"Three Monkeys" is about a politician who kills a person and pays the driver to take the blame. While the male protagonist was in prison for nine months, the politician hooked up with the male protagonist's wife, his son killed the politician for family honor, and the male protagonist was desperate and finally spent money to find someone to blame...
There is not much room for the main line of the story. It's a gimmick, but Ceylon's use of the language of the lens is like a magic pen. A large number of long shots are strangling the neck of the feeling from beginning to end. The layout that destroys the balance makes the vision linger on the edge of the cliff, and all kinds of noises do not give hearing. The moment of relaxation, coupled with the fact that the plot gives the brain a severe blow at the right moment, makes people fall to their knees.
The story is completely entrusted to the lens, relying on focal length adjustment and overlapping of light and shadow to achieve the replacement between the virtual and the real, but consistently develops around the main line of the plot, pushing the story to a climax step by step. The close-up shots are also Ceylon’s fingerprints, which are particularly demanding for actors. Acting is not about body movements, but only limited to the face. Every wrinkle and even eyelashes have a heavy responsibility! The depiction of sweat is the essence of this piece. The ordinary and impermanent scenes are full of tension in the face of various close-up sweats. The dripping sweat seems to be the fuse of the bomb!
The only thing that deducts points for me is the way of expressing my brother who died young. The director hopes to express the inevitability and contingency of family conflicts, but the way of nightmares and ghosts is too dramatic, making people think that this is a ghost film, weakening the The emotional uniformity of the film.
It's worth watching this movie.
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