Humberto Eco wrote a novel called "The Name of the Rose", in which he said that a detective went to a monastery to investigate a case, but he got into trouble when he checked. Later, the criminal was discovered by a very accidental opportunity, and the case was solved. In short, when I read "The Name of the Rose", it looked like a detective novel at first, but in the end I found that it didn't look like a detective novel: the traditional detective novels are all sharp and wise, able to overcome all difficulties through observation and analysis. , find clues and catch criminals, but the detective in this novel does rely on chance (perhaps God's help) to solve the case. It can be seen that "The Name of the Rose" is a detective novel that is not a detective novel. Eco deconstructs his novel through parody, leading the reader to a wondrous place. This feeling is also the feeling I felt when I watched the movie "Sea of Spies". It's a spy movie that's not a spy movie. The actor Paul Soames is an American spy who goes to Shanghai to take over the job of his fallen comrade Connor. By analyzing Connor's relics, the male protagonist believes that as long as you follow these clues, you can find evidence that Japan will attack the United States. He targeted a Japanese officer, Taisuke Tanaka, who had killed his comrade-in-arms. Meanwhile, Soames discovers that a Japanese female companion of his comrade-in-arms was actually Tanaka's lover. So he did everything possible to find the Japanese woman. Finally, when he found the Japanese woman, Taisuke Tanaka also arrived. But at the same time, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States. Soames asked Mr. Tanaka, did you know that Japan was going to attack Pearl Harbor? Colonel Tanaka replied that his level was too low, and it was impossible for him to have access to such military secrets. Soames pressed, why did you kill Connor? Chief Tanaka replied, because he robbed my woman! This is really a great deconstruction: the spy did not complete the task, after a lot of painstaking investigation, the Japanese conspiracy succeeded in the case of nothing! What's more, what seemed to be extremely logical reasoning was instantly proven wrong—a Japanese officer murdered a spy not out of protecting military secrets but out of love jealousy. In this way, the movie has transformed from a spy film into a strange romance.
In addition to the above narration, we can also see the "love core" of the movie by observing the interaction between the hero Soames and the heroine Anna (played by Gong Li). During the course of the mission, in a conflicting situation between mission and love, Soames chooses to rescue his beloved woman, Anna. As the head of the Shanghai underground party organization, Anna chooses to change the organizational strategy for love. These movie clips all emphasize the importance of movies in highlighting love. In fact, the love entanglement in the movie also includes Lan Ting played by Chow Yun-fat. He is Anna's husband. At the end of the film, for Anna's safety, Lanting chose to turn against the Japanese - killing Tai Zuo Tanaka and his subordinates and losing his life. All in all, I thought, "Sea of Spies" can also be called a love story of three men and two women.
The superfluous words
are mainly due to two points. First, in the movie Gong Li is dressed like a sexy meat ball in American underworld movies, not like the head of an underground party organization in China; second, the movie uses a dark, dark Under this kind of lens, the face is difficult to see, and the lights often appear hazy and hazy. This feeling has shaped the mystery and solemnity that the film should have!
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