It can be seen that only a good story is far from enough for a movie

Lionel 2021-12-23 08:01:39

Although the setting is ordinary, the story is a good one, but it is a pity that the guide speech is sparse.

Useless characters are inserted too much, deleting half of them makes it more compact;

[Sinner's Vortex] and the little [Children choose light and dark road] The two lines are not combined at all. The protagonist is like rushing to the field. After this meal is over, go to the next meal and continue to drink. The structure is like wearing a coat outside a down jacket. , Bloated;

The lines are too useless to express the purpose and subtext of the characters, let alone express the ambiguity behind the grand world view and the binary division of light and dark;

The reversal of the ending was shown before, and the unknown video games that the underworld boss played all day long turned out to be practice for the last moment. At first glance, the response is very good, but in fact, you, a sun watcher king, have been practicing with video games at this moment when you have been waiting for hundreds of years? It can be imagined that the director hopes to create a villain who is very individual and scheming, but the style of video games and the whole movie cannot be said to be totally unmatched, but it is certainly not the optimal solution. How about replacing it with dolls, paintings, chess pieces, and replacing explicit indications with hints;

The editing is quite special, especially the action scenes, I have never seen such a piecemeal before.

The two scenes of the climax are not even as careful as the fishing law enforcement at the beginning; the first scene is knelt down and invites people to drink to get the truth; the second scene may be that he drank too much and frightened his son without stopping the brakes. It's the villain... This actor played the whole time in a period when Affleck in Manchester by the sea was suffering from drug addiction and was quitting. He was very fragile physically and mentally. It seemed that he might go crazy or twitch on the ground at any time.

In short, the whole feeling is that the director works very hard, but the level is there...

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Extended Reading
  • Nedra 2022-04-21 09:02:42

    The embodiment of the great Asian-Siberian-Slavic culture~

  • Ivah 2022-04-20 09:01:57

    For me, it's like a travel promotion film in Russia.

Night Watch quotes

  • [Geser lies on the floor with a book, telling the tale of the Virgin of Byzantium, the origin of the Others, the Great War, and the prophecy of the Great Other]

    Geser: ...And so it will be, until a man emerges who is meant to become the Great One. And, if he chooses the side of Light, then Light will win. But, those, to whom the truth has been revealed, say that he will choose Darkness. For it is easier to kill the Light within oneself, than to scatter the Darkness around... The prophecies are coming true.

  • [Two agents of the Day Watch, in a shiny, black sports car, have found Vampiress Larisa wandering in the middle of traffic in a busy tunnel. Slowing the car to a walk, agent Alisa Donnikova pulls up alongside, and holds a jar pig's blood just out of Larisa's hungry reach]

    Vampiress Larisa, initiate: [grasping for the jar of pig's blood] Give it to me!

    Alisa Donnikova: What, you've sunk to pig's blood?

    Vampiress Larisa, initiate: Give it to me!

    Alisa Donnikova: Andrey taught you how to call.

    Vampiress Larisa, initiate: He taught me, he taught me. Give it to me!

    Alisa Donnikova: The boy succumbed to your call. Lure him out, and when he's in your hands, demand that they bring the one who killed your Andrey.

    Vampiress Larisa, initiate: My Andrey... Give it to me, please. Well, give it here.

    Alisa Donnikova: Do you want revenge?

    Vampiress Larisa, initiate: Give it, give it here.

    Day Watch agent: Listen, don't torture her.

    Vampiress Larisa, initiate: Give it here, please...

    [Alisa stops the car, then flips the jar of pig's blood onto the pavement in front of Larisa, where it shatters]

    Alisa Donnikova: [to her colleague] Now she'll find him, for sure.

    Day Watch agent: Just how is she going to find him?

    [Alisa tosses the boy's swimming goggles onto the pool of pig's blood]

    Vampiress Larisa, initiate: She'll find him... like a dog.