Beautiful Battle
"Two Days One Night"
by Anthony Lane
Lincoln" was launched together. In scale and form, the two films are vastly different. One is centered on the U.S. House of Representatives, and the other is a solar panel factory in Belgium. One has a grand arrangement by John Williams, the other has no soundtrack unless you're going to count the three people humming Van Morrison in the car. Yet the two films share the same dynamic: voting. Lincoln needed them to pass the 13th Amendment, and Sandra (Marion Cotillard) in Two Days and One Night needed them to keep her job. Sixteen of her colleagues were given an option: if they voted to fire Sandra by agreeing to longer shifts, each would receive a bonus of 1,000 euros. They had already agreed, but the boss allowed another vote. Over the weekend, Sandra and her husband (Fabrizio Rogern) must find her colleagues and persuade them one by one to reconsider. If most people are on her side and decide to give up money, then she can stay. Such a deal! Even Mephistopheles couldn't think of a better idea.
Will this build a plot? Or is it just a chain of events? Wouldn't it be tiresome to follow Sandra wearily knocking on door after door? The Darney brothers were aware of the problem, and their solution was to orchestrate and move the plot, and emphasize the details, like a thriller. We can only piece together the unspoken truths about the heroine's life through those fragments - like she had been on sick leave and her illness was depression. She took out the alprazolam piece by piece, like they were M&Ms. We also felt the dilemma, not just in her marriage, but in other people's lives. Among them was a woman whose boyfriend forced her to claim a bonus to pay for patio repairs, who turned her allegiance to Sandra and later told her gleefully, "I've never decided anything for myself before." We It's quickly predictable from a sinful or charitable look on that front step how people voted in the first round, and the perceived suspense of the story is beyond imagination because it comes from anticipation of a shift in people's hearts.
"Two Days, One Night" isn't as full of miracles as the Darney brothers' predecessor, "The Biker." In the latter, they create fables in a predicament, as if hiring a crew of documentarians to document a fairy tale. The new film is about a tenacious event. But their philanthropy and sobriety never waned, nor did they compromise the election, which was their first selection of a high-ranked star. Cotillard looked thin and dry, the glamour filtered by the relentlessly pale light. Anxiety and depression permeated the body, embedded in the muscles and breathing; therefore, she had to pause her speech, gasping for breath. Best of all, when she was completely devoured by the battle, she fainted. Most heroines will ask for at least a dignified push back to allow them to faint violently in long takes. Betty Davis might even ask for a full orchestra. However, Cotillard simply stepped back from the bottom line of the picture frame. There is no doubt that she is the center of attention from beginning to end, and the key is her willingness to participate in the Darney brothers' quest for justice, just as the theme continues from one film to the next, from a lonely cyclist to a woman in need of work. : Attention must be focused on such a soul.
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