Audiovisual feast

Johnnie 2022-03-16 09:01:03

Continuing the distinctive style of the debut film, neon lights and psychedelic retro electronic music create a restless atmosphere. The director has boldly recruited a generation of comedian Adam Sandler to play the chattering and dehumanizing male protagonist. He lived up to expectations and delivered the best career in his career. 's performance, the phrase "Oscar is f**king wrong." in the film is a perfect fable and satire on the unbelievable failure of the Oscars to be nominated for Best Actor.

A rough diamond worth a thousand gold was bought by a gambling-addicted hero. He thought he could flourish, but he was involved in a more complicated situation. A basketball match actually implicated his fate...

The director is happy to let the audience feel the restlessness and panic of the protagonist, and arranges the protagonist to speak foul language. The 135 minutes are full of chattering dialogue, and there is hardly a second to close the protagonist's mouth. In several scenes, more than one character is arranged to confront each other at the same time. The protagonist speaks, the protagonist is overwhelmed by the inquiries of different characters, and the audience can also feel the feeling that the protagonist's mind is about to burst but he is overwhelmed.

The male protagonist who is addicted to gambling is unwilling to fall into an ordinary fate. Even if he has the ability to repay his creditors, he still needs to "buy a hope" with the money. This is a unique sense of persistence for people who love gambling. At least once, even if only once, can make himself reborn, so even if he has no breathing room, he can still laugh and keep a cheerful mood, hit his head against the south wall again and again, and welcome the dawn.

The male protagonist puts money and interests first, disregarding the eight-year brotherhood, focusing on buying the victory of the rival team, ignoring the feelings of his wife, and paying no attention to the overtime of the connoisseurs. The role setting is obviously thankless, but a lot of hand-held cameras , close-ups and even close-ups greatly enhance the protagonist's state of depression, and occasional alienation and occasional first-person angles make the audience wander between supporting and opposing the protagonist.

The director's scene scheduling is also accurate. At the end of the film, a basketball match is constantly switched between the male protagonist, the female protagonist and the scene of the game. On the line, mundane basketball games add to the tension due to wagering. A powerful ending at the end of the film brings this farce to an end, and at this time it seems fatalistic to cut the expressions of different characters.

Strongly shaking shots, noisy dialogues and sound effects, endless psychedelic music, never-ending chasing and quarrelling, all elements constitute the unique restlessness of this film, which brings an indescribable audio-visual enjoyment.

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  • Halie 2022-04-23 07:01:39

    fxxxxxxk! ! ! It's so cool, I'm going to orgasm, I'm going to cum! Really can't let me listen to this kind of music plus a good movie, I'll just be cool.

  • Casey 2022-03-23 09:01:38

    The Safdie brothers are running out of fraternal directors to catch up with in film history.

Uncut Gems quotes

  • Howard Ratner: You spoke to Gary!

    Phil: I did!

    Howard Ratner: About what? About what?

    Arno: About you! About how you're takin' my money, all over town, placin' bets! You know what that does to me? Do you know how offensive that is to me?

  • Howard Ratner: [weeping] Everything I do is not goin' right! Everything I do is not goin' right! I don't know what to do, I really don't.