In the summer, my friend’s company was preparing to introduce "The Thief of Heart" to be released in China. I told her that it would definitely not work, because according to my speculation, the criminals must have gone unpunished in the end, and it was totally incompatible with socialist values. After reviewing the film, they confirmed my statement and abandoned the introduction plan. However, I only thought that this fraud-themed movie, like the stolen movie like "Eleven Arhats," was a chic and interesting crime movie, but I didn't expect it to be a big bad movie.
Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson respectively play two crooks, Joe and Petunia, the former taking the high-end route and the latter taking the low-end route. But the method is similar, they all use men's desire for women to squeeze money, the former cheats big money, the latter cheats small money. The pair met in a small town in France. In the first thirty minutes of the film, on the one hand, they explained the deception methods of the two protagonists separately, and on the other hand, they laid out their peers and stumbling each other. It seemed quite interesting, and I was looking forward to not getting acquainted with each other. Team afterwards.
However, since the two people joined forces in the second act, the story has moved in an inferior and boring direction. The film first uses a montage to show Joe and Petunia's joint fraud. Basically, Joe is responsible for pretending to be a desolate aristocratic beauty to let the man submit, and then Petunia pretends to be an exaggerated harlequin to make trouble and let the man take the initiative to leave. To make funny with a harlequin is already the lowest-end kind of humor.
The next plot is that the two of them turned their faces after making money. Joe didn't share the spoils with Penny, Penny retaliated, and Joe confronted him. The two opened a gambling game of "defrauding technology otaku" to see who would get the money from the stupid boy first. What I am looking forward to is that the two of you, one tall, one short, one fat and the other thin, will form a team to conquer the world together, to enjoy together, and to take our audience together! In the end, the plot was actually about two people competing with each other, and they were getting lower and lower. They were feeding toilet water, hitting the wall, and so on. I thought I was watching Wang Jing's movie...
The only sunny place in this film that allows people to see the hope of human nature is the kindness of the otaku who was deceived. However, it was later confirmed that he was a highly skilled liar. Then, because the two protagonists were cheated, they reconciled and became good sisters; then, the liar man came back to find them to join forces, so the three of them happily teamed up and cheated everywhere. What I felt after reading it was: "What the hell?!"
I know that for some movies, you need to put the black and white values aside when watching them. For example, underworld movies or pirated movies, because in this kind of movies, although they show "outlaws" who break the rules of society, at least in their movie universe, they show sentiment, or strategy, or are against existing capital. The challenge of political hegemony and injustice. However, this "Stealing Girl from the Heart" can only be described as nonsense. I can't find anything to praise with wearing a fan filter... Maybe the opening animation is good?
In short, I wrote this article to tell you that even if you want to relax without thinking about it, don't choose this movie to watch.
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Text | Tian Jia Ji
This article was originally published on the official account of "Sugar Cinema" (WeChat ID: BrilliantFilms), and you are eagerly welcome your attention.
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