"Killer Joe" is starring film veteran William Friedkin. The old man's most famous work is "The Exorcist". ) had scared the audience to death at the time of the screening, and the more evil view is that at that time, there were reports that the heroine's vomit in this movie was made of mung beans. The manufacturer's products were unsalable and were once discontinued. More than 30 years later, "The Exorcist" is still at the top of the list of the strongest thrillers in history. It can be seen that William Friedkin is familiar with the understanding of the audience's psychology.
"Killer Joe" is the new work of the 76-year-old director, whose last work dates back to six years ago. Although the interval between creations is quite long, the old director is not old, and he is very skillful in playing the scenes of violence, hidden Lolita complex, black and white police, and deception in the film. The beginning of the film sets the tone of the film: it was a dark night, huge lightning flashed in the sky, the rainstorm came on schedule, a car in the lonely light staggered into the middle of a group of RVs, and a young man who ran down. People hurriedly knocked on the door of an RV in the heavy rain, the door rattled, and a woman's naked lower body appeared in the camera...
For the next 100 minutes, the film was based on this stern, Going down in a dark style, this young man named Chris heard that his biological mother had invested a huge sum of insurance, and the beneficiary was his biological sister, so he discussed with his biological father and wanted to kill his mother. The $500,000 in damages was split equally. Who will complete this murderous task? So Killer Joe appears, his official occupation is actually a policeman. And when this cop first appeared, he took a fancy to Chris's teenage sister Dottie (Dottie claims to be 12 years old, but she doesn't look like it).
That's how the story begins, as William Friedkin tries to keep the film's "No Country for Old Men" grim quality, with the help of Texas, the powerhouse of Westerns, to show the darkness of the town and the absurdity of humanity. The "texture" of this effort is guaranteed to be quite successful on the whole, and there is a special texture from the beginning of the film to the end that is full of openness. But this is a movie born in the wrong era. The 2005 History of Violence and the 2007 No Country for Old Men have brought this tough, grim style of police, bandit and gangster genre films to the extreme, and related genre films produced later , there is no comparable work. "Killer Joe" succeeds and fails, and it replicates the stern black and toughness of "No Country for Old Men", while willingly burying itself in its light. What's more, its stylized texture is scrutinized, lacking logic and full of decorative sense. Take the beginning as an example, on that pouring rain night, Chris rushed into the RV to find Dad's bridge as if he was being hunted down. It is full of doubts, and cannot be explained in the later episodes: "Why is he in such a hurry, there is no killer chase, and there is no danger of instant death?" In the later story, it is explained that the loan shark boss wants Chris The exchange of money, even so, is difficult to explain. Chiris desperately went to his father, just to discuss with him how to get the insurance money, not to mention, later, the two went to the strip club to talk very leisurely. This is the case - the only explanation is that the director needs to rely on illogical plots to create the texture of the genre.
At the end of the media screening of "Killer Joe" in Venice that day, many people cheered and applauded, which is not common in the screening of this year's competition unit (the only time I encountered before was Sono Ziwen's "Mediocre"). After watching personal or serious social themes such as "Wuthering Heights" and "A Mountain of People" for several consecutive days, all the media can finally breathe a sigh of relief and see those "stinky policemen who work part-time as killers, bastards and fathers to kill the old man." "Mom" is a ridiculous story, it's enough to be cool, awards and the like, count as a ball.
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