It's been nearly a decade since "Crash" premiered this year. After "Crash" beat "Brokeback Mountain" to the top of the Oscars in 2005, Paul Haggis had trouble finding a good creative state for a long time. Day"), and lost the authored style tag. So after ten years of silence, Haggis tried to reproduce the structure of "Crash" with a "Third Person" and returned to people's vision.
"Crash" contains many grand propositions in line with Oscar's taste: race, class, fear... And "The Third Man" discards these heavy themes and focuses more on expressing personal inner feelings. In essence, both films use slightly complex multi-line structures to describe the relationship between people, revealing a certain sense of fate. Despite the star-studded cast and locations far apart, both films cost little.
The difference between the themes of the two films can also be seen from the place where the story takes place. "Crash" takes place in Los Angeles, where a multi-racial population gathers, with long-standing grievances and frequent conflicts; "The Third Man" takes place in New York, Paris, and Rome. It is always considered to be the most prone city for romantic encounters. However, these encounters are not pleasant, and there is a bitter burden in the sweetness: Adrien Brody thought he had met the goddess in the tavern, but was involved in endless trouble, and even was pointed at a gun Head; Liam Neeson's secret romance with Olivia Wilde is exciting and challenging, but ultimately has to get out of the closed room and face real life; Mila Kunis struggles to get enough food because of a late arrival And lost the opportunity to think day and night... In the piano and violin soundtracks that run through and gently flow, a picture of all beings with a touch of sadness is presented in front of the audience.
Then, as in "Crash," different relationships begin to collide, making one wonder what it means. Mila Kunis makes a living as a hotel room cleaner, and one of the rooms is occupied by a writer played by Liam Neeson; Kunis' note is mistakenly taken because of the writer's underground romance with Olivia Wilde Wilde took it away, causing Kunis to miss the evaluation time; Kunis was unable to take back her son due to the failure of the evaluation, and her son was the little boy who dismissed James Franco's performance art at the beginning of the film. Just as the beginning and the end of the film are for the writer to look back for the mysterious calling, the relationship between people will eventually form an unspeakable loop.
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