On "Murder of Green Toe"

Arturo 2021-10-13 13:06:55

The line-up of this movie is full of character actors, so it is absurd. Various settings have been made. The performances and lines of the actors make the tone of the whole story all like a line from the cool brother: "They are all nihilists." . It wasn't until Jeff Bridges finally realized that the big boss was using them. Then I combined with the main story line before and realized that the main body of the movie is actually a detective story

. The most important thing is that. In the narrative framework, the clues of the detective story are scattered in the whole movie, and the clues of the detective movie are laid out, and the story direction is hardly taken into account. The lengthening of the prologue and the neglected weakening of the link between the clues make the whole story. The tone began to change, coupled with the inexplicable dreams (actually a mapping of the subconscious desires of Ku Ge), the whole story began to explore the trajectory of Ku Ge's own life, and finally came to a summary with Julian Moore in bed.

The second is lines, which often explain things in one sentence, always add some exclamations, divergence, and various unthinking words in front, especially John Goodman, who often says a lot of words without emphasis and without logic. And it also confuses Brother Cool. If in other movies, Brother Cool and him would have been killed. Moreover, John Goodman's illogical speaking is fast and strong, Jeff Bridges' divergence and distractions are broken, and he often pauses meaninglessly, and it takes a long time to finish, which makes me dumbfounded.

This kind of narrative, lines and performance make the story of the film become a secondary condition, it becomes a little unsightly, and I don't like it very much.

Looking at Jeff Bridges as the cool guy, I felt that if Hollywood were to make a movie version of "Detective Conan", the dark humor would run through the whole story, but it's hard to imagine that it was a film by the Coen brothers.

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  • Monica 2022-03-23 09:01:03

    nihilist..freaks..I like your style!

  • Amelie 2021-10-20 18:59:35

    The greatness of "Murder Green Toe" firstly explores the infinite possibilities of the young art category of film, dazzling montages, imaginative visual language, and fascinating at will. The second is its extreme black humor. Everyone's identity and personality are completely contrary to each other. The pacifist with super bad temper, the rich man with benevolence and morality, the slutty pornographic actress is the rich girl who escaped from the big farm.

The Big Lebowski quotes

  • The Dude: [repeated line by The Dude and others] That rug really tied the room together.

  • The Dude: Who the fuck are the Knutsens?