Pretty happy to see it on a Sunday night.
It's not very bloody, and it's big and heavy on love and righteousness, which suits my appetite. A good relationship doesn't need a lot of I love you, but I want to see you before I leave when I'm wanted by the whole city. The phone call was so sweet. People in love are happy.
The performance is quite poetic in a section where two people make love. The description of Clare's feelings is this shot: The robber tells her to walk forward, stop at the beach. Clare once described to Ben how she felt at the time. She was terrified and thought the next step was a cliff until her feet touched the icy water. The blindfold is removed, a plane flies through the sky, and the camera cuts back to the two people on the bed, everything is calm. This technique is very cool, like a rhetorical technique synaesthesia. I suspect that this paragraph is directly copied from the original book, but now I can't find the book at all. I always feel that only writers can describe sex in such a romantic way, does the big instinct as a screenwriter and director think of this one?
Daben is quite handsome. He was so handsome that he could hold Clare's hand calmly when he was robbing a bank and said, "Don't be nervous, take your time." As an undergraduate, I would definitely think that Big Ben is so handsome, and Clare wants to go with him. Now what I'm thinking is, will the police go with the clare if he's not there? How will Clare live in the future, won't she worry about the future? Can she really go away with a Jiang Yang thief? The film's use of light makes this story neither punk nor fairy tale at all, it's rather grim, and it forced me to think, could it be? I think there's a good chance it will.
Because, in love.
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