I remember the first time I watched "Conversation with Nixon" when I was very young. At the age of elementary school and junior high school, I would keep an appointment with the best movies of the movie channel every Saturday night. For me at that time, it was one of the few opportunities for me to get in touch with international blockbusters and good films. I can't remember the details of the movie at all, but I still remember David's shock and joy that was like a death sentence.
I'm sorry?
Obviously, I still owe my Japanese teacher a bunch of Japanese dramas, but I don't know why this movie popped out of my mind, and it took two hours to refresh my memory.
Although the foreshadowing in the early stage is relatively lengthy, the plot is not protracted due to its pseudo-documentary style. In the mid-term, Ron Howard weakened several interviews in the middle. From the first confrontation between the two sides, Nixon's cunning and Foster's incompetence were highlighted, and this disparity situation was as complete as possible to the final decisive battle. The audience does not have any deviations from the situation in their hearts.
The dramatic contradictions within the team are still relatively general. Frost's distinctive smiley character has paved the way for the internal contradictions after the failure of the interview from the very beginning. Although it is said to serve the plot, there is always some bluntness in Frost's shaping. . However, the change before the final interview makes it easier to accept from the psychological level, and it also conforms to the basic structure of the two-part character.
When Nixon called Foster in the middle of the night, Langella perfectly performed Nixon's emotional catharsis, which was different from the sudden turn of emotions during the climax. The performance here was very tense, showing Nixon's ambition again vividly. Yet another pity. I always think that Ron Howard carried private goods in the movie, added a lot of personal understanding and emotions to the former US president, and showed the other side of the most infamous president in American history.
At the end of the film, Nixon plays golf, which he hated the most, and gives up his struggle to get back into politics. He still lost in the last interview, lost to Frost, but he finally disarmed, just as Frost threw away the prepared manuscript, Nixon opened his heart and made an apology, just as he started said when war was declared
No holds barred.
Nixon's image in the film is more three-dimensional. Although he is destined to be spurned, the director also explained him with his lines and audio-visual language. From a certain point of view, I also admire this character in the film. Bit Nixon. In the end, the dialogue between Nixon and Foster also made people think more deeply.
With Frost leaving Nixon in deep thought, my memory finally fills in.
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