Well it's just a novel

Pierce 2022-03-22 09:02:05

Mix Dickens with Hollywood and the story gets a little contrived.
But the first love and all the unreasonable women around the hero have a strange beauty.
But the film itself fails to express these aesthetics, and what is worse, the story drives the protagonists to various superficial scenes, just to tell the audience where the story is in a hurry and cramp.

If it weren't for the beauty of the hero and heroine, the beauty of the first love, the beauty of the deserted house, the beauty of the ideal world and the great future, and the beauty of all the stories created in the audience's heart, this movie would be a complete waste.

Four stars for the sea outside the window.

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Extended Reading
  • Daphnee 2022-03-24 09:02:16

    I have seen the best photography in Cuaron's films so far. It is not the unrestrained use of long lenses, but the use of local conditions. The use of Dutch angle, ring lens, low angle, silhouette, and mirroring is used to serve the plot accurately everywhere. The key plot point uses an incredibly stunning long shot that pushes the film to its climax. It's a pity that in the third act, in order to highlight the reversal, the love line that was the most solid and the audience was most concerned about was emptied. In order to create the retro atmosphere that the original novel should have, the music was used too intemperately.

  • Newell 2022-04-20 09:01:52

    The scene that starts at 1:10:24 and ends at the end, you can never get tired of watching it. It's a pity that this story is hard to save.

Great Expectations quotes

  • Finn: That's a big cat! That's the biggest cat I've ever seen! What do you feed it?

    Ms. Nora Digger Dinsmoor: Other cats.

  • Prisoner: You bite your nails? It's a bad habit. People always tell you that the eyes are the windows to the soul. Bullshit. It's your hands, that's the sign of a gentleman.