No amount of details are useless details

Ben Affleck Fancy Show detail. This film is a good student composition with a diligent attention to detail. But from the set, from every outfit to the smallest objects in the room, it reflects the characteristics of the times and the characters. For example, when the male protagonist first arrived in Florida from the north, he wore a heavy, dark three-piece suit with a fine texture but a messy color scheme (indicating that he was rich but not from the upper class), and his expression was meticulous like a tightly buttoned jacket. All wore linen shirts and open suits. Then the male protagonist also began to wear light-colored linen suits.

Photography-wise, many of the lenses are also picturesque. At the beginning, the male protagonist and his accomplices went to rob the bank, and the car drove to a certain point to change the camera on the other side of the two cars, using a 360-degree camera. The 360-degree lens feels popular in recent years, and La La Land has also used it a lot. Hollywood has an unwritten 180-degree rule, and a 360-degree lens undoubtedly requires extremely high lens technology and even special effects production, because a 360-degree lens will expose the production team and photographic equipment present. La La Land uses 360-degree lenses as dance steps, taking the audience's eyes to walk in a romantic world. To be honest, in this movie, I don't quite understand the need for that 360-degree shot, except for the need for a show.

The script is mediocre. The male protagonist single-handedly ended the enemies of the two gangsters. The setting of the two supporting actresses is just to give the male protagonist a bonus. A man who was betrayed when he was young, lost his love tragically again in middle age. This is undoubtedly Hollywood's favorite lone wolf hero image for a long time. Women have only two poles, either bad girls, the femme fatale slut Sienna Miller's character in this movie, or good girls, Zoe Saldana, the Virgin. Bad girls are what the male protagonist wants, but bad girls will definitely be punished at the end, be killed or live humbly. A good girl will definitely settle down with the male protagonist and start a family and start a business, and will die to save the male protagonist or die because of the sins the male protagonist made. This polarization is undoubtedly Hollywood's favorite tradition since film noir in the 1930s to demonize or punish independent female characters.

Movies are never a meticulous reflection of reality. The world in the movie should only have the details that need to be shown, and the details, whether simple or complex, should be close to the actors and the plot itself. If the actors and the story are the focus, all other elements in the film are centrifugal forces revolving around the focus. If the story itself has no soul, if the starring's acting has no soul, no matter how good the details will be scattered away from the center. And nocturnal life is such a loose work with details overwhelming.

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After two years of studying film, I can no longer write sentences in Chinese.

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