The translation of "Vantage Point" into "Assassination Stronghold" is entirely to attract the attention of the audience. But this kind of translation is likely to make quite a few people give up their desire to appreciate. After all, Hollywood is never short of tough guys and conspiracies.
In terms of genre, the former is a drama, while the latter is an action film. The reason why they are put together for comparison is that both directors use a multi-line narrative method to tell them. One is to slowly push the story to a climax in a soothing rhythm; the other is to spread out a point from multiple angles and tell the story piece by piece.
In "Disconnect", there is a "relationship line" that connects all the characters. The first is a family who has lost a child. The neglected wife is looking for someone to talk to in the chat room. When the husband finds out that his account information has been stolen Later, turn to a private investigator who has resigned.
A private investigator lost his wife and raised his son alone. His son met his eccentric autistic classmate while pranking his friends, so he signed up for a girl's account to tease the offbeat classmate. Alone, he thought he had found a soulmate, and under the temptation, he sent "her" a rather stupid nude photo of himself.
The detective's son posts nude photos, and the lonely classmate commits suicide. His father began to persevere to find the reasons for his son's suicide. The father, a lawyer and an expert on media exposure, was appointed as the lawyer for a local TV host who was involved in a report on online prostitution of minors.
The host stumbled upon a live porn site and contacted a boy who offered internet porn. At first she just wanted to use him to complete a report that could bring fame and fortune, but gradually she hoped to save the boy. But things were far from being as simple as she thought.
Of course, the line linking these characters is slightly weak in some places, and it is not an exaggeration to attribute it to the artistic imagination of the director and screenwriter. However, this is not important. What is important is that on this line, the barriers between people in each family who think they know each other are different in type and similar in nature.
The person whose account information was stolen finds a person to whom she confided when he snubbed his wife; the father of a suicide boy finds the initiator of teasing his son; the host tries to rescue the boy who is engaged in online pornography in his own way.
I set the key word of this film as "redemption", listening and talking, loving and being loved, saving and being saved, maybe it's just the scapegoat that many people are looking for for their own mistakes, just looking for someone to pay for their regrets and regrets The object wants to be liberated through this process of seeking. This process makes people focus, thus shielding the "salvation" that should come from the self, forgetting that it is the most essential and the closest one to oneself.
A husband who has lost a son should understand that his wife does not care about wealth, she just wants her husband's love; a family whose son has committed suicide should understand that each other is the most cherished person; a detective who quit his job at home should think about what kind of love his son needs; Someone else's host should understand that what the boy needs is a place where he can accept himself, not something that everyone talks about in the future.
We always stand in our own hearts and do things that we think are good for others, but we don’t think that this kind of dedication is actually not connected to the hearts of others. These things, the director told them one by one, and also told the audience.
Of course, there are many tender movies, but very few of them adopt this narrative method. The whole movie is nearly two hours long. To be honest, I felt the atmosphere of the story getting more and more intense when I saw half of it, but I still only saw the fragmented fragments of the story. Several slow motions near the end of the story were completed. its full narrative.
"Vantage Point" has been criticized for the "coincidence" that is a bit too coincidental. But the biggest attraction of the film is its seemingly dazzling but intricate narrative. It's definitely not those "coincidences", because the director can at least round up the story, there is no flaw, and there is no brain-damaged logic completely out of the way. There are only a handful of domestic directors who can control this.
The length of "Vantage Point" is about 90 minutes. The director used five countdown replays to disassemble the story that happened within 20 minutes. The clues are shown individually, and each line can be extended into a complete The story is like pieces of a puzzle. The audiences use their own thinking to buckle them together, and the edges of the pieces are not too smooth.
The beauty of this narrative is how to find the angles, to cage those chapters together, so that each piece is compact, inseparable, independent and interrelated. The way the director handles it is wonderful.
The multi-line narrative of "Disconnect" and "Vantage Point" is already very common in novels, and many people have tried it in film and television works. Ning Hao's "Crazy Racing" is one of the best works. However, this kind of attempt is inherently angular, and if you don't play well, you may smash your own brand.
This actually tests the pattern in the minds of directors and screenwriters. There are many people who can tell every little thing beautiful, but there are very few people who can be beautiful when they are linked together.
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