But after watching the film, the first feeling is that the story is very unreal, just a planned boring story. Let's imagine the flow of this film. The director should be a young man with an idea, and the story of the secret room excites him. However, there are already many stories about various secret rooms in the world, and it is difficult to surprise. Probably only the smallest chamber, the grave or the coffin, has yet to be touched. The short-lived idea excited him, and the story had a rough foundation. But this is just a frame, and it has to be filled with content.
Where is the story? Of course it's Iraq, where kidnappings happen every day, and it can be painted with anti-war colors and a little bit of capitalist evil, and it's even more perfect. As long as it has a relationship with the US military, there must be a selling point. The story is too monotonous to last for 100 minutes? It doesn't matter, add some relevant elements to make the plot twists and turns. As a result, snakes even appeared in the coffin, and the protagonist also had a story of fighting wits and courage with snakes. The space in the tomb is too small to unfold the story? That's easy to do, just use the phone and add the voices of the outside world. It's best if the phone also has problems every now and then, either with no one, no signal, or almost dead battery, adding to the urgency of the story. Just the phone itself can add a lot of drama. Besides, you can add some emotional scenes to impress people, such as calling a demented mother to chat, telling a wife who is always away from home and has a mobile phone and saying that he loves her, and so on.
In this way, the story can be held up, and it can be dragged for a hundred minutes, but the performance is a big problem. How to perform in a narrow tomb? How to shoot in a dark coffin? Oh, the director has his own way. The protagonist has a ZIPPO lighter! This is a famous brand. It just happens to be in the protagonist's pocket, and it can be used for a long time. Never worry about running out of fuel or consuming the poor oxygen in the coffin. It will accompany the owner to burn until the fire of life goes out. There are long-lasting lighters, and the natural tomb is full of light. Actors can perform as they want, and the camera can shoot as they want. The coffin is also like a treasure chest with everything. Lighters, mobile phones, knives, pencils, flashlights, wine bottles, etc., etc., as long as there is a need, these things will come out.
Of course, the director can be said to be arranged by terrorists, the purpose is to allow the protagonist to ask for help in order to extort money. But at this point, the director is still swaying, making it unclear in the end whether the kidnappers are for political purposes or for money? The US military, Iraq, and terrorists are naturally for political extortion; but five million for a while, one million for a while, the kidnappers don't seem to care who pays the money, so it looks like It's extortion money. But no matter what the reason is, if you want to put the ticket into the grave, you have to try every means to ensure that he is not found, and you have enough courage and wisdom to call the police for help. It can only be said that these terrorists are rusted heads. amused.
The purpose of kidnapping a hostage is to use the hostage for blackmail, hide the hostage well, and use him to put pressure on the blackmailed person. Iraq is so vast and sparsely populated, where can it not be placed, must I give myself so much trouble? If the hostage fails to wake up in the grave, if the mobile phone fails, if the lighter burns out the air and the hostage suffocates to death, if the snake bites the hostage, if the hostage is not so smart to find the blackmailer, Or in case the hostages don't even answer the phone... Do the kidnappers have to risk bombing and dig their graves? The kidnappers will not put their wishful thinking on the performance of the hostages, keep the hostages by their side, and adapt to the situation at any time, which may be the inevitable choice of any kidnapper.
Originally, in the director's view, this is a very tense film, and it can move people. However, due to the lack of a realistic foundation, it is difficult to grab people and move people. The audience always wonders, what other tricks the director will play? We don't have to worry about the lighter running out of oxygen, the phone's battery running out, the final moment coming, and so on, because everything is arranged by the director, and there will definitely be a final outcome. Although the actor acts very hard, there is too little room for him. Besides losing his temper, how much room can he have? In fact, this kind of story relies on ingenuity. If the director is less careful, just make up a story to make a radio drama, or make a short film or something, it will have some unexpected effects. But as a drama, it's a bit over the top.
127 Hours is also a one-man show, but that's what really happened, and it's based on reality. In addition, the sky is vast, there is an alternation of day and night, and there is a lot of space for actors to perform, so the film can move people and capture the hearts of the audience, so that the audience can pay attention to the fate of the characters. As for this play, I have to let the director act, anyway, the camera will never be able to reach into the grave, after all, it is another world.
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