Director Soderbergh claimed that this film was his last work, but fortunately it was not! Compared with "Infectious Diseases" with heavy thunder and rain, this film, which is still a star in command, finally regained a victory. Soderbergh restores the stunning look of film noir to a new generation of fans with the calm and old-fashioned psychological thriller and suspense genre. Its hidden script plot once made me suspect that Soderbergh is a loyal fan of Hitchcock. In the first half, the heroine, a strong character, is driving the narrative forward, thanks to Rooney Mara's amazing acting skills, the various expressions and symptoms under the side effects of drugs, and the interpretation of the various expressions and symptoms, while accumulating a strange and tense emotional atmosphere. , until the murder scene occurs. The audience can't take their eyes off the gripping plot, but they don't know that they have gradually fallen into the trap of the well-designed script, until the final flashback paragraph. Soderbergh uses neat photography and ambiguous sound editing techniques to splicing out just the right rhythm, while slyly depicting the dark side of human greed in the modern metropolis of New York. Although it is a type of noir film full of commercial nature, its core is still inseparable from the realistic attention that the director has always been keen on, from "Drug Network", which depicts the drug problem in an all-round way, to "Never Compromise", which strives for social justice. , and then to the social life under the impact of "Infectious Diseases", the criticism of this work is aimed at the United States, a society that is increasingly dependent on drugs, and the impact of drug commercialization on the moral level.
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