While the original focuses on political satire, the film looks at personal choices. But whether it is irony or small freshness, the important thing is that the Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom has done a good balance, making people feel the warmth of healing while laughing.
There are two clues in the film: the grand plan of the chief tycoon to build a dam to catch salmon in Yemen, and the long-lasting love between Dr. Alfred and Harriet's advisor. To be honest, the former seems absurd, and the latter is a bit bloody, which is probably the reason for the average rating of this film. But it should be said that the combination of the two lines is quite natural. Through a fable of fish=faith (a fisherman can stand in the cold wind for dozens of hours just for a fish, this is belief), let scientists face their hearts and find ways to change their lives. The courage of the Arabian Nights, and the project of the Arabian Nights also leaves hope due to the infusion of reason, everyone is happy.
An impressive shot is of Alfred making a sudden U-turn in the crowd, bucking the trend and going to Harriet's house to help her out of the haze; this echoes the later when a farmed salmon takes the lead in leading the fish upstream. Life should not follow the trend, but have the courage to break through.
In order to highlight the epistolary structure of the original novel, the male and female protagonists all appeared in the form of e-mails (subtitles were also specially typed on the camera, including deletions and revisions), and the text messages between the press secretary and the prime minister were one of the most important laughs. one.
40-year-old Ewan McGregor and 30-year-old Emily Blunt look quite right, probably because the former is young and the latter is old. Both of them were nominated for the Golden Globe Award, which is a surprise. Kristin Scott Thomas, the domineering press woman, is definitely the highlight of the film, and she's always happy every time she appears.
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