This movie is the latter.
As a story of a clone reflecting on the meaning of his life, the whole film is full of submissive obedience and weak resistance that can be ignored, a lot of freehand shots and the heroine's narration, which made me fall asleep halfway through.
One-third of the film is used to describe the childhood stories of the three children. It is surprisingly slow, and all kinds of inexplicable plots are presented but inconsistent. I guess they must have ingenious meanings in the novel, but I was too stupid to comprehend it. What the lens is trying to convey. The last two-thirds of the film introduces the three children who have been separated for many years and then reunite, but they are facing separation of life and death immediately. It is a pity that the preparations before Knightley's death were not enough, so that the bloody surgical death did not seem vigorous; not to mention that Andrew and Carey finally discovered the "shocking secret" after a long time. The thing to get is literally stretched to 60 minutes. The slow progress of this film and the excessive emotional rendering is really outrageous.
Although the director understands the connotation that the novel is trying to express: everyone is a donor to this society, donating time and energy, and finally a person dies, holding regret, holding love, holding all kinds of tangled and complicated emotions. Some become the apparent winners, and some become the useless oppressed. However, the director relied on his love for the British pastoral scenery and embraced a heart of literary and art, and forcibly made it into a long and dull literary sci-fi film - I swear this is the first time in my life to watch a literary sci-fi film.
The other thing that makes me sad is Mulligan's narration in the film, her voice is beautiful, but I don't like it. In my opinion, the frequent use of narration is not a reflection of a director's superb directing skills. There must be some eye-catching strokes and handed down sentences in the original work to sublimate the emotions of the characters and point out the theme of the novel, but if such sentences are read by the heroine in a sad tone and with the simple setting of the sunset scene, in exchange for Tears and the grief of the audience, isn't this a very lazy thing? Shouldn’t the director find a way to interpret the theme through audio-visual means such as performance, photography, editing, music, etc. instead of dryly reciting the classic passages of the original work?
Fortunately, the director did one thing right and cast two good actors: Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield. The reason why I watched this film was basically because of the two of them. I wanted to see what kind of spark these two young men and women of literature and art could create.
In the first frontal appearance, the grown-up Garfield stood by the stairs, smiled shyly at Carey, and when he didn't talk, he involuntarily grabbed the railing around him, hoping to get some support and face the heartbeat. The power of girls. My first reaction was "Gosh, if Garfield wasn't a shy boy, he'd be really good at acting!" The hope in his eyes when he learned that Deferral might be successful, and finally in the country Roaring on the trail, let me see his amazing acting ability. Although I have to say, even including the Spider-Man starring him, his role is the kind of bullied weak, such as the deceived Zackburg partner in the social network, such as the juvenile prisoner in boy A, such as Spider-Man There was a little skinny guy with a blue nose and a swollen face, but he was really...very. suitable. combine. play. This. some. people. thing.
As for Carey, tears and emotions are in place in this film, but in the whole film, she belongs to the most calm character, so that in my opinion, she has a little too much emotional control. But what does it matter? She showed the heroine's years of forbearance and resignation to fate. With her tears and perfect profile, the director finally sublimated the theme at the end of the movie, and let me see that I spent 103 minutes watching this movie. the meaning of the film.
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