American Animals 7.5
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In terms of genre, "American Animals" emphasizes that, unlike ordinary gangster films, it abandons those very cool shots and action designs. And this "American Animals" basically has no action design, it is a very realistic American town shooting method, a boring town, a boring college student, such a character background and character status and "Eleven Arhats" like robber films They are all completely different, which adds to the sense of immersion in the film. The two times of stealing books are actually very unsuccessful, and the endings of these are very different from ordinary gangster films. "American Animals" puts more emphasis on the psychological changes of characters and the formation of motivations, which are described in large paragraphs.
The way of adapting real events is also a great highlight of this film, which is different from "Blood Battle Hacksaw Ridge" and "Captain Sully", which add real events at the end of the film, or add interviews with real people. "American Animals" uses interview clips of real people to enter the authentic product, which is different from the way in which the actors in "I, Figure Skating Queen" play real people to give interviews. This "American Animals" has several layers of interplay between real characters and actors. Among them, actors play real characters, real characters play themselves, actors and real characters work together to complete a detail, giving the audience a sense of escape. This kind of fading effect is not achieved by previous movies based on real events.
In particular, the second male and the second male prototype sat in the car together to question the scene described by the first male. This is very out of the way, but it is a big breakthrough in the dimension of the same type of film.
The film also has its own unique perspective in the text. In such an American city that ranks 14th in the nation's happiness, it exposes the confusion of ordinary young people in the United States, and expresses this confusion clearly. It is such a boring The city raises a bunch of boring American college students to do what they think is a great cause. The characters, the environment, and the psychology of the characters are all well presented to the audience.
But it is true that some bright spots are still too rare, and not enough throughout the whole film. If you can push the stylization to the extreme, it will be better to make this feeling a little more extreme.
Recommended for movie fans or viewers who have watched a certain amount of movies.
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