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The Godfather
Director: Gangster, Epic, Tragedy, Crime, Drama
Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
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The Penguin Lessons
In 1976, a disillusioned Englishman arrives to work at a school in divided Argentina and finds his life changed when he rescues an orphaned penguin from a beach.
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Jackpot!
Set in the near future, the economically challenged state of California has created a lottery rule: you need to kill the winner before sunset to legally claim their prize. Katie (Awkwafina), who has just moved to Los Angeles, unexpectedly finds out that she has won the lottery. She must team up with amateur jackpot protector Noel (Cena) to ensure that she survives until sunset to claim the multi-billion dollar reward. At the same time, Noel's rival and fellow protector Louis (Simu Liu) also wants to escort Katie all the way to sunset to earn a generous commission.
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The Godfather
Director: Gangster, Epic, Tragedy, Crime, Drama
Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
User Rating: 5.0/10 (2000 votes)
I love this movie and all of the GF movies. I see something new every time I have seen it (countless, truly). The story of tragedy and (little) comedy that exists in this film is easily understood by people all over the world. This film has been called an American story however I have met others who have seen this movie in other languages and they seem to have the same love and appreciation for it that I do. I love the characters and all of the different personalities that they represent not just in families but in society itself. It seems like the entire cast is part of every other movie that I love as well. The sounds, music, color and light in the film are just as much a part of the film as the people. This could be attributed to the method in which it was filmed. At many parts of the film I can still find myself feeling the emotions conveyed in the film. I never tire of appreciating this film. I thank God that FFC is an American treasure. We are fortunate to have him.
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Director: Drama
Cast: Steve Coogan, Julia Forsey, Jonathan Pryce, Vivian El Jaber, David Herrero, Bjorn Gustafsson, Brendan McNamee
User Rating: 7.5/10 (532 votes)
In terms of form, it is Jean Reno's "My Penguin Friend" + "Dead Poets Society". The story is about the real events of the penguins superimposed on the horror background of the military government, and an artificial warm ending that British movies are good at. This makes people feel that the creative logic of this story is because they feel that the real penguin class story is too thin, so they try their best to add multiple meanings to the existence of penguins. In the end, the penguin became the link between the protagonist and everyone, the emotional food of the students, and the secret weapon to turn danger into safety. At the same time, it also has to bear the protagonist's allusion to his feelings in an unfamiliar environment. This responsibility is a bit too heavy. The film's allusion to the military government is also implicit, and it is not well compatible with the main line. The girl's return in the end is very dramatic, which makes the story have a strong fairy tale attribute. If some choices are appropriately abandoned, and the filming in Buenos Aires (the set of the film is too unsuccessful) may help the film perform better. But then again, the old lady and granddaughter line (although it may be purely fabricated to a large extent) is still delicate and makes people cry.
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Director: Comedy, Action
Cast: John Cena, Awkwafina, Simu Liu, Seann William Scott, Michael Hitchcock, More...
User Rating: 5.8/10 (4111 votes)
Even though I am a fan of Zhao Xina, I have to say that this movie is just average, barely passable. The black is not black enough, the comedy is not comedy enough, even the end credits are very average. It is purely a ridiculous action movie under the name of comedy. There is no fun, no exciting fighting and action scenes, and the doubles are visibly exposed many times. The heroine is always playing dumb, with a tangled brow, acting ugly and weird, and the golden costume is embarrassing. And she foolishly avoids the pursuit of the whole city without changing clothes, so dazzling. She doesn't know how to use a wig, hat and sunglasses to cover up, and there is a mask behind, but she took it off. When I saw the street puppets, I thought she could find a puppet costume to hide in, but she didn't. I really don't know why she always gets roles. Her voice acting in cartoons before was very recognizable, and I knew it was her as soon as I heard her voice. As soon as Liu Simu showed up in the commercial, I knew he would be the villain. The gold Rolex watch is nice, it seems to be a Daytona. I don't know what brand Zhao Xina is wearing, there is a close-up of the dial, but I don't recognize it. Judging from his character in the film, it should not be as expensive as a Rolex. The watch chain also looks like a Rolex. If he continues to act in films like this, his acting career will be ruined, which means that he and his management team don't know how to choose scripts. It's worrying. I have been a fan of him since the Self-Stop Squad. He is definitely the successor to the governor, and he has some more advantages. It's a pity that I didn't meet a good production team, a good script, a good role, and a good director. None of them can be missing. The governor had a good eye back then and was good at choosing films to shoot. That rock star is handsome! His clothes are nice and his home is tasteful, but can't the safe house be controlled from inside and locked and the password changed? And then they left him outside the house knowing that the password might be leaked. If it wasn't arranged in this way, the drama could have ended abruptly. So the script is very bad, and the incident of mobile phones being attacked was vividly demonstrated by Lebanon these days, proving that the plot of the movie is not purely fabricated. Ha ha ha ha. Liu Simu was furious. It was incomprehensible that the landlord had a good ending. And the black old man didn't get any material rewards, which was also... The director is completely brain dead. The main plot of the film is...
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Treno dei Bambini
Director: Drama, History
Cast: Christian Cervone, Barbara Ronchi, Serena Rossi, Stefano Accorsi, Francesco di Leyva, More ...
User Rating: 7.6/10 (788 votes)
Among the films I watched recently, the two most tear-jerking ones, "My Favorite Cake" and "Child's Heart Train", are both directed by women. To be honest, I didn't pay attention to who the director was before watching them, but the impression is not deceptive. "Even if there are no descriptive, bloody, violent, or war scenes", it can still make people want to watch it deeply. It is almost the work of female directors. I am not dragging it down, but the female perspective is different. The language of love is outlined in the details, but it is never too sensational. It is restrained at the right time and the camera is restrained. It is probably a kind of female psychological language: because women understand love too much, when they really depict the scene of love, they leave many meaningful fragments and aftertastes, instead of directly cutting the picture in front of you, which is as boring as uncovering the answer. There are many great male directors, including those with scene arrangement and grand worldview, but when describing love, they seem to lack a kind of imagination. It is so interesting. When watching a movie, you are tasting the director's subconscious projection and emotional pattern, and who is behind the camera lens? This emotion cannot be hidden. Or let's put it this way, when male directors film maternal love, they always use the theme of "sacrifice", that is, the mother dies for her child, or the mother sacrifices the happiness of the rest of her life for her child, or the mother gives up something. The purpose is that a mother must be strong, and motherhood contains too much content about self-sacrifice and carries too many private implications. However, stories of maternal love shot by female directors are always more "gentle" to women. Letting a child go is love, accepting a child is love, sometimes coldly pushing a child away is love, but "not forgetting to live your own life" is also love. Female directors are good at shooting women who "live according to their own wishes but also love their children." So I understand that we really, really need more female directors. We need more female directors to shoot "women". For example, the role of "mother" has always been shot by male directors, with all kinds of private goods in patriarchal narratives, and is suffocated by the definitions of "sacrifice", "virginity" and "selflessness". If more female directors shoot women from the perspective of women, then the definition of the word "mother" will move towards new connotations in female narratives. More female directors are filming "what is motherhood" instead of male directors defining what motherhood is. Whoever holds the camera to express ideas is a kind of power in itself.
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Dog Man
Director: Comedy, Action, Science Fiction, Animation, Family, Crime, Fantasy, Adventure
Cast: Peter Hastings, Pete Davidson, Lyu Bo, Lil Rel Howery, Isla Fisher, Billy Boyd, Ranuma Pansazi, Maggie Wheeler, Lunell Campbell...
User Rating: 7.1/10 (1103 votes)
Although it is a fan-oriented movie, it is very carefully produced. Not only is the painting style restored synchronously, but it also successfully presents many scenes and essences of the original comics, including the stories, lines and even backgrounds of multiple books that appear in the film. From time to time, the comic dialogues are directly drawn into the film across the dimensional wall, which is very creative. To be honest, Detective Dog is not easy to adapt. Although it is one of the most popular comic books among young elementary school students in the United States, teachers and parents have always had different opinions on it. But the director is very capable. He has achieved a smooth story line based on the collection of multiple stories. Some plots are even tear-jerking, and he grasps the three views in a simple and straightforward way: "We will be stupid and do bad things, but the kindness we release will eventually be treated gently by the world." It can be said that it is a rare popcorn movie for children that is easy, funny, positive and warm. Disadvantages: 1. Fan-oriented movie, pure American style, you may not get the fun and laughter of the story if you haven't read the original book. 2. It is suitable for children who still have a lot of strange ideas in their minds. Older children may find it childish/nonsense/inexplicable.
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Moana 2
Director: Comedy, Animation, Musical, Fantasy
Cast: Aulii Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, alalai Chong, Rose Matafeo, David Fahn, More ...
User Rating: 6.6/10 (33322 votes)
The quality of Disney's animation works in recent years is really worrying. The story routine is directly worn as a coat, and the body is also skinny. Every time they make animations, they are free to follow the formula. Encountering difficulties + marching forward + retreating after setbacks + spiritual growth + overcoming difficulties + super happy ending = "Moana 2". This film is even more sloppy and hasty. The main characters have a clear division of labor and lack novelty. The villains have no sense of oppression, and they are just here to play a supporting role, with very little face time. The growth of the protagonist is exactly the same as the first one. Last time, Moana helped Maui untie his knot, and this time, Maui helped Moana achieve sublimation. Both of them drank a sip of chicken soup, but in the final analysis, it is still the same bowl of soup. The only bright spots are the supporting animals, which can make people laugh accidentally, but it's just a laugh, and this is the style of Disney animation. If not, the watchability will be greatly reduced. Comparing "Inside Out" and "Oceans", Pixar is more stable, thoughtful and progressive, while Disney is conservative and will only ruin its reputation. Just listen to the movie songs.
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Nosferatu
Director: Suspense, Horror, Fantasy
Cast: Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård, Aaron Taylor -Johnson, Willem Dafoe, Emma Corrin
User Rating: 5.9/10 (11524 votes)
This weekend I came across the horror movie "Nosferatu" that was recommended to me before the Spring Festival. I didn't expect it to be an award-winning movie in Hollywood this year. The movie tells the story of Alan who summoned a ghost as a child and ended up being possessed by it. When he grew up, he married a young real estate agent, Thomas. In order to make a living, Thomas was arranged by the company to go to an abandoned castle to do business with Count Nosferatu. He met the mysterious and terrifying Count Vampire and fled the castle in a hurry. Unexpectedly, the Count Vampire had arrived and caused a plague in the town. He and his wife, together with the professor they invited, began to try to eliminate the Count Vampire. The story framework setting basically replicates the horror narrative of the return of the vampire Count causing the spread of plague in the old movie "Nosferatu" in 1922, and is mixed with the Count's obsession with his new wife in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" in 1992, and then innovatively adds the desire-driven nature of today's trendy female subjectivity. In the end, the movie ends with the Count's terrifying desire gaze at the heroine Ellen, and Ellen, as the subject of desire, is hesitant to speak but easily kills the Count in the end, resulting in a split in the viewing experience. This movie wants to maintain the same Gothic style as the previous one - dim environment background, plain clothes, and towering gloomy castle. Although the atmosphere is well set, the unique aesthetic details of Gothic are not refined enough. The gloomy castle is only left with light and dark silhouettes, making the movie look like a horror shell. As for Depp's daughter Lily, who plays Allen, I personally feel that she is not suitable for this role. Her body shape is not suitable for playing the peerless beauty praised by the real estate boss; and her temperament is rather wooden. She does not have the fragility and confusion of Winona Ryder in "Bram Stoker's Dracula", nor does she embody the tension of female subject desire, only the hysteria when she is possessed by ghosts. The female characters lack flavor, and the male characters are not portrayed accurately. Nicholas Hoult, who plays the newlywed husband Thomas, is middle-aged but not mature enough, so he is suitable as a husband without sex appeal in the movie, but his appearance lacks the Gothic style. And Count Nosferatu in the movie has become a hairy monster, which is also not Gothic. Of course, these are minor flaws. The most serious problem of the film is that the expression of desire is too direct and fragmented. At the beginning, the heroine Ellen summoned the vampire lord because of desire, and then she was in a panic. During this period, the film directly expressed the desire through the wanton flirting between her husband's friend and his wife. Then the newlywed wife directly asked her husband for sex to express her true love for her husband and rejected the vampire lord's sexual request. So the desire either did not appear or was so obvious that it blinded the eyes. Only the detail of the naked girl riding a horse towards the depths of the fog in the middle of the movie was meaningful. At the same time, the movie constantly emphasizes that the Count is powerful. He can control the real estate owner to become his accomplice, and can spread the plague through his coffin. But in the end, Allen kills the Count directly by having sex with him. It can be said that dying under the peony flower is unjust as a ghost! It can be seen that the powerful ability of traditional vampires in the movie is ultimately no match for the powerful consciousness of modern women, and the adaptations that are not beautiful outside the movie have won consecutive photography awards. It turns out that Hollywood movies are gradually regressing!
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Smile 2
Director: Suspense, Thriller, Horror
Cast: Naomi Scott, Rosemary DeWitt, Lucas Gage, Miles Gutierrez-Reilly, Peter Jacobson, More...
User Rating: 7.0/10 (37812 votes)
The series "Dangerous Laughter" has an interesting design: the identity of the heroine and the setting of the fake smile demon complement each other. In the first film, the heroine is a psychiatrist who wants to help patients, but cannot believe what the patients see; when she herself is haunted by evil spirits, she personally experiences this pain. In this film, the heroine Skye is set as a star who is the focus of everyone's attention. The ubiquitous fake smile has a double meaning: it is the illusion of evil spirits, and it is also her real situation. Although surrounded by applause, no one cares about herself behind the halo. In short, it is loneliness. Even if you are in a crowd, you will become a lone prey. Irony, which was just a spice in the first film, becomes very important in this one. The director seems to have deliberately emphasized this point, wanting to make this film profound. The most exquisite part is undoubtedly the dancing of smiling faces in the mansion on the eve of the tour; the horror atmosphere reaches its peak, and it also completely reveals the dilemma of the heroine. Her team and fans are just like these smiling phantoms, who come with smiles on their faces, but can only add fuel to the fire. Before Skye met Morris, it was also the fans who pushed her away from this last straw. After the "smiley dance", Skye went down all the way, rushing to the destined ending in the illusion. The director used the same trick again. The only friend Gemma who he trusted never appeared, and Morris who could help him was not real. When he opened his eyes, he was wearing clothes he didn't like, still standing on the tour stage, performing the most gorgeous suicide in the spotlight, and the spectators all became prey, and the irony was bursting out. This part of the plot is very similar to "Some Kind of Material", especially the monster that broke out of the body at the end. Whether in terms of characters, plot (second half) or theme, this work is like a sister film of "Something Substantial". The difference is that "Something Substantial" is an art film that focuses on satire, using horror elements to strengthen the expression; while "Smile 2" is a pure horror film that sublimates the theme. The design of this work is simpler and the satire is more direct. Although there is a slight disconnect between the beginning and the end, it is unexpectedly powerful. Which of the two works is better or worse is a matter of opinion. There is a small bug: one of the victims in the previous film was a professor who committed suicide in class, and only one of his students was infected. According to this inference, no matter how many people saw Skye's death, the fake smile demon can only infect one person. Thinking about it this way, the fake smile demon seems to have worked in vain. However, the ending is too shocking, so we should still ignore the imperfections in the setting.
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Mufasa: The Lion King
Director: Drama, Animation, Musical, Fantasy, Adventure
Cast: Aaron Pierre, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Tiffany Boone Mads Mikkelsen, Preston Nyman, More...
User Rating: 6.6/10 (30059 votes)
"The Legend of Mufasa" is the prequel to "The Lion King", telling the story of Simba's journey to become king. Generally, films where the protagonist goes from being an inexperienced person to a perfect man need to be paired with a symmetrical character who is both evil and complex, otherwise it will seem old-fashioned and boring. Captain America needs the Winter Soldier, Thor needs Loki, Optimus Prime needs Megatron, Zhang Junbao needs Dong Tianbao... Mufasa is a classic epic hero who constantly demonstrates his bravery, wit, nobility and tenacity, and is unbiasedly following the path of growth as a great screen hero. And all the dishonorable but more chewy good scenes were left to his good brother Scar, or his original name, Taka. Some people say that this movie is more like a story about how Taka turned into Scar. But this statement is not correct. What is blackening? From the perspective of basic commercial film values, it means that a good person turns into a bad person, betraying and harming his former allies. But to describe Taka as evil is to underestimate him. From the beginning to the end, it was not a question of Taka getting better or worse, but that he never changed. He is not like the Winter Soldier who was once brainwashed into a minion of Hydra, nor is he like Loki who has been a harmful person since childhood but sometimes shows some friendship, and he is not like Megatron who would kill his old friend once he changed his mind. It seems that Taka's behavior is wavering. Sometimes he is overwhelmed by jealousy and wants to destroy himself along with the other, and sometimes he misses his old love and risks his life to save the other. It seems that what he wants is never fixed. But behind all the changes, what he really pursues, or the core desire that dominates him, has always been the same. He was once a prince of noble status, and his parents had high hopes for him to be the new king. They might have been able to see that he was not cut out for it, but they still taught, trained, demanded and expected this of him. However, no matter how hard he tried, Taka could not meet the expectations. He was like a mediocre student who always hovered in the middle of the class and knew better than anyone that it was impossible for him to be admitted to a prestigious university. Despite having such a strict father and such a well-mannered mother, Taka still did not show the qualities of an heir. When faced with the enemy, he abandoned his family and ran away in panic, which was the final conclusion of his talent. Fortunately, he made the right choice when he was young. He rescued Mufasa from the water and insisted on begging his parents to let them become brothers. From childhood to adulthood, Mufasa was the only lion who never put pressure on him, never embarrassed him, and allowed him to escape from his weakness. The torment he felt from wanting to live up to his parents' ideals but failing to do so was released through the joyful play of his brothers, which allowed him to maintain a minimum level of pride as a lion. But until his parents were killed, his tribe was destroyed, he embarked on the road of escape with Mufasa, and fell in love with the same girl, his only spiritual support began to collapse. Remember after he saved Mufasa from the cliff, he said to him: I saved you, won’t you say thank you to me? He needed this feeling of being needed so much, but in the subsequent journey, he had to face the ceiling of his potential again and again. He had to watch Mufasa, a homeless child with a far inferior background than him, who was gifted and constantly resolved crises along the way and outshined him time and time again. The lion in his heart was taken away, which was just the last straw that broke the camel's back for his emotional castle. His father's words "deception can also make a king" were just an excuse he used to exonerate himself. He betrayed his friends not out of jealousy or revenge for love. He just wanted to break free from the quagmire of inferiority and regain the little pride he had. When Taka betrayed Mufasa with a clear conscience, we realized that he had changed. His tone became calm, his eyes became firm, his head was no longer lowered, and his body was no longer hunched over. Taka, who was seen before, the one who spoke hesitantly, had an uncertain look, and always hid in the corner secretly tasting the bitterness of incompetence, suddenly disappeared. He's doing an evil and crazy thing, but this is the closest we've seen him be to a lion in a long time. He was finally no longer the poor guy who was outdone and needed credit, and he regained control of his own and others' destiny. With Taka's assistance, the evil lions followed, but when the final battle came, Taka changed sides and returned to Mufasa's camp. Because seeing Mufasa dying soon aroused a pleasure in Taka's heart that was stronger than betrayal: I am finally no longer a weakling. I have the ability to save you once again. Even if I lose my life, even if I am exiled by you, even if I am despised for the rest of my life, I don't care. The moment when Taka steps forward to rescue Mufasa and is left with a disfiguring scar, and when he grabs the drowning Mufasa and lifts him out of the water, these are his particularly charming moments, especially the latter scene, which echoes in the theater with loud musical notes, and its passion even surpasses the heroic moment when Mufasa kills his opponent. Rafiki said to Mufasa that your bloodline is not important, your character is important. And Taka's story is saying that your character is not important, what matters is whether you have the courage to face it and fight it. Many characters in this movie dream, and their dreams contain their ideals and future, but Taka never mentioned it. Does he dream? In the dream, he may not be the king and may not get love, but there must be countless scenes in which he fearlessly protects his brother and receives his sincere gratitude, just like when they first met. There is nothing dark about Taka's life, and I can't classify him as a villain in any sense of the word. He was a child who had never been satisfied and spent his entire life replicating the moment he was most proud of.
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The Electric State
Director: Drama, Comedy, Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
Cast: Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Kwan Jiwei, Jason Alexander, Woody Norman, More....
User Rating: 6.0/10 (12718 votes)
The book is expensive, and the illustrations by the Swedish illustrator give off a darker, more melancholic vibe. The backdrop of the human-machine war originally had a strong Matrix feel, except here, humanity wins the war using neural projectors... but the side effect of abusing these neural projectors is that people become addicted to the virtual world. The real world gradually falls apart, while the complexity of the virtual space gives rise to a sentient AI—Brain Intelligence—that yearns for a physical body. With such a massive world-building setup—think The Matrix, Cyberpunk 2077, and artificial intelligence—the screenwriter had all the ingredients for a solid sci-fi film at their fingertips. But then you actually watch the movie: huge budget, big production, and yet it feels like I’m watching some busted-up amusement park. The epic human-vs-machine war? Apparently it’s all about throwing stuff at each other. And the search-for-family storyline suddenly morphs into Ready Player One. Maybe it works for kids.
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Transformers One
Director: Action, Science Fiction, Animation, Adventure
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Jon Hamm, More...
User Rating: 7.9/10 (85111 votes)
There was a movie that I watched during the Mid-Autumn Festival. I didn't pay much attention to it at first, thinking that the good reviews were all made up by the so-called media. But after watching it, I felt that it really lived up to expectations. It was the latest "Transformers" animated film "Transformers: Origins". The story type is still science fiction adventure. The imaginative world structure of Cybertron and the robot design that is relatively restored to the old animation can indeed impress many animation fans. However, what I want to say most after watching it is the strong and simple revolutionary issues contained in the film and the dystopian narrative that is closely related to reality. There is no extra human perspective, but the experiences of the Transformers are presented in a revolutionary discourse that is unique to humans . Before becoming the Autobot leader Optimus Prime and the Decepticon leader Megatron, Orion Pax and D-16 were two ordinary miners who had to mine energy in dangerous underground environments every day. Although they are good brothers, their personalities, attitudes and philosophies are completely opposite. Orion Pax is a miner with his own ideas, courage to challenge and break the rules. Although he does not believe in the saying "Are kings, princes, generals and ministers different in kind?" and wants to overthrow it, he is upright in his bones, which also lays the groundwork for him to break the rules and participate in the competition, thus starting a series of adventures and uncovering the conspiracy. D-16 was not yet the leader of the Decepticon faction at that time. He worked according to the routine every day and believed in all the information transmitted to him by his superiors. It was a bit like accepting everything, but at that time, it was still peaceful on the surface. D-16 collected stickers of the original Thirteen King Kong, who were the first to resist the Five-Faced Monster, like a fanboy, especially Megatronus, who later became the Fallen King Kong. However, the blackening of D-16, his believer, cannot be regarded as fate, as it also involves some personality and even external factors, which will be discussed later. By accident, they discovered the secret of the current leader, Yu Tiandi - under the pretext of finding a leadership module, he secretly surrendered to the Quintessence of the Five-Faced Monsters, and even exploited his own people in order to provide energy for the enemy. He ordered his subordinates to intensify energy extraction and continue to exploit the miners. What's even more terrifying is that the Skyrim also covered up the Transformers' early memories (tampering with history). Each Transformer originally had gears and could transform, but in order to consolidate its rule (the key point is to remove the military power and monopolize the military and political affairs. Who would want their own people to have guns, be able to transform, and rebel?), the Skyrim took back the transformation gears (depriving the people of their nature) and unified management (dividing the class, and classifying people by whether they can transform or not). It is not difficult to find that the background description of the origins of the Autobots and Decepticon leaders in "Transformers: Origins" is very consistent with the early revolutionary situation. Internally, the upper class exploited the lower working people to the utmost; externally, they put on a fawning face, ceded land, paid compensation, and sold out the country for personal gain. It is difficult not to associate this narrative system with the history of my country's new democratic revolution. Even Optimus Prime's inheritance of the will of the Thirteen and the battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron are more or less closely aligned with certain nodes in history. Interestingly, the revolutionary process presented in Transformers: Origins also conforms to the stage of the New Democratic Revolution. The railway coal miners' strike and the miners' uprising called by Optimus Prime are very similar, both of which are sparks of revolution that burst out from the working class. Let's look at the ruling class. Transformers: Origins portrays Megatron with a very modern feel. I'm not pedantic, but I claim to be superior; I'm not undemocratic, you see, I even give you the competition to make you happy (although this kind of "nipple fun" is also divided into classes, not everyone can participate). So the Cybertron led by Megatron is not the Big Brother-style 1984, but a brave new world - A treasonous clown maintains the current false prosperity with the principle of entertainment first. This is the simple revolutionary tone of "Transformers: Origins", and what follows is the love-hate relationship between Pillar and his fanboy Megatron. Of course, compared to Zhuzi’s helplessness and the magnanimity of a true leader, the darkening of his fanboy is more interesting. From a justice perspective, both Megatron and Megatron are traitors. One betrayed the original Thirteen, and the Quintessons took advantage of the situation, which was considered treason; the other was more different, he only betrayed his allies (on a friendship level), and his inner persistence remained the same, but it was just more extreme. It is reasonable for Megatron to turn evil. What he had before could not be considered self-awareness, and he was not even as optimistic as Bumblebee, who could still find fun for himself while being locked up alone on the 30th floor underground. You can think of Megatron as a rationalist who has spent the first half of his life pursuing an absolute idea. His thinking is relatively extreme, but the premise of this extremism is his support for absolute justice (obedience) and the betrayal of "absolute justice" (Yu Tiandi). Faced with the hypocritical behavior and treasonous behavior of the upper class such as Megatron, Optimus Prime felt that he needed to awaken the people first, unite all the forces that could be united, and proceed step by step from the bottom up; while Megatron's attitude towards this was "an eye for an eye", the same form of revenge, and he would fight if he disagreed! Although his purpose was also to maintain justice in his heart. This kind of thinking develops to a later stage, once in power, or continues to be paranoid, it will turn into an extreme attitude of "whoever stands in my way will die". In the film, Megatron's final act of abandoning Optimus Prime and slaughtering the former supporters of Megatron are all extreme reactions after his beliefs are shattered. Since everything is fake, I will build a new order on the ruins. What was once promised has become a lie forever. This is the tragedy of the cool movie "Transformers: Origins", and it also echoes the transformation of student movements in the late 1960s and 1970s into terrorism (just look at the attitude of the Japanese right wing towards the Japanese United Red Army). At this point, the reasons for the formation of terrorism are no longer important, and he was exiled along with the Holy Knights. Former comrades parted ways because of the "instigation" of a clown, and took different paths due to different choices. What is even more tragic is that what they advocated is still the same, the thing that truly belongs to the people, which has been manipulated by the upper class and has not been fulfilled so far.
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Cast & crew User reviews Trivia FAQ IMDbPro The Shawshank Redemption
Director: Epic, PeriodDrama, PrisonDrama, Drama
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
User Rating: 5.0/10 (1000 votes)
At the Oscars that year, it was overshadowed by the towering presence of Forrest Gump, but over time, this film has surpassed Gump in the hearts of many. Whenever reality leaves me exhausted and powerless, I revisit this disc and reignite my dreams. Without a doubt, this film ranks among the top three must-watch movies for men! Recalling that iconic line: "Some birds’ feathers are too bright to be caged, even by the darkest prison."
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Den stygge stesøsteren
Director: Drama, Horror
Cast: Lea Myron, Thea Sophie Loch Ness, Anne Dahl Topp, Flo Fagley, lsaac Kalmros, Malte Goldinger, Raf Karlsson, Isaac Asperger, Albin Wildenblad...
User Rating: 7.2/10 (3769 votes)
The Ugly Stepsister (B+) This movie really disgusted me, but it is still worth watching! I received an early screening but missed it, so I finally made up for it. I am very glad. The Ugly Stepsister reinterprets the story of Cinderella from the perspective of the stepsister. Not only is the angle novel, the theme is more profound, and the method is bold, with no lack of direct blood and body horror. It is indeed an ancient version of The Substance, with a strong sense of irony. And this is also written and directed by a female screenwriter. I think only female directors can be so cruel to women. Nowadays, only female directors can torture women and satirize their perverted pursuit of beauty. Men really dare not shoot it, otherwise they will be scolded to death. Of course, female directors will never show the ugly faces of men in the film. The overall style of the film is very similar to "Something Substantial". Although fairy tales such as Cinderella and Snow White are for children and have many fantasy plots, they actually contain some dark and scary elements, which are designed to make children feel afraid and alert to bad guys. However, if these scary elements are magnified and the true human nature in the story is further demonstrated, it is definitely the best material for horror movies. Cinderella has the help of a fairy godmother, but how can she become beautiful without a fairy godmother? The Ugly Stepsister can only achieve this through plastic surgery, makeup, wigs and extreme weight loss, which are the "fairy godmothers" in reality. In fact, you already know from the trailer that there will be ancient plastic surgery and bloody scenes, but the film itself has more disgusting and torturous content. Even if you close your eyes and don't watch it, just hearing the screams of the heroine is terrifying. I can only say that if you are unlucky enough to see the scene, you don't have to eat dinner. It does have a weight loss effect. The ancient plastic surgery and weight loss plan in the film are astonishing. Compared with swallowing parasites to make yourself thinner, our current way of losing weight is really not extreme. But the wonderful thing is that even if you know that these cruel methods happened in the past, are exaggerated and unrealistic, people's persistent pursuit of beauty has not changed, but the methods have become gentler. There are still many people like the heroine who look ordinary but are extremely eager to marry into the upper class. For example, the socialite training class that everyone knows is the modern version of this movie. Some people still use all kinds of means to become beautiful and marry rich people or celebrities, from plastic surgery to learning how to seduce men. No matter how well you package it, it is still a scam, and behind it still exposes the ugly heart and perverted obsession with beauty and wealth. So even if the film is exaggerated, it is very realistic, and it is clear at a glance what kind of people it satirizes. The film no longer glorifies Cinderella, the prince, and everyone around them. Instead, it shows people that everyone is a slave to desire and is very selfish. Other people in this story are no better than The Ugly Stepsister. Cinderella is no longer a pure, kind, and unambitious virgin, but can't resist all kinds of temptations; the prince and the people around him are a group of perverts who are eyeing beautiful women, and evaluating women is basically like buying meat in the market. The mother of The Ugly Stepsister, Cinderella's stepmother, completely disregards her self-esteem and her daughter's life in order to please a man, and constantly tortures her daughter in various ways. The environment of all villains is more terrifying than the various bloody and disgusting scenes in the film. The Ugly Stepsister herself, the heroine, is not a simple and kind person, but a jealous paranoid. But she is indeed a girl who has been brainwashed by the utilitarian society and her mother. Under social pressure and the scrutiny of others, she has completely lost her self-awareness and self-pursuit. She only wants to be beautiful and marry a prince. She is so obsessed that she even cuts off her toes for this. If it is said that the foot binding of ancient Chinese beauties was an act of self-mutilation to please men, then cutting off oneself directly has reached a new level. But think about it, even if it is not cut with a knife, women are often very cruel to themselves. What is the purpose? In fact, there are always people who are more beautiful than themselves. If you keep "changing" and "disguising" yourself because of comparison and jealousy, you will eventually become a walking corpse that you don't even recognize. Even if people in modern life no longer need to compete with princes for a ball, there are still many people who compare and envy on social networks all day long and begin to feel ashamed. What I like about this film is that it really didn't make a big change to the original story, but just told more of The Ugly Stepsister. The main story of Cinderella was kept, and there was a grand ball. The protagonist changed from Cinderella to The Ugly Stepsister, which made people see the whole story from the perspective of the ugly duckling who wanted to become a white swan, which really made it more sad and cruel. The soundtrack was very good, and some of the music itself was screaming, which was very scary. Overall, I feel that some of the scenes are really unbearable to watch, but the story itself has a profound meaning and is very ironic, and it also vividly shows the mentality of some people who will do anything and even torture themselves in order to marry into the upper class. PS: At the end, the word "Slut" appeared on the big screen. I was shocked and thought the director was cursing, but later I found out that this word is the Swedish word for "The end". But it really hits the point. Once again, in this era, movies with connotations about women can only be made by women. It's ruthless and makes people applaud.
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Friendship
Director: Comedy
Cast: Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, Kate Mara
User Rating: 3.0/10 (100 votes)
Accepted too fast
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Novocaine
Director: Comedy, Action, Thriller
Cast: Jack Quaid, Amber Mindysand, Ray Nicholson, Jacob Bertalon, Betty Gabriel, More...
User Rating: 6.2/10 (9402 votes)
Nathan Kane, a vice president of a bank, was born without the sense of pain. Under this setting, he can accomplish almost everything. Although novel, it is not scientific. When we were young, "Reader" or "Yilin" taught us that the inability to feel pain is actually a very dangerous disease. Pain is a mechanism for humans to protect themselves. The inability to feel pain means that you are not aware of danger, but put yourself in danger. For example, you don't know if you are hit by someone, and you may die in an instant. But the director doesn't think so. In the setting, "no sense of pain" and "invincible" are almost the same thing. Others would put on a Band-Aid when they fell, but he might not even feel a broken bone when he fell. Originally, his life was ordinary, but his goddess was kidnapped by a group of robbers. In a rage, he fished out a gun from a frying pan, stabbed glass with both hands, and pulled out his fingernails, doing whatever it took to make the villain dumbfounded. The police were willing to rush all the way to save people with their insensible physique, and turned Santiago upside down by the way. The setting and plot are also quite disconnected. Apart from the acceptable quality of popcorn, the plot is like a half-fried dish without salt. The fighting design has some cool concepts because of this weird setting, and coupled with the exaggerated performance, it doesn't hurt to watch. However, the plot is straightforward and I almost fell asleep in the first thirty minutes. In addition, the whole story is set in the peaceful San Diego, which is a bit like playing a police and gangster movie in a tea restaurant. The atmosphere is not right. It feels like the fighting is going on here, while the city on the other side is still sleeping, which is not very consistent. If the story is set in the cyberpunk future, or at least Gotham City, it may have a different flavor. As for the male lead, Jack Quaid, the son of Dennis Quaid, his performance was like a dish without salt. His appearance is boring, his acting is boring. I sincerely suggest that if the second-generation stars really love acting, they should just enjoy themselves and not rush to grab resources right away. The screen should be reserved for those with natural looks and talents, not those with resources and plastic surgery. Otherwise, one day, we will all prefer to watch movies performed by AI.
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Pigen med nålen
Director: Drama, Thriller
Cast: Victoria Carmen Sonne, Trina Tihon, Bethel Zessili, Ava Knox Martin, Joachim Fjelstrup, Tessa Hoder, Søren Hitter-Larssen, Thomas Kirk
User Rating: 7.4/10 (4942 votes)
Originally named "Dogmar the Killer", Danish serial killer Dogmar Overby killed 9 to 25 illegitimate babies entrusted to her care around 1918 under the guise of a childcare worker. In the film, she was adapted into a candy store owner who helped those who could not raise their own children during the Great Depression of World War I to kill their babies. The director was not interested in retelling a biopic about a serial killer. The film shifted the narrative perspective to a victim (participant) mother in the Dogmar case, a weaver girl, the owner of the needle in the title, but that was not her production tool. The film transforms from a simple biographical film into a dark fairy tale about forgotten and abandoned people, depicting the Gothic appearance of Copenhagen at the end of World War I: widespread unemployment and scarcity, scarce job opportunities, people disfigured by the war who can only play monsters in the circus, abortion is regarded as a sin, pregnant women are expelled from factories, and many illegitimate children with no future try to find a ray of hope in the iron-clad ethical society. The film uses the method of horror films to outline the plight of women who have no future, no backup, and no escape options. Because of this, Dogma, who has been tempered by life and is also broken, but still has humanity, is a fatal attraction to Zhinu. For her, it is easier to dance with the devil than to love her husband torn apart by war or a weak young master across classes. An expressionist nightmare that reveals the devastating truth hidden behind the veil of civilization.
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Plainclothes
Director: Drama, Romance, Thriller, Homosexual
Cast: Tom Blythe, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, More...
User Rating: 7.9/10 (5353 votes)
"Plainclothes Police" and "Brokeback Mountain" do have many similarities, presenting the persecution of homosexuals in a homophobic social environment and the exploration of nature under the moral constraints of sexual repression. The casting of "Plain Clothes Police" is relatively reasonable compared to "Brokeback Mountain". The actors of the fishing enforcement police are necessary to meet the character setting. Most of the castings for same-sex stories are handsome men and beautiful women, as if those with ordinary looks or bad looks are not even qualified to fall in love. The same is true for heterosexual stories. There are even lines that describe handsome men and beautiful women as "ordinary". The casting is completely inconsistent with the character setting, just like I can't believe that Yuan Quan said the classic line in the stage play "Jane Eyre": "Do you think that because I am poor, humble, ugly, and short, I have no soul and no heart? You are wrong! My soul is the same as yours, and my heart is exactly the same as yours! If God gives me a little beauty and a little wealth, I will make it difficult for you to leave me, just like it is difficult for me to leave you now." This is a problem of audio-visual art form and audience aesthetics. Most humans are visual animals, and the Internet images of film and television dramas continue to strengthen the unified mainstream aesthetics. In recent years, domestic film and television dramas have seen another type of casting that does not fit the characters. Many handsome men and beautiful women are cast with actors with non-mainstream aesthetics, which has been ridiculed by netizens and audiences. It is remembered that more than ten or twenty years ago, there were all kinds of beauties blooming on the big and small screens, but nowadays, beauties are hard to find. The casting of Brokeback Mountain was criticized by the original author Annie Proulx. After the movie was released, many viewers followed their five senses and paid more attention to the love story, which weakened the criticism of the times. She received many fan fiction creations that arranged various new boyfriends for Ennis after Jack's death, which completely deviated from the main theme. She hoped that she had never written this story. The original focus is not the love between two men but the mental state and moral environment of homophobia in a specific era and region. For details, please see the original report Brokeback Mountain creator Annie Proulx regrets writing story. If the original casting was selected, it would not have become a classic love movie with so many audiences today. The two straight male actors were too shy to let go when performing the sex scene, but the two female actors exposed their breasts when filming the heterosexual sex scene. Ang Lee may have filmed it for straight male and straight audiences. It is also a merit to let homosexual-themed movies enter the mainstream vision. I remember that I went to the night market to buy pirated VCDs just for Anne Hathaway. I didn’t know the other actors, I was ignorant about sex and unfamiliar with the era, so I didn’t have much impression after watching the movie. Why didn't the film cast the characters according to the original novel? Because what Ang Lee wanted to film was love. He said, "To create a great love story, there must be huge obstacles. The two protagonists are in the American West, where there are masculinity and traditional values. Therefore, everything they feel must be kept secret. It is a precious, special thing that they cannot describe." This sentence also applies to the later "Lust, Caution". The era is not the focus, so it is no wonder that the sex scene is exaggerated to try to rationalize the psychological changes of the characters, and Mr. Yi is sad sitting on the bed after Wang Jiazhi is executed at the end. I still remember that the media hyped the deletion of the seven-minute nude sex scene. Many mainland audiences went to Hong Kong to watch the full version. Later, it was reported that Tang Wei was "banned". I couldn't help but sympathize with her and cut out the next report as a newspaper clipping. The deleted version of the screen shot pirated disc was circulated on the market. It was not until many years later that I had the opportunity to see the full version. After being eroded by various capitalist films in Europe and the United States, I no longer care about large-scale real and fake. When fake is true, true is also false. The truth is actually not important. Choose the one you are willing to believe in, which is your "truth". Of course, adaptation is similar to the secondary creation of fan fiction. The director can have his own understanding of the story, even if it is a disfiguring adaptation. The creator does not have to fear the judgment of the original party. Seeking common ground while reserving differences has its own merits. "Plain Clothes Police" is told from the male protagonist's perspective throughout, inviting the audience to enter the story and empathize with the characters to feel their psychological changes, from suppressing their nature to carefully exploring and finally awakening to facing their true selves. The police and the priest are filmed with a lot of sexual tension, although the audiovisual aspects are a bit flashy and showy. "It'll pass." Is this a slang term exclusive to priests? It immediately reminds me of the ascetic priest in the second season of "Fleabag". Coincidentally, both of them are named Andrew. I can't help but suspect that the director did it on purpose. There is still tomorrow: decriminalization of homosexuality. The 1961 film "Victim"was the first English film in film history to directly mention homosexuality. There was no same-sex sex scene in the whole film. In 1967, the UK passed the Sexual Offences Act to decriminalize homosexuality. Homosexual behavior in private places by men over the age of 21 was no longer a crime. Many people believe that "Victim" promoted legislation to some extent. In the United States, it was not until 2003 in the case of Lawrence v. Texas that the Federal Supreme Court overturned the fines imposed on John Lawrence and Tyron Deviant. This ruling overturned sodomy laws (this law is mainly used to prosecute same-sex sexual behavior in the United States) across the country. Homosexuals have the right to establish their own intimate relationships without interference from state laws. At present, 67 countries still convict homosexual behavior, mainly concentrated in the Middle East, Africa and Russia. Among them, 11 countries can impose the death penalty, including Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, of which 8 are Asian countries. According to the survey, the death penalty is still being carried out against LGBTQ+ groups in Iran, northern Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen, while the death penalty is still a legal possibility in Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The new Criminal Law of mainland China in 1997 abolished the crime of hooliganism, which is considered to be a sign of the decriminalization of homosexuality in China. The current official attitude is similar to "neither support nor oppose nor advocate", and the mainstream public opinion does not agree. The crime of hooliganism is a crime stipulated in the Criminal Law promulgated in 1979, which refers to openly defying national laws and social morality, gathering to fight, provoking trouble, insulting women or disrupting public order and other serious acts. In the 1983 crackdown campaign, the penalty was expanded to the maximum of death. After the 1997 revision, the crime of hooliganism was abolished and it was divided into the crimes of forced indecency, child molestation, gathering for promiscuity, gathering to fight, provoking trouble, etc. The outlet of desire When it comes to the crime of "gathering for lewdness", I think of the report in 2023 that 6 men in Hangzhou were arrested for gathering for lewdness. Many netizens expressed homophobia, while the case of 10 men and women gathering for lewdness in the same period was ignored by most media. Is it because the public is accustomed to the lewdness between men and women and therefore it has no news value? In 2009, there was a "swapping spouse" case involving 22 defendants (14 men and 8 women) that caused a huge public opinion storm. According to the prosecution's data, from the summer of 2007 to August 2009, 22 people participated in 35 gatherings through forums or QQ groups. Among them, the main culprit Ma organized or participated in 18 gatherings, and 14 were held at his home. Among them, there were only two couples, some for seeking excitement, some for improving the relationship between husband and wife, and several women had this sexual fetish. . Ma is an associate professor at a university in Nanjing, divorced and single. He believed that the activities did not constitute a gathering for lewdness and defended his innocence. The other 21 defendants all pleaded guilty, and the case was not heard in public. In the end, he was severely punished for his lack of clear awareness of the social harm and illegality of his behavior, and was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison. Others had a good attitude of confessing their guilt. 18 defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 1 year to 2 years and 6 months, of which 14 were given suspended sentences, and the remaining 3 defendants were exempted from criminal punishment because of their minor crimes and voluntary surrender. The number of people involved in this case set a record since the establishment of the crime of gathering for lewdness, and it was the first time that a person was sentenced to actual imprisonment for this crime. In 2006, a domestic drama "Don't Dance with Strangers"involved the issue of spouse swapping. In the past, the themes of domestic film and television dramas were more diverse than today. Li Yinhe once said that the crime of group lewdness is seriously outdated and suggested abolishing it. She said, "As far as I know, developed countries do not have the crime of group lewdness." "The earliest case of spouse swapping in China occurred in the 1980s. Four middle-aged couples, intellectuals, swapped spouses. The leader was shot, and then one was sentenced to life imprisonment and another to 15 years in prison."
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La Dolce Villa
Director: Comedy, Romance
Cast: Scott Foley, Violante Placido, Maya Refico, Giuseppe Futia, Simone Luglio, More...
User Rating: 6.3/10 (620 votes)
Eric, who lost his wife, worked hard alone in the United States; his only daughter fell in love with a villa worth "one euro" in Italy. His loving father flew to Tuscany to stop the sale of the property. Unexpectedly, the father fell in love with the beautiful local mayor. The shabby house looked its most beautiful after careful decoration, and everyone was happy. Although I could predict the ending after watching it for five minutes, I was still very happy to finish the movie because it was so beautifully filmed! [两個心R]Highlight 1: Both the male and female protagonists are extremely good-looking. The female protagonist looks a bit like Sha Lianna, but more beautiful. [Balloon R] Highlight 2: The scenery of Tuscany is also very charming, whether it is the buildings, hillsides, or the sea, everything is beautiful. No wonder the three sisters Antonia sit in the hot springs and play around every day. I envy them so much. I don’t even need to learn this life philosophy of “doing nothing and enjoying leisure time”. I’m already familiar with it [shy R] [Wither R] Complaints: The plot is a bit clichéd, the conflict and reconciliation between father and daughter are too smooth. It would be better if the attitude towards life could be explored in depth. It seems that the whole movie is too much for Valentine's Day.
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Balle perdue 3
Director: Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
Cast: Alban Lenoir, Steffi Selma, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Gérard Lanvin, Pascal Ebijo, Julie Tedesco
User Rating: 6.7/10 (315 votes)
The 15-minute prologue uses two action scenes, namely a motorcycle racing scene and an indoor action scene, to set the tone for the whole film. It doesn't pay much attention to the plot. If you like the style of the first two parts, you will definitely like the third part, which magnifies the advantages of the first two parts. But if you think the first two parts are not good, then you won't like the third part either. The action scenes are much better than the first two parts. The city car chase scene must be borrowed from Mission Impossible. In the end, everyone gets on the plane and sets off fireworks. There is another short segment at the end. In fact, I think the plot is still interesting. It's not as bad as I imagined.
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Young Woman and the Sea
Director: Drama, Biography, Sports
Cast: Daisy Ridley, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Stephen Graham, Kim Bodnia, Janet Hine, Glenn Fleisher, Sian Clifford, Christopher Eccleston, Ethan Laws
User Rating: 9.0/10 (172561 votes)
The heroine is resolute and brave, with a rebellious spirit and fighting power; the heroine's mother is strong and neat, with the ability to take action and independent thinking. The world does not belong to men or women, but to innovators who are indomitable and have firm beliefs. But apart from the expression of feminism, although the script and conflict are rigorous, the film itself cannot be said to be outstanding. In addition to many similar problems of flat characters, there is another mistake that second-rate biographical sports films often make: focusing on the time nodes and process of the protagonist's achievements, while being stingy with her personal efforts during this period. And there are many confusing plots in it. In addition, it is strange that this very "Hollywood" style neat film structure has a more abrupt ending. After reading historical materials and biographies with doubts, I found many adaptations that caused incoherence, irrationality, and even very bad plots: 1. The heroine's family is not poor, but "very rich". For example, when the heroine was a child, her family had a beach house, and she once paid $1,000 to learn a new swimming style from a female swimmer she met by chance. 2. Compared with the mother, the father was more supportive of the sisters' swimming career at the beginning. It was the father who advocated sending her to the swimming association. The mother changed her attitude only after the heroine achieved results. 3. The ship explosion at the beginning did inspire someone to believe that "women should also learn to swim", but this person was Charlotte (a female coach). She founded the Women's Swimming Association in 1917. As soon as the association was established, it received strong support and donations from all walks of life. 4. The person who actually trained the heroine in swimming was Handley, a famous feminist in the swimming world at the time who advocated gender equality. He also improved the freestyle stroke to make it more suitable for women. 5. The U.S. Olympic Committee has never sponsored a female swimmer. The sponsor has always been the Women's Swimming Association. 6. Coach Wolfe had various conflicts with the heroine due to arrogance, gender bias, personality incompatibility, training methods, and scheduling. The relationship between the two was extremely bad, and Wolfe even sexually harassed her more than once. But there is no evidence that Wolfe drugged her. This plot occurred because the heroine's diet plan during training, including the energy replenishment arrangements during the training, was made by Wolfe, so Trudy had doubts afterwards, but the diet was made by Trudy's assistant, so Trudy and the Women's Swimming Association did not publicly accuse her. 7. Wolfe did not try to contact the heroine during the crossing. After the heroine felt extremely nauseous and wanted to vomit, Wolfe insisted on ending the crossing and directed others to rescue the heroine and get her on the boat. This was confirmed by the head of the female swimming association who was also on the boat. 8. Trudy's two Channel crossings were planned one year apart 9. Before the second crossing of the channel, it was the heroine's father, not the coach, who promised the heroine that he would never stop unless she gave up. 10. The heroine encountered a shallow beach 5 miles from the coast, but she never had the choice of "swimming across alone". Trudy had to either turn with the boat and cross the current or give up. Coach Burgess and the captain chose the latter for safety reasons, while her father and sister insisted on the former. Finally, after her father explained the situation, Trudy chose to continue. 11. At that time, sports were becoming more commercialized. Women's sports, including women's swimming, were in full swing, and swimming across the English Channel was just one of them. While Trudy was training, many male and female swimmers were also doing this training, all with the goal of becoming sports stars like the heroine. 12. Before Trudy started to cross the English Channel, her father and sister made a series of plans and designs for the commercial value she might create, including endorsements and a large number of commercial performances. After Trudy succeeded, they received a total of more than $1 million in business offers. 13. After Trudy successfully crossed the English Channel, she delayed her return to the United States and went on a commercial tour in Europe with her family, mainly visiting her hometown in Germany. 14. More than 20 days after Trudy successfully crossed the English Channel, the family returned to New York, and Trudy received a tsunami-like welcome. But the day after returning to the United States, Gad Cossen became the second female swimmer to successfully cross the English Channel, and then another male swimmer broke Trudy's time record.
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Kyuka: Before Summer's End
Director: Drama
Cast: Elsa Lekakou, Konstantinos Georgopoulos, Simeon Tsakiris, Elina Topalido, Stathis Apostolou
User Rating: 7.1/10 (948 votes)
The square frame cannot contain the overflowing blue waves at the end of summer in August and September. There are too many ambiguous backgrounds and too many vague words. Only the real emotions and silent blanks revealed by the words and interactions can make people resonate with them. The father, who is both a father and a mother, took his twin children on a sailboat to a beach where he often took them when they were young, and also went to see his ex-wife whom he had not seen for many years without the children's knowledge. God knows how excited and expectant he was on this day, but he still guarded his pride as always, arguing with her half-heartedly, and carefully handed over the USB flash drive he specially prepared with the children's video recordings. He wanted her to know how he had diligently raised the children during her absence. Although his ex-wife broke her promise after seeing him, he still invited her family to his boat by coincidence, and had dinner with the children - they ate the fish he caught with his superb fishing skills. Another fisherman, his ex-wife's husband, who was also good at fishing, exposed him and said that all the fish were bought from the market. His last sense of honor was punctured, and his broken marriage experience, the parent-child relationship that could not be honest with each other, and the fact that he could not catch any fish made him sink into the sea with his boat in vain. The only lifeless dead fish caught by his daughter on this trip was actually the fisherman himself. As for the close twin brother and sister (or sister and brother), except for a turtle of the same age as themselves, the memory of their mother has long disappeared. The mother is absent, the father is taciturn, the two are partners, laughing and playing, with a single-parent family history that is not worth mentioning behind them and a useless youth that knows nothing in front of them. They are the brownies that are bitten into the mouth and then spit into the sea in disgust, the broken shells picked up by a five-year-old girl on the beach, and the deflated rubber boat without a shore in the Saronic Bay in the western Aegean Sea. Although they had stopped asking about their mother's whereabouts, when they realized that the woman in front of them was her, they waded across the shallow sea and tried to climb ashore on the boat called mother. The younger sister finally gave the boat ticket to the older brother. She thought that this older brother who liked skirts and nail polish should be more liked by the mother who still had charm. On the last day of summer, with a bright moon hanging high in the sky over the Saronic Bay, one ship set sail and another was fished out.
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Straume
Director: Animation, Fantasy, Adventure
Cast: /
User Rating: 8.4/10 (125626 votes)
Flow is actually a very sad story. The aurora borealis appears in the tropics, floods come and go without a trace, survival is threatened at any time, and beloved things can be lost at any time. The galloping reindeer carries the message of the end of the world. In the cat's nightmare, it is an endless cycle, indicating that all life in the end of the world has nowhere to escape. The herd of deer roaring past again at the end is probably the precursor to the nightmare coming true. But why does this cartoon look cute, warm, and healing? Because the ignorance from the perspective of animals conceals the anxiety of survival in the end times. The black cat, Capybara, Labrador, lemur, and secretary vulture, these five animals carefully selected by the production team, do not have a predatory relationship with each other; except for the black cat and Capybara who are born to live alone, the other animals have either actively or passively left the group and lived in harmony on the "Noah's Ark", and even pulled each other and helped each other, which cast a layer of warmth on the end-of-the-world picture. And every time you stumble, you can always be caught by the kindness of other species, and every time you lose something, you will always get it back at an unexpected moment, as if nature also has some kind of mysterious warmth. Applying color on the background of sadness and despair, this is the unique healing power of romanticism. In this romantic drift, each animal pursues its own life agenda on the Ark. Their demands are intertwined, and each takes what it needs. The Ark becomes their small life community. Lemurs love the creations of human civilization. The magical transparent utensils (glass bottles), the hard and luminous regular devices (silver spoons), and the most fascinating magic that can show another self (mirrors) make lemurs crazy. The Ark is like a scale for lemurs. On one side are its treasures, and on the other side are life and death, and companions. It had two chances to return to its own tribe, but it gave up. Perhaps it realized that its own kind only love material things, and the alien companions on the Ark are the real belonging that can be pinned on. The secretary bird wanted to be in control. Because it insisted on carrying out its good intentions (protecting the cats), it fought with the leader, but was defeated, had its wings crippled, and was abandoned by the tribe. For the secretary bird, the Ark was like a power vacuum, and it naturally became the helmsman, the new temporary authority, and could act according to its own will. When the dogs boarded the ship, when things were beyond its control, it was the first to abandon the ship. Labrador longed for a master. The dogs that returned to the wild lost their allegiance and were fighting for their own survival, seemingly inheriting the dark side of both human and animal nature. Labrador's separation seemed to be due to the traces of domestication remaining in its body, and it tried to find the shadow of its master in the creatures of the Ark. It begged the secretary bird to play the parabolic game with it, imitated the movements of cats, wagged its tail, begged for food, and guarded everyone's sleep, and stayed with everyone until the last moment. Capibala is indeed selfless, it teaches everyone to give in to each other and live in peace, and there is nothing more important than eating and sleeping. In fact, Capibala is like the ark itself, and in the story it almost lives and dies with the ark - the first to board and the last to leave. Although cats are the absolute protagonists, their demands are the most ambiguous. If for lemurs, secretary birds and Labradors, the Ark is a place of belonging outside the tribe, and drifting is a practice of idealists, then for cats, what are the Ark and drifting? On the surface, the cat is the same as other creatures, except that it has never belonged to any group, so it just went through a process from being alone to having a partner, and finally ended up with everyone else, belonging to a sense of belonging alliance composed of different races. The film begins with the reflection of the cat in the water. This intention appears many times in the film. Before the danger comes and after the danger is gone, the cat looks at its reflection. Obviously, it is not Narcissus-like self-admiration, but it seems to have some loneliness and self-pity of a loner. At the end of the film, the reflection in the water is no longer a single person, but a family portrait. But if you think about it carefully, the bond between the cat and other animals is actually very limited before the final rescue scene. The role it plays on the ark is very unstable. When necessary, it will steer the rudder and catch food. When conflicts occur, it often even stays out of the event. So I tend to think that for cats, this drift is not only about finding a sense of belonging as a social animal, but also about seeking a sense of belonging as a solitary animal. Specifically, it comes down to the issue of human settings and religious symbols. Although the film does not explain the human part, we can judge from the ruins that human civilization has probably developed to the level of ancient Rome, with a venue that can accommodate thousands of people, a pillar like a holy mountain, and cat statues of various models around the human hut where the cats originally lived. Is it some kind of cat worship, or the owner of the house just likes cats very much? It is not even known what the relationship between the animals here and humans was, such as whether the dogs were domesticated dogs by humans, and whether the cats themselves were fed by the owner of the house. But it is obvious that humans have either become extinct or have evacuated the earth in a mysterious way similar to the collective disappearance on the holy mountain. Regarding religion, the most recognizable element is Noah's Ark. However, unlike the betrayal-faith, punishment-forgiveness, disaster-salvation, destruction-rebirth symbolized by Noah's Ark in the Bible, the Ark in this film is more like a temporary, even one-time place, a refuge for survival in the end of the world, and a private reserve for idealists who avoid materialism, barbarism and authoritarianism. Rather than calling it "Noah's Ark", it is better to say that these animals are all abandoned by Noah and left on the earth by humans to fend for themselves, so the animals themselves formed a small boat for self-rescue. It is spontaneous, temporary, and unstable. There is no punishment or blessing from God's will, but only the coldness and kindness from the unknown forces of nature; there is no promised land of hope, but some are signs of the next flood; of course, there is no Noah-like leader or organizer, but only a spontaneous alliance of animals. Of course, the Ark always symbolizes hope, but this hope is eventually destroyed. After the flood receded, the once hopeful Ark became a dangerous place and fell into the abyss before the next flood came. The second thing that can be detected is the divine implication of the secretary vulture. Since the secretary vulture took the helm, the Ark seemed to be heading purposefully towards the tallest building in sight, those towering mysterious pillars, or holy mountains. The holy mountain is a sacred image that appears in many religions. It is the abode of God and a place where one can communicate with God. In the end, the secretary vulture disappeared from the center of a mysterious formation on the holy mountain, but the cat fell back to the ground. God accepted the secretary vulture but not the cat, or the vulture found its ultimate home, but this did not constitute the ultimate home of the cat. Therefore, for the cat, humans and all possible bonds between humans and cats are not their destination. The gods guided by the secretary bird are not their destination either. The peace and love alliance between different races advocated by Capybara seems to be the destination given at the end of the film, but in fact it is unlikely to last forever. In this sense, the deeper sadness of the film is revealed under the apocalyptic atmosphere: the answer that the cat finally sees is that there is no destination. Even the mysterious kindness from nature is not a destination - the giant whale that saved them twice was finally stranded on the flat ground where the flood receded and was dying. The cat witnessed its death with his own eyes. The kindness between animals is so touching in the background of sadness. In the hint of despair, the family portrait reflected in the water, and the giant whale entering the waves under the sunset after the subtitles rolled, are the echoes of true romanticism. Of course, the cat in the film, as an animal, does not actually have the subjective consciousness of seeking self-meaning and ultimate destination, but the self-image that appears again and again in the water seems to imply the meaning of self-care, although this meaning is quite vague and ambiguous. This brings us to the biggest problem of this film - the improperly placed human perspective. No dialogue, no anthropomorphism, and a completely animal perspective are already very fresh innovations in today's world where Disney and Hollywood animations are dominant. In particular, there is no extra explanation of the whereabouts of humans, which is a very restrained and subtle treatment, which largely supports the credibility of the animal perspective. However, the animals in the film are far from real animals. Although they are not anthropomorphic in body, expression, movement and language, they do have both animality and human nature, and the animality among them is very human. For example, "dog nature" is equal to liking to play parabolic games, and "cat nature" is equal to liking to chase light spots. The "camera" in the film sometimes takes the subjective viewpoint of cats, but most of the time it follows the cats like an intelligent tracker, which is very much like the viewpoint of a natural photographer-the viewpoint of humans peeping at animals. Therefore, the whole film has a kind of embarrassment of wandering on the border of "animal world", "cute pet world" and "animal fable", not knowing where to land first, and the audience will feel confused between the sense of voyeurism and the sense of substitution accordingly. However, after all, the audience is all human, and the anthropocentric perspective problem between humans is probably easy to forgive. What's more, this is such a beautiful but not greasy, sad but not hurtful, simple but not simplistic cat adventure. Moreover, who doesn't love a doomsday healing road movie these days? Who hasn't been at the end of their own world? Who doesn't want the leap of faith they are forced to take to be caught by warm kindness? Who doesn't want an ark to accommodate their idealism? Therefore, since both the desire to voyeurism and the sense of immersion can be satisfied at the same time, as a viewer, there is no need to worry about anything.
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Treno dei Bambini
Director: Drama, History
Cast: Christian Cervone, Barbara Ronchi, Serena Rossi, Stefano Accorsi, Francesco di Leyva, More ...
User Rating: 7.6/10 (759 votes)
Among the films I watched recently, the two most tear-jerking ones, "My Favorite Cake" and "Child's Heart Train", are both directed by women. To be honest, I didn't pay attention to who the director was before watching them, but the impression is not deceptive. "Even if there are no descriptive, bloody, violent, or war scenes", it can still make people want to watch it deeply. It is almost the work of female directors. I am not dragging it down, but the female perspective is different. The language of love is outlined in the details, but it is never too sensational. It is restrained at the right time and the camera is restrained. It is probably a kind of female psychological language: because women understand love too much, when they really depict the scene of love, they leave many meaningful fragments and aftertastes, instead of directly cutting the picture in front of you, which is as boring as uncovering the answer. There are many great male directors, including those with scene arrangement and grand worldview, but when describing love, they seem to lack a kind of imagination. It is so interesting. When watching a movie, you are tasting the director's subconscious projection and emotional pattern, and who is behind the camera lens? This emotion cannot be hidden. Or let's put it this way, when male directors film maternal love, they always use the theme of "sacrifice", that is, the mother dies for her child, or the mother sacrifices the happiness of the rest of her life for her child, or the mother gives up something. The purpose is that a mother must be strong, and motherhood contains too much content about self-sacrifice and carries too many private implications. However, stories of maternal love shot by female directors are always more "gentle" to women. Letting a child go is love, accepting a child is love, sometimes coldly pushing a child away is love, but "not forgetting to live your own life" is also love. Female directors are good at shooting women who "live according to their own wishes but also love their children." So I understand that we really, really need more female directors. We need more female directors to shoot "women". For example, the role of "mother" has always been shot by male directors, with all kinds of private goods in patriarchal narratives, and is suffocated by the definitions of "sacrifice", "virginity" and "selflessness". If more female directors shoot women from the perspective of women, then the definition of the word "mother" will move towards new connotations in female narratives. More female directors are filming "what is motherhood" instead of male directors defining what motherhood is. Whoever holds the camera to express ideas is a kind of power in itself.
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Sei nell'anima
Director: Drama, Music, Biography
Cast: Letizia Toni, Selene Caramazza, Maurizio Lombardi, Noemi Brando, Alessandro Cucca, Emanuele Luigi Cuomo
User Rating: 7.0/10 (273 votes)
The film uses powerful visual language to reveal the violent nature behind this beautiful ideology. On the surface, the film tells a coming-of-age story about youth, rebellion and self-identity; in essence, it quietly presents how beauty is constructed as a tool of social discipline and the painful struggles that individuals experience under this discipline.
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Companion
Director: Science Fiction, Thriller
Cast: Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lucas Gage, Megan Surie, Harvey Guillen, More...
User Rating: 6.8/10 (36738 votes)
# Companion# (B+) is not a horror film, but a robot-out-of-control thriller similar to "M3GAN". But the scariest part is not the killing or gore in the film, but the fact that when you watch it, you will learn from the experience of this female robot what some men want in a "partner", and how to control and treat their partners roughly. In other words, although the one who is tortured in the film is a robot, in reality, many real women are also treated like this: being manipulated, subjected to domestic violence, and without freedom and respect. They are living people, not bought robots. This is the most creepy thing. From the beginning, when the male protagonist Josh walks in front with nothing in his hands, and his girlfriend Iris follows behind with two large suitcases, you know that this is not a normal relationship. In real life, most of the time it is the men who help their girlfriends carry their luggage, but here it is the other way around. The smaller girl seems to be the boyfriend's follower. When you know that this girlfriend is a robot, you don't find it strange anymore. But then again, in real life, does every man really carry luggage for his girlfriend (or wife)? Similar scenes keep happening later. Is Josh's control and insults to Iris really just because she is a robot playmate? In fact, everything Iris encounters, whether it is control, brainwashing, manipulation or insults, is endured by real people in real life. In particular, when you find that Josh will adjust Iris's IQ to a very low level (40%) and lower her temper in order to control Iris, so she becomes a very obedient and indecisive girlfriend. In reality, many girls are born to be this kind of obedient and indecisive girlfriend, they are not robots. If there is no way to buy a robot, such women can easily become victims of a toxic relationship. The female robot Iris in the film can also take the opportunity to grab the phone to raise her IQ and immediately transform into a smart and strong woman, but some girls in reality cannot change their IQ and may always be manipulated. But on the other hand, you may wonder, if there is such a robot as a substitute, will it help some girls escape from the clutches of these demons? There are many movies about robots and AI, so the ending should be predictable. Obviously, the audience will stand on the side of the robot, hoping that she can escape from the clutches of the evil and the bad guys will be punished. The whole movie is still full of surprises and twists. AI and technology are not the focus of this film. The focus is on mapping the reality that is prevalent in human society, showing the desires, greed and control of some people, and how women may fall into "inhuman" gender relationships. The film is quite profound and has some relatively novel ideas, and is not a repetition of the same type. In addition, the reason why the heroine is called Iris is that the name is reversed to Siri
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Macbeth
Director: Drama
Cast: David Tennant, Cush Jumbo, Moyo Akande, Annie Grace, Kaspar Nove, More...
User Rating: 7.7/10 (642 votes)
The short review says that Titi adds one star, the child adds one star, and the glass slapping adds one star. Then a friend who feels the same pointed out that the original play is only worth one star. Haha. Indeed. I was quite upset after watching it at that time. Although I had enough time to change the train from the last train to half an hour earlier because it was less than nine o'clock at the end, I still couldn't say its advantages. A few days after watching it, I was no longer as excited (unhappy) as I was at that time. I recorded it calmly. In two days, I really forgot everything. The dividing line of the full spoiler is to talk about the advantages first. Yes, this version also has advantages~ 1. Big Titi. Titi acted too well. Although the director and the actors on the same stage created many difficulties, she burst into light when she had the opportunity. For this reason, I will definitely recommend this version. The most impressive place is also one of the few places in this version of the play that makes people feel the connection between Macbeth and his wife. I think it was completely made up by Titi: the monologue after the servant reported the death of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth said, "She's dead, she's dead sooner or later." In other versions, this part usually only expresses Macbeth's indifference to human nature and his helplessness towards life and death at this point in the story, but Titti gave it a particularly fragile and melancholy tone, which makes people feel Macbeth's deep loneliness and helplessness after Lady Macbeth's death. It's like a eulogy for Lady Macbeth, which is an emotion I have never experienced before. Their connection is much deeper than I imagined. 2. There is a wonderful arrangement. At the banquet after Banquo's death, because the script directly wrote Banquo's ghost, basically every version also has a real ghost. But this version didn't have a person. In other words, most of what we saw before was from Macbeth's perspective, but this version gives us Lady Macbeth's perspective, the guest's perspective. This made me feel a sense of sudden realization, and I very intuitively experienced the dislocation between Macbeth and his wife, that is, Macbeth saw Banquo, and Lady Macbeth thought he saw Duncan. You can even imagine Macbeth seeing Banquo and Duncan, and imagine Lady Macbeth gradually realizing that he had killed Banquo, which gave a lot of space. 3. The child who played all the children is very good, and the future is promising. 4. The stage design is quite good. The overall structure is a square white stage in the center, island-shaped, surrounded by audience seats on three sides, with a glass on the back. The ground behind the glass is still flush with the stage. It can be considered that the area behind the glass is also part of the stage. There are several scenes where characters hit the glass in the back, which is super scary. Lady Macbeth also hit the glass when she was carried away from the back after sleepwalking, which was particularly desperate. The music is also very good! So that's all the advantages. The annoying things about this version: 1. Cutting the bones. To say how short this version is, it's not. After all, Macbeth is not a long play, two hours is also okay. There are also many transition scenes in the original script, so there is room for cutting. But the problem with this version is not that it deleted a few scenes, but that every scene was deleted. Almost every scene was kept, and a little bit was deleted here and there. The fat was cut to thin, and the thin parts are still there. . The final feeling is that the mountains and valleys are filled with potholes. The two hours are pure rambling, and the director is always worried about not having enough time. He doesn't know what he is rushing or what he is being rushed by. For example, my favorite scene between Macduff and Malcolm was deleted in many versions. To be honest, I can understand it, but this version is not. It deleted most of it and left a little bit. As a result, Malcolm was excited and angry at the beginning. I really don't know why. 2. Die. I am so angry that I want to die when I write these two words. I am going to die. Macbeth is a very rare play in Shakespeare's plays that has no comedy elements. There is a reason for this, okay, brother? The director inserted two comedy sections, one large and one small, at two key moments in this play, and they were inserted at the wrong place, which cut off the breath of the whole play twice. The first one, also known as the most unforgivable one, is after the murder of Duncan, the monologue of the gatekeeper was turned into a stand-up comedy. From the form to the content, it is a real stand-up, interacting with the audience and "offending" the audience. It is a super long section. Most of this dialogue is newly written, the style is below average, and it is very embarrassingly long. It was so long that I sat there and wondered if this guy was a relative of the director. Later, I secretly looked up the actor who played the janitor, thinking that maybe he had done stand-up comedy before? But he didn't. Haha, he specifically said in the interview that I don't have a background in stand-up comedy. Well, at least he succeeded in playing a stand-up comedian. He said that this stand-up was inserted in this version to avoid the plot being too intense. May I ask? It's like doing aerobics, the heart rate just passed 100, and suddenly I was told to stop: Stop it, don't be too intense. Then it cooled down to 70. Why is this! I actually think that another problem with this stand-up is more serious, that is, it ruined the work in terms of form. In terms of form, it is a stand-up, five minutes long. The other 100 minutes are a Shakespeare play. This difference and proportion is as weird as a person growing a small fish fin. If it is bigger and richer, maybe it is qualified to be a fish-headed man? But now it is just a small mistake on a human body. The second comic effect is inserted before the duel between Macbeth and Macduff. I don’t know why, no matter which version, this scene is not very good, and there are quite a lot of inexplicable treatments. In this version, Macbeth keeps slapping Macduff’s face. It is quite funny to say it is a provocation or a tease, but just like that monologue is super long, the slaps are endless. You think it’s over, and he comes again... (Of course, I have nothing to complain about watching Big Titty slap people.) As you can imagine, the tension has dropped again. 3. Roles and actors. This version can be said to be very unfriendly to beginners. One of the reasons is the scheduling of the actors. Strictly speaking, except for Macbeth himself, all actors played more than two roles (Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff have a scene, and it is not clear whether this role was given to this actor, or this plot was given to Lady Macbeth). Everyone was in casual clothes/did not change clothes. There was almost no difference in the performance of the actors between the roles. For example, the child who played all the children mentioned above played Banquo's son, Macduff's son, the prophetic child, and it was once suspected that he played the phantom of Lady Macbeth's son. He even played a general who challenged Macbeth in a duel at the end, but Macbeth broke his neck. It was a bit scary. I am quite curious whether new audiences will confuse the roles? The actors cannot be said to be bad, but they cannot be said to be good either. Malcolm is a strange choice, and he does not look like a ruler. Duncan is vague, Banquo seems to be too shrewd, and Macduff is not mentioned. The gatekeeper forcibly shows his armpit hair. As for Lady Macbeth, there is nothing wrong with her acting skills. She has worked with Titi many times, but there is almost no tension between the two. This version of Lady Macbeth is very much like a tool person, and her mental changes are also very stiff and broken. I think it may be the director's problem. Features that are not considered disadvantages: Camera and headphones. This version may be the one with the biggest difference in viewing experience between theater audiences and theater audiences in ntlive. Several times I felt that this was a movie, not a stage play. The actors' sense of finding the camera (or more likely the other way around) is too strong, and several overhead shots from directly above also deepen this feeling. Close-ups, close-ups, close-ups, tiring. Each audience member at the scene wore a headset, and the music and human voices at the scene were all input into the headset through the microphone. The interview was very ridiculous, saying that in order to let the audience experience the situation of PTSD when the soldiers returned from the battlefield, they would hear the sounds lingering in Macbeth's mind in the headphones, such as roars, voices or other sounds. For example, when Banquo mentioned swallows building nests, the audience would hear the swallows whispering in the headphones. The gatekeeper jumped down from the audience and said, "Are you wearing headphones?" Do you pay to listen to radio dramas? This is the beginning of his stand-up comedy, and it is also the only funny joke.
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