A friend who works as a screenwriter at home sent a web page from MSN, saying: First look at it, and then talk about your feelings.
I opened the webpage and saw a "film review" about the film "Guardian Thieves", which is not long, just a few paragraphs. The author believes that the director of "Guardian Thieves" is not well-known, and the starring role "has not appeared in other films before" and "very tender", and even referred to several young Hong Kong stars for comparison.
This is a little bit ridiculous. Although Scott Frank, the director of "Guardian Thieves", is a novice in the directing world, he is a well-known screenwriter. He was awarded the best screenplay by the American Film Critics Association in 1999 for "Strategic Master". Awards ("Strategic Master" won a total of three Film Critics Association awards that year, best director, best film and best screenplay. Also competing in the same field are "Saving Private Rennes" and "Shakespeare in Love").
The starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt is not "very tender" as the author said, "has not appeared in other films before." University. Last year, he was included in the list of the greatest performers by the New York Times. The post-80s male star was notable for his role as the campus murderer in the noir film "Chasing the Murders". “Chasing the Murders” also won the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award. Perhaps the reason Levitt is not well-known to the public is that he has not tried his skills in the Hollywood commercial box office blockbusters. In addition to these not mentioned, "Guardian Thieves" itself still has some points.
Youth that knows no taboos is not a tooth, and there is no corresponding braces to correct. Even if the memory is reorganized, the decay that has occurred cannot be repeated. Suppose one day when you wake up, you find that your original life has been completely shattered, the sequence of memories is reversed or a mess at all, you will not be able to remember the most important thing, and you will not find a way to restore your memory. After all People are not computers and cannot reinstall the system. What should you do? Chris (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is such an unlucky child. Because of the car accident, his memory has been chaotic, faulty and even subverted. Let me ask again, what will happen to a master who has to write down the correct order of everything in his book, but wants to participate in a robbery?
Chris originally had an enviable life. He was born in a wealthy family in the Midwest. He is also a college ice hockey star, accompanied by a beautiful girlfriend and a few good buddies. However, a car accident that resulted in death due to romance caused him to lose his friend, and he was covered with scars, his frontal lobe was severely damaged, and the memory of his girlfriend's life and death was missing.
Chris, who lacks organizational skills, is confused in logic, and is easily forgetful, has become a "disabled" with all four limbs. In the eyes of a wealthy father, he became an incompetent child who was in trouble and needed to be taken care of. In the eyes of the person in charge of the bank he works for, he is a person who can only drag the door, because he can make mistakes and pick needles even in the simplest work. His roommate Lewis (Jeff Daniels), who is optimistic and kind, who often satirizes life's current evils, can face him, just as he faces his blindness. Lewis believes that through hard work, everything will gradually get better.
Chris "encountered" Gary (played by Matthew Goode), and Gary introduced him to a woman, former stripper Raulie (played by Ella Fisher). Among them, Chris found a The exaggerated self-confidence is something he hasn't felt in front of his father, relatives, friends, bosses, and roommates since his life has undergone a qualitative change.
Although "nothing to do, no rape or steal", the chance encounter between Chris and Gary is not a coincidence. Gary is a key member of the criminal group, and he will be eager to prove that Chris was involved in a planned robbery. Just before the plan was put into action, the boss told Chris that he thought he was good and hoped to give him a chance to work at the counter. Chris finally awoke from the "flicker" of the big robbery. When Gary and his gang came to him, they made it clear that he would not participate. But at this time, things could no longer help him. When he became a scapegoat and was about to be killed, Chris waited for the opportunity to start saving himself...
The unusual character wandering on the edge of despair seems to be a favorite type of Joseph Gordon-Levitt. This time his acting skills are very good, expressing Chris through some life details, subtle expression changes, and unconscious behavior. He’s special mentality, and the psychological motivation of "crime" brought by the changes in his life. The film promotes the development of the plot through psychological drama. The first half is flat and calm, and after inadvertently buried, Chris's foreshadowing of the Jedi counterattack-he is also good at bird hunting with developed sports cells. Chris, who is dealing with the gangster, still remembers the order in confusion. He writes everything on the notepad, but there is one thing that is not written, that is, he put the gun in the bag with the money, when Gary and his accomplices are holding him. And Lewis, when they went to the hiding place according to the records in the notebook, the gun became a shotgun.
For people who usually suffer misfortune and hurt their companions due to their own faults, there are several routines in the film to choose from: one is unable to extricate themselves, being tortured by guilt almost collapsed, the final relief of this type is death; the other is death; Inspirational, with the hope of repaying the society to alleviate guilt; the other is the self-enclosed type, which seems to be a normal life but is trapped in the shackles of the soul, waiting for the salvation of the wise man in his life. Director Scott Frank did not fall into such a cliché. He used suspense crimes to deconstruct such a special character. He was quite creative in the construction of many plots, and his clean style was also achieved in the second half of the film. Present.
Youth who knows no taboos are not teeth, and there is no corresponding braces to correct them. Back then, when Chris was driving with the car lights in the dark in order to let his girlfriend see the fireflies flying in the sky in the summer night, they had no taboos when they were happy but not worried. Reality makes youth cruel, and the perfect life of the past just disappeared at the moment of hitting a truck.
But in the film, the director still gave Chris a pair of braces for the out of touch youth. At the end of the film, Chris and his roommate ran the hourly restaurant that his roommate dreamed of. Through the window, Chris saw his father outside the window and looked pleased. In the eyes of his father, Chris was no longer the incompetent child who needed to be taken care of.
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