Ben Foster is illegible as a tramp, Steve Buscemi is only in a few shots, and Sigourney Weaver is only in a few scenes. Several major drama bones have all become green leaves, and Woody Anderson's role as both good and evil policeman Brown appears in every scene. The intention of the director is very obvious. This is a one-man show, which is to create a complete character image. . Of course, these settings are not just to highlight Brown's character characteristics, these characters have more subtle suspense settings. At the end of the film, it did not reveal who made the videotape that plunged his life into a deeper quagmire. He believed that the high-level officials framed him in order to divert attention from the scandal in the police station, but is this really the case? In fact, every character has the possibility and motive to frame him, even his lover and his daughter are possible. However, the most likely person is the inconspicuous person in the reflection of Woody Hudson's sunglasses on the poster. This is the female trainee police officer who was ridiculed by Brown at the beginning of the film. She witnessed Brown's torture to extract a confession. Knowing his character clearly, he gave the character a meaningful close-up after his atrocities were exposed by the news media in the film.
The film's proportions and rhythm are well mastered, and the characters' personalities and inner struggles are shown step by step. Brown's cynicism towards the female trainee police officer at the beginning reveals a strong tendency of chauvinism. As soon as he enters the office, he is tortured to extract a confession, showing his irritable temperament. Back home, with aggressive language, people thought he would break out at any time, but he never did, and his tone was always very gentle. The most interesting thing is the composition of this broken family. Brown lives under the same roof with two wives who have divorced one after another, and these two wives are biological sisters, resulting in the naive youngest daughter always worrying about genetic problems, while the eldest daughter is gay. .
Gradually, we found that Brown after taking off his police uniform is harmless, he will not be rough with any good people in his eyes, and he is even more gentle with women. The first big thing in the first sex scene is Brown licking the feet of a black girl. He always tries to make women happy, and before going to bed with every woman, he will gently ask: "Can I sleep with you tonight? ?" Brown is indeed typically racist, paranoid, macho, playboy, chauvinist, and misogynistic, misanthropic, even himself. But he believed in his heart that he was a good policeman and had never harmed any good person, so that when his two daughters asked him, "What about us?", the dazed expression on his face made one feel pity.
In the real world, people are not only good people and bad people who are masked. Because we live in a polyhedron, the line is very blurred. The director told the story with the same worldview as early as writing [I'm Not There], and a Bob Dylan needs six different actors to express his many facets of character. So [Fortress] is a holographic projection standing at a certain height, this is not a movie, but life itself. Just like the unhappy ending at the end, none of the problems that Brown brought up was solved, and he fell deeper and deeper into the quagmire of life, and was even driven out of the already broken home he wanted to maintain, standing quietly in the dark outside the window. He watched his family eat in the dim light, and then staggered away, with only a lonely and depressed back. Life is such a thing, whether you are redeemed or not, you are always going on on your own.
Not only this, but the cinematography of the entire film is even more commendable. Various camera movements, lighting and composition are also well-intentioned, and the dim warm colors bring people back to Los Angeles in 1999.
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