■22:30~00:30, after watching Luc Besson's earlier drama "Nikita (Nikita)" (France, Italy/1990), the film tells how a female death row prisoner evolved into a government employee The story of a cold-blooded killer. In fact, the overall trend of the movie is quite uneventful. Except for the robbery shootout and part of the prison scene at the beginning of the first half, it even seems a little dull. It was not until the second half of the movie that Nikita returned to the society and transformed quietly. became interesting. Luc Besson's early film techniques tended to be in a special exploratory stage, and he was obviously still a little erratic in the use of camera language and the control of plot tension at that time. The theme of the script of "Nikita" is actually quite avant-garde and radical in the French film industry in the early 1990s. The theme of women's independence struggle, coupled with some government-backed killing and violent tendencies, the film seems very maverick , is also full of the experimental nature of melancholy literature and art in the film environment at that time. From the current point of view, Luc Besson's version of "Nikita" does not have many action scenes, and the degree of violence is quite restrained, but the warmth and contradiction in his bones are subversive, but in this film Expressive and lively. What kind of director would combine the image of such a crying girl with a cold-blooded killer? When the "mysterious girl" excitedly opened the birthday gift box that she thought would bring surprises in the restaurant, the tears of grievance and the cruel reality swarmed without hesitation. This is a "pseudo-action" film with contradictory settings. In fact, it is more like a "artistic film with a gun". Although the technology and production methods are immature, it is quite "Luc Besson". It has its own unique existence value in the history of French cinema. 【Score: 6.5 points/10 points】
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