I haven't seen a psychoanalytic film for a long time. The last psychoanalytic film was "Joker". This type of film usually starts to name the clues of the psychoanalytic film in the second half, and the first half is usually dealt with very obscurely. , there are a lot of clues hidden, so it is very worthwhile to go to the second brush and go for aftertaste. This may also be the charm of psychoanalytic films, such as "Shutter Island" and "Fight Club", which are discussed with great relish.
This "The Mechanic", first of all, this is a movie from 2004, this year is 2020, so after watching various types of movies during these 16 years, I am watching "The Mechanic" from the perspective of 2020 .
I was amazed at the opening. This unique tone gave the movie a unique texture inexplicably, not a roadside product.
What attracts me most about this movie is that its handling of schizophrenic films is very different from other films of the same type. Others are trying their best to deceive the audience in the first half, and the mechanic clearly hinted that this is a film not long after the opening. A schizophrenic movie, I realized it when I first encountered "Irvin" and saw the scene of lighting a cigarette.
After clarifying its own truth, the film put the pen and ink on the creation of a sense of suspense. How to describe this, oh, yes, the recently popular "The Hidden Corner" (this drama is written by too many people, all It's better than me, so I won't write it, it's definitely not because I'm lazy)
"The Hidden Corner" is also suspenseful, but the murderer and the crime process have been told to everyone from the beginning. Since we know the murderer and the crime process, why do we keep watching? The key lies in the texture of "The Hidden Corner" and the creation of a suspenseful atmosphere. Let's follow Zhang Dongsheng and Zhu Chaoyang's swing on human nature.
Speaking of "The Mechanic", the first thing here is to create an atmosphere, and after generating a sense of substitution, let the audience have a sense of wanting to know why Bell did this and why he made these actions. At the same time, this is also a kind of completion for Bell's character, but the memory is turned into a scene representation of split personality.
It's wonderful to use schizophrenia as a means to tell a story, rather than as a core. The whole story is relatively simple, and there is nothing to say, but the fantastic experience brought by one and a half hours, and the investment in exploring with myself, made me have to be amazed.
The details are also full, all kinds of corresponding details before and after, because I told everyone the answer in advance, so you can notice a lot of clues that echo before and after the first time you watch it, and you can understand some of the director's intentions without watching the pull film, such as clicking Cigarettes, group photos, playgrounds, sleeping, etc., are not difficult for the audience, but the experience is simply not too good.
Finally, let me talk about the shortcomings. I feel that the length of the movie is still a little too long, because the story itself is too simple, and there are too many same hand hairs interspersed. Although it is wonderful, it will still cause fatigue and make the final ending appear relatively weak. And my initial thoughts were actually different from the director. I thought that after so much foreshadowing, I would put my pen on Bell's childhood and self-cognition, focusing on the mentally separated group, but I didn't expect that it would end with a hit-and-run memory loss. On, it's a little bit cliché. But after all, I have seen too many schizophrenic films from 2004 to 2020, and I can't be too harsh. "The Mechanic" has its own very distinctive features, and Bell's god-level performance is also very good.
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