Beware! Everyone has a devilish side!

Cassandre 2021-12-31 08:02:56

I watched it yesterday, because I liked it very much, I couldn't help but leave a few words today.
The director of the film, Roger Michel, is an Englishman. He filmed the romantic [Notting Hill] about ten years ago. Ten years later, he released this thrilling [Line Change Life], a great film. !
First of all, the theme is good. There is a bad side in human beings, and when you achieve other people's hell, you cannot enter heaven! The story is not complicated. It tells two men, a middle-aged black man, an insurance salesman. A young white lawyer with a vigorous outlook. This morning, the two people smashed on the highway. It was not a big car accident, but from the beginning, the two people fell into a devil-like desperate entanglement. The evil side of nature gradually emerged, and they both became each other's. Hell...Especially in the scene in the church, Xiaoben did not wake up in the confessional, but returned to the office of the law firm. The young man who came for the interview suddenly looked back and saw the original self...
Secondly, the rhythm is good. The plot is compact and extremely catching. Although there is no bloody scene, it is enough to attract people to hold their breath and thrill the two protagonists' behavior, disposition and thinking... I think this is a film that is different from other thrillers-it In exposing the evil nature of man, it is indeed sensational!
Again, the characters are good. The cast is neat, the main actors can be called acting, the delicate and precise of the small book, the rich layering and tension of Samuel, the helplessness of the two parties’ wives, the helplessness of the lawyer’s lover, the cunning of the lawyer’s father-in-law, the cynicism of the hacker, and other times The performances of important roles are also remarkable.
Finally, the lens is good. It's extremely clean and neat, without any muddles, you can look at it intently, for fear of missing it, because it doesn't have an extra shot or scene at all.
It's been a long time since this superb work! Very enjoyable!
If you are a little bit hypocritical, the ending falls a little bit into Hollywood stereotypes. Xiaoben's salvation finally came to fruition.

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  • Thomas 2022-04-22 07:01:35

    Aside from a bit of a happy-go-lucky contrivance at the end, the rest is pretty good. Actor, you really have to choose the right one

  • Destin 2022-03-25 09:01:11

    The rhythm of the film is not handled well!

Changing Lanes quotes

  • Sponsor: What you saw today is that everything decent is held together by a covenant. An agreement NOT to go batshit. You broke the contract.

  • Doyle Gipson: I hope you don't mind, but I was intrigued by your conversation. I just thought you were in advertising. So I want to give you my dream version of a Tiger Woods commercial, okay? There's this black guy on a golf course. And all these people are trying to get him to caddy for them, but he's not a caddy. He's just a guy trying to play a round of golf. And these guys give him a five-dollar bill and tell him to go the clubhouse and get them cigarettes and beer. So, off he goes, home, to his wife and to their little son, who he teaches to play golf. You see all the other little boys playing hopscotch while little Tiger practices on the putting green. You see all the other kids eating ice cream while Tiger practices hitting long balls in the rain while his father shows him how. And we fade up, to Tiger, winning four Grand Slams in a row, and becoming the greatest golfer to ever pick up a 9-iron. And we end on his father in the crowd, on the sidelines, and Tiger giving him the trophies. All because of a father's determination that no fat white man - like your fathers, probably - would ever send his son to the clubhouse for cigarettes and beer.