On the 8.5/10 script alone, it lacks some new ideas compared to the fifth element, and it is much better than the Golden City. The plot of this film can be said to be a typical Hollywood commercial film template, from the beginning of the murder, to the conflict point of knowing the girl, then to the conflict point where the girl's whole family is killed, then to the adoption of the girl, and then to the conflict point of training to kill. The violent love template that has been intersecting between plainness and conflict has been used badly by Hollywood screenwriters, but the story of this film is a sublimation of this template. The screenwriter uses this mediocre script to tell the story of loneliness, kindness, love and death. Story, and used excellent lines to make up for the mediocre script, the similes of potted plants and the use of details in the film are not available in the script of the Internet cool literary genre of those Hollywood assembly line screenwriters.
In fact, the reason why this work can become a classic lies not only in the tension of the script, but also in the director's use of the camera and sound. The violent scenes in the film are very characteristic, sometimes subtle, sometimes bloody, which was later frequently used by directors such as Jiang Wen. The place for reference, and the use of subjective lens and sound when Leon died is even more wonderful. The success of a movie is a result of a good script and a good director, as well as actors and editing scores. This film has achieved the ultimate in these points. It is rich in the atmosphere of an art film under the shell of a commercial film, and will always become a classic.
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