In fact, I still admire this comrade screenwriter. Everyone can write a bad script, but to use the same sauce to make bad works of the same texture one after another, this requires certain skills.
First of all, as always, the film must be given a depressive and heavy background. The protagonist of the story must be another character who is deeply in the quagmire of pain and remorse, and perseveres and tortures himself for a long time. In the film, Charlize Theron stood by the window, facing the dank streets of Portland, bare breasts; Charlize Theron slept with every man who approached her, and posed a dead picture on the bed. fish face; Charlize Theron on a cloudy beach, pulling her skirt up to her thighs, scratching herself with a lump of mud, well, it's not enough, she has to go to the edge of the cliff, look down, and find Stay for a while. It can be seen that the director loves this scene, and it is too late to cut it. Change the camera and then change the scene. What a beautiful and sad scene, do you understand, this woman on the edge of the cliff, she not only suffered self-harm, she also wanna die.
Ok we get it. Charlize Theron plays a woman who has experienced great pain in her life, and the film will reveal and resolve that pain in 1 hour and 48 minutes. However, as an excellent Zhuang Yating work, it is not enough to talk about the pain of one character, and it is necessary to elevate this pain to a description of the general state of human existence. At this time, it is necessary to sprinkle "destiny" Brand pepper noodles. In stories, fate often wears the mask of coincidence, accident, chance, just as in 21grams a car accident tied a bunch of people to a rope, in babel a shooting accident turned the whole earth over, burning What we waited for on the plain was an unfortunate incident that was triggered by a child's mischief and tossed two families and three generations for more than ten years, the explosion of a gas tank.
And fate is everywhere, so is the flock of birds flying in the sky. The slingshot boy loves to shoot birds. He killed a bird and ate a slate on the first date with a girl, so after N years, when the slingshot boy became a pilot, the flock of birds in the rice fields in Mexico rose into the air, and the ghost of fate rushed into the engine of his plane, causing the tragic accident of the plane crashing and not dying. It was this bird destined to kill that brought his beloved woman back to him, how tangled and how subtle. If you want to write a high-quality Zhuang Yating story, don't be ashamed, and pour the tasteful seasonings of fate, life, and so on into every detail.
Even so, if you look at the tragedy caused by a gas tank in chronological order, it is really an empty and overly hypocritical story, so you should use it. method". This exclusive multi-line narrative method, to put it bluntly, is a shuffling method. The plot is cut into pieces according to the time and space lines, spread on the table and wiped twice, and then pasted together. The only principle to guide pasting is to try to make it impossible for the audience to see who is who, who loves who, who kills who, at least for the first 30 minutes of the film, and if the audience has been watching the film halfway through or even at the end of the film Fog water, then you're done.
It's a pity that the storyline is too thin, it's easy to guess who's who in the first fifteen minutes, and if you've watched a few episodes of DrHouse, you can probably predict the truth about the gas tank when the girl walks into the trailer for the first time. , so that, when Charlize Theron finally started to confess and regret with snot and tears, the film has unfortunately missed the climax that does not exist at all. And it has to continue procrastinating, even if we already know that she became a runaway new mother the day after her daughter was born, this useless plot has to be presented at the end of the film, because, since it has been thrown out How can the big name of "destiny" give up the stuff like "salvation" at the bottom of the box? To be honest, at the end of the film, when the lights in the theater were turned on, I deeply experienced the feeling of being "redeemed". Masochism is unhealthy, Charlize Theron got it, and so did I.
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