Grumpy first. The plot may be the point of Kingsman's criticism. I don't watch too many spy movies (so I was worried that the male protagonist would say "Justin Bieber" when I asked JB...), so I have to say which place pays homage to which movie. do not know either. The main line of Kingsman is generally more routine, and the configuration of the characters is also, a male protagonist who lacks fatherly love, a few good teammates, a life mentor, a villain with a quirky personality, and a teammate who is against the water. ...Using such a framework itself limits the depth of digging inwards, or in other words, the film itself gives up depth, in a sense, it can be regarded as an achievement of this film, which widens the space for outward expansion . It also follows the shortcomings of many commercial film concepts: such as daily racial discrimination, the villain and several face-showing thugs are exotic = =; such as strong masculinity, the title of the film is also translated as "The King's Man", think about it This is a movie that wants to show "manliness". The few female characters are single mothers in unhappy marriages, female teammates with weak sense of presence, sexy killing machines, and princesses who come to the male protagonist. And the "gentleman's spirit" it wants to create is too much in appearance. Believe me, I love Uncle Colin as much as every girl in the universe, but Uncle Colin's performance feels a little subtle to me. His aura is gentle enough. I think he is a gentleman in everything he plays. To play a particularly gentleman gentleman, it seems that there is no sense of surprise. I can understand the yearning for the concept of "gentleman" in the original work. We always like to see the two qualities of elegance and power concentrated in one person, but if the final form is just a symbol such as suits, hairstyles, glasses, and gorgeous If you want to raise the "gentleman's temperament" to the "gentleman's spirit", as a representative of the tradition to fight against the modern spirit, it is somewhat lacking in confidence. (When Uncle Colin's colleagues appeared in the holographic glasses, with similar hairstyles, similar suits, and similar glasses, the face blindness indicated that they had fainted.) What's more, the young generation in the movie is frizzy and frizzy. Yes, there is a distance from the "gentleman's temperament". Martini never drinks whiskey.
None of this can hide its brilliance. In traditional spy films, most of the protagonist's tasks are to kill villains and block missiles. These so-called high-level struggles themselves are far from the audience's life, and the audience can only vaguely feel that they are taller. However, we are still convinced that casualties caused by political purposes or commercial interests are entirely possible. Kingsman, on the other hand, did the opposite. Many of the technologies shown in Kingsman are already in development and can be put into use soon (except for nerve waves, which should be nonsense), and this time, it is the mobile phone card and the app that wiped out human beings. It exudes a contradictory feeling. On the one hand, technology makes the world more cool, and on the other hand, it also brings anxiety to human beings. Although none of us understand these technical principles, this experience is much more intimate than that of a nuclear weapon that we have never seen in a lifetime. But the conspiracy it reveals—human genocide to purify the earth is a concept that is completely detached from reality. We think it is absurd. Even if such conspiracies were included in works in the past, they were relatively obscure and prevented in advance. . I have never seen a work that nakedly presents the image of mass cannibalism, but because of the absurdity, it looks more like a farce, and with BGM, people can't help but want to laugh at death.
In the film, the male protagonist did not directly deny the Holocaust, but questioned the villain, "What right do you have to decide who dies and who survives?" Kingsman can be said to have voluntarily given up human torture, and instead used an uncompromising Violent aesthetics and amusing to death humor to justify killing. Just like the villain's blade warrior maid, her movements have a sense of modern fluency; her body is deformed, and deformity is her weapon, her selling point, if she just holds a knife, it may be the opposite There won't be such a charisma that makes me think it's no big deal for her to hack an agent in a suit who isn't as handsome as Uncle Colin. The church scene is a hot spot in the movie, but unfortunately it was deleted in China. The passionate BGM, Uncle Colin's all kinds of handsome, absurd group fights, who would care that everyone in the church died? The final Firework is even more extreme. I really wanted to laugh in the movie theater, but I didn't dare to laugh because of my white lotus image.
The role of the villain in this movie is a bit more interesting than the protagonist Fang. As an opponent of old-fashioned gentlemen, Mr. Valentine often sees modern ridicules, such as his hippie attire, such as McDonald's in the dining car, such as nightclub-style sanctuaries, such as mobile phone card conferences. Although he is the object of criticism from an aesthetic point of view, his undisguised hypocrisy and a bit of madness with the temperament of "self-going five" make him a bit naive. Half of the killing feast was written by him, and the fireworks show would not have come without his technology. Dressed in the guise of good over evil, this film is a combination of old fashion and modern entertainment, a showdown of humor and humor.
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