There are many dialogues in the film, and the style is quite similar to Rohmer. The themes of sex and lies have been repeatedly used in other literary and artistic works. The video tape is the biggest creation of the film, and the reflection on the image has become the unique innovation of this work. Four main characters and seven or eight scene changes constitute the development and thinking of the whole film. Mixed with Soderbergh's own personal experience, it seems particularly smooth and natural. The script was completed in two weeks, and filming ended in one week. From writing to editing, the entire work only took less than fifty days.
Soderbergh’s original spirit lies in his choice of the “third” approach, or the style of “American art film”, that is, to personalize certain patterns of American commercial films. Compared with Hollywood films, It appears alienated and calm, repelling many commercial elements. The film uses a large number of separate methods from the parallel montage and sound and picture in the use of shots and scene transitions. As a participant rather than a proper spectator, the audience can comprehend the complex relationship between the characters or the director's cold sarcasm in the combination of sounds and pictures in different time and space
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