Edgar Allan Poe is a poet, novelist, and the originator of detective novels. He is not a detective himself, nor does he have the professional ability to solve cases like a professional detective, but this is not the point of Edgar Allan Poe that the director wants to express. The director is faithfully expressing Edgar Allan Poe, who has the pursuit of beauty, cynicism, talent, passion and sensitivity, and poverty. These personalities make Edgar Allan Poe out of touch with the world, and John Cusack performs well. The director interprets an Edgar Allan Poe who sacrificed himself in pursuit of true love, and draws a beautiful end to the mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's death.
Those who are positioned to appreciate the detection film may be disappointed. Because the murders and the murderer in the film are fictional, these plots are limited to Edgar Allan Poe's novels. The film does not focus on the performance of Edgar Allan Poe's ability to solve cases. The director makes the life of Edgar Allan Poe, who is lonely, poor and melancholy, and Nirvana in his own novels and the most beautiful love. But all this has nothing to do with secular people, and all that is left to the world is the mystery of the end of his life.
Through this film, we can see the director's reverence and sympathy for Edgar Allan Poe.
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