Failed film genre mixing experiment

The opening fifteen minutes was quite exciting: the desert background combined with sudden bloody violence, slow motion and the use of empty shots to show the characters' hearts are the true biography of Wong Kar-wai, and the song All That She Wants by Ace Of Base has the finishing touch. It is a pity that the second half of the story gradually indulges in the author's style display, the self-talking scene becomes more and more aimless, and the narrative logic is close to the edge of chaos. In fact, this dystopian story has a lot of room for exploration. However, the female director's ambitions are too great, and it seems that she doesn't care about telling a good story at all. Instead, she tries to graft various movie genres together, making the plot unpredictable. The earth is vacillating in the elements of horror, political metaphor, and romantic love. This kind of failed style experiment has caused the entire overhead story background to become more empty, and the characters' lines also have an inexplicable sense of comicality. The director's slow and graceful poetry in his debut work "The Girl Returning Alone at Night" disappears here, leaving only the abrupt roles, patchy scenes of the doomsday. The music in the second half even has the effect of overwhelming the audience, making some of the passages look like the music videos of big-name bands.

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