Winning old wine in new bottle, the film offers a textbook direction for the adaptation. The director's previous "Upgrade" is also in this style. It is a low-cost B-level film, slightly packaged, and highly ornamental. It is within the scope of the genre, but the gameplay often has some ingenuity. After all, he was also the one who pondered "The Chainsaw" with Wen Ziren back then.
This time, "The Invisible Man" is an old theme. I remember watching it when I was a child. At that time, the translation was "Transparent Man". The deep memory in it is a paranoid scientist who pushed forward with the project. He has successfully made the orangutan invisible, but he needs to be a human body. In the experiment, I still prepared to do it myself, so I could see visually that after drinking the liquid, the human body slowly exposed the internal organs and bones, and then slowly disappeared. He struggled in pain in the middle, and finally succeeded.
This visual memory is too strong, and it made me suddenly think of a funny story of a little devil, about doing beautiful things with beautiful girls, but beautiful women can slowly become transparent and let you see the internal organs...
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The second impressive thing is that transparent people began to become crazy, that is, they constantly used transparency to take advantage of female colleagues and female neighbors next door, which was full of horror and wretchedness. In the end, this accomplished scientist began to prepare to kill all his colleagues and monopolize the secret. As long as he is a transparent person, he can override a lot of power, but cleverness will be mistaken by cleverness, and eventually he will be killed by a powerful female colleague.
This time the adaptation focuses on domestic violence and control, which is very smart and "politically correct" when you think about it. In addition to the deliberate provocation of some directors in recent American films, they really absolutely protect people of color and respect women. Women are the ones who save the world.
At the beginning of the story, there is a nervous and thrilling girl escape scene, which is very exciting and emotional. The woman cautiously finally got into the sister's car, but the man suddenly killed and smashed the car window, which was really scary.
Then the story moves into a relatively gentle rhythm, the woman begins a new life, but full of horror, he knows too much how terrible his so-called ex-boyfriend optics pioneer is, until his sister tells him that he died and left a legacy. The girl tried to start a normal life, but it didn't last long, and soon she felt that someone was watching and hurting herself, but she couldn't argue, and most people thought she was just a schizophrenic. At the level of murder, the woman always revolves around the horror of invisible people.
This idea is very suitable for the situation. In the Internet era, it does make people feel like being under surveillance, not to mention the possibility of physical intervention. The rhythm of the middle section is a bit slow, which makes me feel a little boring, but the back is full of excitement and cannot be justified, so I can only resist.
As a genre film, it can always make you watch with a heart hanging, the plot tension is very strong, and you will feel relieved after watching it. Of course, this is still a standard commercial film as a whole, and there is not much to think about in depth, including the heroine's resistance from the front and the back, and it is also a standard American independent woman. The actors acted well, but the overall portrayal of the characters is still a routine.
Of course not so picky, you will definitely feel very happy after reading it.
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