After watching the three billboards in the textbook-level performances of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, I took advantage of the Beijing Film Festival to sigh the charming imprints of time on women, and admire how good actors grow and transform. I believe that every fan who has watched "Blood Labyrinth" in 1984 will applaud the performance skills of Ke's wife 34 years later. Here are three places to analyze the movie:
(1) Character relationship and story (with spoilers, read carefully)
Husband Xie Ding: timid and possessive (I originally came to my wife to reason, but was kicked by his wife JJ, and then saw the lover who took his wife's revenge appeared, he endured the severe pain and ran away. Suspected his wife except now This lover, and other men, who betrayed him will be killed, but after seeing the pictures of the death of his wife and her lover, he still vomits...)
Wife with worries: She has a strong personality and is not a good stubborn. (The husband judges her that she is too strong. She constantly criticizes her husband in front of her lover. There are two pictures of her wearing a swimsuit and her husband smiling happily in the film. Coming out can be regarded as "love", but the sudden confession of love to the lover, pretending to have no idea before, do not know you will rain heavy at night and let people take you away? Then decisively propose to go to the car for a nap? In addition, it is usually the most ruthless. Only the characters of can live to the end in the fight, this is the natural law of survival)
Little white-faced lover: Reckless and not smart (It can be seen that the wife's refuge in the lover is just a means to escape from her husband. They have all turned out the PS pictures of her own death, and did not infer a 123. I thought it was the wife who killed her. The husband finally caused his wife not to turn off the light, and was decisively killed by the fat man. The whole process of handling the husband’s "corpse" seemed reckless and clumsy, with too many worries. At first sight, he was not a ruthless character who could survive to the end)
Fat private detective, loves money, conceit, loves to laugh wildly (I don’t judge the actor’s handling of wild laugh, I don’t really like it personally, but this fat man loves money so much that there is no doubt that he will take the road of murder for money, after all, Russia Everyone earns 50 cents a day. At the same time, he never disdains his own client, does not follow the rules, and is a person who wanders about in the society at will)
At the beginning of the movie, a rainy night, a man and a woman are talking in the car. The woman is his wife and the man is his husband’s bar employee. The woman complains to him about her husband. After listening, the man says impatiently that he is not her love counselor. , And then the style of painting suddenly changed. The man said to the woman "I have always liked you". The woman noticed the vehicle that seemed to be trailing behind and asked to stop, saying that she might be making a mistake, and then she began to propose to go to the motel with the man. . At this point, the vendetta triangle hidden in general romance films has been established.
But if this is the case, then it would not be the Coen brothers we were expecting. In the first act, the trailing vehicle felt by the heroine sixth can be inferred to be the important fourth person in the film-the fat private detective, who was hired by the thank-you husband to follow his wife. In the film, if the husband, wife, and lover who have a triangular relationship are the masterminds of this murder, then the fat private detective is the real implementer, responsible for promoting the story of the film and bringing about the climax.
The three people's suspiciousness gave the fat man a job to make money by murder. The husband gave the fat man US$10,000 to be his wife and her lover. When he saw that the wife and lover were not dead in the film, he almost thought that they had hired the fat man to murder her husband. But in this case, the absurdity and drama of the story are gone. Four people who have no tacit understanding kill each other in "misunderstandings". For example, the lover does not know who killed him until he dies. This is the real interest of the film. The place.
(2) Four people create an absurd story
Absurdity is a manifestation of group extremes. Usually, human nature cannot be used as a framework for analysis and discussion, otherwise the fun of absurd movies will be lost. In the film, we can see that the establishment of the relationship between the characters continues to change as the film progresses. The two hostile protagonists continue to change. The husband alone VS the lover, the husband alone VS the wife, the husband VS the wife and the lover at the same time, the husband VS the fat man, the fat man two Second time VS wife and lover, to the final wife battle VS Fatty (during the period, wife also VS lover, the lover asks his wife whether he also loves herself at the end of the film) through constant VS relationship, making the audience fear at any time. At the same time, the absurdity of four people seeing each other and doing whom is also born. Compared with the competition and seduction in general love, this kind of treatment that makes the characters irrational thinks, to a certain extent, promotes the plot of the story, making the whole story even more absurd, unreasonable, and like a joke. Therefore, black humor is mixed in, and there are several scenes depicting that I heard laughter in the movie theater. For example, after the lover buried her husband alive, the wife answered the phone and unknowingly told the lover that it was her husband who called, and the lover showed a suspicious expression of life.
(3) Analysis of several detailed descriptions
Fan and Khan (Water Pipe): Close-ups of fans appear in several places in the film. Through the screen, you can feel the sticky sweat on the face of the actor, nervous, anxious, overwhelmed, and thinking repeatedly. These are expressed through the rotation of the fan and the dripping of stinky sweat, and at the same time enhance the length of the film and the absurdity of a "boring". The last shot of the pipe dripping water is unforgettable. With the death of the fat man, it feels like a joke in his whole life. Whether it is a fat man who loves money, a husband who “loves” his wife, a wife who “pursues love”, or a lover who thinks to cover up murder for his wife, it is just a ridiculous struggle in life and self-convincing.
One gun determines the fate of all characters: three bullets, one shot by the fat man, one shot by the fat man, the other shot by the lover and the gun that originally belonged to the wife was discovered, and the other shot by the wife eventually killed the fat man. At the beginning of the film, the wife went home in a hurry to find a robber. The wife did not want to kill her husband, but definitely to protect herself. At the same time, she never asked her lover to protect herself. In the end, the gun did kill his husband and also killed the fat man to protect himself. At the same time, the gun made the lover mistakenly believe that the wife killed her husband with her own gun, and also made the wife think that the lover stole her own gun and killed her husband. The so-called love relationship between the two people planted a foreshadowing of distrust. In the end, the two sides were in a stalemate, and the lover was killed by the fat man. It can be said that the heroine's three bullets killed the three men in the film, and the use of these three bullets makes the film full of drama.
There are no curtains on the windows: It can be noticed that the fat man must have no curtains when he secretly photographed the affair in the motel for the first time. When the fat man was about to shoot his wife and lover from the window, there were no curtains. The curtains also gave the fat man a chance to shoot. Through the windows without curtains, the film conducts the most direct observation and wanton "shooting" of the people in the house.
Incinerator: The incinerator was described at least three times. One time, the husband looked at the incinerator after he knew his wife was cheating; the second time the husband and the fat man said that he would kill his wife and mentioned that the incinerator burned the body; the third time was the lover Killed her husband and threw the bloody shirt at the incinerator. The description of these three incinerators is actually a process of human nature from fantasy crime to execution.
Bloody: All four people have their own conversations with Bloody.
When the husband saw the fake photo of the fat detective given to him, the wife and lover were shot and splattered with blood (close-up), and began to vomit; the wife had a nightmare and dreamed that the dead husband was looking for herself, and vomited a lot of dark The blood indicates that the husband has really been killed by the lover, and the blood has changed color (close-up); the lover wanted to cover the blood stains behind the car seat. After covering it with a towel, the blood still did not solidify after a few hours, and the bright red blood was overflowing. Come out (for close-up); Fatty's hand was pressed by his wife with a window and stuck with a knife, blood stained the entire glove (for close-up)
For the Virgo of the Coen brothers, there are all the elements that the film should have, the detailed description of the objects, the complexity of the relationship between the characters, the suspense created by music and lighting, and the absurd themes that I want to express.
Finally, the performances of the four actors are generally inadequate, and the film's directorial level and storyline are considered to be deductible. After all, after I watched the movie, I wouldn't find these characters so unforgettable. The setting of other similar characters still has better actor expressiveness in other movies. This is also one of the limiting factors of the movie up to 8 points.
The above are just personal understanding and sharing.
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