Almost everyone misses the Hollywood of ten or twenty years ago, when politics was not so strong and humanity had the broadest stage. Even in genre films, care for people can be seen everywhere. "Borrowing a Knife to Kill", "The Match Man", "American Beauty" and so on, the list goes on. At this moment, I suddenly thought of a person, Leonardo DiCaprio, an actor who has been at the peak of his career 20 years ago and has made great strides to this day, a person who had a grudge against Oscar until his break two years ago. . His film is a contemporary history of Hollywood films. All viewers remember the handsomeness of Xiao Lizi in "Titanic", but few people mentioned his ever-changing appearance and uniform temptation in "Cat and Mouse Game". In "The Game of Cat and Mouse", Frank, a juvenile criminal genius played by Xiao Lizi, borrowed his superb check counterfeiting skills and high IQ to grab a lot of illegal benefits. During this period, he kept changing his identity to avoid the pursuit of police detective Carl played by Tom Hanks. The Chinese translation is "Cat and Mouse" This is where the game comes from. Compared to its English name "catch me if you "can", the Chinese name is more of a joke, but a little less caring for Frank's spiritual world. As Carr says at the end of the film: "You'll be back. Look, no one's after you." Frank's eventual arrest wasn't even a passive process, he even kept looking forward to it. In the journey of constantly playing others, what defeats him is not the pursuit at all, but the loneliness of wearing a mask and living. The derailment of his mother and the predicament of his life caused him to have a gap in his identity as a child and a dislocation of his cognition later. He was eager to find a more comfortable identity for him, so he gave birth to the idea of playing a "pilot". But the drama of "once the mask is on the face, it is difficult to take off" was staged again, which eventually made him go further and further. But this further and further makes him more and more lonely. When all words and actions are built on lies, this criminal genius is finally crushed by "unbearable lightness". It is not difficult to imagine that people have been keen to discuss the dialectical relationship between truth and lies for a long time, that is, the contradictory relationship between the id and the superego's longing and resistance. In Andersen's fairy tales, there is "the red shoes that will dance to death as long as you put them on", which stems from the instinctive fear of unrealistic desires, because social experience tells us that all the seemingly free goodness is actually already there Secretly bid a good price. This is the consistent critical attitude of artists, especially those with humanistic tendencies, towards social ideals and the study of success. We are expected to play, play parents, play everyone we see in society, we are eager to grow, to achieve social identity, Frank's growth process can be seen as an enlarged version of this process. And this is very similar to the principle of performance. To a certain extent, performance is the process of breaking the original social identity and returning to children. In this film, in terms of performance skills, this kind of play within play and identity within identity can be said to be quite effective. difficulty. Just like an interesting question on the Internet "Is a poor actor acting like a poor actor, or a good actor acting like a poor actor?", then the answer must be the latter, In this film, Xiao Lizi explained how "an actor with excellent acting skills can act like a person with good acting skills". If Xiao Lizi is going to pick a movie to win an Oscar before "The Revenant", then I think the closest he gets to the trophy is his wonderful performance in "The Cat and Mouse Game". ……………………………… If you like it, please pay attention to the WeChat public account "Film Apprentice". Irregularly updated weekly with a movie, an article, a story, a mix of concerts
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