"God of Killing" is a comedy, and it is a comedy of table-top laughter level. The more the people in the play are struggling, the more happy the audience is. Can do this, of course, thanks to Polanski's old scene scheduling and four starring Oscar-level acting skills.
The child of the Cowan family used a wooden stick to knock out the two big teeth of the child of the Longstreet family. This is the beginning of all contradictions. Therefore, two families that would never have an intersection got together to discuss the solution to the accident. Mike, Penelope, Allen, Nancy, a four-person living room, a wonderful story unfolded like this.
In fact, it is superfluous to use language to analyze this movie, because the movie itself is full of brilliant lines like a cannon. These lines almost reveal the relationship between people, between family and family, between men and women. The insurmountable barrier between. At the same time, the scene language of the movie is also very rich. Although the story is confined to a living room, through the comparison between the neat living room and messy bedroom and bathroom of the Longstreet home, we can vaguely see that the couple is not as glamorous as it seems. A closer look reveals that in the entire living room, only the handful of temporarily bought tulips gleams with abrupt golden yellow luster. Its falsity is equivalent to the falsity of interpersonal relationships in middle-class life.
In the play, the distribution of contradictions is both obvious and chaotic. Of the four characters, almost every two of them have a contentious argument.
1. Longstreet couple & Cowan couple
The real contradiction between the two families is actually not whose child injured whose child. But as the parents of the victims, the Longstreet couple felt that the other's child had "armed" a wooden stick and ruined the appearance of their children. As for the Cowan couple on the other side, they didn't take this seriously, they just wanted to solve this problem as quickly as possible. They don't really care what happened between the children, and their concern for Essen is purely out of courtesy and responsibility. This difference in the nature of the problem has led to hypocrisy that cannot continue smoothly. Everyone can say that the real attitude only emerges when the problem is solved.
2. Mike & Penelope are
also parents, and Penelope pays more attention to his son's injury. Every time Penelope "euphemistically" proposed, apologized or talked about, the accident requires a specific solution, and it is this kind of invisible aggressiveness that intensified the development of contradictions. On the contrary, Mike is trying to play the role of a good gentleman. Penelope intensifies the contradiction. Mike uses coffee or whiskey to reconcile the contradiction. In this way, the relationship between the couple is established. The united front soon collapsed.
Of course, there are other reasons why this collapse came so quickly. Penelope is a writer. She has been to Africa, cared about the living conditions of children in the third world and wrote about it. She has a soft spot for culture and art. In the play, she also expressed the hope to cultivate related interests in her son. And Mike, just an ordinary businessman, who can talk about whiskey, cigars, and toilet door handles, can't give a complete painter's name. The contradiction between them is actually the most common contradiction between husband and wife. It is the irreconcilable reality and ideal. It is an insurmountable gap between literary and artistic youth and ordinary youth. You can usually ignore this gap and avoid it, but when it intends to show up, there is absolutely no chance that you will be spared.
3. Allen & Nancy
buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz The untimely buzzing cell phone is the deadliest contradiction between the two of them. Of course, the contradiction is not in the mobile phone itself, but in the thing it carries-career.
Allen and Nancy, one is a lawyer and the other is an investment consultant, these two professions form a seemingly high-end family. Career or family seems to be a huge choice faced by all men, but Allen in the film does not need to choose. He is obviously more inclined to his career as a lawyer that reverses right and wrong. The alienation between husband and wife and the parents' indifference to their children are obvious. What is more obvious is that although Nancy has been patient, she is indeed fed up with such a husband, and of course his mobile phone.
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The relationship between Ellen and Mike is as weird as the relationship between men and women. The contradiction between Ellen and Mike is focused on their careers. Obviously, Ellen looks down on Mike’s trouble with the doorknob. Creative profession, and Mike is quite dissatisfied with Allen's self-righteous temperament. The funny thing is that such a contested relationship is easily resolved in the face of good cigarettes and good wine. At present, who cares about the slight difference in identity. The moment Nancy dropped Allen's phone into the water, Mike jumped up and instantly became Allen's comrade-in-arms, which is why it is said that only men understand men.
5. Nancy & Penelope
Nancy’s horrifying spit makes people can’t help clapping and exclaiming, when the vomit mixed with Penelope’s proud snacks soaks her basically out of print picture album At that time, it was twenty slapped Penelope's face and stomped on both feet. Vomiting, a primitive action, pierced the window paper of civilization. That's it, Penelope makes Nancy feel sick, just like she wants to wipe her ass with Penney's so-called humanitarian spirit.
Penelope is the most hierarchical role among the four. She went from being calm to restrained to breaking out to breaking down to the final scream. After scream, she actually wanted to politely open the door to the Cowan couple who left. guest. She wants to be a civilized person in her ideals, but still can't restrain herself viciously calling Nancy bitch and mocking her nickname. In fact, think about it, most people are more like Penelope, but the opportunity that caused them to collapse and tremble did not appear, and their lives passed by with an elegant title.
6. Other
Many contradictions in the film, such as hamsters, such as men and women, such as kid gangs and informers, cannot even be called a contradiction when they appear alone, but when these contradictions are mixed together, they quickly roll into one. Ways to clear the landmines. Any individual difference, any small difference in point of view, can be a weapon to attack others. Polanski reproduced with superb lens language what it means "Every sentence has an NMB behind it" as a spectator We may laugh about it, but when we become the parties, can we give better answers?
Finally, when the problems of the adults are exposed in an unsolvable way, the children have long been relieved of their previous suspicions and reconciled. The result is that the mobile phone is very good, the hamsters are very good, and the children are also very good, but there are four adults in this world, all of whom are very coincidental, and spent the worst day of their lives.
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