As soon as "Lust and Caution" came out, some people compared it with "Black Book". No way, the war background, female spy material, erotic gimmicks, and themes of love and betrayal are all similar. "Black Book" tells a story about a beautiful Jewish girl who joins an underground organization to seduce German officers in order to avenge her parents. It has one more identity than "Lust and Caution", which is a suspense film. The result is that, despite all the gimmicks and bells and whistles, the complexity of the story itself is very high. Of course we all know the heroine will fall in love with the German officer, so it's not a mystery. The so-called suspense is, in the end who is the traitor. You think the traitor you know has been seen through, and then you will find that there is another hidden in the depths, and when you thought it was this one, it turned out to be another. This is not like "Lust and Caution" where we can only guess that Tang Wei must take off, must sleep with the spy chief, must fall in love with the spy chief, must die, and the spy chief must shed a few tears. The logic of the story of "Black Book" is much tighter, and the narrative clues and character relationships are also rich and multi-layered.
This is not to say Lust and Caution is bad. Lust and Caution is also good. Still shot very well. At least "Paperclip" is what amazes me. It can only be said that compared to the "Black Book", it is a little thin and has too few layers. Some people say that the genre is different. "Black Book" is a war, focusing on war, human nature and suspense; while "Lust and Caution" is a simple love story. However, I feel that the love in "Black Book" should be more reasonable, more direct, and more complete. This may be different from the expression of love between Eastern and Western people. Westerners are direct, love is love, not love is not love, but Easterners tend to forbearance. Wang Jiazhi never dared to admit that she fell in love with Mr. Yi, and always explained it as loneliness, the loneliness of the heart; Alice retorted without guilt, "So cruel people like to collect stamps?" The result is that China's In a love story, you pluck out the kink scene of the character's heart, and find that the story can be told in 10 minutes; in western love stories, in addition to the love story itself, there are many side branches, intricate, and the characters' inner entanglement is just that. A few lines, of course, does not rule out the fact that "Romeo and Juliet" can actually be told in 10 minutes. Maybe it's because of my personality. In short, after watching such a long "Lust, Caution", I was almost suffocated to death by Wang Jiazhi's inner torment. However, "Lust and Caution" still has a better place - erotic scenes. Black Book is bold, but not so bold. Part of the larger reason Black Book was abridged was its disrespect to communism. So the children who plan to find the original feeling of "Lust and Caution" in this film can stop.
Just say "Black Book". The Nazi theme is related, but it does not describe the cruel and perverted Dutch Jews of the Germans very much. Instead, many layers. Alice's lover, the German officer, tried to negotiate with the underground group to reduce the sacrifice of human life. In his eyes, the great Hitler was far less than the dull life with his lover. And for the high-quality Dutch underground organizers, in their eyes, the lives of the Dutch are still higher than the lives of the Jews. In Alice's mind, there is not so much justice or immorality. All she wants is that the person she loves is alive, her friends are alive, the traitor who hurts her friends should be damned, and she doesn't care about the rest. I can't say how noble the starting point of this film is, but that it is trying not to be monotonous or flat, but at least to satisfy the audience - very few people these days are satisfied that good is good and evil is evil.
The female protagonist is very beautiful, and she also has such a force, forbearance, full of energy, kindness, sensibility, calmness, her own judgment and doctrine, especially when she laughs, it is particularly content. At the beginning of the film, the little sailor was very handsome, but unfortunately he died quickly. The two men of the heroine, Hans from the underground organization and the German officer Muntz, are very interesting, very good, but unfortunately Hans is a badass, I deeply regret this, I originally hoped that Muntz would be able to take care of Alice after his death The
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