"After get off work" is a small-cost horse-directed movie with a black comedy, tight thriller elements, and a good rhythm. It is rumored that the source of the script of this movie is very mixed, the first screenwriter ran away, and then changed to the end... But the overall degree of completion is still very high, and director Ma won the Palme d’Or Best Director award that year. This movie may feel nonsensical after watching it, but it is not entirely because it has internal logic and cause and effect.
Paul, who was in a suit and leather shoes, was teaching newcomers to program. After learning, the newcomers said that they did not want to do this. His future dream was to start a magazine blabla... Paul was not interested, his eyes wandered in the office, and he didn't listen at all. This is not idle writing, but It is to directly point the eye of the question-people often have no interest in other people's words and do not care about the real needs of others.
Paul meets Marcy in the restaurant and stands up and takes the banned book "Tropic of Cancer" in the 1930s. The author Miller was hailed as the prophet of freedom and sexual liberation by the counterculture in the 1960s. Looking at the male protagonist from the number of pages read It shouldn’t be the first time to make a girl like this. The two left each other’s phone and separated, and they met at Soho at 11:30 at night. In the 1980s, New York Soho was a pioneer artist gathering with gay and SM lovers, and the law and order was not good. In a place, this also left a foreshadowing for the future
Our handsome Paul went out to have fun at night. The first object of his heart was actually Kiki. When he helped Kiki massage, he talked about his childhood experience in the burn ward. He has not told his own story or climax. Kiki has fallen asleep with no interest. . After Marcy came back, he chatted with Paul and said: I think you are someone I can talk to. I want to talk tonight, but Paul didn’t listen. After Marcy came back from the bath, he leaned in and smelled the lotion. Wei, but Marcy was not ready. She suffered domestic violence two days ago and really wanted to talk about it. She proposed to change place and the two of them went to the coffee shop and had a chat. When they came back, Marcy took a candle and said here we are, she was ready, but Paul thought she had burns and rudely rejected him.
While hiding from the rain at the house of the waitress who met in the restaurant, Paul cried out of Marcy's death just now, but the waitress said to wait a moment, changed a favorite vinyl disc and said, um, let's talk about it this time. It made Paul completely uninterested... I don’t want to say any more. When the waitress complained about his work, Paul also gave a perfunctory answer, causing the waitress to cry.
The blonde girl who drives the ice cream truck also has a good impression of the handsome male protagonist, but the conversation is also the same as the chicken and duck...
Man: You won't believe what I experienced tonight.
Woman: I sell ice cream
Man: You misunderstood, I mean you won't believe today...
Woman: Oh, it’s not boring. I have my own ice cream truck. I have a Class 4 driver’s license in New York...
Paul met the last man who wanted to have a relationship with him. He brought Paul home in the early morning. When Paul talked to the brother in front of him about his tragic experience tonight, the camera continuously used jump cuts to show the man with glasses. Bored, Paul at this time became Marcy who wanted to talk a while ago, and the man with glasses is Paul who just wanted to have a relationship. When Paul rushed into the Berlin bar to look for kiki and sm men, the protagonist yelled to Kiki but did not respond, implying that people cannot communicate with each other.
Finally, in the closing bar, Paul finally confessed to the old woman, June, face to face and moved June, begging June to save his life. Paul picked up his life and climbed back to the company at dawn. He sat at his desk and was extremely relieved. The computer turned on and displayed good morning. The computer only executed the instructions you entered. He finally didn't have to face the weird people who couldn't understand the conversation.
Speaking of the director, after watching the whole movie, I think about it. It seems that the situation is not too dangerous. It is nothing more than being unable to return home. The male protagonist did not really kill, but through the rapid progress of the lens, the frequent point light source, the excellent soundtrack, including The constantly appearing key, clock, opening and closing the door and other elements of the scene, people have always felt horrified and nervous, fully embodying the director's skill. At the beginning and end of the film, with the symphony of Beethoven and Bach, the rapid movement of the Steadicam lens in the office has become a classic scene in the Scorsese movie.
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