Hard Eight Comments

  • Edmund 2023-06-15 02:44:53

    The fact is that whether a director has talent or not is often seen in his debut. Just looking at the synopsis of the plot, I would think it is a boring story, but PTA can tell such a story so attractively, I can see it with relish, what it relies on, it relies on superb performance, capable, concise and not tight. The narrative is not slow, and the story is...

  • Casimer 2023-06-12 10:30:49

    Casino Jianghu...

  • Thelma 2023-06-11 23:48:36

    2022#18 When will PTA make a music related? The big problem is that if it wasn't for the reason of "murdering my father", it would really make people cry "crooked", at least on the performance level, it would be untenable and difficult to make. People walk in and be convinced, very thin. Love the rhythm of this movie. Du Zhong easily paused for 1h12′15″Sydney’s profile, which only took up a corner of the screen, and returned to WeChat. The moment he raised his head, he was moved by the picture.

  • Jerald 2023-06-03 23:32:14

    The second half may be a little plain, but the old man's portrayal is impressive, and he wants to be a patient and cultivated adult like him who is full of patience for the paste brains. Casino tricks didn’t teach you how to use cash for chips/chips for cash repeatedly to mix membership points. Doesn’t it work now? Hard Eight means that both dice are...

  • Filiberto 2023-06-02 00:51:54

    You're right. I am an...

  • Rowan 2023-05-25 13:17:21

    How much future PTA can you see? It is indeed a PTA floor-level work. The fun of watching movies is mainly to find clues about his future audiovisual characteristics. In the early days, the dazzling long-shot scheduling was just a small test, but later on, the themes that he paid attention to, such as the mutual salvation of the father-son relationship, were...

  • Ophelia 2023-05-07 00:28:02

    I don't know if it's a translation error, I think too much, and a lot of conversations in the front make me think that the first woman and the second man have a relationship in the past. It's still beautiful, five...

  • Jocelyn 2023-04-30 23:35:16

    Listening to PTA, this film is not called Hard Eight, it is called Sydney. John C. and Phil, who appeared in PTA's debut film, are like a natural PTA movie, a perfect...

  • Lilyan 2023-04-30 02:50:39

    This director is not very productive, and the number of films he has made is nothing short of a big one compared with the high-yield directors. The film has a slow pace, but it is not dull. With the high-level performances of a few familiar actors, the viewership is still...

  • Sherwood 2023-04-23 07:48:40

    It turns out that PTA's road to mastery is not one step at a time. The debut work looks tender and tender, and the sense of rupture between several scenes in the play is obvious, but it is very good with emotional narrative from the beginning, and there are several label-style long shots. Whether it can be seen from the debut film that Truff's "Shooting the Pianist" influenced him, which is also one of the PTA's favorite films. It's hard to imagine that he would shoot "Boogie Nights" with...

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  • Orin 2022-09-29 16:50:15

    Good in its own category

    Not my favorite PTAnderson movie, since as I pointed out elsewhere, I see the father-son obsession in American films an intolerable cliche. But the acting is very strong, and the plot, in spite of all the drama, is quite plausible.

    Philip Baker Hall here plays an aged and tired professional...

Hard Eight quotes

  • Sydney: I have a friend in Los Angeles. Someone... maybe someone who can help. I can make a call for you, tell him you're a friend, so on and so forth, and we can work this thing out here. I think if you need help paying for your mother's funeral, we can work it out. I want you to see that my reasons for doing this are not selfish, only this: I'd hope that you would do the same for me.

    John Finnegan: I would. Thank you.

    Sydney: [shakes John's hand] It's always good to meet a new friend. I'll see you later.

  • Sydney: [to Jimmy] I have the money to give you right now, in this moment. I will give you all that I have. Maybe before you were gonna kill me. Maybe. I don't know. I know John, and I love him like he was my own child. But I can tell you this: I don't want to die. I killed his father. I can tell you what it was. This is not an excuse. I'm not begging for clemency. All that matters, I do not wish to sacrifice my life for John's well-being. But I will sacrifice this money for mine because you have asked me. Because after this, I will have done all I can for John and for myself. I'm going to ask you with all the heart and sincerety that I have, please do not put a bullet in me. And, please, don't tell John what I've done. I trust that once I gave you this money, you and I will take separate paths and that this negotiation will settle everything. That is my hope. I don't wanna die.