security guard is the victim of this film, a tragic character, somewhat cute, pitiful, pitiful, unloved, until hateful, and ultimately sad. So he is not a pervert, just a polluted person of a social environment, a lonely person. Each of us can be this security guard, it could be you, me, him.

Let's take this to look at "Eye of the Mountain 1" written by the director of this film. Who is the victim and the murderer? When the eye man can kill the scalp numb? Why can't we understand the revenge mentality of a group of nuclear-contaminated body abscesses and horrible-looking being called monsters? Therefore, they are not perverts. Putting aside ethics and morals, it is abnormal that they do not kill or take revenge. Powerless to prosecute the original sin? Just kill the scapegoat!

The director, Franck Khalfoun, seems to have "returned the evil", reducing blood plasma and trying to create a psychological thriller. When I have a good impression of the male protagonist in the film, the thriller doesn't seem to exist. But the scene of hitting people is still quite fierce!

In fact, the heroine in the film has many chances to escape by using her mobile phone, but I don't know if it is because she is clumsy or the screenwriter is also clumsy. After calling 911, she lost her mobile phone, can't she call one at home if she can't get through to 911? 80% of them are afraid of family worries. Maybe we are all frightened and clumsy when we are in the scene, so it is better not to stand and talk without back pain, not afraid of offending the screenwriter, just respect the characters, haha.

Rachel Nicholson, who was born in the TV series, played a really good role. Her surging breasts are a major highlight of this film, although no matter how much exercise and water, there is no dew point.

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Extended Reading

P2 quotes

  • Thomas: Way to ruin Christmas. Asshole.

  • Thomas: What kind of car does he drive?

    Angela Bridges: I don't know.

    Thomas: You don't know? You don't know what kind of car your fiancé drives?

    Angela Bridges: A Toyota.

    Thomas: A Toyota? Now, that is a fast car. He could be here any minute...

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