Text / Wu Shaoxu
Originally published in Wenzhou Evening News
In June, many Hollywood blockbusters were postponed, leaving the film market during the Dragon Boat Festival to domestic films. "Deadly Black Orchid" is the only American-French co-production film to land in the mainland on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival. But "Deadly Black Orchid" is a film that was already released in 2011, and it has long been available for high-definition downloads on the Internet. This is definitely not as good as the domestic film "Tian Ji·Fuchun Mountain Residence" released in the same period in terms of box office competition. Besides, "Deadly Black Orchid" also does not have the ability to compete with "Mountain Residence Map".
"Deadly Black Orchid" is a film supervised and written by French director Luc Besson. The movie fans entered the cinema for this name. It is also a story about a killer, but it is not on the same level as "Nikita" and "This Killer Is Not Too Cold". If fans try to connect with these two Luc Besson movies before watching the movie, it will be very Disappointed.
"Deadly Black Orchid" tells the story of Catalya witnessing her parents being brutally murdered by Colombian drug lord Don Luis when she was ten years old. Catalya escaped with her bravery and wisdom, and went to the far away Chicago. Uncle Emilio, who is also a gangster. Emilio tries to keep Cataria away from the influences of gang life, but Catalia is bent on becoming a professional hitman. At the age of 25, she has finally become an experienced and skilled killer. She usually works for her uncle Emilio, but her inner goal is to take revenge on her parents and kill drug tycoon Don Luis.
Sharp-eyed fans must have seen that the first part of the film was completely derived from the story model of "This Killer Is Not Too Cold": the same little girl, who was also killed, who also took refuge in someone, who was also trained to become a killer. The difference is that Katalia really became an experienced female killer later, while Matilda ended up being an ordinary little girl under the protection of the killer Leon.
Therefore, we can completely regard "Deadly Black Orchid" as another version of "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", a possibility caused by another life trajectory: what would it be like if Matilda became a killer? story.
Obviously, the movie has clearly told us that this story is not very exciting, and it will not have the "artistic" thinking in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" to make Luc Besson a film master. In "Deadly Black Orchid", how the female killer Katalia developed a stunt was directly ignored. The focus was on how she killed a person and left an orchid after 15 years, and finally ended up alone. Get rid of Don Lewis' drug kingdom. Catalya seems to be more like the female version of Jason Statham, but lacks Jason Statham's sternness and ruthlessness. Catalya is obviously too "hot", otherwise how can family feuds control With his own wisdom, after every murder, he deliberately left an orchid and was targeted by the security bureau, causing his uncle's family to be miserable; how could he be fascinated by love and let his boyfriend take a picture and be wanted by the security bureau! The killer can be "not too cold", but it must not be a little "hot". Catalia's overheated feelings are destined to not be a good killer. Although, in the end, Catalia succeeded, but the price was heavy !
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