I clearly remember that this is the first foreign movie poster I have seen since I can remember. When I was very young, my parents took me to see "Titanic". The influence of Titanic on me is indelible. When I was a kid, I had a smattering of impressions of it, but when I rewatched it several times as an adult, the full storyline, epic art and visual effects still deeply shocked me every time. "Vertical Limit" is different, and I'm pretty sure I haven't seen the movie.
There is a three-star hotel next to my house. The national standard of three stars is not good, but 20 years ago, it was equipped with a screening hall. "Vertical Limit" may be the first imported film they screened, and the film's poster is standing in front of the hotel. Passing by the poster at that time, I was attracted by this painting. This poster is fully extended vertically in the frame. The dark cliffs, the narrow distance, and the snow-capped mountains in the distance all look cold and terrifying. Of course I couldn't have thought so much as a kid, but I stared at the two climbers who fell for a long time. I was a little scared, and I was curious if they would survive. Passing by the hotel door after school, I watched it over and over again, trying to remember the name of the movie.
I found this film by chance many years later, and must have recognized it by the poster. I didn't expect it to be a thriller, the rock-climbing drop at the beginning was a bit tense and exciting, and it had some cheap heavy-duty elements of a B-movie, such as the porter's funny way of injury (waste scenes), Wick's broken foot, Monique's Severed fingers, Tom's blood bomb, etc.
In the first half of the film, there is a lot to discover about the characters and their relationships. Annie, a young and promising mountaineer, Skip, a ruthless and reliable camp commander, listening to Bob Marley's hippie brother, Elliot, an entrepreneur with his own halo and wit, Wick, a spooky wanderer, and a grumpy and fun-loving eldest sister The head Monique, the humble and prudent team leader Tom, the devout and low-key believer Kareem, the Indian army chief who complained that the old America took up resources. The protagonist Peter is the most useless and common character of all. The contradiction between Annie and Peter that could not be reconciled because of the loss of their father for a long time is not only reflected in Annie's self-blame for the accident and Peter's seeming indifference, but also in the difference in how the two keep climbing and stop moving forward in sports. Those who can't let go of the burden and the people who cut off the ropes stay away from the mountain are all reflections of the pain of losing their father. The same contrast is also reflected between the old enemies Wick and Elliot. The speech at the camp can not help but make people think that Wick may be a time bomb. In fact, the famous Elliot is the needle villain who stabbed the knife in the back. Elliot's quarrel with Tom seeing a storm on the ridge was not bad either.
However, the film loses all its rationality and sparkle from the moment the group put nitroglycerin on their backs. Nitroglycerin is really a solution that a pig-brained screenwriter came up with. Forgive my sudden loss of speech. The second half of the plot is avalanche. In order to trigger cheap thrills, the film makes all the characters give up their common sense of mountaineering for many years, all! The army that used nitroglycerin to start a mountain knew on the first day that it should not be stored in the sun; the hippie brother easily put the nitroglycerin on the snow slope, and the explosives slipped away like a beginner's veneer laying flat on the blue road; the hippie brother could have Discuss with Kareem more about the meaning of faith and the existence of Allah. As a result, the two of them were like stupid dicks, because of the leaking nitroglycerin and the jokingly knocked over the kettle, they were blown away in a comical manner in a hahahaha. Oh my God! Is it funny? Could it be more funny? ! Peter also flirted with Monique on the way to save his sister. The screenwriter wants to make it unclear who will die and who will die immediately. If everyone returns safely, the conflict will not have a chance to be resolved. In the end, the film made Peter sacrifice all his companions, echoing with a boring beginning and end, saving his sister and holding the beauty back.
I'm not a professional mountain climber, and I'm not even an outdoor enthusiast since the epidemic, so I can't find out technical problems like other film critics. Also, I am not good at writing film reviews. This long review contains too many private goods. I may just want to record a detail, so that this memory about the poster will not sleep in the snowy mountains of time. It could be a signpost, an introduction 20 years ago. All of them have shaped who I am now, and who I will be 20 years from now.
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