"Black" was watched with a plate of oranges. Oranges are a bit sour, so it's hard to say that it has a taste-masking effect. I haven't tasted the taste of "Black" from start to finish, let alone the level of taste.
The ingredients are actually good. A lot of celebrities, Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, and even the lesser Aaron Eckhart, have also made their appearance in the trendy dish of "Pay Check (Memory Crack)". I watched this film with these ingredients at first, but I think it will taste strong when added together.
There is nothing wrong with the casting. Everyone’s characteristics are more in line with the character’s design. Except for the role of Hilary Swank, Kate Beckinsale may have a better image, but the latter’s acting skills are really hard to match the former two statuettes. Item back. The image of Josh Hartnett has always been that kind of weak and good person. It has never changed since "Pearl Harbor". "Lucky Number Sleivn" is the only exception, but they all maintain the same image. Up to three quarters of the film length. Scarlett Johansson is getting more and more red, and more and more vases. Since "Lost in Translation", I only missed "A Love Song for Bobby Long" in her movie. And "The Perfect Score", this conclusion is based on facts. Hilary Swank's acting skills are indeed good. From gender identity barriers to female boxing champions, this time is a psychologically distorted rich beauty. If she is humble and does not span the range of roles, all actresses may be regarded as character actors. Aaron Eckhart looks a lot like Sean Bean, but it is much more violent than the latter, but I am afraid that because of this, the thick and restrained latter is more flavorful. Let this be attributed to the age factor for the time being.
It's a pity that with such good ingredients, the result is a weird pie, and it seems to have been soaked in the soup, and the cotton silk is pattered.
The story is actually two lines of suspense. One is the secret of Lee (Aaron Eckhart), and the other is who killed the prostitute Dahlia. In the end, the two lines are not considered to be an intersection, or that the cross is extremely reluctant. Lee’s secret was unprepared. Before the secret was discovered, this line was almost piled up by Kay (Scarlett Johansson) and Dwight (Josh Hartnett). If you understand the beginning of the boxing match as a metaphor, and in the end, there is no correspondence, which makes people wonder if the reason for the opening ten-minute boxing match is to advertise for a certain denture company. Dahlia's death can be regarded as a horror, but apart from the few scenes of the corpse, the movement of this line afterwards is almost roaming. From the layman’s point of view, the investigation was a haunting and bludgeoning: there was no psychological dialogue between the police and the killer separated by time and space, and there was no rapid elimination and concentration. Dwight’s investigation was so slow that it was a homosexuality. The unannounced visits in the club are more like clubbing and flirting. They actually hooked up the final old boss Madeline (Hilary Swank), and then went out to open the room, and said something that is not clear but has nothing to do with the murder case. Love words. There are countless characters at the end of the branch, but they are not organically integrated into the plot. They are completely irrelevant to the story and take up a lot of film. All the dragon sets are run into a set. This is a bit of a waste of budget.
The creation of movie characters was also extremely failed. Josh guarded himself like a jade in front of Kay, facing Madeline before he was still in a mess. The gentleman and the pervert were too overlapped, and there was no transition at all. Kay's history is very unbearable. It is reasonable to say that she needs at least some relatively strong processes and events to be emotional with Josh, but after they have a ritual kiss in Lee's complicated eyes, Kay will have a direct showdown, which can only be understood as The obsessive love arranged by the director at first sight. Aaron's character is the palest. Apart from a very crazy boxer, he is a person who is completely free from the whole story. Of course, his secret is revealed in the end, but this can't explain his previous obsession and violence with Dahlia's case. It is impossible to pass the logic barriers just by narrating Kay's previous history. Hilary interprets Madeline's deep metamorphosis very colorful, lacking love, twisting, and semi-madness. However, even so, the logic of this character is still chaotic, and her motive for killing is also the lack of strong support from the castle in the sky. It feels unexpected to appear, but it doesn't make sense at all.
It can be seen that the director mentioned things, the harm and distortion of poverty and wealth to people, the disadvantaged position of women, the extreme deformity of the dark side of human nature, and the most central, a thrilling and suspenseful story. It's a pity that so many materials can not be simply kneaded together to make a good work. The story told not only needs to have structure, but also needs content. If the content is empty and the structure is chaotic, no matter how many such movies have Big names can't be supported either. "Black" gives people the feeling that it is a pizza that has been stepped on. The taste is sloppy, and the taste is a paste. After tasting it once, I never want to patronize it again.
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