The photography technique of deliberately lowering the exposure to create a gloomy and gloomy era background makes this film very difficult to read. Especially in the interior scenes, the silhouettes are often bumped into each other and the outlines cannot be clearly seen. I had to turn up the TV brightness above 75. barely identifiable.
The 3-hour movie took me 3 days to finish watching it. Depression-era evil seems to be something to be praised for.
John's character has more traces of deliberate beautification. Although it is convenient to express the multiple personalities of the protagonist, the director has made a lot of efforts.
The restoration of the scene costumes and other things is done quite well, and there is indeed a considerable memory of the times.
The rhythm is either slow or fast. When it is fast, logical clues are almost ignored. When Xu is deliberately explaining the details of the scene, it seems to be careless.
It has the tone of a gangster literary film. I can see the image tonality of "Once Upon a Time in America", but it is more clueless than it is. So it looks tired. Fortunately, the protagonist's personality is cold, fierce, arrogant and handsome, and the performance is in place, so that the reading will not be too slippery.
Compared with gangster movies such as the "Godfather" series, "Once Upon a Time in America", and "Scarface", at least in terms of arousing interest in reading, it is still not satisfactory. So, I used it on and off for 3 nights.
The ending was a bit rushed.
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