Many movies start in this dull way, and there will only be two possibilities for subsequent development. One is to end in a more dull way than this, and the other is to continue to develop through this pre-determined atmosphere. After the next keynote, sublimate the theme. This seems a bit risky, because this dull beginning means that the film will lose a part of the audience, but as long as you pay attention to the director’s approach, he will keep the camera in a field of view for a long time, and there is still smoke in the room where people have already gone. , There are close-ups of human hand movements, staying in small bullets, or unevenly distributing the characters in the camera, etc., a serious and responsible director is this way to let the details conquer the audience and tell the audience his movie Not a low-cost, low-level thing. "Dance of Death Row" moved me in this way.
Not long after the movie began, Halle Berry appeared with red eyes, and you know that this actor is very playful. She accurately expressed the pain, strength, and unexpected happiness of the poor woman. She cried bitterly in the hospital, and the voice and tone of her voice when she cried bitterly at home were interpreted from the perspective of a waitress. Therefore, in this movie where the whole keynote is dull, her undisguised performance is even more a highlight. Lucille, is an extremely strong woman. Like most blacks, she lives a very difficult life. In the whole movie, she recalls to Hank her son that in the United States, as a black, you should not be so fat. I Keep telling him that. She pushed the contradiction between the entire United States and the black people even higher. Because black people should not even have the right to be obese. There is also the ending part. Her confused eyes can't help but make us guess what they will do in the future. She also has the same doubts, because this world is such a drama. She lives with the man who sent her husband to the electric chair.
Another key point of the film is the change in Hank's life, which began with the death of his son. This plot that was handled indifferently by the director is extremely sad, but we can learn from the back of the movie how painful Hank is in his heart, and it is this pain that allows him to see that those black people are no different from them.
The director’s cleverness is that he never used the "voice of God" to read out the inner activities of the characters, or let the characters speak out in his own heart. He abandoned all the first-person psychological descriptions, but used the eyes of the characters. , Movement and other communication, this undoubtedly increases the requirements of the actors' performance skills a lot, so it can make this movie so shocking. I think that in many cases, avoiding the "reading" of direct psychological activities will make the movie appear smarter.
If all this is a monster dance party, to use the title of an old jazz song, the masquerade is over, people have found a glimmer of hope in their hearts.
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