Text / Wu Shaoxu
Originally published in Wenzhou Evening News
From the fledgling in "Two Smoking Guns" to the style finalization after "Very Trafficker" became popular all over the world, Jason Statham has become Hollywood's most appealing action star and the most familiar face to Chinese people. Jason Statham's handsome appearance and stern expression, tough but not sloppy movements, opened up another street violence aesthetics different from Vin Diesel and Bruce Willis.
The movie "Hummingbird" is regarded as Jason Statham's transformational work, which probably means that he switched from the action scenes he has always been good at to other scenes. This may not be able to move, or it may be to broaden the scene and accept more. challenge. But whenever I hear that a certain action actor is about to transform, an ominous feeling always arises in my heart - can they really transform successfully?
The film "Hummingbird Attack" tells the story of the special soldier Joseph who experienced an unimaginable bloody storm on the battlefield in Afghanistan. He was charged by a military court for a certain incident and was diagnosed with attack stress disorder. After that, Joseph escaped from the hospital and embarked on a road of revenge and redemption. The story has a humanistic atmosphere that interrogates the meaning of existence, which will never be seen in Jason Statham's previous movies.
The film closely surrounds Joseph's psychological level to gradually present the fluctuating trajectory of revenge and redemption. It is not difficult to see that the comrade-in-arms and Isabel are Joseph's friendship and the essence of his revenge: the enemy killed his comrade-in-arms and killed Isabel, who shared weal and woe. , is the driving force for his redemption: he left his savings with his revenge and his best side to his daughter; nuns and wine, this is the spiritual food that truly belongs to him, and the final destination of revenge and redemption: in front of the nun, I can show my truest self, so I still pick up the wine and start to be a good person. Deep meaning and very funny. But the film "Hummingbird" is a little messy when it presents these philosophical themes.
The film opens in the distant Middle East desert with bloody and violent scenes, but the camera quickly turns to Joseph, who fled to avoid court martial, and lives in the same roadside paper house with Isabelle on the streets of London, and then the film quickly Expanding a series of dramatic plots, the rhythm changes quickly, the language of the shots is slow, and there seems to be a flashback narrative mode in a parallel time and space, which greatly weakens the expressiveness of the plot, making the film a bit nondescript: no The ability to think that can be imported also loses the beauty of muscle movement. Between violence, humanities and religions, it leads to an unbearable lost path.... This tells us, don't bask if you don't have thoughts, and don't tuck if you have muscles. The most important thing is to express your true value. It is very difficult to build a thinking muscle!
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