So I think the most critical indicator is the movie viewing experience. As consumers, we paid for movie tickets and bought more than 100 minutes of movie viewing experience. Whether this experience can meet our expectations, and whether we feel it is worth watching after reading it. As the most ordinary public - a person who has no knowledge of film techniques, a person who only has basic common sense but lacks understanding of the background knowledge of the film, can he pat his thighs after watching it and say, "This movie is really interesting!" It is an indicator that is most needed as a commercial film evaluation.
And did Dunkirk do it? I'm afraid it's even worse.
I don't know how many viewers like me, an ignorant consumer, first thought of seeing this movie because it was directed by Nolan. It was Nolan, who made movies of Deadly Magic, Inception, and Memories, which were very suspenseful, brain-burning, and particularly dreadful. However, does this film meet our expectations when we consume it? I'm afraid this film is not so "Nolan" anymore, at least not the "Nolan taste" we thought. I admit that the three narratives, the splicing of time, and the blind old man and the dreaming on the train after the British soldiers and artillerymen returned to China at the end, I still tasted a little of the "Nolan wind" I was looking forward to. But the enjoyment given to me by other places is really poor. I will list a few things that I feel inadequate as an ignorant audience:
1. Face blindness
I admit that this is an embarrassing point to say, because you can say that I am not familiar with the cast and do not seriously remember the concept of human faces The movie is not serious and so on, but as a consumer, this is not my obligation, right, all I need to do is spend money to watch it.
But if you say that face blindness is your inadequacy as an audience, how can you say it as a film's weakness?
That's because there are too few lines in this movie. For Chinese people who have difficulty identifying Western faces, it is really difficult to remember who is who if there is no emphasis on the names of people in the lines. What's even worse is his three-line parallel narrative technique, which allowed us to come into contact with too many characters at the beginning. Fortunately, the four characters on the ship line, old and young, let me distinguish clearly. But I still had the illusion that the one who died was also the captain's son. The three people on the air line were actually fine, but unfortunately I also misunderstood the captain who fell down was the coward soldier from the ship line. You can see that face blindness is a very small point, but once it happens, it is very easy to ruin most of the viewing experience, because it will make the audience look confused and it may take two hours to understand half of the story, then you I only got 50 points for a 100-point story.
Conclusion Because of the very few lines and three-paragraph narrative techniques shown in China, the possibility of face blindness has increased, and this small point has ruined the viewing experience of many audiences.
2. The background knowledge does not understand the sensational point get
To be honest, I really don’t have a good history, but as an ignorant audience, it’s not my duty to learn history well, right? I didn’t know the history of the Dunkirk retreat until I watched the movie, so I’ll come back to Baidu of.
In fact, movies released abroad will have this problem more or less. For example, if you say that Wolf Warrior, the founding of a country, or some ancient costume movies are released in the UK, this problem must also occur, right? It is difficult for foreigners to get emotional or plot points without the corresponding cultural background.
Then you ask is this where we criticize it? This is clearly your own problem. Yes, so this point may not appear in every film review, but as an ignorant viewer, I just feel a little confused, and embarrassed to admit that I don't know about this incident and a little embarrassed. It's like if you cook a standard Sichuan dish and judge it for someone who doesn't eat spicy food, maybe spicy will become a disadvantage, so this disadvantage is completely subjective, but it is a good thing for an ordinary Chinese consumer like me. this ill.
3. The expectation for Nolan keeps me looking forward to some reversal or some whimsical plot
Since it uses Nolan as a sign to attract audiences, it has to admit that many audiences are looking forward to some Nolan-style plots, but they are actually a little disappointing. You may ask other directors that trying new styles should be encouraged. What are your dissatisfactions? Yes, yes, it is worth encouraging, but you have been using Nolan's signboard to recruit students in the early stage of publicity. In the end, you made me look forward to seeing the ignorant audience of Nolan's style and waited for 90 minutes. They all thought that the story had not reached its climax, and they were all looking forward to a reversal in the back, and they couldn’t devote themselves to the previous plot experience. Is it a kind of damage to the consumer’s viewing experience?
It's like a restaurant that claims to have a Sichuan chef. I went there because I was looking forward to serving me some spicy and sweaty dishes, but from the beginning they always served me some light vegetarian dishes. I kept my stomach and didn't taste the dishes in front of me. I've been waiting to see if there will be some boiled meat slices, double-cooked meat, etc., but you suddenly told me that the dishes were all served. This is the chef's innovative light, elegant and minimalist banquet. I looked back and saw that the dishes in front of me were cold. I am also bewildered. Either you don't hype your Szechuan chef in the first place, I might be able to taste the previous dishes from the point of view of an average diners.
4. The minimalist style that I can't appreciate
This movie has no sensational lines. Unfortunately, I don't know much about the language of the camera lens, and I can't tell what is good and what is bad, and what is it can be used for domestic directors to learn a thing or two. year.
I just felt that he did not give me enough emotional fluctuations and sensory stimulation. I admit that the sound of gunshots, the loud noise of cannonball bombardment, and the roar of aircraft engines can still bring me some sense of war substitution. But in today's increasingly strong visual and audio stimulation, such performance is still mediocre. And there are very few lines so that many emotions can only be conveyed through eyes and expressions, but the efficiency and ease of understanding of this communication are difficult to express directly with lines.
For example, if the pilot ran out of fuel and made an emergency landing in German territory, if he put a memory of something and his wife to kill, or took out a photo of his daughter to take a look, but shouted "For freedom and justice!" Then before burning the plane, he said, "I will never let you down." Wouldn't let the German army obtain the precious crystallization of our British engineers' will be a lot of sensationalism, and some people will definitely say that I am vulgar and have to use such a straightforward way of expression. But let’s be honest, it’s effective. We can’t stop eating just because everyone eats and it’s vulgar to eat, right? It’s old-fashioned to use lines to stir up emotions, but it works.
I also have something to say about the so-called minimalist style. This approach is a bit elegant, but as an ignorant audience, I feel that your reflection on the war is not enough, and I feel that the part you express cannot cause my mood swings. Including the passages about chasing people off a broken ship, I feel that the fear and selfishness of people before death are not expressive enough. I know that if we look back, we will definitely find some places where the war was brutal, how people were strong and selfish before the war, and so on. But I hope that the film will pass it through lines and more intense conflicts, and make it more naked, so that I can be moved by you even when I lie down as an ignorant audience, and you will cause me to think deeply.
5. Not interesting enough "excellent film"
I really feel that this film is very similar to The Revenant, Assassin Nie Yinniang, etc. If I were a professional film judge to judge the award, I might give it an 8, but as an ignorant audience , he really didn't give me the feeling of wanting to slap my leg and shout: "It's really interesting".
The point is that it's embarrassing that I haven't been able to tell other people that I don't like this movie like The King's New Clothes, as if I said it like I don't understand Nolan and don't understand movies. But I just don't understand it very well. As a consumer, I really can't see him professionally, but I have to avoid embarrassingly saying a few words to him to show that I understand movies well.
Seriously, if Dunkirk, Assassin Nie Yinniang, The Revenant, and Moonlight are lined up in the movie theaters this month, I really can't watch a lot of them this month, as an ignorant person who relies on movies for entertainment Audience I'm going crazy.
I can sit on the couch and watch some superhero movie all afternoon to relieve my boredom, but you make me watch such a movie all afternoon, I really can't stand it.
If he wants to use tricks on the subject matter to achieve a masterpiece, then professional judges should give professional opinions, but ignorant audiences like me should also give the most popular evaluation. If there is a movie that is only suitable for five or six brushes to get the essence, then It is a lack of consumer experience for an ignorant audience who just intends to watch it while getting the audio-visual enjoyment it deserves.
The suggestions I gave are all written from the most common but most common perspectives. I think this kind of evaluation can provide a reference for the broadest audience than the angle of the lens, the shooting technique, and the professional analysis. The problems and grievances encountered may also be encountered by the widest range of consumers.
If you think reading the above paragraph is too tiring, just read my conclusion at the end. As an ignorant audience, I really don't think it is exciting enough.
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