German blockbuster from Tom Tykwer

Salma 2022-01-27 08:08:03

As soon as I saw such a title, I was very repelled, and it was difficult for me to have a good impression of Clive Owen. But the choice on the night of watching the disc is a choice between this one and "My Bloody Valentine's Day". I can only abandon the latter of bloody violence and choose the former.

I started watching the film without knowing that the director was Tom Tykwer, and I actually watched it from the very beginning. The advantages of this film are still very prominent. I like the following points:

First, the exaggeration of the plot is pursued in a reasonable way. A prosecutor, an Interpol cross-border search for evidence across the International Commercial Credit Bank. More Hollywood, more vulgar plot, but it did not fool the audience with a happy ending. Scenes, lines, plots all imply that an individual cannot destroy such an organization. At the end, the detective tried to sacrifice himself to complete the prosecutor and used an "outside the system" method to make a break. It was the family's revenge that accidentally cut him off. However, the top leader of the organization was gone, and the second, third, and fourth leaders quickly took over and continued the operation of the organization. The tragedy continued, and the war never stopped. In the film, the plot of the Chinese government selling cheap weapons to the Middle East, and the plot of the governments of various countries and the International Commercial Credit Bank to control the situation and gain benefits through lending, I personally think that there is still well-documented plot.

Secondly, the choice of the scene supplements and promotes the plot. Architects should be interested in this film, Berlin, Milan, New York, Istanbul... IBBC offices use glass and structural layers of translucency to create a futuristic sense of transparency. When the agent steps up the steps into the huge IBBC headquarters (it was actually filmed in a Motor City), the stark contrast between the largeness of the building and the smallness of the individual actually heralds the end. The Mussolini Central Station in Milan was used as the location for the election, and it also interestingly echoes the hotel and office buildings next to it. For the location in New York, in addition to the routine aerial photography of the skyline, the director also used seemingly different scenes. The eye-catching street scenes deliberately depict a somewhat decayed New York - the real personal multinational bank based on the plot eventually collapsed, and its headquarters is in New York. The shootout at the Guggenheim Museum was very surprising, and the film took great pains to use architecture to create the beauty of the picture. The crew spent 16 weeks imitating the Guggenheim Museum in New York built in 16 years in an old warehouse in Germany. The shootout that took place in it was full of beauty because of the unique slope and arc space of the museum.

In the end, it was the appreciation of Clive Owen's performance that changed my bad stereotype of him being "rude and ruthless". When he said to the prosecutor, "I'm the person you should burn", that look convinced me. Another arrangement I liked is that the detective played by Clive Owen is a bachelor with no personal life, and the prosecutor played by Naomi has a happy family of his own. Two fellow travelers who got together because of the same goal cannot be said to have a collision without sparks, but thankfully the director did not let them become a mandarin duck who had to "encourage and affirm" each other in the process of struggle.

After watching the film, I thought it was a good commercial film, and then I realized that it was Tom Tykwer's work. The Germans' rigor, objectivity, and meticulousness, as well as Tom's own control over the rhythm and lens of the suspense film, were all well captured in the film. reflect. His grasp of different movie themes has been well proved - "Lola Run", "Perfume".

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  • Blaze 2022-03-18 09:01:04

    Vaguely see the shadow of Le Carre and Green, there are not many such films in the 21st century. The Berlin Wall has reached 20 years, and the two camps in the world are increasingly integrated, but the confrontation between individuals and institutions continues. Is this movie any good? It's all up to you to believe it or not.

  • Kirsten 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    Political conspiracy theory film, it feels average, Clive Owen and Naomi Watts are average, and there is little spark between the two, which is disappointing.

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