It should be said that the lens arrangement for the first few minutes of the movie is pretty good. Josh and Author's respective room layout, block environment, clothing, etc. immediately showed the huge difference between the rich and the poor in the United States to the audience. At the same time, it also well indicates that the rich are not benevolent in the film, and the poor demand the theme of basic social security. However, the subsequent plot setting made the quality of the movie take a turn for the worse. This is not only because the film is too faithful to follow the Hollywood commercial comedy model in the narrative structure, which appears to be a little ingenious; more importantly, it is caused by the film's failure to fully demonstrate the character and the process of action conversion. For example, Josh was just an ordinary salaried employee from start to finish, but he suddenly broke out, suddenly decided to fight poison with poison, and suddenly became a planner proficient in theft plan... the same The problem also appeared in other characters. Although the movie uses a chess game to explain Josh’s layout, and arranges him and his accomplices with a theft trainer such as Slide (Eddie Murphy), but in the process of Josh’s transformation from an ordinary person to an action hero such as Spiderman and Batman Before, during, and after, the film does not set any foreshadowing and explanation, which breaks the continuity of the character's personality.
At the same time, the originally kind and law-abiding employees in the film suddenly put themselves above the law. In order to get back the old-age pension lost by others illegally, he also began to adopt illegal methods without any reflection or worry. They all seemed right to what they did. As for whether he has trampled on the law and interfered with judicial justice, it seems that it no longer matters. The important thing is that they became Robin Hood-like "heroes." More importantly, the film's description of the poor's demand for a just society only stays at the level of being satisfied with the integrity of personal property. As long as their personal income and property have not been infringed, this group of people can be content with the status quo. As for the issue of changing the social system, it does not seem to be their concern. The end of the film may satisfy people's imagination of robbing the rich and helping the poor, and vent their dissatisfaction with the widening gap between the rich and the poor in society. Unfortunately, the film failed to effectively express such a theme. On the contrary, the film shows a tendency to satisfy the vanity of Josh and others as heroes. Therefore, when people laugh with gold at the end of the film, the audience themselves cannot produce a sense of identity.
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