Last year, Director Hou won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival for "The Assassin Nie Yinniang". The scenery represented Taiwan in the competition for the best foreign language film at the Oscars earlier this year. , even the top nine in the re-election, there is a lot of embarrassment in the country, some people are not surprised that the judges have a vulgar taste, and some film critics shout that Oscar has no blessing to suffer from Hou Dao's aesthetics.
Having said that, how strong are the top nine? Since Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won the foreign language film award, Wei Desheng's "Sedek Bale" has barely approached the top nine, and finally fell short of the finalists. Let me ask, has the national film really lacked powerful seed players over the years? Not really. Are the strengths of the top nine over the years all daunting? Not even.
The Oscar foreign language film project expressly stipulates that voting members must watch all the participating films. Looking at the trends over the years, in the 1950s and 1960s, the scars of World War II have not unexpectedly stirred up a layer of aftermath of reflection. Years have passed, and the foreign language film awards seem to be going smoothly. It has become a "distribution center for ruminants of war", and the recipients of rewards are mostly post-war healings, or cultural spectacles. This phenomenon has to be linked with the false mercy of the Americans. Although it is harsh, it is not without suspicion. As for the relationship with a large number of Jewish Film Academy members, it is intriguing.
In any case, this time on behalf of Germany, and nearly caught the top nine, "The Labyrinth of Lies", which was unfortunately sacked, clearly tells the story of a rookie prosecutor who rushes around, accidentally uncovers unspeakable secrets, and transforms , and even the heroic unveiling of the story of the grand trial of the century, its inspirational intentions are indeed quite Oscar-like.
"The Labyrinth of Lies" even reminds people of several popular blockbusters at this year's Oscars. For example, its prologue is very similar to Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies." Doubt, hit hard. The process of uncovering the case is inevitably reminiscent of "Frightening Focus", which finally defeated "Ghost Hunter" and won the Best Picture Award. It is not difficult to see how the main theme of tracing the truth is how to ride on the wings of justice and cover it. Oscar "Vault".
Clearly, the grammar of "Labyrinth of Lies" has an American minty scent, and every scene is brushed to tell you. The opening is dedicated to our eager hero: newly appointed prosecutor John Lederman, a traffic trial, clearly stating his character, and accurately laying down the love line to prevent the audience from being bored.
Next, the rioting reporter uncovered an incident in which a former guard of the Nazi concentration camp "Auschwitz" was now a teacher. Right dark past.
Traveling through the vast file cabinets, John only needs a few cups of coffee and a few yawns to handle the tedious personnel like a god-this reminds me of when someone questioned the release of the comedy series "Ellie's Rabbit". Sentenced, the efficiency is too high a lawsuit. Of course, movies have the privilege of using simplicity to control complexity! It's just that when "The Labyrinth of Lies" fully adopts this kind of simplified strategy for the characterization of the characters and the layout of the character network, the excessive and predictable development is placed on an easy-to-understand trajectory, and most of the stories can be found on Wikipedia. In the end, John Lederman found out that his father had also joined the party, so he could only imagine it, and it didn't matter whether it was thunder or not-then, what did the audience want to suspense and reason?
In addition to the lack of memory in the portrayal of Facebook, and the failure to establish a close relationship between the rookie and other partners, what puzzles me the most is the film's superficial depiction of good and evil, such as explaining the Nazis in the school with children in the past Interaction - even if you are looking at the flowers, you will not give up sketching its outrageous side. This kind of cheap behavior that distorts the human nature under the common cause of history can easily be attributed to "human nature is inherently evil", and people can't help shaking their heads and sighing. Another example is the interrogation room, where one after another like a revolving lantern of masks, the clear-cut "injury/victim" situation, and how it ignores the breadth and complexity of "human nature" in "life".
Of course, there are delicious little bridges, such as the party of the middle class with joy, and the metaphor of sewing the heroine's tailoring profession into the emotional context of the hero and heroine. At first glance, the advantages are also disadvantages. All the aphrodisiac methods that can be seen at a glance, the film's sugar coating is wrapped thicker and thicker, and even the stone that broke through the window is so similar to "Bridge of Spies" and is very sensational. .
It's a movie that is both extravagant and frugal. It uses a considerable amount of sandpaper to polish the fluency of each scene and scene, and the connection is smooth enough to participate in speech contests. Among them, John's superfluous dream after he realized that his father was a Nazi party member, and tried to embody the "labyrinth", is the most ridiculous. Because of this, the so-called justice is also compressed under the rushing and distressing scene after scene, and the setting is also elegant, without strengthening its retro roughness, and lacking the attempt to further comb through the smell of the times, one can't help but think of it. The cheap "Family in the Wind" a while ago.
Under such a scene, to what extent does the rookie have to be a rookie, and become more concerned about the world without being pretentious, in order to satisfy the questioning of the character thrown by the historical film? The handsome Alexander Filmin is a great actor. Watching him try to figure out John's level from ignorance to collapse, he deliberately exaggerates the lack of experience in the previous paragraph. To put it bluntly, no matter how hard our male lead plays, it will only stop at The urgency of justice and the love of justice, that is, the bloody calf that existed at the beginning, failed to sublimate to the deep entanglement of a national identity.
In contrast to Taiwan, a land where the aftermath of 228 is constantly hovering in the air, can you and I get a common sense from this film? Even if there is, what is the meaning? Is there really one group of people who can convince another group of people in such a thing? "The Labyrinth of Lies" reminds me of Barry Lee's "Four Brothers of Pride", which was lackluster. It put "Voice of Redress" at the commanding height. The slogan claims to have "directly provoked the most sensitive nerves of German society." In fact, it is more like one of the historical samples placed in the mountains and valleys.
On the other hand, looking back at "Time That Can't Go Back" a while ago, a boutique focusing on little love and little love, the story is much more complete and profound than "The Labyrinth of Lies", which proves that the pain of the war of rumination is not necessarily great.
However, it is worth pondering how "The Labyrinth of Lies" passed the test and entered the top nine of the Oscars. From the perspective of film history, the scars of World War II movies, whether in the inner circle or the outer circle, will not lack tension if they are not shot. This kind of theme is a lottery ticket.
On the other hand, isn't "The Labyrinth of Lies" also like a joint project of several train cars? It was shot just to fight for the "column" trial of the century in Auschwitz. During the process, it was beaten and beaten, and it was the next best thing. The movie ends before the trial, and the rest of the subtitles explain, which is both clever and limited. From this point of view, it is not too bad that the great achievements of bravely breaking into the constituency of the Xiaojinren can be regarded as a misunderstanding.
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