Like the veins of autumn leaves across your forehead

Keagan 2022-04-22 07:01:03

Kristen Bell is certainly handsome, and in another dimension he is the equally invincible Batman. A B-level movie with a small investment, it has the same bullet dodging tricks and samurai sword hacking, and it also learns the silly look of cool and not smiling in MATRIX, which is really beautiful. Winston does not have the skills and face like Preston, and the protagonist's varicose veins are probably the fundamental separation between literature and art and popular entertainment. The depth of thought is quite a distance from the original screenplay "1984" - blatant plagiarism rather than imitation - so we just need to look and not take it too seriously.

Of course, tolerance is needed for movies that are not serious, or when will popcorn be consumed? Kurt Wimmer is very good at making high-tech authoritarian political genre films. The same spotless and tidy streets, those cans of helmets and dead-headed soldiers, rebels, flashy martial arts scenes, deep lines, and street-level sunglasses will also appear in future "Ultraviolet" - on the other hand, Orwell's opening scene If the Ministry of Truth building is full of boiled cabbage, it is indeed easier to see things that are not literate. As for Big Brother and the video wall, the socialist workplace tabletops are stereotypical; without the alienation of Hate Week, drug control is less reliable than the excision in Zamyatin's "Us", but it is this Continued drug withdrawal can create a collective accident and make the story difficult.

When it comes to the story, this is the most unreliable part of the whole film, and I always think that the story is the essence of the film... one of the things. A bad story with special effects is still a bad film...at most landscape films and commercials, especially in this kind of script that strictly follows the timeline, you don't have a unique joyful rhythm that attracts the audience. Specific examples are the domestic blockbuster "Heroes". ”, “Heroes of Heaven and Earth”, “Night Banquet”, especially “Ambush” and “Golden Armor” by Mr. Mu (which can be collectively called “Things in the Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties”). Reflected in this film, the jurisdiction of the centralized state is limited to the city of London, how the first large-scale purge was carried out, the people have never seen animals, I don’t know how to deal with animal husbandry and deep mountains and forests, the high-ranking priest Preston is unexpected From a devout to a heretic, even though he was defeated by a novice, he single-handedly smashed the entire centralization core, and killing a leader directly formatted the entire regime? Then there is the domestic main theme, a group of people with AKs in their hands instantly wiped out the originally indestructible anti-riot troops, smashed a few screens and the whole city had to engage in some explosive fireworks. The primary school students' firm eyes traversed the future, and the Kirov airship slowly Falling to the ground, this is the doomed end of utopia (dystopia) in the eyes of Americans? It turns out that the bigger the feat, the more absurd it is. For example, in the performing arts novel, the generals are singled out and then the flag is waved.

I was still in high school when I watched this film, when I was ignorant when I saw the armed prophets and worshipped them. Like the first beautiful girl in your life, like the veins of autumn leaves across your forehead, leaving an indelible mark of time, when the bright spot in my eyes was the screenwriter's execution of Sean Bean In the episode, he covered his eyes and rejected the world with a selection of Yeats poems in his hand. He was really a literary youth... My 18-year-old dream.

And the last sentence above is not Yeats' famous sentence in the movie, but I made it up. Yezhik didn't say that the veins of autumn leaves were actually made up by me... just like the first time I watched this movie, it was very refreshing. It was also made up. Just like the sweetness of the girls are all angels, this is nonsense. Just like our life has no script, lack of creativity, boring, lifeless, and can only rely on watching B-movies to send sadness, maybe it is also made up by a screenwriter.

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Equilibrium quotes

  • John Preston: When we return from the Nether it always reminds me of why we do what we do.

    Partridge: It does?

    John Preston: [pauses; He takes notice of Partridge's intonation] I beg your pardon?

    Partridge: [Withdraws Prozium-administering device from his pocket and injects himself with it] It does.

  • Polygraph Technician: This is a control question, a riddle really. How would you say would be the easiest way to take a weapon away from a Grammaton Cleric?

    Brandt: [speaks into Preston's ear] You ask him for it.