I didn't have much hope for this film, but I just hope that there will be more pleasing action shots. As expected, the film still focuses more on the moral thread behind the story.
Action scenes became secondary, and the viewing of the film was cut in half. It is regrettable that we did not see the action processing scenes that are different from the conventional ones in the movie. With the help of the narrative background of the reality show, the director generally follows the documentary style in the handling of close combat. Shaky pictures, sudden push and pull shots, and fast close-up editing of some body movements. The overall look is still very smooth, but it is lacking. surprise. This is somewhat regrettable for an action movie.
As for the story, when the mysterious American appeared, 80% of the audience could guess his military background—the kind of secretly performing missions that wiped the ass of the US government with too many soldiers: the Delta Force, the Navy Marines, SEALs-this kind of people are traditional and vulgar, and have a tendency to show off. And when his identity was explained, all the plots began to appear standard "Hollywood orientation". That is: bad people use force to abuse violence; good people get started calling riots and Anliang. As a result, the whole story became a simple logic of a contest between good and evil, which extinguished the director's previous moral evaluation. When violence contains meanings other than violence, violence itself ceases to be a focal topic. A purely violent reality show was questioned for its moral rationality; a perverted violent torture caused the reality show and the perpetrator to be completely denied; the hero's rescue operation began, and the judgment of violence turned to affirmation until the whole process of watching the reality show. It denied that the ever-increasing producer girlfriend provided bombs to the hero, and violent bystanders were also brought into the chain of violence and violence, and "violence" was deteriorating, and it became the necessity of "unbearable and no longer to bear". Means are also the only means. At this time, the characters in the film and the audience have turned to the recognition of heroes and their actions. I don't know if the director has any expectations for this complicated situation. If it is the director's intention to make the film have so many "turns", then this director can be regarded as a rare "philosopher director".
Finding moral outlets for filmmakers and TV people has always been a thing that filmmakers and TV people are extremely keen on. When movies and television became the communication tools of modern society, the accusations never disappeared. No art in history is in such an embarrassing situation as film and television that people who do and are involved in film and television always have to find a moral basis for their existence.
Violence and peeping in film and television are unavoidable problems in film and television programs. The director boringly chose the standpoint of "watching accomplices" and condemned all those involved in violence. The perpetrator is guilty and promotes violence and Watching violence is as sinful. When the 10 death row prisoners were exhausted and the video on the website stopped disseminating, the TV interview host expressed his disappointment with the people watching the website, thus reflecting the bottom line of a TV person's professional ethics. The live broadcast ended with a false ending, the plot jumped to the back of the camera, and the real ending was completed behind the camera. The producers’ selflessness, the hero’s anti-violence and the active participation of the navy are not shown in the camera, but they are all triggered by the camera incident. Of course, we can understand the positive effects of negative lenses as a process of human self-transcendence and self-reflection. But is it possible to also regard this positive effect as a beneficial effect of the camera incident? Is this positive effect also a butterfly effect of negative events? The film did not give an answer.
I believe no one knows the answer.
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