"Miscellaneous" is directed by George Clooney. He is also a very retro-looking male star. Among the baby-faced stars in Hollywood, he often seems a little out of place. The Coen brothers are the screenwriters of the film. More than 30 years ago, these two made their debut film "Blood Maze" with $800,000, which was later remade by Zhang Yimou and turned into a somewhat bizarre costume comedy, and the word of mouth was very controversial. But the original version of "Blood Labyrinth" is a well-known work. Although the budget is small, it is called by the media as inheriting the mantle of Hitchcock. In some suspense, light and shadow settings, there is indeed the shadow of Shion. However, the films after the two brothers did not continue on this suspenseful path, but were more darkly humorous or more realistic.
And this "Murder in Lost Town" was evaluated as being reminiscent of "Blood Labyrinth". I don't think this should be regarded as a positive evaluation. After all, "Blood Labyrinth" has been well received, and some of them have lowered the standard for low-cost debut films, and this "Murder in Lost Town" is a big gathering of big names, Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Oscar Isaac, etc., although all happened In a small town, but the cost is not small. Generally speaking, the box office and reputation of this film in North America are very poor, but in terms of film quality alone, it is actually very good, but under such a luxurious front and back team, I always hope to deliver better performances. 's answer sheet.
From a certain point of view, this film will remind me of "Escape from the Dead". It also uses a suspenseful and even a bit old-fashioned story atmosphere to tell a social proposition that has not yet completely turned into history. It is thus different from the earlier films like "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". "Escape from the Dead" has a very high evaluation in North America, and many lists at the end of the year listed it as one of the top ten, but in my opinion, the quality of the film itself, and the so-called metaphor, are nothing more than that. It can't be said how wonderful it is, at least compared with "Murder in Lost Town", I really can't see anything stronger. However, the gap between the two in terms of word of mouth is extremely obvious, which may really be the so-called national conditions and cultural differences. On the other hand, the issue of black racial discrimination is just a big atmosphere in "Murder in Lost Town", or a huge smoke bomb, and the main story is that the middle-class husband played by Matt Damon buys and murders his wife. Story, this kind of plot is liked by the Coen brothers. In "Frozen", Messi is also such a cruel, but useless husband. In "Murder in Lost Town", the purpose of killing his wife is to get insurance and to be with his twin sister-in-law. This is a bit more ironic about the murder case of "changing the soup without changing the medicine". Next, of course, things got worse and worse, more and more people were involved, and the scene became more and more out of control... For the Coen brothers, such a story is actually a piece of cake, and I even suspect that this is them at the desk. It was stored in the drawer for many years, and it was almost forgotten. Then one day when I moved, I suddenly found out that I didn't want to direct it, so I threw it to George Clooney, a nostalgic and politically sensitive actor and director. , but even Ke Da did not seem to add more metaphor and finesse to this nostalgic and spicy story. "Mystery" is of course to deal with the current social atmosphere in the United States, the defense and isolation of foreign nations, the gradual loss of moral values, the upside is not right and the downside is crooked, but Americans seem to be unable to bear such irony, after all, this is too much It's like a film noir that was flooded in the early years, but from the metaphor itself, it seems to be inferior to Ang Lee's "Ice Storm" in the early years.
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