As early as an hour before the opening of the media screening of "Monuments Defenders" at the Berlin Film Festival, the waiting area on the first floor of the Film Palace was already crowded with reporters. As soon as the admission time came, almost everyone ran up the stairs at a sprint speed of 100 meters in order to grab a good seat, which is suitable for watching the movie, and it is convenient to retreat at the end of the movie and quickly move to the press conference of the crew. . However, aside from a slightly dainty (but still American-blindly optimistic) opening, the film has nothing more to offer us. Even, he did not even justify himself.
The story begins in 1943, when the Nazi army seized and hid a large number of precious works of art in Europe during the war, including the priceless paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Renoir and others. With Allied victories on the horizon, it was only a matter of time before the Nazis fell. It is rumored that Hitler was frantically preparing to destroy these works of art after losing power. When he heard the news, art expert Frank Stoker (played by George Clooney) strongly lobbied the US government, including the head of the museum and the restoration of famous paintings. Eleven people, including experts and art historians, were recruited to form a special "Monuments Guard" action group, ready to find these art treasures that were forcibly occupied by the Nazis in the final stage of the war, in order to "renew the great civilization of mankind". radiate light". It's a pity that George Clooney's temporary team, although they claim to have stunts, the movie did not give them much room to play. What was shown on the screen was just a group of people who had just learned how to use a gun and dared to go deep into the enemy regardless of the consequences. The rabble of caves. Bill Murray, Matt Damon, Jean Dujardin, John Goodman, Hugh Bonneville... This group of individual actors from all over the world, when they came to the movie, all seemed clumsy, There is no charisma at all, even George Clooney himself seems to have glue on his face, completely lacking the usual slick and glib look. All the male gods come together in "Guardian of Monuments", and their appearances are so fast and mediocre that the audience hardly has time to digest their roles, backgrounds, skills and their respective tasks. Our eyes blindly tracked their movements across the map, and before we could figure it out, they easily discovered the treasure trove of art that the Germans took pains to hide.
Where the movie (or Hollywood movie) should have been written, "Monuments Defender" has ruthlessly omitted: the cruelty of war, personal stunts, plot twists... There is a lot of space and time left, George K. Rooney Duyun gave the lyric. How lyrical are these tall men, so much so that two of them paid the price with their lives for nothing. These anachronistic and hollow lyricism not only make the characters untenable, but make the whole film seem absurd. It doesn't matter if you don't know how to use a gun, after all, you are a group of experts. However, this group of people are not only incompetent on the battlefield, but in the mines of Tibetan paintings, they have almost no other skills other than telling us who the author of each painting is. They hid in the tents of the military camp, asked each other if they had a family, how many children, took a bite of the food ration, and smoked a cigarette, almost intoxicated: "What we do is really great!" Please! , If you want to sensationalize, just fan it out. Not all human nature can make you cry. How can George Clooney, who has been in Hollywood for so many years, understand this.
The film is based on real historical events, and Robert M. Edsey's biography of the same name, Monuments Defenders: The Battle for the Unknown Art Treasures of World War II, is its ready-made script. This makes it even more intolerable for the thinness of the screenwriter and the flaws in the plot. If there is any value in the George Clooney version of the film, it is probably to let more people know about this history and know that there was such a group of brave warriors who fought for the cultural treasures of the world. fought an arduous battle. However, that should never be an excuse for us to condone bad films. If we can only understand and remember history through such a Hollywood production, it is a sad thing.
2014 Berlin Film Festival Sina Feature
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