I don't want to, this film that I didn't like in advance actually gave me, an amateur audience who is extremely picky about movies and prefers "brain burning", a slight surprise: I have to admit that this is an unforgettable film. The more you chew, the better the taste!
The film uses two intertwined clues, light and dark. The easy-to-understand and clear clues of the crime are not worth going into. What arouses my great interest is the director's use of dreaming techniques to interpret the dark clues! This clue is very secretly spread with suspense from the beginning of the film, and it has been played until the second half of the ghost party leader appears, and the suspense along the way can be slowly unraveled: it turns out that 007 and the ghost party leader are brothers! Through the analysis of the brothers' life experience and emotional entanglement, we have the opportunity to slowly touch the soul of this film - 007's inner spiritual world.
What are the characteristics and meanings of dreams? I remember Freud's summary of dreams in "The Interpretation of Dreams": the seemingly most absurd and disorganized scenes often hide the most crucial subconscious meanings! In this film, the director interspersed some messy and seemingly meaningless clips and plots in the clear clue of 007's pursuit of criminal clues, but in fact hidden important clues. In order to attract the audience's attention and attention, the director cleverly and kindly used the combination of repetition and close-up as emphasis and highlighting. In the film, he silently reminded us in this way: "Look here, there is a mystery behind it!"
For example, when 007 mixed into the internal meeting of the Spectre Party, the director used this method to emphasize and highlight the face of the Spectre Party leader. Although the face was always blurred and mosaic, the shot slowly moved from far to near, roughly repeating Two or three times! Here, the director emphasizes and highlights the special significance of this character in this way. When watching the film, I reasoned according to ordinary people's habits. I used to think that it was the usual trick in film and television - could it be an unexpected and unexpected person around 007, such as 007's new boss C who is infinitely proud of spring breeze. gentlemen? Unexpectedly, the director has a more sophisticated intention. His emphasis and prominence here have a more important task than trickery. His purpose is to uncover the well-laid dark clue-the brother of 007 and the leader of the Spectre party. The relationship is foreshadowing!
Another example is the old family photo with repeated + slow-motion close-up: the first time the photo appeared was when 007 was looking at the half-burned old materials at home, and he turned to a photo that required the signature of the parents due to time constraints due to naughty when he was a child. Notice, and then the director used slow motion to close up the old photo, a group photo of 007 and his father as a child; the photo repeated for the second time in the room where 007 lived in the ghost party headquarters in the desert no-man’s land. The director also used slow motion The camera shot a close-up of the photo hanging on the wall, a group photo of 007 and his father, with a taller teenager beside him - 007's brother! From the subsequent conversation between the ghost party leader and 007, we know that the brother is the ghost party leader! At this point, the dark clues carefully laid by the author have finally been completely revealed, and behind the entanglement between 007 and his brother is the analysis of 007's inner world.
The origin of the entanglement between 007 and the leader of the Spectre Party: 007 lost his parents when he was a child, and was adopted by the father of the leader of the Spectre Party. Interestingly, this question also happens to be one of the hot topics that the Chinese people are most concerned about: the second child is here, what will the boss do? I remembered a blog post I just read recently, "The Boss is Cao Xueqin", which vividly described the boss's neglected mentality: "A person has been eating jade every day since he was born, although his life is relatively dull, But there will not be too many conflicts; if a person is born with a meal of pickles and porridge, and when he dies, he will still accept his fate. The worst thing is that he is born with fine clothes and jade food. , suddenly one day I was stripped of the brocade clothing, took away the jade food, and slipped directly to the point where I drank white porridge and pickled vegetables, and would never return to the golden age of brocade clothing and jade food, forever!" So the brother in the film expressed his hatred to 007 in his heart. : "Our model has always been like this, you invaded my world, I will make you lose everything you care about, how did your dear adoptive father die? Killed by me. Those who love you around you How did the woman die? I killed it too!" It turns out that all this stemmed from the love struggle between a pair of brothers since childhood, an inner battle that was extremely fierce but fierce and bitter: 007 became the messenger of light , The elder brother, who has been neglected in his heart, has become a hero in the dark!
Speaking of 007's life experience and inner world, it is no wonder that the director changed a new 007 in this film. The former 007s (represented by Brosnan) were lighthearted and witty, and used the dignified expression of Daniel Clay. grid. At first glance, I thought that Daniel couldn't let go because of his acting problems, so his expression was always solemn. Therefore, it is easier to make people guess: Is this Daniel suitable for the role of 007? Could the director switch to him because of his grim looks that catch the audience's attention better? However, when we see the second half of the film, especially the scene where 007 lets his brother die at the end, and through the dark clues of the film to analyze 007's inner world, we will find that he lost his parents and became an orphan since he was a child. Adopted by his adoptive father, his adoptive father was killed again, he and his brother had been at odds and even turned against each other since childhood, and 007's heart was very heavy when he repeatedly lost his lover as an adult. From an inner point of view, it is easier for us to understand the heavy expression on 007's face. Therefore, it is not necessarily a failure for the director to use Daniel to play 007. The 007 who has been analyzed is essentially a heavy person.
After analyzing this, it seems that even 007's consistent promiscuous style can be understood. 007's consistent style is that in the process of tracking down criminals, as long as they meet the opposite sex, they can go to bed. What is behind this extremely casual emotional phenomenon? What I saw was the impatient need for warmth and intimacy from a poor man who was so desperately lacking in love and security. Although this kind of warmth is short-lived and only stays on the surface of the skin, although this kind of intimacy is also superficial and only stays on the physical level, 007 still refuses to come, because his heart is lacking and empty as him! After all, people who have and have a lot of people are qualified to be picky, and 007 is a poor person who keeps losing and has nothing in the emotional world, so he can be so prudent and indifferent to his intimate objects!
What's amazing about the film is also the director's "one-stone-many-birds" approach - when the film advances to 007 and Bond Girls break into the Spectre headquarters in the desert no-man's land, we see the extravagant scene of Spectre: in the In the uninhabited desert, there are actually a few open-air fountains towering high. In the desert where water is more expensive than gold, what kind of extravagance does such a high open-air fountain represent! Before entering the room, with the figures of 007 passing through the fountain, it is easy for people to guess instinctively: what extravagant scene should the next room be, and how should the room be extravagant? With curious suspense, the camera followed 007 into the room, only to find that the director only gave a close-up of the photos on the wall of the room: the old family photos of him, his adoptive father and brother were hung in the room of 007, while the room of the Bond girl was her son. An old photo of him taking a photo with his father at the time (it was also a repeated photo, the first time it appeared was after the girl's father committed suicide with 007's pistol, and 007 turned it out of his wallet)! Disappointed, there is no luxury scene in the guess, this director has made a hit and miss?
Please stop here, you only need to think about it carefully, you will find that the director cleverly used this group of photos to make a big fuss, revealing multiple meanings with one stroke:
The first floor represents the ultimate luxury in spirit! From an emotional point of view, no hotel can be compared to home, because there is love at home! However, the director interprets to us the higher meaning of luxury through the close-up of this group of old family photos on the wall of the guest room. Material luxury is the surface, and spiritual luxury is the ultimate: what makes people feel at home in a hotel is often not a delicate and luxurious material Decoration, but a warm and loving atmosphere, because it is a kind of spiritual enjoyment that directly hits people's hearts! Through the material luxury of the open-air fountain in the desert, the director told us through the spiritual luxury of old family photos hanging on the walls of the room: this is a place of extreme luxury - the headquarters of the Spectre Party, which implies the Spectre Party's spirit. strength!
On the second level, this group of photos reveals the relationships and emotional relationships of the characters. The first photo reveals the brotherhood of 007 and the Spectre leader; in addition, the simultaneous appearance of the two photos also reminds us of the emotional connection between 007 and the Bond Girls, both unaccompanied and lonely orphans who share the same It is a dangerous situation in the depths of the sea of swords and guns, and being chased by the enemy from time to time, the kind of empathy, the kind of sympathy (in the subsequent episode, the Spectre party leader uses the Bond girl as a hostage while saying to 007 "...because only she can Really understand you..." narrated for this emotional relationship), paving the way for their willingness to risk their lives and not give up each other's emotions in later distress scenes.
On the third floor, this group of photos also reveals the Spectre Party’s super-strong information control ability. With any two opponents sneaking in, Spectre Party can easily dig to its foundation, and then just hang an old photo of your home. , tell you: your details are all in my hands! Through inconspicuous objects, Spectre can give opponents a super deterrent, because it has all the information on you! This also indirectly shows the huge lethality of the Spectre Party. In the new era of high-tech information, what resources are the most critical? Information resources, mastering information resources can control the world! From another aspect, it reflects the importance of 007's mission. So, came to another theme of the film - people-oriented!
Through the confrontation between Mr. M, 007's old boss, and Mr. C, through Mr. C's point of view, he tried his best to promote the networking of global security information and cancel the Z plan, revealing the pervasive confusion in people's minds at present: in today's technological information age, technology And information is becoming more and more important, will people be replaced and become dispensable? The director told us through 007's excellent mission to destroy the Spectre: no matter how advanced technology and information are, human wisdom and meaning cannot be replaced!
And some "nonsensical" plots that have been criticized by fans, such as the scene where 007 is tortured by his brother with high-tech equipment, clearly stated that the second injection would destroy his memory and brain nerves, causing him to lose his memory. But it is followed by the plot of 007 and the Bond girl expressing their hearts to each other... It seems to be contradictory, but obviously the director behind it has something to say. In fact, it can be explained by "love can create miracles": after 007's brain was stabbed for the second time, Bond girl was so distressed that she walked up to him and hugged him affectionately and said, "I love you!" At this time, the director used The slow-motion close-up of 007's eyes, 007's eyes that began to sag and blurred, magically rejuvenated after feeling the love: apparently, love works miracles - this is what the director wants to tell us. It is estimated that because I can't read it, the plot here is understood to be inconsistent and "nonsensical", and this is the magical charm of works of art: good works can cause thinking and memorable, they always make us "benevolent" Wisdom sees benevolence, and the wise see wisdom.”
... After
a thorough analysis, it is no wonder that the overall film review score of this film is not high, and it is quite suspected of being high and low.
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