Through marital fraud, she accumulated ten thousand family wealth, but this time she tore up the prenuptial agreement and devoted herself to love without hesitation. This is the warmest movie of the Coen brothers.
Speaking of Brother Coen, what do you think of? The fear of being chased by a cold-blooded killer in "Old Nowhere", the stubborn stubbornness of the old hunter with the little loli chasing murderers in "Thunder in the Earth", the profound and subtle metaphor of life in "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"...
The films of the Coen brothers are known for their blackness and absurdity, and they are good at showing the insignificance of people and the impermanence of fate. However, what few people know is: the Coen brothers also filmed a romantic comedy. This "True Love and False Love" is based on the theme of money and love. It uses black humor to write the purpose of money, love as an excuse, and a prenuptial agreement. Life story as a means. Although it is also absurd and ironic, the ending has to be warm.
Story: Signing 100 prenuptial agreements can't restrain this female liar
In "True Love and False Love", you can still see the representative comedic elements of the Coen brothers-George Clooney's performance, the unexpected ending of the "green leaf" characters, and the addition of special comedians. George Clooney’s acting skills have nothing to say. His role is amazing from time to time. In contrast, Catherine Zeta-Jones is more natural: cold and unsmiling from beginning to end.
[Attorney Miles Massey played by George Clooney]
George Clooney’s lawyer Miles Massey (hereinafter referred to as Clooney Miles) is the best divorce litigation lawyer in Southern California. He is smart, capable, and exquisite in his business. He is loved by clients: he can Use litigation skills to make a wife who has an affair with an affair become a victim of an unfortunate marriage, and smoothly win all the husband’s property; it can also use unconventional investigation methods to prevent a real estate agent who has an affair without paying his wife in a divorce lawsuit. Divided alimony, and this unlucky wife is Marilyn played by Catherine Zeta-Jones (hereinafter referred to as Zeta Jones).
In fact, this Marilyn is not a good stubborn. She is a marriage liar who uses her beauty to marry a wealthy family, then uses the means of catching the rape to make her husband the wrong party, and then divides more property through the divorce lawsuit.
[Marilyn played by Zeta Jones]
This time, after five years of marriage, Marilyn finally succeeded in using private detectives to capture evidence of her husband’s infidelity to the marriage. Marilyn thought it was a safe bet this time, but her real estate agent husband invited Miles.
Miles used unconventional means to inquire into Marilyn's secrets and summoned key witnesses in the court hearings-senior pimps who introduced Marilyn to rich and cheating men. The next result can be imagined: due to marital fraud, Marilyn did not get a penny of compensation in this divorce lawsuit.
[The husband who was almost cheated by Marilyn]
Things seem to have passed like this. One day, Marilyn and an oil tycoon came to the law firm where Miles worked. Marilyn didn’t seem to take the previous unhappiness with Miles at heart. She unexpectedly requested that, under the witness of Miles, the two parties sign a pre-nuptial property agreement (although the oil tycoon has some pretending unwillingness on the surface). ).
Miles was puzzled, because he knew that once the agreement was signed, it would mean that if the two divorce in the future, the personal property before marriage will belong to the individual. Marilyn will not get any benefit from this marriage, and this Obviously it violates the "professional aspirations" of Marilyn, a "marriage fraud expert" who trades marriage for wealth. But no matter how Miles implied that this agreement would have no loopholes once signed, Marilyn reluctantly signed this prenuptial property agreement that would leave her unprotected, and did not forget to invite Miles to join her before leaving. wedding.
[Marilyn and the oil tycoon]
At the wedding ceremony, Miles was still confused. He watched Marilyn marry the oil tycoon under the auspices of the pastor. But at this moment, an unexpected thing happened: In order to express his gratitude to his wife Marilyn for his full trust in him, the oil tycoon groom tore up his prenuptial property agreement in front of everyone. At this time, Meyer Sicai seemed to understand, and couldn't help but be deeply impressed by Marilyn's ingenuity and exclaimed that it was wonderful. For Marilyn's "risky move", Miles was also ashamed of it.
Transformation: smart lawyers fall in love with masters of marriage scams, and have no hesitation in that kind
The story of Miles and Marilyn continues. In fact, when he first contacted Marilyn, Miles had a good impression of her, and in subsequent contacts, he fell in love with the beautiful Marilyn, but at that time he was entrusted by others and needed There is no way to be loyal. Professional ethics requires him to serve customers completely.
But this time was different. Miles knew that the marriage with the oil tycoon was still a play directed by Marilyn to divide the family property, so at the wedding ceremony, he bluntly asked Marilyn to eat together after her divorce. Dinner.
Six months later, at the National Marriage Lawyers Conference, Miles saw Marilyn dressed as a noble lady, who had successfully divorced and received the property of the oil tycoon, and renewed the supper appointment. Marilyn readily agreed. The following scenes inevitably fall into the clichés of many love movies: after some small plots, the two people burned with passion, and they held a wedding in the local church. Under the witness of the priest, Miles also took the initiative to sign a copy. Prenuptial property agreement.
[Zeta Jones’s damaging charm, Clooney can’t hold it either]
The signing of the agreement this time has a different meaning, because Marilyn’s personal wealth has far surpassed Miles. Miles took the initiative to sign this agreement to show Marilyn that he really loves her instead of plotting her. the property of.
The next plot is even more curious: In the newlywed bridal chamber, Marilyn took the initiative to tear off the agreement signed by Miles. This move was to show Miles that she had no reservations about Miles and the marriage. At that moment, Miles had completely lost all the guards, vigilance and calculations he had accumulated in his career as a professional lawyer, and devoted himself to this love without reservation.
Cohen-style love comedy: Let the cliché story shine with a different kind of brilliance
This was originally a clichéd love and money story, but through the manipulation of the Coen brothers, the film has a different feeling.
After many years of twists and turns, the script was handled by several screenwriters and actors, and finally fell into the hands of the Coen brothers. The Coen brothers lived up to expectations and turned this vulgar and joyful friend story that took place in the 1940s and 1950s into a love game with twists and turns. Compared with the other films of the Coen Brothers, this film is a bit more tender, but the superficial tenderness is still difficult to hide the absurdity of the story itself and the pungent irony contained in it. The core of this superficially lively love comedy is still the consistent black and humorous expression of the Coen brothers.
[Director Coen Brothers]
The story of the Coen brothers is actually not about marriage, but about love. To be more precise, what they want to tell is a love catalyzed by design and murder! A love in the West since Rome, far retro and exciting, full of conspiracies, traps, assassinations, fascinating women, crazy men!
The Coen brothers have always liked to play with Hollywood genre elements. For example, "Miller's Crossroads" is an epic nostalgia for gangster movies. It can be said that they have revived the neuro-comedy tradition of Hollywood in the 1940s (such as "A Night in Love" and "Philadelphia Story"), the kind of love between men and women who love their enemies. Through this model of resurrection, what they really want to say is: in a society where marriage and love are treated as treaties, there should always be a struggle between men and women, murder, temptation, design, and of course, the last. Conquer!
[Marilyn and her lawyer]
The whole process of watching the movie was very enjoyable. The classic photography and stylish music all show that even if it is a romantic comedy, this is also a romantic comedy by the Coen brothers, not an ordinary popcorn movie. The song in the opening shows the purpose of the film, which is a bit similar to the opening music in "One Head Two Big" directed by the Ferrari brothers.
[Classic visual scene]
What impressed me the most was that the asthma killer mistakenly put the pistol into his mouth as a spray in a panic, and lost his life in a daze. The Coen brothers portray the deadly stupidity of the gangster with imaginative black humor. Coincidentally, in another "Strategic Master" starring George Clooney, there are also similar plots of fat gangsters rushing up the stairs and suddenly tripping over their pistols and opening their heads. However, the concept of this film is more in contrast. For exquisite.
The fly in the ointment is: As a commercial comedy, the film is not sufficiently suspenseful. Before the audience entered the theater, they probably knew that this was a comedy about men and women fighting wits, so after Zeta Jones was defeated by Clooney in court, everyone's mind was, well, she must retaliate. Sure enough, she found a homeless man who was sleeping on the street, that is, the man who lost to Clooney in a lawsuit because of his wife cheating at the beginning of the film (we can recognize this unshaven man who has only appeared in a few shots). The supporting role is because he is still holding the trophy that was previously emphasized to him, and I have to say that this design is very flattering), but after she asked this person to help him find someone, there was no more text. Later, she reappeared to come to Clooney with a wealthy entrepreneur to negotiate a prenuptial agreement.
At this time, the hearts of the audience are still hanging there. They are eager to know what kind of scheme Zeta Jones has devised to get Clooney on the bait, and this paragraph of signing the prenuptial agreement is very flat and cannot inspire enough tension to make them. Forget this suspense. The solution of this suspense is not complicated. Audiences with a little thinking ability can guess that this entrepreneur must be a fake and part of the Zeta Jones plan. After guessing this point (even if it was not certain at the time), the subsequent tearing of the wedding agreement, the divorce six months later, and the passage of the two meeting again in the casino, all gradually proved the correctness of this guess, until he saw Rooney Finally attracted by Zeta Jones to get married, everyone already knew this trick in their hearts.
When Miles, the lawyer played by George Clooney, stood on the podium to express his views on love situations, it made people think that this should be a movie about love, on the main line of the love between Miles and Marilyn. The slick Miles fell in love with the gold-worship girl Marilyn stupidly, and Marilyn's love for Miles was also a bit inexplicable.
Criticism of conspiracy marriage, nostalgia for innocent love
As a result, "True Love and False Love" is not only a copy of an outdated picture of love, but also produces a utopia of love between men and women in contemporary society, albeit in a conspiracy way. This may also be a nostalgia for their simple love.
In terms of plot, this is a comedy film about love, wealth, and conspiracy. I want to say that if our love needs complicated legal provisions to protect, then this is not a love. And when human beings lose the ability to love, they also lose the fundamental qualification that makes them the spirit of all things, and they will only transform (or evolve) into a high-level economic animal.
Everyone yearns for love, no matter how busy the world is, how important money is, but if there is no love, money loses its meaning. Bread has to be eaten with someone to be sweet, and someone has to spend the night with someone to avoid being afraid. There are as many people in the world who give up love because of wealth, and there are as many people crying in BMW cars.
After all, money is very important and love is also needed. Money is material food, and love is spiritual food. The ancients said that good things have been difficult to achieve since ancient times, and we must learn to be content. When facing the decision of money and love, calm down, listen to your inner needs, and make a decision from the heart so that you will not regret it. Just like the beauty in the play, she is willing to spend five years defrauding her fortune, and she is also willing to give up her hard-earned wealth for herself.
In our hearts, there should indeed be a piece of pure spiritual land that belongs to human beings, where there is love, sympathy, and kindness. This pure land is the most precious thing for mankind.
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