After watching "Bohemian Rhapsody", I was at a loss: Was the last Oscar so bad?
After watching "A Star Is Born", I am sure: the last Oscars were so unbearable.
I don't know where to start with this film, so let's start with the conclusion: Mr. Bradley Cooper, really don't do this, at least don't make romance films, you can't.
This kind of love story hero and heroine that makes me tired and even disgusted while watching it, before this, it was the terrible movie "Counting My Bedmates One by One", except for the old unemployed heroine who can pinch clay figures and is useless. Zhengmao is a handsome guy who is good at everything except blind. He chases his ex-boyfriends who have had sex with the heroine all the way, and finally conveys the feudal feudalism of "a woman who has slept with more than 20 men can't really marry." idea. Fortunately, the film has the delicious flesh of CE, I survived without vomiting.
And "A Star Is Born" takes a different approach. Even if Cooper is selling meat, he has to cover his intentions with a shaggy beard. He still holds a pipa and half-covers his face between the alcoholic and frustrated man and the star with eight abs: I think he's okay. Sometimes, he would close up his white under-eye circles; when I thought he was unsightly, he would take off his clothes and count my abs to play... Can alcohol and drugs really maintain such a good figure?
I don't know if Cooper is fulfilling the director's dream or the singer's dream, it's not a movie dream anyway.
No matter how you look at this synopsis, it shouldn't be such a complete failure: the rise of Ally is the decline of Jack, a pair of lovebirds have made a big X in their careers, and finally ended in tragedy. What a tragic ending, what a poignant and shocking ending, but I saw the end: Damn, I finally died, and everyone felt at ease.
The story is loose and scattered, and the background of the characters is completely unfounded.
Jack's despair was still manageable when he met Ally, and he collapsed after a thousand miles. There was no other explanation except jealousy. In my opinion, it was all self-inflicted, so his collapse didn't arouse my sympathy.
On the one hand, he is talented, rich, and has an audience. The biggest obstacle is hearing loss, so he should be treated properly. No, he immediately found an excuse to give up on himself.
I can't even see his inner struggle, he doesn't fight back his own frustrations, let sickness and vices kill him, drive away such a good brother, and worship a weird dad.
Taking such a character as a positive role, full of middle-aged straight male director Tom Su ideal, directly targeting my five-year-old wearing a towel and being put on the bed as a beautiful little girl who sacrificed herself to save the entire gang. The senior brother said in his arms that although I died, I had no choice but to die honorably—but, brother, I was five years old at the time, and you are almost forty-five, can you do something that an adult should do?
I shouted repeatedly during the movie: Go get a therapist!!!
Of course, the failure of the movie is not controlled by a character. Under Jack's riddled character, Ally's emergence is the key figure who helps the misfortune and turns the audience into a joke.
As a reserve singer, Ms. Ally works in the kitchen of the hotel every day, and goes to gay bars to perform happily in the evening. Apart from not being popular, she has a world in her heart. A lovely growing environment in a Disney configuration. The greatest tragedy in life is when the record company tells her that your nose is too big and we don't want you.
I thought such a girl should be mentally sound. Unexpectedly, when this Maxima met Bole, her brain went down. Since then, all the stages have been eclipsed in her eyes. The first half of the shaping of her: the sound of nature, the sense of justice, innocence, chasing dreams, and finally becoming "Jack will not come." I'm not going to tour."
Ally does not have his surname in the whole film. The only time he says his full name is when Jack's surname is given to him in a commemorative performance.
I suggest that the Chinese title of this film should be translated as "Climbing Lingxiaohua".
"Love" is also one of the labels of this film, but for two hours and fifteen minutes, there was nothing but the wailing "We are so in love".
Ally is obsessed with Jack's talent and the kindness he has for her. After seeing his lack of heart, he doesn't care, not "I don't care when I see your scars", but "I don't care when I see your emptiness." Care", which made people confused, whether she loved the superstar phantom that Jack had left in her heart for 20 years, or the dilapidated man who really fell by her side.
Jack is even worse. I said that he has no inner struggle in this frustration journey. His various manifestations have always been to avoid the embarrassment of alcoholism by being drunk, and so on, a vicious circle, and he moved his salvation outside the body, I was attracted by the light that radiated during Ally's performance, and wanted to draw some energy from her, so after thinking about it, I didn't think it was a so-called "love". The nature of prostitutes is one thing.
The film is also nothing new in terms of audiovisual techniques. There are many beautiful shots, the sunset and the stage are beautiful, but it is more like a well-operated photographic work that does not help the storytelling.
Take Ally's first time to see Jack's live performance. Ally's back view and Jack's swan song on the stage kept alternating. It wasted 20 seconds for me to watch human walking and human gasping. What for?
In my shallow film knowledge, the use of special montages should at least achieve a little effect, right? The beauty of using parallel montages in "Kill Your Love" is that four scenes occur at the same time, involve the same elements, express the same emotion, do not intersect with each other, and act as antecedents to each other. This is my favorite montage. (I was going to praise "Kill Your Love", but I didn't expect that when I saw ASIB today, I couldn't hold back my anger for a moment, so I had to start scolds immediately.)
I took a set of scenes when we were in love with each other, broadcast half of it while we were in progress, and broadcast half of it when we recalled, finally answering why I had a red, red, ugly and ugly sex scene—because I unnecessarily hooked back when I recalled at the end. Director, wouldn't it be better to just remove such an ugly lens? You can even go to PG13 without a given grade.
Cooper is a large-scale Jack performance textbook. I have to learn to repeat this performance style of "silence to express entanglement, and erratic eyes to express inner disorder" thousands of times. The first time I stopped for three seconds before speaking, I thought it was Jack who lived a more miserable life and was reluctant to speak easily. Later, when he opened the car door to confess his true feelings to his brother but didn't speak, I understood: 80% of the words are forgotten.
The appeal of the same model will be constantly weakened during repetition. The theory I read in "Story" finally sees a counterexample in reality.
Gaga played the adoration of a young girl meeting an idol from beginning to end, and even until the end, Jack had languished into that virtue, and she was still fluffy when she smiled, like a small luminous body.
It was appropriate in the early stage, but her mood gradually deepened later, but she still performed exactly the same, lacking a sense of hierarchy. The first hour and a half was "I would have turned my heart to the bright moon", and then it was "How can the bright moon shine on the ditch".
In addition, the biggest advantage and also the biggest disadvantage of Gaga playing Ally is her stage performance, which leads to a rupture in her performance. Off stage, she is Ally, and on stage, it is Lady Gaga herself .
The film shows a rather barren spiritual world. Very nonsense, very fussing, Cooper is self-satisfied, trying to play a dream godmother, broken and still wearing holy light, using a mysterious charm to save weak women, but his face is like a half-divorce in the 50s. An old father who lost custody was at a loss and recognized his daughter everywhere. Jack, his brother (this role is acceptable, he feels like a normal person), his wife, this family stands together as if three generations are in the same house.
"La La Land" is as good as "A Star Is Born" - so it's not so bad that it's totally unacceptable, at least it's a good song. The reason I hate it is that some bad films admit that they are bad films, and this film uses a lot of superstars to cover up its external strength and middle dryness, which is really hard to match under its reputation.
Maybe Hollywood really likes them both.
I'm pissed I'm really pissed.
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