In fact, the beginning of it is not as boring as I said. His plot was very suspenseful at the beginning. It’s just that I have watched more movies recently, and I don’t have a very passionate feeling for any movie. It will naturally be formed if I watch more movies. It’s a habit to open the film for the first 5 minutes without knowing the outline of the story to grasp the tone. Some movies know the genre at the beginning, while others don’t. If you still need to judge, you have to start fast forward and leave another 5 minutes at the end... Generally speaking, this is the ultimate method, at least for this movie. Set an accurate expectation.
But this "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" made my theory hit a wall. I fast forwarded it for a long time without guessing that it was such a movie. I should admire Soder because of this. First, he made me have to watch the film completely, and then let me stare at the computer for 3 minutes. The development of the plot of the film itself is a suspense, so Soder basically does not need to use fancy editing to create suspense; secondly, the psychological changes of the four characters in the film are delicate and real, which I did not understand within a few minutes. One of the reasons for it. Soder used the object "videotape" and Glenn's video recording of two women as clues to explore the topic of "sex and lies", using a common occurrence in people's lives (extramarital affairs) to take the present People’s attitudes towards “sex”, “honesty”, “temptation” and everyone’s attitude towards mysterious things are magnified one by one... The final ending is Hollywood style, but the suddenness of the ending is not very "Hollywood", which is very novel.
Finally, what I admire most about this movie is that it mainly discusses "sex" and the extension of sex, but there is almost no special pornography in the whole movie. This makes this movie more like a psychological movie. Let the audience's perspective be more focused on the psychological changes of the characters in the play. Maybe people who have never watched movies like to show love and sex in movies that talk about love and sex. They may think that this is pure enough to reflect the content; and after watching more similar movies, we will find that, The most classic things are the least need to seduce people with audiovisual. Soder’s film is like this. Its success lies in his rational grasp of the plot. He has adopted the most honest method of reproducing a fact, instead of disturbing our sight with various fancy things. At this point, he It's like Antonioni, but it's different in expression. To be honest, apart from "The English Patient", this is another very successful movie about extramarital affairs that I have seen.
The character who moved me the most in the film was of course GRAHAM. The black shirt and the head shape of the British rock men in the 60s, a few classic responses, reminded me of these words: delicate emotions, clear human nature.
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