Over the past few years, audiences are no strangers to the shooting mode of independent films like "Locke". From "Sniper Phone Booth", "127 Hours" to "Horror Live", filmmakers are more and more willing to challenge, and make up new ideas.
These kinds of movies always emphasize the minimal and monotonous enclosed space, and then there is an independently supported and almost mentally collapsed protagonist, leading to a dangerous and harsh environment. But as hard as "Rock", I am afraid there is only a movie like "Buried Alive", and every decision is a critical juncture of life and death. The irony is that the fuse of the "Locke" story is just a relatively ordinary thing. The protagonist who follows the rules, because of an unexpected one-night stand, finds that there will be an extra baby soon. He drove to face and solve this problem in a hurry. Didn't he expect that as soon as the car hits the road, all the problems in his life will erupt, one after another.
In the eyes of some viewers, this is not a matter at all, who cares, tomorrow the sun will rise as usual and life will continue. However, Locke is a construction engineer with a background in engineering. His work occupation, his background, and his sweaters and shirts do not allow him to adopt a romantic stance when facing a problem. Leave it alone. Moreover, he has to continue to find problems, and then solve these problems together. The problem caused by the movie is that he found that there are too many problems that he can't resist, and may directly ruin his life. However, the brave and upright Mr. Locke, he continued on the highway.
Compared with the lonely "Moon", "Locke" is filled with irritable emotions. The protagonist keeps swearing and catches a cold. These bad negative emotions are all compressed inside the driver's seat of a BMW car-yes, from start to finish, you can't get out of the world at all. Only the poor rearview mirror made the protagonist continue to have angry and bad conversations with the "other self". The director asked the protagonist to make a full 85 minutes of phone calls, one after another, "Temporarily unable to dial"... "On the call"... "Shut down"... For me who is struggling to deal with interpersonal relations, this is simply It was an 85-minute nightmare. This is the problem of being a human being.
Of course I don’t understand! What's the point of such a well-deserved life? Isn't it normal to step on it for 150 yards or 200 yards in the face of such a critical moment in life (if you really want to do this, then the movie won't have to be shot). It is not that there are many problems in life, but that life is inherently a problem. Locke tried to avoid being such a person because of his father's irresponsibility, but when he caused problems because of impulse and irrationality, he had already taken a bad step. No matter how hard he tries to solve the follow-up problem, he is unwilling to lie, and is honest enough to be far more courageous than the average man, but these can't change the fact that he is impulsive, but will intensify the problem.
If you don't even have the courage to go all out, you just want to solve problems in a framed world. Then this kind of life is not a failure, what will it be. Of course, the director knows the audience’s doubts. Therefore, he keeps setting various thinking traps for the protagonist. For example, he does not allow any errors in the details. He wants to ensure that everything is within the controllable range. He believes that all unexpected problems are It can be solved rationally...In my opinion, "Locke" reveals a tragic life. To die is to die in the car, on a highway that will never stop, this is the misfortune and sorrow of modern people. Whether you make a mistake or solve it after you make a mistake, this is a matter of nature-at least in the eyes of the people around it, a mistake becomes an eternal hate. Our protagonist obviously does not want to be flexible or perfunctory. He is a serious modern man and social man who wants to build a high-rise building and complete a unique engineering career that is sufficient to prove his work.
"Rock" used a car, a person and dozens of phone calls to tell a man's burden in marriage, love, and family work. He wanted everything he could and wanted to prove that he was not wrong. As a result, no one knew. What will be the result. After all, life is not a movie. Compared to movies, life has more solutions. Just like the phone call from a son, the middle-aged man shed tears. In the end, the shadows given to him by his father's generations still want the sunlight of his son to dissipate him.
This is a smart film director, a challenging film, but it is also destined that "Locke" cannot bring a strong sense of pleasure to the audience, and even lacks audience pleasure. Who really cares about a British man's life misfortune, so stubborn, so stubborn, unless they also cheated after marriage and accidentally cheated. Especially when the audience discovers that these problems are not a real life-or-death decision, the speed and phone calls have become a kind of brutal and inhuman mental torture.
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