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Warfare
Director: Ray Mendoza, Alex Garland
Cast: Dedeharo Vuong-Ayi-Taren, Will Poulter, Joseph Quinn
A Navy SEAL team was ordered to set up an outpost in Iraq. During the surveillance mission, they were suddenly besieged by the enemy. The enemy was outnumbered and they had no choice but to defend the outpost under fierce artillery fire, waiting for reinforcements and armored vehicles to arrive. However, their comrades were seriously injured and dying, supplies and equipment were scarce, and the enemy was advancing from all sides... In the adverse situation that was difficult to reverse, even if they fought side by side, could everyone retreat? The film was adapted from the real experience of Ray Mendoza, a former Navy SEAL member, in the Iraq War.
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Drop
Violet (Meghann Fahy) is a widow and single mother who is on her first date in years. She arrives at a fancy restaurant and is delighted that her date, Henry (Brandon Sklenar), is more charming and handsome than she expected. But as a series of anonymous messages begin to arrive on her phone, Violet's initial annoyance gradually turns into fear, and the sparks between the two begin to cool. Later, she is instructed not to tell anyone about this and must obey the instructions of the anonymous message, otherwise the mysterious figure in the hoodie she sees through the home monitor on her phone will kill Violet's young son and his sister who is babysitting him. Violet must act exactly as ordered, otherwise everyone she loves will die, and what is the final order of the mysterious figure who has been tormenting her invisibly? Kill Henry.
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Le Rendez-vous de l'été
2024 Paris Olympics. 30-year-old Blandine travels from Normandy to Paris to watch the swimming competition. Faced with the hustle and bustle of the city, she feels lost and nothing seems to be going her way. She navigates the chaos of Paris and experiences an unexpected reunion.
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Warfare
Director: Ray Mendoza, Alex Garland
Cast: Dedeharo Vuong-Ayi-Taren, Will Poulter, Joseph Quinn
User Rating: 7.6/10 (1586 votes)
**Warfare (A-)** is only 95 minutes long, not counting the end credits, and it was over in less than an hour and a half. It's been a long time since I've seen such a short movie, so I couldn't believe it at first. The reason why I thought it was short was that the whole movie was tense, and it really was like a nightmare and I hoped it would end soon. When it really ended very quickly, I was relieved. This is very different from the average war movie. It is more like a clip from most war movies because it only takes place in one location and tells the story of a small team being attacked and trying to evacuate. There is no background explanation and it quickly gets to the point. The story is told very efficiently, and the photography and sound effects make people feel like watching a documentary, which is very real. This film is not to discuss the right and wrong of war, nor is it to shape the image of the US military, but just to show how soldiers survive in real wars. Most American movies always make people feel that they value individualism, but this one emphasizes collectivism. In war, there are really no superheroes, and the only way is for soldiers to help each other. This is fully demonstrated in the film. Everyone is trying to protect other comrades around them, and every action is completed by collective cooperation. The film shows in detail how soldiers communicate in war, and they obey the orders of their superiors and are well-trained. Because it is just a small team and there are no large-scale war scenes, each character is equally important and the time given is almost evenly distributed. However, even so, Will Poulter and Charles Melton are more impressive because they play leaders who are responsible for issuing orders and making decisions. In particular, even though Charles Melton does not have many scenes, he seems to be firm and powerful in every line, and can be regarded as the most handsome character in the film. I originally thought that Joseph Quinn would have a remarkable performance in this film, but he was injured after just a few hits, and then he was just responsible for lying on the ground and screaming from beginning to end. LOL Most of the heart-wrenching screams in this film were contributed by him. The main reason is that this character looked very cool when he first appeared, and I thought he would be a powerful person, but I really didn’t expect that he was just responsible for crying. Of course, this is a true story, adapted from the memories of people present. The sound effects artist chose to put this character’s scream at the maximum decibel, probably because other soldiers remembered that he screamed the loudest. Because I have never been able to remember Joseph Quinn’s face, I always hope that he can play some memorable roles, but this time I only remember his screams. I hope that *Fantastic Four* can finally make me remember him. The editing and sound effects of the film are really outstanding, adding to the tension while watching, making people feel uneasy throughout the whole process, not knowing where the danger will come from. I think this way of not explaining the background and only directly presenting the cruelty of war is also quite effective, allowing the audience to deeply experience the despair and fear of every soldier present. Of course, there are also some close-ups of broken limbs and bloody shots.
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Director: Christopher Landon
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User Rating: 5.7/10 (3126 votes)
(Drop) (B+) It is a bit similar to the thriller "Red Eye". A woman is controlled and threatened by a criminal in a specific space. How can she escape this control in a short time? A single mother finally found time to go on a date, but she kept receiving air drops from people around her in the restaurant, threatening her that if she didn't kill her date, her son would be killed. The mother's every move was also monitored. Should she act according to the other party's control? How can she escape this situation? This is a story about control and being controlled. The heroines of this type of movie are relatively weak, and they are easily controlled by others because of their handles or weaknesses, which can be used to threaten and exploit. The heroine of this film, Violet, is a single mother and a victim of domestic violence. This label makes her a very suitable "prey". The fact that she has not left the toxic marriage before shows that she is a weak-willed and fragile person, and the child is the best tool to threaten her. But after the hardships of life, has she learned her lesson and made some improvements? There is only one way to get rid of this "controlled" dilemma, that is, to use your brain and wisdom to resist, instead of giving in. In fact, although this type of movie is for entertainment, it ultimately explores the relationship between abusers who like to control others and the weak who are easily controlled. Some people always think that they are in control of the overall situation and enjoy threatening others. Once the weak show weakness, they will become more rampant. This is a typical bully. For example, the recent Kim Soo-hyun incident is also of this type. But bullies often underestimate the tenacity, wisdom and help of the accused, and are sure that the other party will not resist, and that the other party is weak, stupid and easy to tame. But if the controlled weak starts to resist at this time, breaking their expectations, the situation will break. So these stories are actually telling women that you have to find a way to break free from this controlled situation and not show weakness. The heroine in this film never left the violent marriage, always giving in easily, and her life was threatened, but she survived by chance. This rebirth changed her and made her a stronger person, so when she faced the threat of control again, she chose not to give in. I think the whole story makes sense, and it also combines the air drop function in modern mobile phones, which is more in line with the times. Although this was a messed up date, this Chicago high-rise restaurant is really beautiful and makes people miss the night view of Chicago. In this film, the date, the heroine's phone keeps ringing, and the two are constantly interrupted. This part of the plot is also very resonant. No matter what it is, it is really annoying when the phone keeps ringing when you are talking or eating with others. It is also disrespectful to others. I guess everyone understands this feeling. When you are eating or talking with others, please try to ignore your phone.
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Director: Valentin Kadic
Cast: Brandine Madec, India Haile, Arcadi Radef
User Rating: 8.2/10 (1552 votes)
This year, the new artistic director of the Berlin International Film Festival, Tricia Tuttle, cancelled the previously acclaimed Encounters unit and replaced it with a new Perspectives unit. The new unit focuses on outstanding new filmmakers, especially those who have fluent and bold film language, compelling viewpoints, and new ways of looking at the world. French director and actor Valentin Kadic's debut feature film *Paris Summer* has become a highlight of this unit and the entire Berlin Film Festival this year. It has been repeatedly mentioned and favored in various film reviews of the Berlin Film Festival. In 2020, she co-founded Les Flimeuses, a production company dedicated to supporting female filmmakers. In the same year, she began her directing career. She collaborated again with Blondie Madyk, the star of her second short film *Summer Vacation*, and tailored this film between documentary and fiction for her, which is set against the backdrop of the Paris Olympics. The film was shot during the Paris Olympics, with the camera set up in the crowd, but it focused more on the private story of this queer woman. It is also a gentle interrogation of the issues behind the Paris Olympics, deftly piercing the theme park-like fantasy image of enthusiasm, diversity and inclusion that the Paris Olympics strives to present to the world. Most of the time, our protagonist Blondie cannot really fit in the carnival atmosphere of Paris. The film does not deliberately create any conflicts. We gradually deepen our understanding of Blondie as the film progresses, and learn the purpose of her trip: to watch the swimming competition of her favorite female athlete Beryl Gastaldello and to visit her half-sister Julie whom she has not seen for ten years. We also have a deeper understanding of her failed relationship and her choice not to have children. At the same time, we also experience Hong Sang-soo's embarrassing moments with her. Blondie is pure and introverted, and has a unique sense of pause, which allows her to stumble in various embarrassing situations. In such an Olympic moment with the most national significance, we can't see any unconscious attachment to nationalism in her. There is no such kitsch in the whole film, which is the freshness and cleverness of this film. She is more like a mirror, reflecting the doubts of the people behind the glamour of Paris who have never been exposed about the high cost of the city image project of managing the Seine River, and the questioning of the legitimacy of the act of expelling homeless people from the streets of Paris. Blondie continued to accumulate disappointment about this trip, and gradually got lost, until the day before she left Paris, she left sadly under the hysteria of her sister for no reason, and her Paris moment really came. She sat on the back seat of the motorcycle of her new friend, electrician Benjamin, and shuttled through Paris at night, bringing a gust of summer night breeze. The two fell asleep by the river, and when they woke up on the grass, Paris was shrouded in mist before dawn. A miracle happened at this moment. Beryl Gastaldello appeared on a bridge not far away with two dogs. It was a chance morning by the river, not in the Olympic stadium.
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Caddo Lake
Director: Logan George, Cerline Hurd
Cast: Dylan O'Brien, Eliza Scanlan, Diana Hopper
User Rating: 7.1/10 (4493 votes)
Timeline and plot summary of main characters: Anna was born in 1945 according to news archive records (actually born in 2014). She was 8 years old in 1952 (in 2022, after Ellie became a nun in anger, Anna also sailed out to the center of the lake and traveled to 1952, where she was injured and fell to the ground and could not go back, so she disappeared completely in the time and space of 2022. Barris also traveled to 1952 to save her and sent her to the people of that year for treatment, and she stayed in 1952 to start a new life.) She started to have epilepsy in 1972 (the beginning of her husband's record). She had three seizures in 1985, one seizure in 1986, and three seizures in 1993. She died in a car accident on August 19, 1999 at the age of 55. She was born in 2014 and discovered that the center of the lake began to travel through time many times. On August 19, 1999, his mother Anna was driving him in a car accident. Since then, he has been worried about not being able to ask his mother for help and his mother's sudden illness. In 2003, Barris picked up the necklace that Ellie lost when she traveled through time in the middle of the lake. He found that it was the same as his mother's and became suspicious. He accidentally discovered the existence of the barrier and began to investigate. He began to travel through time on September 26, 2003. He completely disappeared in his own time and space. When he traveled through time, he saved his mother Anna when she was a child and left her in 1952. Finally, he traveled to 2022 along the rope left by Ellie. In 2022, Barris drowned Ellie. In 2003, Barris and his wife got pregnant with Ellie in the RV. On September 26, 2003, Barris disappeared. In 2005, Ellie traveled through time and saw her young mother and herself. In the first half of the movie in 2022, Ellie lived with Anna, and her mother reunited with her great-grandfather. Detailed discussion: 1. The cause of the car accident at the beginning of the movie (how did Anna die?) According to the detailed analysis, the setting of the movie can be known: the side effects (hand tremors, epilepsy, ear bleeding, etc.) of the main body traveling through time and space once in the center of the lake, and the main bodies in other time and space also suffer the same degree of side effects at the same time. Because Anna traveled through time and space many times when she was 8 years old (seeing wolves, picking up extinct four-eyed moths, etc.), that is to say, the 8-year-old Anna traveled to 1999, and her body suffered from side effects and epilepsy, and she happened to be driving in 1999, and she also suffered from side effects and epilepsy, causing the car to lose control and rush out of the bridge. The doctor also said that her physical condition was not suitable for driving a vehicle. Barris and his wife said that they had never had epilepsy because he was the main body and had not traveled yet. 2. The relationship between Anna and Ellie Anna and Ellie are half-sisters from a reconstituted family. When the two sisters discussed who their parents would adopt, they explained it, so Ellie's mother just married her great-grandfather, not as some people say, reincarnation. 3. The reincarnation and bug of the necklace. Anna first took the necklace from Ellie's mother's jewelry box in 2022. It was given to Ellie's mother by Barris in 2003. Barris took the relic of his mother Anna from his parents' home, so... the necklace is closed. But Ellie snatched the necklace from her mother in 2005, and dropped it in 2003 and was picked up by Barris, so Barris may have left two necklaces for Ellie's mother. Ellie snatched one in 2005, and the other was taken by Anna in 2022, so which necklace is the source? 4. The strange noise in the lake. The strange noise in the lake that Ellie and Barris heard was the sound of explosives exploding when the dam was repaired in 1952. Barris also heard the sound of a helicopter flying over when searching for Anna in 2022. Although animals (wolves, crocodiles, four-eyed moths) can travel through time, and Barris's dog can hear the strange noise, it seems that no one except their family can hear it. 5. Neat cuts The barrier that crosses the space in the center of the lake opens when there is no water in the dry season, and closes when it is flooded. When it closes, it cuts off all matter and leaves a neat cut. Ellie's broken rope explains the half of the crocodile that was neatly cut at the beginning. (At first I thought this movie was about a monster in the lake)
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Saturday Night
Director: Jason Reitman
Cast: Gabe Labelle, Rachel Senault, Cory Michael Smith
User Rating: 6.4/10 (988 votes)
#RFH #LFF London Film Festival 21st. Surprise Film, I guess I made a wrong bet... My friend and I hesitated when the director came up... We just decided to… The film still follows the structure of a hero's journey, and apart from the long shots, there seems to be no breakthrough... The reenactment or dramatization of the preparations for the 1974 premiere of Saturday Night Live is like the graduation sketch of Ten Great Things that I saw recently, but I feel that I haven’t absorbed much culturally… At most, I watched Colin and Michael’s Weekend Update, the previous presidential election imitation show, and the episodes where Commander Gosling was kidnapped by aliens. But I still didn’t expect George Carlin, the big guy… Andy Kaufman’s scene is also very famous, and Jim Carrey starred in “Man on the Moon”, which is his biopic. The new father insurance at the beginning looks so abstract now… I’m also curious about what the puppet show of adult jokes will be like… Visually, what is impressive is definitely the large number of long movement shots, especially those in the narrow aisles and across the set, which feels like a test of scheduling. In terms of hearing... it feels too... complicated... I can understand that the live effect is presented in such a noisy environment, but it is still a bit tiring to watch as a movie.
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Sinners
Director: Ryan Coogler
Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O'Connell
User Rating: 7.9/10 (2395 votes)
This is the kind of movie that will surprise you if you have no idea what the movie is about. The first half is like a western, but it is full of song and dance, and then it turns into a vampire horror movie. It has a multi-ethnic cast, a great fusion of cultures, and no reservations about pornography/violence. It is a very interesting and surprising movie. I have to say that Ryan Coogler is really good at choosing music. The soundtrack of Black Panther was very good at that time. It was both culturally representative and made the movie look more exciting. This movie is the same. It contains a lot of soul music with electric guitar as the main theme, and there are also many cheerful dance music. The soundtrack will definitely be a memorable place. There are Africans, Asians, and Aboriginals in the film, and there are also Peking Opera actors. It is really a great fusion of ethnic minority cultures. Moreover, the sudden appearance of vampires in a western movie does not feel abrupt. Michael B Jordan plays two roles. At first, it was hard to tell them apart. They could only be distinguished by the different hats they wore. But later, their personalities gradually became clear. Even without hats and with the same hairstyle, the audience could still tell them apart. Moreover, the twins are typical Western heroes, and they are very cool. Even though I personally think there is a bit too much violence in the later part, they are generally likable and attractive male characters. Many explicit sex scenes are often very long and have many details, which I didn't expect lol In addition, the IMAX rubber camera was used for shooting, and the picture quality and photography are excellent. The twin brothers played by Michael B Jordan also have many scenes in the same frame. The special effects are very good, and there are no flaws at all. It is very natural, and sometimes you will forget that it is played by one person. The part after the killing begins is full of horror and suspense, while the previous part requires patience. This is a work that Ryan Coogler is very open to. It can be seen that there are almost no restrictions and reservations, so sometimes it feels too crazy, but overall it is a fresh viewing experience. Originally, I was not very interested in westerns, blood and gun battles, but I have to say that the characters in the film are well-shaped, the lines are vivid and interesting, and they will not make people feel sleepy.
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Havoc
Director: Gareth Evans
Cast: Tom Hardy, Lockhart Ogilvy, Quirin Sepulveda
User Rating: 5.8/10 (5763 votes)
Evans has never been a performer limited to the field of Bankasura. This film proves that he is one of the most devout and fanatical action film directors in the world today. Unlike the "John Wick" that is leading the global trend today, Evans pursues the traditional method of doing the opposite when virtual special effects and safety measures have advanced to the point where they can eliminate the risk factor of action performances, allowing the audience to find the thrilling feeling when they first watched Hong Kong action movies in various brain-wracking real-life stunt shots. "The Drugged Man" is a half-John Woo fan film that will transform this from the inside out. The Hong Kong film fanatic attribute is pushed to the peak, the violence is exaggerated and vented, but subtly distinguished from John Woo's elegance, and more in line with the reckless street aesthetics. Of course, this pure tribute-style scene arrangement has long been cult and niche due to being outdated. The real display of fierce strength is still the group fight in the nightclub, which has been shelved for reshoots for several years. The quality has been predicted, and the patched VFX and the chaotic and clichéd fate and redemption of parents and children have all dragged it down, but this scene alone is enough for me to continue to believe in the possibilities of Evans who has left "The Raid".
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Sex, Dream, Love Trilogy: Dream Drømmer
Director: Dag Johan Haugrud
Cast: Ella Overby, Anne Dal Tope, Seroem Enetou
User Rating: 8.0/10 (1767 votes)
Breaking many so-called drama paradigms, the bold structure, contemporary story, and high-concept setting are extremely calm and meticulous. It is worthy of being a script written by a novelist. The whole script is narrated but there are rich and interesting details everywhere. It is hard to imagine that a 60-year-old author can write such a script that is essentially a growth story so real and tactile. The wonderful structure makes every subtle reversal as accurate and effective as thunder. The most amazing thing is the role of the mother and grandmother, which completely avoids the functional clichés, but can be comparable to the profound miniature picture of Ceylon with just a few strokes. The generational gap, the essential loneliness, and the absurdity of politics all give the story depth, but they are all suddenly dissolved in a postmodern way in front of the girl's pure and primitive dream of love. The answer to the film is also hidden here. After two hours of dream talk, the ending point is similar to CMBYN: whether it is love or pain, you have to experience and feel it. Face it honestly and be obsessed with it. (It is much better than the first one)
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Elskling
Director: Lilia Ingolfsdottir
Cast: Helga Gullen, Odger Thune, Keri Haugen Sidnes
User Rating: 7.6/10 (2620 votes)
I feel that there are many places to pause and take notes or analyze throughout the movie. After coming out, I heard the girl next to me say that this is very typical of East Asia. Maybe she wanted to talk about East Asian trauma or communication mode. But I feel that this is human. Most people's communication mode. At the beginning of the movie, I felt that the expression was very bad. They didn't express care, trauma, or needs. They used attacks to express needs, and then lost their tempers with each other. I feel that if these people mastered the method of communication, more than half of the plot conflicts in the world's movies would disappear. Later, I saw the gaslight effect. Push a person to a hysterical and crazy state, and then prove to this person that you are a lunatic. I saw that the heroine squeezed out a lot of her work time during the hero's long business trip, raised 4 children, and her life was a mess. There was a lot of pressure and she couldn't take care of various things. Then the heroine was very upset. When the hero came back and told him that he would go on a business trip again next time, she began to lose control of her emotions. Then the boy told her that she should take an emotion management class and change her temper. At first, the girl's intuition told him that this couldn't be right, and her emotions needed to be viewed in a larger context. But later, when they began to propose separation or divorce, the girl began to search for emotion management courses on the Internet. Then she hoped to ask her husband if she would not leave if she learned these things. But it's impossible. You are in such an environment, facing so much pressure, how can you be very emotionally stable? Why not deal with the environment that makes you crazy, but deal with the crazy subject? Later, they went to see a psychological counselor together. The boy kept expressing that he wanted more private space and work space, and the girl would say that I don't have space anymore. You are the one who has more space than me, why are you asking me for more space. In the later scenes, it brought a very bad mother-daughter relationship, that is, the heroine and her daughter, and then entered the heroine and her mother. Her mother has been instilling in her a concept that the women in our family are very strong and independent, and can survive everything without anyone. In the plot of visiting the mother, there is a very obvious thing, which is the unconscious belittlement of the other party. You brought me a gift, which is really good, but I don't like it. You came to see me, but I want to hit you. So we can see that the emotional expression of the girl in the marriage is actually very similar to the emotional expression of her mother to her. "I want to make you feel bad, make you feel bad." In fact, there are many deficiencies and dissatisfaction with the current life situation, feeling that they are not accepted, understood, and loved. But they can't directly say what they need. There is no way to directly expose their own vulnerability, and there is no way to propose the solution they want to the other party, so they will use a hidden way to find the balance, that is, quietly stabbing the other party to vent their anger. But the party who is belittled or stabbed will actually feel it, so a mutual hidden attack is formed. Later, when the heroine's daughter returned to the family and began to express belittlement and attack to the heroine, the heroine did not have any angry reaction. She just understood her and accepted her. So the daughter cried. The heroine said to herself in the mirror that you are good, you deserve to be loved, you desire to be loved, there is no problem. In fact, loving yourself is really a great ability and proposition. And you have to believe that you can be loved by others and believe that others can accept you. Most of the stories unfold because of lack, and this lack of people in a family relationship may be passed down to their children, or outward to their family members. So we can see very broken communication like the beginning, and very aggressive expression of needs. Many people live as if they don't need love, but they just pretend that they don't need love. In the end, the couple sat in a cafe and talked. The girl said, I always dare not accept your love. I don't know if you will let go when I tell you that I need a hug? The boy said, do you really think so? But he soon discovered his own problem. He never really expressed his needs. The whole movie is a huge communication problem. Although I think it is obviously not comprehensive to summarize this movie with communication, because there are still very important propositions that have not been discussed. I think the boy is indeed avoiding the emotional and care obligations in the family, avoiding labor, and he has his own work space to hide. But the girl does not. This proposition is covered up under communication. But expressing love, feelings, needs, solutions, and believing that you can be accepted is always much better than using attacks and belittlement to ask for care. Just like when the male protagonist tried to sort out the clothes for the family, it was actually better to express his needs. The method is not to constantly belittle him, saying that you can't even sort this, and you can't even do that. If you want him to do more for the family, you should praise him and compliment him. Why work in the opposite direction?
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The Brutalist
Director: Brady Corbett
Cast: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce
User Rating: 7.2/10 (27032 votes)
Best Cinematography, Best Soundtrack, well deserved. The theme song is very epic. Too long, I was annoyed watching it in two days.Are you blind to build such a black cricket church? No one objects? Finally, the architectural concept is to build a machine without redundant parts, but the two uprights on this building are shaped and have no functionality at all. Since the template is a concentration camp, why do we have such extreme requirements for the height? I thought it was a tribute to Brutalism from the title, or focused on its huge sense of oppression and the shadow of totalitarianism behind it, but it turned out to be just promoting the Venice Architecture Biennale. In addition, although it was definitely influenced by it, were there any founders of Brutalism who came from the Bauhaus? It turned out to be Guy Pearce, I thought it was an unknown actor who looked like him. It was obviously foreshadowed that he didn't understand art. Is it necessary to be so intoxicated when choosing marble, just to show his acting skills?! The boss was exposed, and since he had no evidence, he just refused to admit it. This was his first reaction, and then he ran out to commit suicide? In addition, he complained that his daughter's apologies to his architect wife were nonsense. Either he knew that his father had done something dirty, or he hated her for ruining his father's reputation. These two things cannot be compatible. Since he attributed all the setbacks to the fact that Judaism was not tolerated by the Christian world, why didn't he go when his niece wanted to go to Israel? At that time, he was not doing well, and he should have made great efforts to build Israel.
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Venom: The Last Dance
Director: Kelly Marcel
Cast: Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple
User Rating: 6.2/10 (179902 votes)
The difference from imagination is too big. You thought the last dance was a tragic farewell, but it was actually an illogical dance between Venom and Mrs. Chen. They were both on the run and went to the casino? They all knew that they would become a complete experience and be tracked and forced to transform and dance? Where is the logic? You thought that the cool God of Symbiotes, Gnar, was the final boss, but in fact, you played Arthas while sitting on the toilet the whole time, and most of the time you were trying to escape from the few undead alien soldier monsters that were chasing you at the end. Isn't this a scam? You would think that Venom would have a lot of scenes, but in fact, most of the time, due to the far-fetched plot setting, he dare not show his full appearance. Only a bunch of unknown symbiotes can fight monsters, just like the Venom version of Deadpool 3. The only highlight is the transformation into animals such as venom fish, venom frog, venom horse, etc. You thought Venom was an anti-hero, but in fact he just ate the heads of a few gangsters throughout the whole movie, and most of the time he was saving others and himself. This is a hero. Has he been completely domesticated? You thought it must be an R-rated, heavy-taste film without any cuts, but in fact it's just a little bit of blood in the brain, and it's even a bit family-friendly. You think the whole movie is a monster adventure, but it's actually a boring road escape movie most of the time; You think the whole movie is exciting and tense, but the middle road scene with the kind family looking for aliens really ruins the rhythm. Does it contribute more than just buying time for Venom to rescue them? It inspired Eddie that there are still more good people in the world, so he has to sacrifice his life to save the world, right? You thought humans would have important roles and high-tech weapons, but in fact, the Symbiote Secret Research Institute is the American version of Bureau 749. They are all sent to death, and their faces are extremely stereotyped, except that they did not fight with bayonets. The only memorable points in the whole process are two ladies and a general. You thought that the farewell work would be as heroic or melancholy as Avengers, but it was just a brief flashback to the previous two films, bland and not as impressive as the contrast in characters and the human general who sacrificed himself in the end. You wouldn't be particularly moved just because Eddie fulfilled his promise to see the Statue of Liberty, right? You might think Mr. Tang would have a breakthrough in his role interpretation, but in fact, he still had the exaggerated body movements and soliloquy that everyone was used to seeing in the first two films. He was left with only the embarrassment and fatigue of running away with an unshaven beard, and at most he just cueed his own charming man gag. Most importantly, do you think this is the final chapter? Do you think there will be any linkage or surprise guest appearances between the two Easter eggs? None! Not only does it foreshadow the possibility of a sequel, but the second Easter egg ended too soon after a long time, which made me very annoyed while holding my urine. The director is the screenwriter of the first two films and the third one. I am very disappointed with the story and character creation. The end of this series is the best outcome. It's a pity that I liked the first film so much for 18 years. I feel sorry for my time and money. I still say the same thing. If you haven't read it, I suggest you avoid it and run away quickly.
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The Summer Book
Director: Charlie McDowell
Cast: Glenn Close, Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson, Anders Danielsson Lee
User Rating: 7.8/10 (761 votes)
When I watched it, I also felt similar (the mother talked about Heidi and grandfather), but there are also differences. The movie chose a summer cabin by the sea that has no clear social background and is a bit isolated from the world; the viewpoint may not be shifted to a little girl like Heidi. I can feel that behind the seemingly bland and blank rhythm is more of a grandmother facing death. Her fear of time has very interesting parts, but what I felt most deeply was that the camera was focused on many seemingly meaningless details, such as how the grandmother lifted the sheets and hugged herself with her arms, lying stiffly on the bed; talking to the little girl in the tent about how she could enable girls to join the Boy Scouts, but she couldn't recall this epoch-making event. What was it like lying in the tent when she was a child? This kind of loss - later the little girl went to the tent to feel it herself and came back to tell her grandmother that she could hear a lot of voices, as if the world was pouring in. This dialogue had a great emotional impact on me. When the grandmother recalled the Boy Scouts, she said, "The little things we did at that time, such as finally allowing girls to sleep in tents, were so meaningful at that time, why Now it feels dull too." The girl asked, "Do you mean that what you do with me now is meaningless?" Grandma said, "I mean day after day, time after time, why can't I remember the things that were so important to me then now, what it feels like to sleep in a tent." Then the little girl put her head on her grandmother's chest, and they lay in the tent together. How to wave her arms on the moss when not being seen; how to misjudge the neighbor's boat that she still looks forward to and has a heartbeat when she is old, and after realizing that it is not a neighbor's boat at all, she curls up behind the rocks on the seashore like a swan sleeping posture, which looks safe and peaceful, but in fact she also feels that the world owes her too much and needs to embrace herself in this posture. There are also many parts that really seem to have no plot or even some anti-narratives, such as when there is a storm at sea, Dad is trying to get the bed to the shore, but when he successfully lands, like a plot climax of resolving a crisis, he is disappointed and stiff on the shore. Meanwhile, in the cabin on the shore, the girl thought her father would never come back, and said guiltily to her grandmother that she had prayed for a storm because life was too boring - at this moment the father came in and said to the girl, no, he had also wished for a storm before the girl made the wish, because the girl's mother (who had passed away) also liked storms. I can't explain how this made me feel, I felt it was very complicated, like the trauma of the past and the fear of the future had poured into the boredom and dullness of the moment, but at the same time it was a very touching movie about mutual support, acceptance, comfort and endurance; it was not as heartbreaking as I had imagined, because originally I thought the camera would be focused on death itself; but instead, it lightly uses some fragments and shadows to incorporate the long-term journey of several people into a summer vacation; the deceased mother appears at the beginning in the form of a straw hat that no one knows where it is placed and makes people sad when seeing it. When the father sees it, it will freeze in the air, and then the grandmother says, "I'll put it away." Everyone has their own thoughts, traumas, depression, and anxiety, and sometimes goes to corners that are not seen by others. For the girl, it is the attic where she can see what her father and grandmother are doing downstairs through the hole in the floor; for the father, it is a tree planted on the shore; for the grandmother, it is a forest with many wood carvings and a place where you can see the boat coming.
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The Amateur
Director: James Harveys
Cast: Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitriona Balfe
User Rating: 6.2/10 (4835 votes)
A loved one is murdered, the authorities sit idly by and the man takes risks alone to seek revenge - there are at least eighty such action and thriller films with this cliché. Moreover, "The Man from London" is a big commercial production. It stands to reason that a character with a unique face or a strong body would be enough to play the role. Is it necessary to use Oscar winner Rami Malek? After watching the movie - I have to say, I really can’t live without him. This is not entirely because we can imagine his role as a high-IQ geek nerd in Mr. Robot, which brings a sense of emotional intimacy. More importantly, under the surface of transnational pursuit and revenge, this movie is filled with a sense of despair of a lonely person who keeps falling into deeper loneliness, and has an emotional power higher than the average commercial film. Charlie, a cryptographer with a loving family and a capable job, suddenly learned that his wife had been murdered. His life fell into the abyss and he once collapsed and cried alone in the empty house. His boss, who always claimed to seek justice for him, not only broke his promise, but was also the mastermind behind the killing of innocent people out of lust for power. The instructor who taught him survival skills had to follow orders to hunt him down, and was indirectly killed because of him during the operation (at least that was what it seemed at the time). He met a female informant who was also tortured by loneliness. After exchanging a brief warmth, he had to watch her fall in a pool of blood. When faced with the agents who came to persuade him to stop, Charlie's answer was: I can't go home because she is not there. At first glance, this sounds illogical. Even if he kills the murderer, his wife will never come back. Wouldn't he never be able to get over this grief? But behind the seemingly contradictory statements, he hides his desire for redemption. He regrets not accompanying her to London and hates himself for not being able to protect his beloved, so he must complete the arduous task himself to regain his inner peace. As the psychologist said: This has nothing to do with justice, it all comes down to your heart. I can help you, but ultimately it depends on you. The doctor certainly did not encourage him to seek revenge, but unexpectedly pointed out the only way for him to redeem himself - as a powerless civilian, he challenged the methods of the field agents and sent the villains to hell one by one with his own hands. Such motivation allows Charlie to break away from the stereotyped revenge machines on the screen. Under the thrilling and murderous scenes of punishing evil, the movie secretly tells the story of a lonely man saving himself. A man who is about to drown in despair relies on his strong intelligence and amazing action to pull his heart out of the quagmire. During the operation in a foreign country, Charlie keeps hallucinating that his deceased wife appears beside him. This does not help the tense and exciting atmosphere, but makes the heartbreaking art film underneath loom. Rami Malek's performance makes Charlie's huge inner pain overflow the screen, adding persuasiveness to his risky behavior. The film is based on both the original novel and the original movie, and is a commercial film produced by Fox, so there is basically no suspense as to whether the protagonist's lone wolf action can succeed. Therefore, the literary story line becomes particularly important, creating the biggest uncertainty in the plot - whether Charlie has the courage to shoot the bandit leader in person. The instructor who has seen countless people has already seen through his nature, so we are actually praying that he does not become the cold-blooded killer he has never been. That is not his way of dealing with problems, and it cannot bring him real relief. Will Charlie lose himself in the brutal execution, or will he be loyal to his heart and complete revenge in his own way and principles? This is more worrying than whether he can successfully track down the murderer. In the extremely cruel fight of violence, only when he can keep himself can revenge be a complete victory, and it will be enough to comfort his wife's soul in heaven. Therefore, until the last scene where everyone knows that the game is a battle of wits, even though the ending is already determined, it still makes people concentrate and hold their breath. The original novel and the original movie were created in the early 1980s and have a strong Cold War style. The power of the cryptographer's mind is limited, and the plot is far less dramatic than this new version. In today's highly information-based age, electronic devices, the Internet and encryption technology can have greater destructive power than knives and bullets, and a person's wisdom has a stronger place to be used. Charlie can more easily transform himself into a Terminator armed with his brain. If his trick to delay time for his superior was due to his professional skills, home field advantage and long-term planning, then when he entered a foreign country with a fake identity where he was unfamiliar with the place, his performance was still much more powerful than the character in the original movie. Even though his marksmanship is a complete joke and his physical training has not been effective, it is easier for the audience to believe such a plot: those ruthless thugs will become ducks on the chopping block in front of him and be eliminated with a precise efficiency that is almost like a professional killer, even if it is not done overnight. When he first arrived in Paris, he was still a layman in tracking, breaking into, and escaping (the old version of the protagonist could unlock the door in an instant), and he made many mistakes in his panic. However, when he went to the rehabilitation hospital to deal with the pollen threat, he had a relatively complete disguise and plan, but he still needed physical struggle and luck to complete it by accident. In the next cool pool explosion (which is also the highlight of the original movie), he has already begun to show the style of a professional spy. He acted according to circumstances from his appearance to his departure, and he escaped without any danger. After experiencing the battle royale in the beach house and losing his partner's support, his skill points soared. He calmly set up the explosion trap, pressed for clues in an orderly manner, and finally slowly left the explosion area, controlling the situation almost at the textbook level. To be precise, such rapid progress by an outsider is bound to be suspected of cheating, but Charlie's IQ of 170, his extreme grief and trance, and his determination to die rather than surrender, make me believe that he is such a gifted intelligence genius, and that I can share his encouragement and inspiration that "when a man wants justice, the whole world has to make way." Following Charlie's footsteps of revenge, we witness him bending down and immersing himself in the game of espionage, witnessing the deaths of criminals one after another, witnessing the collapse of the conspiracy, and the people who cared about him reappearing with full blood, until finally seeing him sitting in the cabin and rushing into the blue sky, with inspiring music sounding. The movie swept away the two hours of coldness and depression, like a long and arduous psychological healing. Charlie was once wrapped in the darkness of despair and almost suffocated, but this darkness was finally penetrated by the sunlight.
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Director: Nick Park, Merlin Kroshingham
Cast: Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Lauren Patel
User Rating: 7.7/10 (5844 votes)
Today, Aardman's stop-motion animation technology is at its peak, with the smoothness almost like computer production, but still retaining the sophistication and agility of stop-motion. At the same time, the "Dogman" series has been around for decades, with small quantities and high quality. Looking at its new works from today's perspective, they lack some fun. The movie also keeps up with the times and talks about robots. Although this is a slightly outdated concept, it is still advanced in the clay world. If the plot can attract people's attention, it can make up for the backwardness of the concept. However, the story is more cliché than I expected. The implementation of the revenge plan is neither surprising nor exciting. The rebellion of the robots is also within the imagination. However, the protagonist's noise makes me bored. Only the smart dog keeps me watching, and even plays a role of Tom Cruise on the train in the end. "Curse of the Were-Rabbit" made me shine, but now "Revenge of the Penguins" makes me disappointed. I will catch up with the previous work when I have time.
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Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany
User Rating: 7.4/10 (12177 votes)
(Here)(B+) The narrative technique is very fresh and interesting, I have never seen it before. The whole movie is presented from a fixed camera position (the camera does not move). From this perspective, we only see the living room of a house and the scenery outside shown by the window of the living room, telling the stories of multiple families living in this house. From the beginning, multiple windows are opened on the screen, like our computer monitors, and each window takes the audience into a different era. Most of the time, a picture is still at a point in time, and then a window opens, and then it enters another time point. This way of switching is really fresh, and it has been used from beginning to end. The audience will constantly shuttle between different time and space. This many times of going back and forth may make people feel a little repetitive. But because this living room and the scenery outside have changed with the times, the picture is still very pleasing to the eye. The characteristics of the living room in each picture actually show the taste of the hostess of the house, which has its own merits in different eras. Every living room has welcomed new life and sent off old people, with joy and sadness, witnessing the stories of different families from generation to generation. The family of Tom Hanks' character Richard is the main core storyline of the film, starting with his father, and three generations living together. Interestingly, I initially thought that Paul Bettany was playing Tom Hanks' son, but unexpectedly, Hanks was playing Paul Bettany's son, and there were multiple images of different ages, from 18 to almost 80 years old. The special effects of the film's de-aging technology are well processed, as if seeing Hanks in his youth again. Robin Wright, who plays Richard's wife, also used the de-aging technology and started playing from the age of 18. These two reunited on the screen 30 years after "Forrest Gump". The lives of this couple are also very resonant. When the wife was 18 years old, she had great ideals and aspired to be a lawyer, but she didn't expect to get pregnant at the age of 18. She gave up her ideals and became a housewife. At the age of 50, she still lived in the same house. Her husband's promise to her was never fulfilled, and her desire to travel and have a job was always stranded. In the end, she finally couldn't stand it anymore and left. This made her find herself and cherish the past. Fortunately, her daughter is a representative of the new era and fulfilled her dream of becoming a lawyer. The mother played by Robin Wright represents many women in the old times (even now), that is, early marriage and pregnancy have delayed their future and have been imprisoned by marriage. The husband played by Hanks is actually a good person. He has fulfilled his responsibilities as a father and husband, but he is unwilling to leave home and sticks to the rules, as if he is a person who refuses to change once he has determined a place. He actually gave up his ideals because he had children too early, and could only do jobs he didn't like to support his family. So it can be said that this couple is a good example, allowing people to see the price of life caused by early marriage and early childbearing, which is very realistic. (This is actually what I have always been most afraid of seeing my son's future. Because my husband and I are the type of people who marry and have children late, we have no regrets. When we had children, we could say that we had no ideals that had not been realized. But the couple in the film were the opposite. They both gave up their dreams for their children at the age of 18. From then on, one was a worker and the other was a housewife. They only remembered their ideals when they were 50 years old. This is the biggest nightmare in my opinion. So I have been instilling in my son since he was a child that he must not get married and have children early. This is why I have been telling everyone here earnestly: "Don't get married early" and "Don't have children before you buy a house." Because when you are still a person between 18 and 28 years old, your life ideals have not been realized, and you lack understanding of yourself. If you are tied down by children and family at this time, you will waste your best time, and you will have many regrets in middle age. So in order to prevent yourself from wasting your life on supporting your family like the couple in the film, please avoid having children too early.) In fact, at the end of the film, we saw the exterior of this house. It is really a big mansion, and it is estimated to be worth more than 3 million US dollars today. But in the old days of the film, when it was bought by the father of the male protagonist Richard (played by Paul Bettany), it was only 3,400 US dollars! Inflation is really terrible! I guess some people will think at the end, if you can live in such a nice house, what is there to worry about or be dissatisfied with? However, the film shows through the lives of many housewives that no matter how beautiful the house is, it is a "cage" for them, and they all have the urge to escape. Only one housewife looks very happy because she has no children and her husband is very rich... She didn't live here all her life. So in fact, the selected stories are quite typical. Many women spend their whole lives just to live in a big house, but the price they pay is very high. They either have to give birth to many children, be filial to their parents-in-law, or give up their careers. In the end, the mansion becomes a cage. On the surface, the film is about a house, but it is actually about marriage and the women trapped in it. I personally think it is quite touching, and the soundtrack is also very nice. It is especially suitable for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It will be released on November 1st. Every time I watch a Tom Hanks movie, I can't help but sigh that his voice is so beautiful. I can basically listen to him talk like this all the time... I will never get tired of listening to him for the rest of my life :)
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Quand vient l'automne
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Helene Vincent, Josienne Balasco, Ludivine Seigner
User Rating: 8.0/10 (9861 votes)
I was attracted by the short review "Falling without Judgment". As expected, the conspiracy and suspense were full, with mushroom poisoning at the beginning, falling from a building and funeral in the middle, and the grown-up grandson saying "I have always liked eating mushrooms"... I couldn't help but watch it again, looking forward to discovering more details. After reading it, I found that I was narrow-minded. [Did the heroine place the poisonous mushrooms on purpose?] Yes, I think the heroine did it on purpose, but I don't think her purpose was to poison her daughter. A more reasonable guess is to make her daughter uncomfortable and need to stay in bed for a few days. Her daughter is divorcing her husband, who is also abroad. In this way, her grandson and daughter can only stay with her. Garlic butter baked mushrooms are obviously the daughter's favorite. The daughter asked for it even though she was not hungry. As for whether the heroine is sure that her grandson will not eat it, I think she is not sure. Because the grandson is a child who is very good at reading the atmosphere and taking care of the emotions of adults. When the heroine just came in and asked them to eat, the daughter said that they were not hungry after eating sandwiches, but the grandson immediately asked for it. When he ate later, the grandson ate very small mouthfuls. I guess he was really not hungry. After the meal, the heroine asked if he wanted dessert, and the grandson immediately said he wanted to eat it. It can be seen that even if the heroine made ingredients that the grandson hated, the grandson would eat it according to her expression. Then why did the grandson say that he didn’t like mushrooms and garlic? I guess he didn't want the heroine to cook specially, or to cook less, to work less, because he felt sorry for the heroine. Just like when we go home for Chinese New Year and see our mother busy making New Year dishes, such as fried meatballs and ribs, we would say that we don't like it anymore and don't want to make it. There were fewer mushrooms beside the stove than when they were cut. I think poisoning the mushrooms was a sudden inspiration, not the original plan. The heroine asked her best friend who knew mushrooms (obviously, her best friend was no longer able to walk well) to take her. After picking them, she compared them with the mushroom illustrations. She must have known that her daughter loved them and was afraid that she would get sick from eating them. When she was cutting mushrooms, she thought of the quarrel between her daughter and herself. She was afraid that her daughter would not stay with her grandson for long, and she wanted them to stay for a few more days. So she thought that her daughter would be fine if she was sick. But after all, it was poisoning, a sin. She cut them and put them in the bowl in a trance, but was worried that she could not control the amount, so she took some out in a trance. [Is the best friend's son the murderer of my daughter?] My personal inclination is that it was an accident. But it was the heroine who led the bestie's son to Paris to find the daughter, but no one wanted to kill the daughter. Although it was not portrayed in the movie, I think the daughter and the bestie's son used to have a very good relationship, childhood sweethearts. At the beginning of the meal, she also asked about the bestie and her son. She cared. The heroine and the bestie are colleagues and close friends, and they have a lot of intersections in their daily lives. The two children are in the same situation, and they must rely on each other in school. In Paris, the daughter opened the door for him to come in, and relaxed in front of him to smoke. It can be seen that the two had a deep bond. I don't know whether the daughter parted ways with the bestie's son because he was in jail or because he was gay. From the conflict scene in the bar, we can see that the bestie's son is a very impulsive person. It is probably because of the way he learned to protect himself and his loved ones in his childhood: if he is offended, he will fight back immediately. And from the daily life of the bestie and him, the conversation between the two is more like an imperative, which makes the bestie's son's words not very pleasant. My personal guess is that on the balcony of the Paris apartment, the daughter was smoking on a small ladder, and the bestie's son chased her and forcefully asked her to understand and sympathize with the heroine to let her grandson go back, but the daughter refused more fiercely and even swore, so the bestie's son pushed her in response, and she fell from the building... Regarding my best friend’s son being in jail, it was definitely a violent conflict, but judging by his slight limp, the situation must have been quite intense. [Does the heroine love her daughter?] 100% Love money From the conversation between the female police officer and the policewoman, we can learn that: (1) the biological father of the daughter may be a pimp; (2) the female policewoman has a good business, has high-level clients, and has been in business for a long time, and only closed the business before her grandson was born. From the Paris apartment to the big house in the countryside, and the funds she gave to her bestie's son to open a bar, the heroine is quite rich. But she dresses simply, takes care of her own garden and vegetable garden, and doesn't order expensive meals or desserts when she invites guests to dinner after being released from prison. So why does it take so long to earn money? To prepare for a worry-free life for myself and my daughter & to be good at sex work My daughter hit a bottleneck in her theatre project and when she was discharged from the hospital after suffering poisoning, she said she would have to hold on until the end of the month for 500 euros. I guess the heroine contributed a lot. Affection After receiving a call from her son-in-law and learning that her daughter had fallen to her death, the heroine was alone in the garden and fell twice. There was no one around at this time, so she didn't need to act. When she went to the Paris apartment, she first went to her daughter's room, smelled her daughter's pajamas, and then went to her grandson's room. Although the heroine loves her grandson very much and wants to live with him, I think she loves her daughter more. What the daughter hated was her mother's previous career, and the resulting school bullying and discrimination around her. But the daughter also loves her mother. When she was discharged from the hospital after being poisoned, she directly accused her mother of poisoning her, but she didn't report it to the police in the end. The grandson said that his daughter didn't like nature or exercise, but the flowers and plants on the balcony of the Paris apartment were well taken care of. She disliked the ugly furniture of the Paris apartment, but she didn't sell the apartment immediately, even though her own theater project was short of funds. Looking back, the accusation of asking the heroine if she had gained weight during dinner also seemed like some kind of childish concern. [Daughter “Spirit”] The daughter died with her eyes open? It is more like the embodiment of the selfishness in the heroine's heart, and the expectation that the heroine dare not express. The daughter's "spiritual" face looks like the daughter, the heroine, and the grandson. This unfulfilled desire stimulates people's "thoughts". No matter how well-intentioned the "thoughts" are, they may cause irreversible consequences. If these consequences return, they will become one's "sin". The heroine's long-term experience as a sex worker has caused her to neglect her daughter's growth. The bullying around her caused her daughter emotional trauma and alienated her from herself. Before her grandson was born, she was afraid that her grandson would follow her daughter's old path, so she decided not to do sex work again. In order to be closer to his daughter and grandson, he could not tell whether he consciously or unconsciously planted poisonous mushrooms, which nearly killed his daughter, further alienating her from him and she never picked mushrooms again. By hinting to her best friend's son to persuade her daughter, the daughter fell to her death unexpectedly, and her best friend's son may be imprisoned again. Death is irreversible, and it is useless to stop doing anything. God does not judge anyone, but man can. One is like an open book in front of oneself. One can deceive oneself but cannot hide anything. In the end, one judges one's own "sin". How to save? Naturally, people come to save people It's super cliché, sincerity for sincerity. (Sincerity can be exchanged for sincerity, but it doesn't necessarily mean sincerity) People are complex or messy. I always thought that the heroine had helplessness but also some courage to fight against the secular world in that era when she chose sex workers. But in the bar fight scene, I really saw a helpless little old lady. When someone pointed at her and called her a blonde old bitch in the bar, her best friend's son stepped forward to fight back. She pulled him back with her withered hands, afraid of conflict, and acquiesced to the other party's insults in her heart. Other guests in the bar helped to separate the fight, and after the insulters were driven out of the bar, everyone continued to sing and dance. She was still in shock, even in her own territory. Whenever she met people, she had to wear a skirt with her hair tied up, even when picking mushrooms. She only wore jeans when she was working in her own vegetable garden. This is a very well-disciplined person, and she complies with the stereotyped requirements of the secular world for her gender. A society made up of individuals is more complex, but it is never monolithic. People are all made of flesh and blood and everyone will die. It is the same truth. It is not the development of the times and the progress of science and technology that make us more open and civilized, but more exchanges of knowledge that allow us to see, experience, understand and identify. Human universality is openness and civilization. I believe that as the number of "Parisians" in the town where the heroine lives increases, many people have already known her and her bestie's original occupations, but most people choose to ignore it. When the heroine and her bestie returned from mushroom picking, they took the initiative to greet the residents who were hunting. When the drunk cursed at the bar dance, other guests ignored the drunkard, and when a conflict broke out, it was the guests who pulled the drunkard away. The drunkard's friends did not leave with him. At the funeral of the bestie, many residents came to see him off. Is love a kind of desire? Desire is like invisible hyphae buried deep in the soil. The nodes of hyphae grow in autumn and become mushrooms called love. If we find that the mushrooms are bad when we pick them, we will discard them immediately. But what about the guilty people? Will they be discarded too? At the end, the grandson decided not to sell the house in Paris. The house that his daughter thought was "dirty" and ugly was completely accepted by the grandson, just like the guilty heroine. She smiled while riding in the car, and when she saw the "daughter's" spirit in the forest, she held her hand. She was finally accepted and she was innocent... Every character in the movie is a heretic. In the forest, no matter what color, shape, or whether the mushrooms are poisonous or not, as long as they are mushrooms, they can grow and multiply here.
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Inside Out 2
Director: Kelsey Mann
Cast: Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Kensington Tolman
User Rating: 8.4/10 (317446 votes)
My Jiaojiao should rarely take shifts with its companions. The first time I realized that I couldn't relax was when I was consulting with a physical therapist. At the time, I had a problem with my cervical spine and my left arm was in so much pain that I couldn't lift it. The physical therapist pinched my neck and said, "Your neck is so tight." After she said this, I really realized that my neck was abnormally tight. Because this anxious and tense state had been with me for so long before, I always thought that the feeling of my neck was supposed to be like this. The physical therapist kept saying: Your neck and shoulders are too tense, you need to relax. The more he encouraged me to relax, the more anxious I became and the more tense my body became. My neck and shoulders had completely lost control of my brain, and my brain started to have random thoughts. I thought of what my mother often said to me: Straighten your back. Usually when she said this, she would stretch out a pair of hands, straighten my inward-bent shoulders, and restore my forward-bent neck to a position perpendicular to my body. If I relax my neck and shoulders, I will hunch over; but if I hunch over, my posture and cervical spine problems will be aggravated in the long run. At this moment, my neck and shoulders are in an awkward position. Pulling them forward means a relaxed and decadent life, while straightening them backward means a healthy and elegant road. I really want to say to the physical therapist: My neck and shoulders have never been relaxed in my life. What does it feel like to relax? I don't know. "Inside Out 2" continues the story of the first film, mainly telling the story of the heroine Riley, who has learned how to deal with multiple emotions during her growth and then faces the arrival of puberty. Her emotions become more complicated, more intense, and even often out of control. Her self-confidence in self-recognition has fallen from the highest point to the lowest point. On the one hand, she is still a child who likes to watch early childhood education animations, and on the other hand, she admires the senior with dyed hair and pretends to be as cool as her. Anxiety and inferiority occupy all of her life. She is anxious that she is not good enough to be appreciated by the teacher, anxious that she is not cool enough to fit into the small circle, and anxious that her ability is limited and she can't even do her hobbies well. Who hasn't experienced such adolescence? Seeing the first pimple on Riley's chin reminded me of my adolescence: pimples planted a sea of flowers on my face. A friend said that if she were blind, she would just touch everyone's forehead and she would be able to tell that the bumpy and uneven forehead, like a Snickers bar, must be mine. And the first time my shoulders and neck left their posts without permission was also during adolescence. As one of the few girls in the class who developed early, I dressed like Madonna wearing a cone bra at a concert. I felt weird and was afraid of being laughed at by others. In order to hide the two embarrassing cones, I don't know when I started to subconsciously hold my chest in, and my neck that leaned forward has never been retracted since then - just like Riley, my anxiety, embarrassment, disgust, and admiration also came with adolescence. I guess their control console must be designed on a balcony that is tilted forward like my neck. Looking down from the balcony, there is a long river of embarrassing memories of adolescence. Unfortunately, most of us had a more difficult adolescence than Riley did. We were designed to be hosts of anxiety without realizing it. When American kids were still worrying about whether they could fit in with the cool girl circle before school started, we started worrying about whether we could get into 985 and 211 in the first grade of elementary school nine years later. This anxiety was refreshed again and again in the weekly tests. Before Yanyan even had time to click a few times on the touchpad, Jiaojiao took control of the console again. Anxiety made us hunched over the desk, writing questions day and night, with our necks leaning forward in the unknown direction of the future. When we grew up, the desks were replaced by office desks, and the homework was replaced by computer screens, but our necks were still leaning forward in front of the screen as always. Many people abroad like to popularize how to identify Asians. In fact, there is no need to start with makeup, clothing, hairstyle and height. Those with the most forward necks are usually us. This movie is too realistic: when you are anxious, it seems that all emotions cannot appear, and even crying is a mistake. When anxiety takes over, you can only hide your emotions reflexively, but you can't get rid of worry. When its little hand touches the console, it wants to cry, but anxiety soon takes control. The more anxious you are, the busier you are. Sometimes you lie down on the sofa and do nothing. The two are in harmony in your brain. Do you remember Hu Shi's diary? On July 4, I was still anxious and motivated myself to work hard and read Shakespeare's books. I played cards for three consecutive days, and then I became anxious again. I scolded myself for being decadent in my diary, and started playing cards again the next day. This kind of play will not even really experience happiness, just like the blank summer homework on the desk for two months of summer vacation, and every day is spent with worry. This is me too: sometimes anxious, sometimes bored, I roll it up quickly when anxious, but soon I lay it down again and let it go. Like a Motorola flip phone doing sit-ups. Having been anxious for too long, I even forgot that I had pure happiness when I was a child. Lele said aggrievedly in the movie: I understand, growing up means that I need less and less happiness. On the one hand, the threshold of happiness has become higher - happiness seems to have become more and more difficult to satisfy since the moment I pretended to be a cool kid in adolescence. I have to pretend that I have abandoned the source of happiness in my childhood, integrate into the life circle of older children, and learn to drink coffee and taste the bitterness of life like adults. Over time, I have even forgotten what the original happiness feels like; on the other hand, pure happiness has become too luxurious, and enjoying happiness will make people feel guilty. Anxiety and happiness go hand in hand. While food brings happiness, it also reminds people of the anxiety of losing weight, the happiness of vacation is accompanied by the anxiety of returning to work after the holidays, and the happiness of love cannot get rid of the anxiety of reality. In the movie, Jiao Jiao has a screen that can project bad things that might happen in the future, and anxiety becomes more and more anxious because of thinking too much about these negative things. People always say that we should focus on the present and not think about things that haven't happened yet, but it is also because of anxiety that we have the motivation to work hard to live and change our lives. Because my neck leaned forward due to anxiety, which affected my image and work efficiency, I signed up for a gym to train my back. After my back was trained, my neck no longer hurt, and I had more energy to go to work. As I worked more, my neck leaned forward again. This cycle repeats itself endlessly. Anxiety has woven an invisible scarf around my neck, showing off its neck-stuck skills. As a character in the movie, Riley is always much happier than the real person. The movie helped Riley find herself through a hockey game, but my self didn’t return to the control room until the end of puberty, when hormone secretion returned to normal, and after experiencing more ups and downs in life. The presentation of multiple selves in the movie is more like a compromise of my own personality and giving up resistance to fate - I am this kind of person, and I will accept love as it comes. At the end of the movie, the nine emotions finally compromised and shared the right to use the control room. Riley's emotional changes after puberty became more subtle and rich. It means that as people grow up and have more self-awareness, they become more and more adept at dealing with the emotions of joy, anger, sorrow and happiness in the past. It's a pity that at the end of the film, the secrets in Riley's mind that she didn't want others to know didn't return in the end. After facing oneself, a notable feature is that people are more willing to accept their previous shame. Pouchy may be created by someone in the main creative team of this movie based on the "Dora the Explorer" that he loved to watch when he was a child. Who wouldn't think of the long-haired man in "Final Fantasy" that he used to like when seeing Lance? These two retro anime and game designs of different dimensions made everyone in the cinema laugh as soon as they appeared. They also set the tone for the audience of this animated film: like "Inside Out 1", it is not only an animation for children, but also a movie dedicated to adults who have faced themselves, experienced or are experiencing anxiety. This article should have been called "A Life Dominated by the Cervical Spine". I had already typed the title a few months ago when my cervical spine was sore. Tonight, I sat in the cinema with a muscle calming patch on the left side of my neck, deceiving myself that my cervical spine felt good. When I saw Jiaojiao in front of the console, wanting to control everything but getting so anxious that he lost control, I couldn't help but shed tears. I think the orange man in front of the console in my mind must be very tired. How is your cervical spine? I hope your cervical spine can slowly stop bearing so much burden.
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Un Bany Propi
Director: Lucia Casal Rodríguez
Cast: Nuria González, Carles Sanjaime, Amparo Ferrer-Baguena
User Rating: 8.4/10 (623 votes)
#SIFF Main Competition, a very complete and tearful story about middle-aged and elderly women’s self-breakthrough. The theme of “freedom after being bound” runs through the whole story, so we see a 65-year-old woman’s self-exploration in writing in a slightly unreal setting. She has love, and perhaps she also enjoys taking care of her husband and family every day. A goldfish swimming out of the toilet represents a possibility hidden in her heart: her passion for writing has never faded. Trapped by time and every minute of life, she began to wander around countless toilets and create her own "bathroom literature". Her innocent girlfriend, another toilet artist who is keen on doing housework like crazy after xd, her husband who never understands her but loves each other... These people all affect her life and accompany her, but she is going further and further on the road of finding hobbies and herself. She built her own "bathroom bedroom", but gradually felt lonely. She thought that giving up herself could return to find happiness, but she also found that everything was about her own topic: how can I break the wall between the special me and the bound rules. Finally, she finally found a possibility to invite others to this special room, and even if her husband could not break through the boundaries of his life in the end, it did not affect the fact that they loved each other. Technically, I like it very much. The art of large color blocks creates a great stage effect and absurdity, so the film is set in a fantasy realism theme. I think the film is very detailed because it abandons more details in reality and focuses on discussing the self-exploration and growth of this woman. The soundtrack is very good. The housework at the beginning caught me directly. The subsequent emotional guidance and replacement of lines to express emotions and feelings are also very successful, which makes me feel the importance of the soundtrack. What moved me the most was her nightmare of being trapped in the toilet. It was also when we returned to the toilet at the end and saw her childhood trauma that we realized the theme of the story more clearly: she thought that her own world and free space and choice were actually a dilemma, a fear and bondage, a kind of panic in her heart that separated her from the people she loved. Thinking about our parents again, I was a little tearful. When they took a step to accept new things and tried to "find themselves" as young people say, every step was lonely and difficult. When she expanded the space, I think she was also surprised and delighted. Everything starts with Wolfe's "Only women with money and a room can write novels" and ends with "Antonia has money and a bathroom of her own", making everything practical and complete. Self-breakthrough is not big or small, every step counts and every step is moving.
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Cabrini
Director: Alejandro Gomez Monteverde
Cast: Christiana DeLona, John Lithgow, David Morse
User Rating: 7.3/10 (2563 votes)
"Cabrini" is adapted from real historical events and tells the story of Italian nun Cabrini who came to the United States from Italy in 1889. She built an orphanage in the poor, chaotic and unwelcome environment when Italians first arrived, and later developed it to open and operate a hospital to consolidate Italian culture. She was driven back because she threatened the authorities, and then raised funds to return to the United States. Although Cabrini is the absolute protagonist, the film is not only about her personal legendary experience, but also about the development of the entire Italian immigrant group. Cabrini is just a typical representative. Secondly, although her profession is a nun, Cabrini is an industrialist. She was able to build an orphanage with care and education functions in the slums from scratch, providing a shelter and a good growth environment for Italian children who lost their parents in the United States. She was also commissioned to build a larger hospital. She is a model for female entrepreneurs or anyone who wants to make a difference in an era where men are the absolute majority. Therefore, based on the historical extension of the two, the film is very interesting in terms of storytelling. Two details are particularly impressive. The first is that many bigwigs who came to Caprini for help said that she was very ambitious and ambitious, as if she came to the United States to compete with all parties. In fact, Caprini's ambition is inseparable from her observation, judgment and foresight. When she first went to the Pope to apply for an overseas assignment, she mentioned that she wanted to go to the East, to China. It was the Pope who changed it to the United States. At that time, many people did not know about the mysterious ancient country in the East, but Caprini was very courageous and had ideas, which was confirmed by the story that happened later. If we analyze the driving force behind her behavior, besides her faith, the movie explained her lung cancer early on. The optimistic estimate of survival was five years, but it was shortened to three years after she got sick in the United States. After learning about it, Cabrinelli said that she would seize the time to work instead of resting. So her tenacity, courage, and persistence are all related to knowing that her time is limited. In fact, each of us has limited time. Excluding the growth period in childhood and the aging period in old age, each of us has only a few more five years than Cabrini, and the sense of crisis should not be much lower than hers. Accompanied by exquisite historical restoration of retro images and classical music, it is far from enough to stay at the level of being moved by what Sister Cabrini did. We must try to answer: Caprini's question: What kind of world do we want and how do we get there?
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Eephus
Director: Carson Lund
Cast: Frederick Wiseman, Wayne Diamond, Keith Williams Richards
User Rating: 7.3/10 (1449 votes)
Different from "Money Ball" which tells the story of a professional game with a big cast, this low-budget independent production presents 300% of the details of an amateur baseball game: good weather, late teammates, the referee's majesty, the execution of tactics, low-level mistakes, constant trash talk on and off the field, teammates who have to leave due to family matters, serious data recorders who must pick up the ball hit out of the field, the few spectators who know and don't know about baseball, and the indispensable beer... Thanks to the creative team, who not only know baseball, but also grew up with baseball, allowing the audience to feel the culture and unique PASSION of this sport. We are older, out of shape, and running slower, but these do not affect the experience of every participant at all. We can still slide and dive for victory. Even as a substitute, sitting on the bench for a whole day, until nightfall, when we have the last at-bat, we are still excited and serious to win the last point for the team. The perfect display of team spirit is indispensable. Only one family of one player from both teams showed up. The two children were silent the whole day without cheering, and the wife was anxious to go home as soon as it got dark. "Why was there only one family?" There was no direct answer to this question, and the answer was self-evident in the film: everyone might want to enjoy this farewell day well and attentively. The family members might not understand the heaviness and purity of this, and at most leave behind a sentence "A man remains a boy until he dies." There is always a time to meet and part, there always comes a day when we have to say goodbye to the court that has accompanied us and the teammates who have fought side by side. We don't want to face the moment of separation and retirement, so we use car lights to illuminate the court into romantic stripes, and everyone works together to finish the last dance, saying goodbye to the venue, teammates and ourselves on the court in a very ceremonial way. The fireworks that are not in the frame must be beautiful, but the glory and tears shining on each of our faces are even more brilliant. Life is too complicated and difficult. We just want to stay with our pure passion a little longer, one more day, one more minute, one more second. At the end of the film, the piano melody of Tom Waits' song "OI'55" 1, 2, 3, 4 sounded. I can only say: too good, too killer, too exciting...
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