As a remake, in fact, the story is not very scalable. (Spoiler below, enter carefully) Some netizens summed up the story as "The father killed his wife and the youngest son, then the eldest son fell in love with his younger brother's fiancé, and then the son killed the father, and the younger sister killed the older brother." The chaotic mass murder. It's vicious, but it's not bad overall. The father played by Anthony Hopkins was bitten by a werewolf overseas earlier, so he became a werewolf every full moon night, and for many years he had to rely on his servants to tie himself up to spend the full moon night. But finally, when he couldn't control himself, he killed his wife, and later killed his little son because of the animal nature in his heart. The eldest son, who was sent to the United States since he was young, received a good education because he was far away from home, and became a rising actor, flying on the road to success. But the sudden appearance of his brother-in-law made him return to his hometown, wanting to find out the real cause of death of his brother and mother. As the saying goes, "You must be heartbroken before you return home." As a result of the tracing, all the dead spots were gathered on his father, killing the enchanted father, and the old man wolf who has completely lost his humanity. In the first half of the movie, he himself was bitten by a werewolf and became a werewolf. The final result of the two werewolf duel, and it was a duel between father and son, which was very tragic. Because as a werewolf, it is not only his father that needs to be solved, but also himself. For this world, there is no need for a werewolf to exist. No matter what he looks like when the moon is not full, it is a threat after all. Like his father, even with the care of an old servant, he didn't kill his wife and son.
In fact, for murderers with violent tendencies, in modern terms, it is a typical anti-social personality disorder, which is a typical mental illness. This also puts forward new propositions for a society under the rule of law, and has new requirements for the construction of a healthy society. It is a pity that these are not covered in "Wolfman", as an old film and a new shoot, this is a pity. In contrast to Christopher Nolan's new development of "Batman", we know that it is inevitable that there will be new elements in the new era. The profound topics contained in "The Dark Knight" reached an absolute height. If "Werewolf" wants to say failure, the biggest failure should be here. Otherwise, the absurdity of "the father killed his wife and the youngest son, the eldest son fell in love with his brother-in-law, then the son killed his father, and the sister-in-law killed his elder brother" would not be generalized. In fact, Hugo Weiwen, as the inspector, performed quite well in the film, inheriting his performance as a supporting role in "The Matrix" and "Lord of the Rings", but was particularly stealing the spotlight. Imagine turning the contradiction of the story into a duel between the werewolf Lawrence and the inspector, and let the inspector as the representative of the rule of law and the country, and Lawrence as the representative of individual heroes, just like the relationship between Batman and the double-faced about superheroes and the rule of law. The choice, will this deepen the theme of the movie? Unfortunately, the film did not go in this direction, or the director did not want to waste Anthony Hopkins, but relatively speaking, Anthony Hopkins's performance in the film is not so eye-catching, at most just satisfactory.
Compared with the young and handsome werewolves and vampires in the "Twilight" series, the beautiful boys and girls coupled with the entanglement of love attract the attention of the audience more. As middle-aged and elderly people, Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins are probably not so popular with young people, and older audiences can't satisfy them with the general plot. Such a revelation should be a warning to the production of other movies. If you repeat the same mistakes over and over again, then investment is inevitable. Imagine that in China, in the past two years, a large number of funds have poured into the film market, and almost all have a strong tendency to money laundering. However, the influx of these funds has not brought more excellent movies, and the large amount of crude production is unpleasant. Compare it to "Werewolf." Their film should be spanked severely.
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