A film from nearly eighty years ago, although in black and white, the use of light still gives a very comfortable look. There are some actions and dialogues in the film, which seem a little contrived today, but from the perspective of the time, it should be the peak of acting skills.
The story is actually relatively simple. I haven't read the original book, but it's hard to understand why such a short story can hold up a book. The suspense did not appear in the main line of the story, and the relationship between the characters was not complicated. The heroine did not give me a sense of trust from the beginning, but felt that she was carrying a considerable amount of sin from the beginning. But the male protagonist's consistent performance made me a little misunderstood, thinking that he was a playboy, and he didn't quite understand the reasons for his various behaviors. From this point of view, it felt a little suspenseful.
However, the last three performances were very shocking. One was Gutman's expression after seeing the eagle and his expression after he found out that it was a fake; the other was the dialogue between the male protagonist and the female protagonist at the end of the showdown, especially when the male protagonist said that when your When your partner is killed and you have to do something, the last paragraph is when the police ask the male protagonist what this is, and the male protagonist replies "it's what dreams made of".
The last sentence is the finishing touch. Except for the male protagonist, almost everyone in the play is in the dream, the female protagonist, Gutman, Cairo, the partner who took the lunch from the beginning, the partner's wife, the gunman, the dream of each of them They were different, but they all fell apart in the end. This may be in line with the actual situation of American society in the early 1940s.
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