It’s not just Gadot’s long legs that can be watched in this movie.

Albertha 2022-01-04 08:01:53

If you want me to say, "Powers of the Next Door" is a small casual movie that is suitable to watch on weekday evenings or during the break of shopping on weekends in the afternoon. The whole play has a lively rhythm and a relaxed and humorous plot. It is dotted with some special agent shootouts but it is not heavy at all. Although there are some traditional American comedy routines but not vulgar, plus the beauty of Wonder Woman and Don Draper Value and long legs-can be regarded as a very good American family comedy.


Galgado’s face value show is

the biggest selling point of this film in China is Galgado-she overshadowed a lot of heroines in the "Fast and Furious" series, and in the boring "Batman" "Vs Superman" became the only Wonder Woman who made people shine. She has a peerless beauty and a long body and is good at playing movies. Recently, she has become more and more popular in Hollywood, as if she is the next Angelina Jolie. In China, she has also evolved into a half-baked face and has many fans.

In this play, Jiaduo wants to show her beauty in 360 degrees. In addition to the glamorous agent fan, she also shows all the fashions-from home casual, to capable suits, to backless dresses, all easily controlled. There is also a whole dressing room plot in the film, and Gadot is directly in bikini! Slim waist, hips, and long legs at a glance! I remember that when the scene I watched was broadcast here, there was a sound of exclamation and admiration in the audience.

(This episode of the dressing room shows off Gadot's proud figure, but it also exposes her shortcomings in literary play. From the beginning to the end, she has a poker face and failed to form a good tension with the opponent actors)


Jon Ham, the male agent partner of Gadot in the play, is also an old handsome guy. The role that office white-collar workers talk about most is the talented and decadent graceful male god Don in "Mad Men" Draper. And in this play, he is Mr. Jonese, Yushu is an agent who is agile but a little tangled in his heart. According to the agent's routine, he and Gadot play the role of a fake couple and a real partner.

(According to the secret agent film routine, fake couples must have real feelings. And this time the two people are more affectionate, even their actions and expressions are always synchronized)


(Jon Hamm is handsome, but the agent Fan in the play is a bit blunt. Once he puts on his agent uniform, he won’t be handsome anymore. According to Tom’s skill, there is still a gap. But his charm after changing into casual clothes Here comes, the smile is more charming)



High-level green leaves and acting role-

the domestic poster of another real couple "Powers of the Next Door" looks like this


In the United States, its poster looks like this


Can you see the difference? The local poster is of four people. Everyone who watches a movie knows that those who can be on the poster must be the important characters in the movie.

In my opinion, the two extra people in the local posters, that is, the civilian couple in the play, are the real souls in this play.
The reason is very simple. Jiaduo and Hamm are professional and handsome, they are safflowers; and these two talents are acting as if they are fake, and they are indispensable green leaves. As the saying goes, the safflower must be lined with green leaves, and the green leaves can be seen without the safflower, but if the safflower does not have the green leaves, it will immediately lose its vitality.

Having said that, the actor of this civilian couple is not a small coffee.

Husband Jeff’s actor, Zach Galifianakis, has a long-winded name that is hard to remember, but the work is very impressive. Born in 1969, he is a late-blooming comedian. His representative work is the 2009 film "The Hangover". In addition, he has participated in the Oscar-winning masterpiece "Birdman" in recent years.

(The poster of "The Hangover", saying that this is really a high-level comedy, you can make up if you haven't watched it)


And the actor of his wife Karen, Ira Fisher, is a veteran sweet girl from Australia. The masterpiece of the peak appearance is "Confessions of a Shopaholic". In recent years, her acting has become wider, and she has appeared in many blockbuster films, such as the vulgar and coquettish mistress Wilson in "The Great Gatsby".

(The first picture below is "The Great Gatsby" and the other is "Confessions of a Shopaholic", the role span is large enough, this is the basic qualities of Hollywood actresses)



(Jeff and Karen in "Powers Off Next Door")



Compared with the beauty of Gadot from the beginning to the end and the handsomeness of Jon Hamm from the beginning to the end, what Zach and Ella contributed to in this play is the real "performance"—happiness, desolation, neuroticism, ecstasy , Suspicious, frightened to piss off, hysterical, regaining confidence, suffering from pain and suffering - they performed various emotional gaps and rapid psychological changes, and they also carried 95% of the funny baggage. In short, they played a role in a live treasure couple. It's done very well.

It can be said that the two of them used their superb acting skills as the basis to build a stage for Gadot and Hamm to be able to enjoy their concave shapes. Shuai and Mei can indeed be consumed, but only Shuai and Mei are dry and boring (please keep this in mind for domestic fresh meat dramas).

(By the way, Ella Fisher is also expected, showing off her beautiful breasts and red lips in the play, which complements Gadot's fatness and thinness. And I would say that the two heroines have kiss scenes, wow ha ha ha)


The friendly irony of the matchmaking

I insist on calling this drama a family comedy, because the so-called "agent" plot of this drama is really just embellishment, only two shootout scenes are designed, and it's not exciting at all, it's more like It's a charge coat for the comedy plot.
What's more meaningful in the play is the irony of American middle-class family life. Most of the jokes come from this angle. Therefore, although the play is funny, it is by no means vulgar.

For example, let’s talk about the protagonists Jeff and Karen:

Jeff is a senior HR with 16 years of professional experience. In fact, he is a big messenger. His daily job is to mediate fighting employees and engage in various boring games. Building, arranging parking spaces for employees, and holding "decompression balls" with the company's name everywhere as gifts-based on my personal understanding of large international companies, maybe this decompression ball is poor Jeff in 16 years Here is the only time to successfully apply for the company’s “political achievements”, so love is like a treasure, and you can take out a few from your bag at any time.

Jeff's wife Karen is an interior decorator who works from home. Do not misunderstand, this is not cool job, she is engaged in the play of the project is to give the neighbor's bathroom design home urinal ┑ (¯Д ¯) ┍

This is a standard of the American middle-class couple: doing a fairly decent ( However, it is very boring) work, and owns a house in a very good community, and raises two sons who are going to school.

Of course, thinking about the middle class is not just enough—you have to have a few hobbies like that, any more hobbies, as long as this hobby can cost you more money, such as "indoor skydiving". Then, if you can play some crafts that have something to do with art, especially if you can give away your own gadgets, it will give the whole person a lot of points. In addition, men’s best to brew beer, women’s best to have one or two hand cooking skills; the living room should be warm and tasteful, the kitchen should have a full set of condiments; formal occasions should have a rattling gown that can hold the scene, but Neighbors should dress nicely and not be too overwhelming when gathering together; when chatting, if you can tell some bizarre events that you have experienced personally, it will make the whole person look super charming; but if you want to guess through the accent of the other person It’s better to be cautious as to where the other party is from, because you will lose face if you don’t guess...Haha, is there a feeling of deja vu?

Outside of oneself is raising children. Middle-class children must have music and sports literacy. No matter how difficult it is for parents to make money, children must be able to play musical instruments and play football. What's more terrible is that children from middle-class families must not have teeth out of order! The most direct motive for the traitor who betrayed confidential information in the show was that there were four children in the family who had to do orthodontics, and the dentist’s fees were really not available./(ㄒoㄒ)/~~

(Typical American living room, Two neighboring couples with a happy face, rich, beautiful and hypocritical.


This is the production of teasing in this play. It looks like a cluster of flowers, but it is just the appearance of hard support. The inside is exhausted and boring. A little bit of trouble can easily evolve into a disaster or even annihilation. The so-called Insecurity of life is a theme that has been talked about since the time of "American Beauty."

Now in China, there are more and more people living in this kind of life. The higher the income, the more bitter it is every day. In fact, it may not be true hypocrisy. When your income reaches a certain level, you are embarrassed to order Yoshinoya when you order takeout at noon. People will be scrambling to work in a shirt with a less rigid collar. It is a shame that you haven't used your passport for a year. The working class's steadfastness and relaxation, which the middle class really can't realize.

(The only time Gadot showed the nervousness of women in the play was that the middle-class women in the Tucao community were really troubled: "The women are vicious here!" Look, even the secret agent girl who kills without blinking can't stand the middle-class. (Our life is judged every day)



But don't be too frustrated. Although my life is boring and hard, it’s my own after all, and occasionally it will shine like fireworks. For example, when the film is nearing the end, Jeff and Karen are hugging each other in the room where the gunfight is going on, behind them The sofa was hit by bullets like a sieve, and the stuffed feathers in the sofa were flying around them, but even the air was romantic at this moment, because the couple felt the warmth and solidity of each other at this moment.

Therefore, the theme of this play is called "Keeping up with the Joneses", which literally translates as "Keeping up with the Joneses". Although the most courageous thing for the dead middle class is to give up their current lives, if there is such a pair of secret agents around them, it would be nice to occasionally rant in the tasks they perform and feel some thrills. .


In a few interesting details

, there is an Asian girl who looks like a colossal young version of Song Dandan.

The handsome guy Don took Jeff to a nagging Chinese restaurant and ordered a bottle of snake wine, which is also called snake bubble wine.

The Mercedes Benz drove by the agents is super stylish.

In addition to the bikini appearance, in another episode, Gadot also wore a white open back summer dress, super glamorous.
The company Jeff works for is called MBI, which in turn is IBM, and the terrorists are looking at their company's chips-I don't know if it is an allusion.

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Extended Reading
  • Damon 2022-03-23 09:02:30

    Group p still can't stand it

  • Kurtis 2022-04-21 09:02:50

    It's embarrassing to cut out a flawless assembly line comedy as a cinema movie.

Keeping Up with the Joneses quotes

  • [Tim eavesdrops to Jeff and Karen through an earphone. He hears them moaning]

    Tim Jones: [to Natalie] I think they're having sex. God damn it, we don't have time for this. I mean, they're supposed to be here in 45 minutes. Nope, they are done.

  • Jeff Gaffney: Okay, can you guys tell us anything at all?

    Natalie Jones: I'm not Greek. I'm Israeli.

    Karen Gaffney: Ex-Mossad?

    Natalie Jones: Can't tell you.

    Karen Gaffney: Come on. Are you guys even married? Can you even tell us that?

    [Tim and Natalie look at each other]

    Tim Jones: Yes. That actually you can't fake.

    Jeff Gaffney: But that's it? Everything else was a lie?

    [Tim shrugs while drinking coffee]

    Jeff Gaffney: I mean, 'cause I think when you told me that you hated your job, that seemed real. I mean, from an HR perspective. That seemed real.

    Natalie Jones: [sharply] You told him you hate your job?

    Tim Jones: [embarrassed] I may have mentioned certain misgivings, in confidence.

    Natalie Jones: Interesting. Why is this coming out now?

    Tim Jones: Because Jeff is actually a good listener. And I did mention that to you before, in Marrakesh. At that place that we always go to. Hazim's. That day, we spent the whole afternoon here. We talked about maybe getting out of this. We talked about I could actually become a travel writer, for real. We could maybe have a child.

    Natalie Jones: That was hypothetical. It wasn't a life plan.

    Tim Jones: I didn't think it...

    Natalie Jones: [in Hebrew] Ya'ala itcha! Sicha achat sheyotzim she'ata mastul al nargila...

    [= I've had it with you! We go out, have one conversation, and you are high with the hookah]

    Tim Jones: [to the Gaffneys] Okay, this is what we do. Automatically, we go to Hebrew and then it's gonna be a whole thing.