The overall feeling is petty, the whole film is a continuous repetition of the eight-minute plot, with a single location and a single story, which cannot be sustained as a sci-fi film.
Of course not all sci-fi films have to have big scenes. Okay, I'm going to talk about concepts again, soft sci-fi and hard sci-fi, theorists please don't correct me if I'm wrong, just from the feeling, soft and low-cost, can have the concept of sci-fi, not big. The sci-fi scenes, like "This Man From Earth" and "K-Star Stranger", pull a sci-fi brand, and then talk about human nature and philosophy. There are no special effects, but the script is hard enough. There is also one of those big disaster movies. This Hollywood is best at it. No matter how old-fashioned the hero saves the world in the end, the audience will feel that the movie ticket is not in vain after watching it~
So why do you think this movie is petty? Because he is neither soft nor hard.
It's like the protagonist is trapped in a capsule at the beginning, and the whole movie goes around and does not develop.
When I first knew that this film would be an 8-minute repeat, I thought, this is a typical drama scene (the time and place are so unified, it's almost the same), if done well, dramatic conflict How strong.
However, the screenwriter is obviously too deeply poisoned by the Hollywood classic sensational scenes. He will only talk about family and love, and he has only tasted it. He did not explain that the love that happened on the train did not have enough space and time for development. It was very blunt, and the protagonist kept talking about it This part of my dad is too old-fashioned, all cliche do it~
Our teacher who has worked with Walter Murch countless times said, don't look down on cliche~ He must have a reason for existence, the reason why cliche Being used so much shows that he is right.
Yes, cliche sometimes works very well, but when used here, it is obviously useless, as if it was added to make the source code story more provocative.
Well, speaking of this, the screenwriter actually set a relatively narrow but very dramatic story frame, which has advantages and disadvantages. If the small frame is deep, it is more touching than the big scene (just like writing a paper) , but the tragedy is that he did not go deep, and a lot of digging space was not used, for example, how to find the bomber, this is actually a big suspense point of this film after the soul code, but it is a pity that it was solved in the end. It's easy, and the concept of souce code itself is not as awesome as inception, it's a bit far-fetched, and it was very deliberately explained by a lame old man...
Alas, when I saw that, I only thought about it, I was short of breath Ah...
well, when it comes to the question of whether it is hard or soft, I can't help but talk about the good things about this film.
Walter Murch said in In the blink of an eye Most with the least, a really good movie is not about cutting too much, but having enough confidence to cut less, leaving room for the audience to think, because every cut will have meaning , the more you cut it, the more it puts the viewer in the position of a viewer rather than a participant.
Let's see how this film guides the audience with photography and editing. As I said before, the actor repeats his actions within eight minutes for the whole hour and a half, and then I heard the woman say "i decide to take your advice" and wanted to strangle her, so the director's task is how to do it? Let this endlessly repeating eight minutes not puke the audience.
The editing speed is getting faster and faster with each repetition, because the audience is more and more familiar with the action in these eight minutes, so only a few shots can be taken in one stroke, and more and more close-ups, the beginning wide shot is used to explain The scene, the set up situation, and the faster and faster close up afterwards are very impressive, and concise and catchy. It is so cool to see the close-up on the big screen!
There are a few scenes that were well shot. For example, eight minutes after the hero returned to the train for the last time, his psychology had completely changed, and he decided to have an electric shock with the woman sitting opposite him who kept repeating a line, so this At that time, the director took a long 2-shot to shoot, and shot it from the side. The windows behind the two were all overexposed, very high key+romantic. Although the same thing happened, the atmosphere immediately changed from a tense sci-fi film to a romance film. ~
And now I really want to look at the scenes where the hero just woke up from the train at the beginning, a series of pov scenes, which can simply show that a person wakes up in a completely unfamiliar environment, and There is something wrong, this is skill, really.
In contrast, Duncan Jones' moon is a little better, that is, it is soft and poetic. Although I am disappointed with this, I think he will be popular in the future~ He will!
One last quote from Walter Murch: "How do you want the audience to feel? If they are feeling what you want them to feel all the way through the film, you've done about as much as you can ever do. What they finally remember is not the editing, not the camerawork, not the performances, not even the story- it's how they felt."
So I can only give this movie three and a half stars, although the director finally wanted to say something technological and human (like Moon is the same)
but my overall feeling is still, it’s not soft or hard.
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