The story of the movie is about imprisoning a domineering president on a cat who can't speak. It has to be said that today, with the unprecedented development of computer special effects technology, the movie still uses the form of narration to dub the protagonist who has entered the cat's body. The cheap production method can only prove one thing, that is, the lack of production funds. It seems that the film company is really short of money. In order to save money, the production cost of the film is almost saved to the extreme. From the point of view that cats cannot speak, the movie lacks a feeling that the protagonist and the cat are one. Instead, it is more like an introduction in the animal world, lacking a subjective sense of identity and existence. It further widens the relationship between the character and the cat, making the synergy between the two farther and farther away. However, it can be seen in the movie that a real cat is used to perform the whole story, because it is seen to be a very unnatural behavior that has been trained, resulting in a very rough plot effect that we want to show. We can clearly understand I understand what it wants to express. For this reason, we can see that the hard work of the movie is down. Unfortunately, the effect of the movie is obviously not closer to the character prototype than the effect of CG, so that from this cat The shadow of the domineering president of Kevin Spacey can't be reflected in his body, and it is even more difficult to feel the characteristics of the protagonist after he transforms into a cat. It can be said that the movie was a failure, although the two actors Kevin Spacey and Christopher Walken were invited. The two big stars gathered in the movie and did not collide with any meaningful sparks. They were more like fighting each other. Do your best to perform your role, there are no surprises in the plot, and there are no surprises in the performances of the two people, which makes the movie look somewhat boring.
Of course, the movie is really telling a modern fable. It borrows the busyness in the modern economic and social situation to reveal that people pay too little attention to family relations. People are always so busy making money that even their own family members are too busy. Ignoring the lack of care and warmth of family psychological needs, so many people lose the joy of life. Although the movie shows us the life of a wealthy family, from the point of view of the feeling it gives us, it is still the same family life as an ordinary family. When you are no longer in your own position, you are a bystander. When you observe your own family, you will find that what you give them may not be what they really want, but instead, for some psychological reasons, you cannot or even do not want to give or express. A kind of indifference, but also a kind of injury, it hurts everyone in the family relationship. Of course, the movie is not only limited to the family aspect. It also creates a business story of intrigue at work. It is just that compared with the family story, the movie still focuses on showing the family story tenderly. The protagonist conducts self-reflection and transformation, and through the change of the protagonist's ideology in the film, we are also driven to conduct self-reflection and transformation, and examine whether we are also ignoring the family because of work, and ignoring the people around us who need to care but don't care.
This kind of modern fantasy movie story is more or less didactic, and the plot is not very new. It mostly focuses on the elements of self-discovery and self-reflection, and most of the time, the plot is a small game. Something serious, profound, and thought-provoking, gives people a feeling of common occurrence and nothing new. Kevin Spacey's performance did not show a very eye-catching place, but let a cat steal the limelight, but the cat couldn't get in touch with him, making it difficult for the film to achieve the unity of man and cat. The realm of the movie, the cat in the movie is the same as the ordinary domestic cat, there is no outstanding feature, except that it can't walk after being drunk, and there is not much that can make people impressive. A film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, the director of "Men in Black", should have presented a visual film with full of imagination and visual effects, but we are disappointed that the film did not show this. , he almost completely abandoned the coldness of black humor when directing sci-fi movies in the past, and uncharacteristically showed the mother-in-law like that kind of boring soap opera. On the road of family comedy, there is not only no way to go, no rules to follow , but also restricted his ability to dig out his own talents. He does not deny that his "Men in Black" movie was very good. . However, this movie also proves that Kevin Spacey is not very suitable for acting in comedies. He really can't act the cold humor required by the movie with his serious look, but he is arrogant and arrogant, but he is very sultry. , which has become his personal logo and a symbol of his role fixation.
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