Never Trust the D-Version Intro

The Hitchcock-esque thriller written in the introduction made me shy about this new Tornatore film for a long time, and there are very few reviews and introductions to this film online. Today, Baofengyingyin was exhausted, and it took a long time to be able to watch it, so it stayed on the menu page for a long time. The constant repetition of Ennio Morricone's signature provocative soundtrack made me a big question mark about this "thriller". After I finally started to watch it, the first half is really scary, with dark tones, rough lines, terrifying plots, and constant flashbacks like nightmares. I've watched a lot of these kinds of films recently, and I can't help seeing Tornatore using such a technique. I'm a little disappointed, this sensational master is really not suitable for such a technique, so that the first half of the film has been drowsy, and the chattering Italian is annoying, and I almost closed it and posted a new one. Second-rate thriller label too. I was a little bored after watching half of it, so I simply went to the Internet to find a more detailed introduction to the plot, and found that the plot was not what I imagined, so I resumed my patience and continued to read.

In the second half of the film, Tornatore still shows what he is best at. This Italian can always dig out the shining points of human nature buried deep under the surface, which is bright and touching. Like the beautiful legend of Sicily, the protagonist of this film is still a woman, but the difference is that Malena is always in a passive position in the film, whether she is being observed and followed by teenagers, or she is resigned in the face of life. . In this film, the heroine is always in an active position, and even cold-blooded at her own goal. However, Tornatore will never show the dark side of human nature to the world like David Lynch. Beneath the surface, there is still endless warmth and love, enough to make people cry. It is true that this film is still very different from his previous films, and the plot is more bizarre. In the second half, there is even the illusion of watching Almodovar. There are many dramatic accidents, but there are fewer. A playful ingredient. His movies are always beautiful. Such a dark story still presents a warm ending that can melt everything. Although it is a very vulgar happy ending, no one is willing to break such warmth.

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