Clear the game

Rachelle 2022-11-01 22:22:48

The most terrifying thing in the world is the chicken-and-duck talk. So before deciding to watch "Distorted Painting", you'd better clarify why you chose this film. If you want to get rid of the boring leisure time, then well, you will regret it after watching this film; if it is with a desire for knowledge, like exploring "CSI", at least with a science-like mentality of studying, then okay , this is at least a canned nutrient solution.

Looking back at the same type of reasoning and suspense films, either the packaging is fancy, there is nothing to do with blood, blurring the lens, and stimulating the brain; or talking about some ghostly nonsense and making some convoluted thrillers, in essence, they are all romantic and euphemistic bad pictures. . This one is somewhat of a grafting surprise, and it has made a subtlety of "still holding a pipa half-covered".

The film tells a story with a simple frame and a complicated interior. Detective Stan, who handled a serial murder case five years ago, hastily closed the case, and became disheartened by the police. After that, he quietly faded out of the police world, entered a university, and became a professor of psychology. Just after a few years of quiet life, a murder case with the same method happened again in the town. Stan was alert and was invited to come out again and cooperate with a junior detective, Carl, to jointly investigate the case.

Throughout the whole film, the joint relationship between the characters is not handled clearly enough, which is an unavoidable failure of the film. Take Stan as an example, the police were so attentive to the "deserts" in the past, this attitude itself is extremely abnormal; besides Carl's appearance, Stan is even more ignorant, the two seem to have a feud before, and a deep hatred later. Duan is even more clueless. I guess director Henry Miller didn't expect to do more homework on the plot to start this debut show.

It is his enthusiasm for another movie that made him at least find the possibility to use repeated memories to connect the stories. The "Bonn" series is definitely a good helper! The following stories are also interlocking, with the crime being solved for a while, and the anxiety of the protagonist being fully displayed for a while. The most interesting thing is that the director also deliberately found an outlet for the protagonist's tangled anxiety - the female companion Sandy. So far, whenever Stan has no clue and his soul is out of his body, she will appear in a timely manner, in the clouds and fog, communicate with his mind, and then quickly disappear without a trace, so is the flying fairy! Since it's Feixian, he can always help a little bit, and Feixian understands what everyone doesn't understand in the film. The director said that this is the "law of perspective" in art - looking at the problem from another angle, there will be more answers.

Speaking of ''the law of perspective'', this is also an artistic law that runs through the entire film. In the middle of the film, a professional painter once explained to Stan how to use perspective to commit crimes: ''A painting can be seen from different angles, and different meanings will be found, and the clue of the murderer's murder is hidden in a certain angle of these paintings. middle''. In other words, when you look at a painting in cross-section from your own, you can often see the difference at a glance. How the masters often talk about in the newspapers how to remove the false and preserve the true, and identify ancient books and famous paintings, the general principle is also continuously extended. Several of the victims in the film - Fat Uncle Upside Down, Dismembered Nude and Eddie Ripper, these people, from the perspective of criminology, were murdered by perverts, but from the perspective of performance art, this is a high-profile crime. IQ's artistic performance display.

Where the director is relatively clever is the handling of the ending. In the past, when I watched "Zodiac", I basically waited for the flowers to thank them, and the result appeared, which was delayed and unhappy; after watching "The Da Vinci Code", it was even more irrational, and it was hard to pull and reluctantly. Extremely; and this one, there is a bit of melancholy in the Eastern way. After reading it, I flashed back to "Liancheng Jue" in my mind.

To be more long-winded, watching this film is a bit like a boy playing a game. At the beginning, you and the director set up the game to run and watch, and at the end, when the whole stage is cleared, you go to drink and celebrate; otherwise, you turn off the TV, and you can still scold a few words.

Finally, let’s talk about the protagonist Uncle Dafoe. Everyone hopes that Dafoe will jump out of the protagonist’s curse. Unfortunately, this time, the fire is turned off again. In the whole film, the uncle has basically no bright spots except for the programmed performance. I even viciously thought, if this film Black and white silent films, perhaps more appropriate.




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Anamorph quotes

  • Carl Uffner: [to Stan] So what's this one about, Picasso?

  • Killer: A poison harms.

    Stan: What?

    Killer: A poison harms. It certainly does. You should know that - you've been poisoning yourself for years. Now that you've seen my work, I want some feedback. You and I both like the color blue, a pigment that was once quite precious. It's also the color of narcissism.