The three-hour director's cut did feel a little slow, but it didn't make me fall asleep either. Dressed in the guise of Kubrick's The Shining, the core is still the story of Stephen King.
The camera movement and picture editing are steady and slow, and the cinematography is very strong. It seems that the composition of each frame has been carefully conceived and choreographed by the director. The tones are beautiful, showing an elegant and retro yellow-green cool tone, and the presentation of violence and horror is restrained and slightly flamboyant, very owning the director's personal style. The plot trend of the three-line narrative is also progressing steadily: Danny's self-salvation and sacrifice, Abra's calm and cleverness, and the struggle to survive of the true knot, the three-line back and forth interspersed and finally converged at the Panorama Hotel, so that we can really see Jin Ye help open a convincing worldview.
The only thing that is slightly lacking or regrettable is that in the second half, I feel that in order to pay tribute to the previous work - the movie version of "The Shining", some of Jin Ye's styles have been sacrificed. You must know that Kushen and his works will always be unique, It cannot be imitated. Such a slightly excessive tribute will inevitably cause a certain degree of excessive aesthetic fatigue. But whether it's a tribute or an imitation, when the soundtrack at the beginning of "The Shining" is heard, which movie fan won't be a little excited? Fortunately, the overall effect is not too blunt, so the combination of Kubrick and Stephen King cannot be said to be perfect, but at least it is convincing.
Although "Doctor Sleep" didn't give me a Stephen King-esque story like the TV versions of "The Shining" or "Storm of the Century", the overall look and feel was good, compared to the narrative chaos of "Joker 2" in the same year. It's much better than losing control of the rhythm, but unfortunately there are too many "It"s with low popularity. What is impressive is the screams of the protagonist little girl, Rose with a high hat, and Jacob, the cameo lady. On the contrary, the starring Ivan really played too ordinary. To be honest, the scene of killing a baseball boy played by Jacob should be a relatively direct child abuse scene rarely seen in American movies in the past ten years. Although I have heard it before, I still gasp when I watch it. And regardless of the previous work, no matter what the original work is, even if it is viewed as a thriller, even if it is not a horror movie - "Doctor Sleep" can be regarded as a stable performance.
Many people don't like it, they think it's slow-paced or play tricks. This kind of judgment is not only unfair to "Doctor Sleep" or to Stephen King's style of narration, but also unfair to the director. If you know a little about director Flanagan's work, you will know his presentation style, well... Maybe some people don't like his method, anyway, I think; and some people are unhappy because they think it's not good enough God's "The Shining" is awesome - this is even more vexatious! Conversely, aren't there many people who are puzzled by the greatness of the 80's version of "The Shining"? I admit that the director's frequency of appearances and presentation of the classic - The Ghost in Room 237 is indeed debatable, but after all, the flaws do not hide the flaws, and for me, watching movies is always the first story. Just staring at a few scenes and analyzing the shots to compare the director's filmmaking technique is not called watching the film but pulling the film, isn't it tiring? So although there are still some problems, I think this movie is satisfactory enough.
Therefore, unless you are a great god, as long as you can make a movie based on Stephen King's novel and make it steadily and steadily, and don't do anything self-righteous or eager to make money, it is generally not too bad. is proof.
Another: Don't watch other people's analysis before watching the feature film. This time I was itchy and cheap, which greatly reduced the freshness and suspense of the plot development when watching it!
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