training day

Marlon 2022-04-19 09:01:17

7.1

It is almost beautiful with the watermark of director Denis Villeneuve. The first advantage, the biggest advantage, is beautiful, the photography and soundtrack are impeccable, even if it is violent. Most of the time I watched the film, I was not interested in the Mexican drug cartel that had exposed its brutality in various mass media, but it was still good-looking, and the atmosphere created by the director's arrangement always worked at the bottom of my consciousness.

The viewpoint is not too unusual, but the viewpoint is unusual. The story is just a revenge genre, and even the so-called "violence is inevitable" is not very convincing, but what helps to solve this is that most of the time the camera only follows Kate's eyes, which is slightly similar In the first half of Anthony Fuqua's "Training Day", we witness her body slowly being compressed in space, one is the distortion at the corner of the room, the other is the drought on the Mexican border, and the other is the cold of the underground tunnel. cold. My common sense is not very good, so when Kate was transferred from the FBI to the CIA, I didn't understand what it meant. From the picture, the civil war has turned into an international war, and procedural justice has become justice of purpose. We must choose to use drug lords. Deal with drug lords. Violence is evident, violence is everywhere, and after a few scenes, the horror surrounding Kate becomes tangible, like an orange on the taut plastic wrap, each confrontation is full of tension. The best is definitely the prison escort scene at the border, where it all happened in a flash, and perhaps the only scene that will make this film one of the great movies after tens of thousands of years. Alessandro's identity revelation is an electric shock that provides a detachment from this second kind of fear outside the real world on the brink of collapse. The first is distant and completely unknown, and the second is immediate, mistakenly thought to be known. Therefore, the suspense is not always in the confrontation between the police and the bandits, but in the internal confrontation. This journey is like Alice falling down a rabbit hole in the most familiar place, every action in Phoenix is ​​unsuccessful, driving her to another world, she needs to accept a new order, everything has value and Morality was ambiguous, and the definition of abstract words like "justice" was the exact opposite of what she had been taught. To take the Platonic analogy that has been said countless times, we are able to see everything in the world because of the sun, but we can never look directly at the sun - maybe her position has never changed, but, whether she agrees with it or not, she always agrees with the sun. Such a world is powerless. At the same time, in this world, just simply watching would make her a victim.

One thing I've realized about myself is that whenever I hear breathing in these kinds of telepresence films, it's the same clunky breathing.

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Extended Reading
  • Linnea 2021-10-20 19:00:58

    Just like the director’s previous work, a different entry point was selected in the script, which broke the conventional movie-watching experience. The idea is very good, but it does not mean that it can bring a better movie-watching experience. The roles of the protagonists are very different, and the theme of the final movie is also the most powerful and smartest Mexican family who seems to be a casual writer. The play is very clever and breaks through the conventions. Whether it can be cool is another matter. One thing. ★★★★

  • Briana 2021-10-20 19:00:56

    The overall atmosphere and action scenes are excellent. The first escort was the most handsome car and aerial scene I have ever seen. Deakins' photography is well-deserved, effectively removing the glamour in Hollywood-style images and maintaining the standard American features. It's a pity that the literary drama and dialogue logic are full of American drama-style clichés. Despite this, Villeneuve is still the best director from Quebec in the past decade.

Sicario quotes

  • Alejandro: You look like a little girl when you're scared.

  • Fausto Alarcon: You think the people that send you here are any different? Who do you think we learned from?

    Fausto Alarcon: [Scoffs] The grieving lawyer!

    Fausto Alarcon: Your wife... you think she'll be... proud to see what have you become?

    Alejandro: Don't forget about my daughter.

    Fausto Alarcon: [In Spanish] Oh yes... your little one.

    Fausto Alarcon: [In Spanish] It wasn't personal.

    Alejandro: [In Spanish] It was for me.