Magical Football for men is a sport where passion and dreams are intertwined. Although they are not professional players, the fans' affection for football is no less than that of professional players who regard football as a means of making a living. Sometimes they are even more fanatical than professional players, perhaps because of professional players. Gluing up with football every day will cause some aesthetic fatigue, and fans every week, whenever the "double rules" (specified time, specified location) of the competition are vented, it is a cloud and rain like "a small victory wins a new love".
As soon as I saw the green field, I couldn't help but get excited. As soon as I saw the fans in the stands full of pits and valleys, I couldn't help but get excited. If it coincides with a few wonderful goals, a few exquisite cooperation, and a few magical saves by the goalkeeper , from leading to being overtaken to reversing, to being tied, and then to the last few seconds of stoppage time to complete the lore, then this is a stadium that will go down in history. The twists and turns are heartbreaking!
Of course, this film does not show the changing scenes on the field, but more to give space for the imagination of the game on the field. For example, there was a key battle between Derby County and Leeds United when the Derby County head coach hid in the dressing room alone. Dare to watch the game on the sidelines, nervous and full of expectations. He stared anxiously at the locker room window, hoping to feel the intense atmosphere and process results of the game. Although this paragraph does not give an image of the real confrontation scene on the court, we can feel the atmosphere on the field from the head coach's expression and actions. This kind of mentality portrayed by the head coach through static braking more profoundly reflects the turbulence on the field. This mentality depiction more directly hits the mentality of the fans watching the game.
Because of the lack of display of ball skills on the green field, the film puts more emphasis on the outside of the field. Perhaps this is the key factor in the victory and defeat of a ball on and off the field. This approach continues the biographical style of The Queen and Foster in Nixon. I omit the details of the incident, and focus more on digging behind the incident. Hide the torrent narrative of the macro era, and focus on the micro-description of the stakeholders of the event, including the characters' thoughts, characters, backgrounds, behaviors, etc. The biopics "Queen" and "Foster Talks to Nixon" in this same vein, including this one, "Damn United", have two key characters present - playwright Pete Morgan and film actor Mike Sheen. Mike Sheen plays Tony Blair in The Queen and journalist Foster in Foster Talks Nixon. Personally, I feel that Mike Sheen's performance in this trilogy does not have any substantial breakthrough, and even belongs to the same mold carved out, including gestures, language and so on. Of course there are characters, and the conflict of the plot limits Mike Sheen's performance, but if you think about it carefully, this kind of repetitive patterned performance year after year, day after day, can easily lead to a mindset that limits the imagination space before watching the movie. , is not conducive to the sustainable development of an actor. Because of this, I have some expectations and some worries about Mike Sheen's next film.
"Damn United" turns the camera on the legendary British football coach Brian Cliff. In terms of merit, Brian Cliff's political merits are outstanding. In 1967, he moved to the second division team Derby County, and a year later Derby County was promoted to the first league with the second division championship. In the 71-72 season, Derby County beat Leeds United and Liverpool to win the First Division Championship. In the 1976-77 season, Clough led the British League Two Nottingham Forest to be successfully upgraded; in the 1977-78 season, as a newly promoted horse, he won the League A championship and the League Cup championship at the same time. In the 78-79 season, he won the European Champions Cup and defended the League Cup; in the 79-80 season, he won the Champions League. The subtitles at the end of the film read "No other English coach has ever surpassed this feat!"
Those who are familiar with the football market know exactly what these results mean. This is the legend of an amazing coach. But the film did not aim at these glory and glory, but chose the darkest period of the magical coach's life as the theme of the film, that is, he was dismissed by lightning 44 days after coaching Leeds United in 1974. This is obviously contrary to the traditional concept of Greater China. Moreover, the magical coach just passed away in 2004. According to the Chinese people's biopic, he will definitely choose the glorious and decent side to promote and promote it, but he is not complacent or even deliberately concealed about another aspect or stage of life, euphemistically saying: "The sun is also If there are sunspots, let's not just watch sunspots!" Some time ago, the main theme of the large-scale musical "Road to Rejuvenation", which was very popular, was so understated, intentionally or unintentionally omitting the decades of history of the Republic. Under the prosperous age, I dare not face it, obviously the proposition of "prosperous age" has become a false proposition.
The film also completes the powerful interpretation of why and how magical the magical coach is through the description of the situation of the magical coach before and after these short dark years. After such a black fission, the film came to an abrupt end and ended there. As if to tell the world: "He is from here and there is going to be". The history of a person and the history of a country will go through stages of light or darkness, and the light after that often stems from the darkness before. The light of the present may be giving birth to the darkness of the future.
2009-11-14
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