The setting of the office version of the battle royale sounds very interesting at first glance, so I have great expectations for this film.
The movie opens with a good tune: a weird boy in a mask, standing alone in a suburban building.
The role modeling is really poor, especially the supporting roles. I thought that each supporting role represented their own perspective on dealing with crisis and the epitome of the distortion of human nature under the killing and repression. However, the behavioral logic of the characters on this point is really not reflected. The biggest confrontation and conflict of opinion between the characters is Mike and Barry, and everyone else is almost a bunch of headless flies.
The protagonist of the role of Mike has a great halo. From the beginning, he decisively asked to take the chip on the back of his head by himself. He also encouraged everyone to make banners for help, and even dared to hang the banners at the risk of bullets. This kind of personality of daring to fight with the organization is very surprising, but So far, at other times, it is still passively hiding, and it is not very attractive.
The villain, Barry, is the CEO, probably with a sense of elitist superiority, hoping that he is the one who dominates the situation, so he did not have hope for a peaceful solution from the beginning, and fanatically praised violence for maximum benefit. Although there is little explanation of how the character changed from a civilized person to a murderer, his preference for 60-year-olds and his unbearableness when killing people in the hall is still a shining point of the character. The complexity is slightly better than that of Mike. Mike is simply a great person. The incarnation of Guangzheng? Moreover, the acting skills of the actor Barry really add a lot to this role. At the beginning, he was illusory and arrogant, and then he was cruel and cruel. He was frightened and vulnerable when faced with 31 headshots. The performance was very exciting. The cruelty of Yan Zhengsheng's good eyes, cold as a knife, is really surprising. Once again, it makes me hope that the villain will not be too miserable haha.
The setting of the office battle royale is very novel, but the atmosphere of suppression and panic and the suspicion and opposition between the characters in the closed space are not very obvious.
The surprise is probably the use of retro music and the combination of killing pictures, and the sense of humorous and violent aesthetics. 31 people collectively took headshots and said they exploded. The music shots were used well, but they were not as imaginative as the headshots in "Ace Agent".
Two interesting satires: When Barry shoots Mike, in a big panorama shot, he sees the backstage company's sign that says "make world together". The second is when Barry and Mike scrambled for guns to project a corporate promotional video, narrating the various benefits of the company, and saying "be a part of our family". This kind of corporate brainwashing propaganda is compared with their behavior towards employees. It looks really ironic.
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