Cut the destructive power of the narrative rhythm

Jamil 2022-01-04 08:02:40

When I came out of the movie theater, I was full of complaints about the film. The film and television dramas "Shawshank", "Prison Break" and "Prison Break" that I have seen before, and even last year's "A way out" game of prison escape theme, all have excellent control in plot and rhythm control, even if "The Escape of the Golden Cicada" is such a show. The Hollywood movie "Contra" also controlled the narrative rhythm better. However, this film based on an autobiographical novel has a surprisingly poor rhythm. The lack of description of many characters leads to obvious facial makeup and functionalization. Compared with Shawshank’s salvation, the protagonist’s escape process is more complicated. The three escapes (the last escape from the island of exile) seem very formal, not to mention the life and emotional account before imprisonment, which is really scribbled. . This direct feeling is how the feelings between these people are generated? What is the psychological change of other people giving up hope step by step? Faced with years of imprisonment, how did his heart survive without committing suicide like others? Although it was extremely difficult to escape from the deserted island in the end, it was much better than five years of confinement. There was no one to care about it. Why do many people choose to commit suicide? These are not reasonable explanations. On the way home, I talked to Owl about whether a movie of normal theater length can carry such a complicated plot, which ones can be left to the audience’s brains, and which ones cannot. The time of a film is left blank or expresses the passage of time The method is by no means optional. For human life, time is one of the most important references for making choices, and it is also something that allows the audience to have an intuitive experience, which directly affects whether the mood of the movie can be driven by the plot. Going away, can you feel the same as the protagonist... After I complained all the way back home, the film was 133 minutes long, which is 2 hours and 13 minutes, but what we saw in the cinema was only about 1 hour and 50 minutes, including the pre-film Chinese The advertisement is about 25 minutes short... This may not change the story, but it will definitely affect the rhythm of each chapter and the layout of the characters. I have nothing to say about such a deletion...

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  • Cindy 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    Papillon means "butterfly", and it's very strange to hear the male protagonist "Papillon" being called throughout the whole process in English. The base is radiant. But the jailbreak part was lackluster. Judging from the time span and content of the film, the focus should not be on the plot of the escape, but on the psychological development of the characters and the shaping of the environment. Babylon's two small black house survivals have simply broken through the limits of human psychology. Starting from this aspect, there will be shocking power. The director's idea and the actor's performance went off the rails.

  • Bailee 2022-04-20 09:02:05

    The adaptation wasn't very good, but I liked Rami Malek more and more.

Papillon quotes

  • Warden Barrot: I know many of you at this very moment are thinking about escape. Feel free to try whenever you like. We'll be happy to shoot you.

  • Julot: Thank you for coming. Watch me go to hell!