Great theme, bad director

Xzavier 2022-04-23 07:04:18

The director tried to interpret the theme of war and women through a film with a strong commercial color. Not bad, he succeeded. But this is largely thanks to the performances of several actors.
Sophie Marceau's performance once again proved that she is not just a vase. In the film, she successfully created the image of a female soldier who is determined, resolute, unyielding and full of leadership. Throughout the mission, she struggled with the pressures and conflicts of her superiors, peers, and herself. Several other actors are also in place, fully showing the images of several untrained women who were pushed to the front by the war. They will be afraid, they may even doubt their own beliefs, but this does not prevent them from devoting themselves to the achievement of the task. Especially the image of Jenny is very impressive.
She's just a prostitute who kills pimps and faces the death penalty, she has no national beliefs, she just wants to complete the mission and be free, she even tries to escape when she learns that there are additional missions; or she, after learning that Louis When pregnant, she will stroke her belly before the mission, listen to Susie's sad story before she goes to see the colonel, sacrifice herself to win the opportunity for Louis when she kills the colonel's mission again... For Jenny, she wants to do It's about getting the job done, not empty slogans like Long Live the Nation.
When recruiting Jenny, Pierre said to Jenny, "If it weren't for us, you would have been hanged." However, when Louis finally saw Jenny's photo, I noticed that Jenny was hanged. A noose was draped around her blackened body's neck. After all, she could not avoid the fate of the gallows.

If it weren't for the clear theme of the film and the actors' performances, I would probably give 2 stars. The director did not grasp the structure of the whole film rigorously enough, the whole film was full of structural loopholes, and the handling of some details and props was not careful enough, even out of reality, and many plots made people feel funny when they read it. For example, Jenny can save Louis by adding a "law traitor" and a glasses-wearing uncle who has been working undercover for a long time as a museum researcher. In addition, the weapons used by the action team are also varied. I have seen scenes where members of the team are holding American M3 submachine guns, Sten submachine guns and other weapons to fight against German soldiers. How many different types of bullets have to be dropped? What's more, the British Sten submachine gun was dubbed the famous gun of World War II because of its worst hit reliability, worst workmanship, worst workmanship and most inconvenient use...

Overall, it feels like a piece of middle school student composition, with a clear and sublime theme, but it's best not to dig too deep. Because the deeper you go, the less you can dig.

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  • Elroy 2022-03-18 09:01:08

    I feel that the translated name of the heroine behind the scenes is more in line with the plot. Julie's role is very brilliant, shaken to firmness, and the unsensational passages are more tragic. I never doubt that the firmness of prostitutes is more ordinary. The human nature is very real, except that the Gestapo's extortion is not so cruel. Anyway, with the addition of Marie and Deborah, this girl I love is worth seeing.

  • Carmel 2022-03-14 14:12:29

    Actually, I went to Sophie Marceau.