The Conflict between Mainstream Values ​​and Character Creation——The Director's Helplessness

Brody 2022-11-28 01:40:30

This "Top Secret Stalker" is a remake of the Hong Kong movie "Stalker," and it's done well, although many of the passages are direct references and imitations. Compared with the two points that are often criticized in the two films "Absolutely": first, the shadow of the opposite side, the IQ is extremely high and the physical ability is very high, why is the same broken mobile phone used all the time, and is repeatedly tracked; second, the police falcon, middle-aged It has passed, old age is staggering, why in the confrontation with the shadow, repeatedly won, and even resurrected with full blood after being fatally wounded. This post will discuss the arrangement of such plots from another angle, and this speculation is the director's intention.

Watching gangster or gangster movies, as an honest and responsible observer, I usually have a hint of intuitive sympathy for the high-IQ antagonists in the play. Such a smart, hard-working, hard-working and handsome antagonist can only Being a fugitive doesn't end well. These kinds of questions turn into regrets with the end of almost every good cop movie. However, as a cultural carrier, movies are reviewed and then released, and the value orientation in the film is pre-determined, so the plot has to deviate from the original trajectory and move towards the established values. So the endings are all predetermined, and the director can work hard only to make the process exciting and unpleasant to end.
After understanding this, as an honest police and gangster movie viewer, I had to leave the scene with disappointment again and again, and look forward to the next possibility with hope. However, if the ending is irreversible, what other way can the director make the message of the ending more clear, proving that the story is still developing in the original direction, but it is too helpless and has to be like this. Is there any way, yes. The way is that the plot takes a sharp turn, the brains of pros and cons are swapped, and all kinds of bizarre and unreasonable unexpected accidents come one after another, prompting the ending to move towards mainstream value and achieve the predetermined result. This is the director's intentional arrangement, and the audience will know the director's good intentions when they see it here.
Specific to this film, at the end of the film, the shadow suddenly drops in IQ (using the same tracked phone without changing the card), changes in EQ (talks in seconds in a Spanish restaurant, but drops the umbrella in panic), loses inner strength ( There is no pressure in one-on-ten, but one-on-one can't be determined in seconds), to the end (probably because too much pen is used, and the marksmanship is degraded). Zhengfang Falcon's IQ is not high, but his physical ability (two knives in his body still heals automatically, his physical strength is extraordinary, he surpassed the subway on foot, and his younger brother died on the spot), mentality (back to the unknown train without panic, before I ignored the small sections) Accidentally bumped into the goddess's gate and strictly followed the rules, never violated the rules, and was extremely contradictory), and his skills (after recovering from a serious injury, the marksmanship that had not been practiced for a long time improved by leaps and bounds) greatly increased to achieve the predetermined goal.
It's good to know that the director is so careful, and you don't have to worry about it. It's easy to make a movie, but it's difficult to play a movie.

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