Movie version or something...

Neoma 2021-12-23 08:01:39

Movies are different from books. I always feel that movies are just to kill time and satisfy the visual senses. Although I know the original work is good, but I haven't had much time to watch the film directly, so I can't compare the two. I can only write a little bit about the embarrassing state of watching a movie.

I don’t know what the director’s intentions are. In the film, Anton has been in a drunk state after encountering the witch incident. It is not that he is really drunk, but the whole person has been shaking and staggering as if stepping on. It's like cotton. Or maybe the director wants him to be in the gap between the unreality and the real world? When I saw him like this, I kept thinking, is it okay for this person to be like this? It seems that he is about to roll to the side of the road to fall asleep! He is completely insecure. Is it because he is still in the "hero" development period? I really hate this kind of performance. Slimy and uneasy. Plus, the subtitled version that I watched is in Cantonese, which makes me feel bad. (I want to read the normal mandarin ah TAT)

Then Anton went to the next door to borrow blood and was allergic to pig blood (Hey!) Then he entangled Xiao Zhengtai on the subway... It felt like a perverted stalker uncle, embarrassing and charming . Is it different from sexual harassment like "bite your ears" the drunk says, ah, ah, this actor looks pretty when he wears sunglasses, his words and deeds are too awkward! (Speaking of Anton’s opposite guy and Xiaozheng Taiyan as a key figure are also good.)

Anton feels cute when he teases an owl. But... wrapping the owl (female) in a fresh-keeping bag and stuffing it in the cupboard...is it in the original book? ? When he knew Xiao Zhengtai was his son, the expression was also very...wonderful.

Um. The whole film has a fatalistic tone of karma.

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Extended Reading
  • Aliza 2021-12-23 08:01:39

    Russian filmmaker NB

  • Romaine 2022-03-27 09:01:11

    Supplementary comment: Watching Russian movies that are inexplicable and uninteresting should be watched carefully.

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.