Personal rating
Unconquerable: 90 points
Weakness (compared with the same subject): 80 points
Suspicion (compared with director): 75 points
This year's Golden Globe Awards three finalists, best director Clint Eastwood, best actor (drama Category) Morgan Freeman, best supporting actor Matt Damon. It is estimated that these three have entered the final stage of the Oscars to wash up very high. In addition, this year's Oscar nominations have reached 10, and there should be no problem in being shortlisted.
Eastwood is like a jar of old wine, and the older it is, the more charming fragrance it exudes.
After saying this, I can’t help but vomit again. Last year’s change is undoubtedly a good film, but the Oscar film that is so carefully brewed is too big and covers too much content, which makes the viewing process extremely tangled. I think In the end, the analysis of the killer is completely negligible. The effect of this is that a change of suspicion seems to be a mini-series divided into upper and lower episodes, while the upper part is exquisite, and the lower part is superfluous.
Unconquerable is also a film tailored for Oscars, with biographical themes, racial discrimination, "small ball with big ball", but this time it is much better than last time.
Eastwood is going to talk about Mandela this time. This is a story we have been fascinated by. I don’t know the barbarians for 30 years, so how can I know the glorious years of Beyond? It’s not easy to tell such a story. The key is to find a good one. The breakthrough point of the story, fortunately, John Carlin's "Humanity Factor: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Changed the World" is a good way to find such an excellent story in Mandela's life. In recent years, biopic films have changed the epic routine of the past and abandoned the delicate process from childhood to youth to adulthood. Instead, they cover the face and start with the most representative thing of the characters. Although it is not particularly magnificent, but You can see the exquisite details of the characters everywhere, typical examples are the queen, the dialogue with Nixon, etc.
The main line of the unconquerable story is Mandela’s process of helping the South African rugby team win the World Cup. There are also several branches. One is between the original white personnel of the Mandela escort team and the black personnel who have been protecting Mandela’s safety. One of the conflicts was a change in the attitude of the football captain's family towards Mandela.
After coming to power, Mandela faced not only a country that was a waste of money, but also the estrangement between blacks and whites. He clearly recognizes that white people are also a member of South Africa. If the race relations are not handled well, everything is in vain. Therefore, after the Sports Department collectively approved the abolition of the white bell-jumping logo and the rugby team jersey pattern, he insisted on his own opinion and rejected this resolution that would provoke disputes. So he chose rugby as a breakthrough point to break the barriers in the hearts of the people with a great victory. These were denied by almost everyone who supported him, but at the critical moment of the country, he knew that this was the only correct choice. The branch line between black bodyguards and white escorts is very interesting. After Mandela came to power, he did not dismiss the original government personnel, so that the original presidential escort team was also retained. Such a team that had been trying to assassinate Mandela was transformed into a protective role. Therefore, the conflict between it and the black bodyguard who has been angrily protecting Mandela is particularly fierce. But as everyone felt Mandela’s care for the people around him and his encouragement to the football team, the attitude of the white bodyguards slowly began to change, and what Mandela wanted to see finally appeared. When he saw the black bodyguards and When the white bodyguards were playing rugby together, they proudly said to the staff around them, "Do you still think my thoughts about rugby are useless?" The
film lasts for 140 minutes, but there is no feeling of lengthy. All the efforts are concentrated in the last game. competition. The competition occupies a lot of space in the film, especially the final finals. During the finals, the camera regularly wandered the athletes on the field, Mandela and the spectators on the field, a white family, black people gathered to watch the game, empty cities and slums (at this time, it is not suitable to use a crowded alley. ), Miao, a policeman listening to the radio outside the field and a wandering black teenager. There are only a few short shots of the police and the black boy. At first, the boy slowly approached the police car to hear the situation. Then the boy approached the police. When the scene was cut back, the boy was already seated in the police car, knowing the end. The South African team won, and the police lifted the boy aloft to celebrate the victory. This method cannot be said to be clichéd, but it is extremely standard. What else can indicate the disappearance of this kind of diaphragm? It couldn't be simpler, it was a hug between whites and blacks.
The film’s grasp of details has reached a perfect state. Mandela is always polite to the people around him. The beginning of the film is a comparison between the football team training on the sports field and the slum kids playing wild ball in the dusty ground outside the iron fence. , And the depiction of all the characters in the finals mentioned above, maybe immersed in such wonderful details is also the reason why you don't feel lengthy.
The performances of Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon were impeccable, Damon was so young this time... But the two Oscars this year are still hanging up, and they are probably the players on the list. As for Grandpa Eastwood, the academy is likely to look at the nomination of directors and films for the elderly because of the serious neglect of the classic car last year, but after the weakness, the box office was seriously lower than expected. How could it be dragged to 5000W this year? Unconquerable can only be blamed on the untimely birth.
Finally, attach the soul of the film, this first Invictus
Invictus
By William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
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