To be honest, if I didn't decide to stay up late just to surprise someone to pick up the morning flight, I wouldn't go to the midnight premiere on Thursday.
For me, I have never been a fan of the leaning Republican Grandpa Clark, but the old Oscar judges like him, and the old film critic Roger Ebert loves him, so this time the film has become a compromise product. For a controversial figure like Hoover, the whole movie is like swallowing water.
Let’s talk about the script first. Dustin Lance Black uses a non-linear narrative. The time span from Hoover’s 20s to his death is about fifty years. All the things you see are all mixed up. The audience can figure it out. This is exactly the same as Milk. Nothing new. If you want to say something new, it may be to make the relationship between Hoover and Tolson clear. In view of his own Experience, blame Hoover's all kinds of weird behaviors on the severe control freak mother (common cause of homosexuality explanation, shocking!). I always think that a good biopic should not use the first person perspective like this one, but should use the third person perspective, and this kind of biographer to take notes to trigger events is the laziest way.
If the script is okay, then Ke’s director is really unflattering. In the non-linear narrative, the past reality should at least show at least one change, but in this film, the past and reality are expressed It was exactly the same. As a result, the audience saw the old actors and young actors jumping around. In this chaotic scheduling, Hoover’s major events were listed like a review of the best of the week, completely ignoring Black’s Hoover. The complexity of personality. Not to mention his terrible composition.
Speaking of actors, this play is supported by the performance of the actors, otherwise it would be impossible to watch it. In fact, the most commendable actors here are Naomi Watts and Josh Lucas, but they didn't have much performance. After the transformation, Little Leo has a face full of stubble, his eyebrows tightened, and this one is no exception. The good Armie Hammer was also disappointing. The tone of the speech, the look in the eyes when flirting with Leo, was too twinky, and the two people talked about fashion and decoration, just like the conversation in the gay bar. And the kiss after the fight, the handkerchief that I smelled, is just like Brokeback Mountain. I also saw people saying that the makeup is good, which is really speechless, and the fake ones sometimes make people so distracted that they don’t pay attention to the actors’ performances. Old Ke, two suggestions: 1. Use less rubber; 2. Change actors for such a long time span.
A good biopic should make people rethink history and the status of historical figures in history. This film obviously failed.
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Warner Bros.'s public relations for Oscars has also started, the best Director, best actor, best actress, best actor, nomination may be possible, winning an award is unlikely, of course it also depends on their public relations.
I am obviously the youngest in this group of viewers. It is rare for these old men and women to watch this film in the middle of the night.
When Judi Dench said that I would rather have a dead child than a gay, the pair of middle-aged women sitting in front kept giggling, saying that I would rather have a gay son, ha ha.
On the way back from the airport in the morning, looking at someone sleeping in the co-pilot, I just rejoice that I am not alone.
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