This is a fable type film. For this theme, the director does not have enough skill to make the story bad. IMHO, this film is a "very good" example. More than 50 years ago, Bergman’s religious allegory film "The Virgin Spring" was filmed orthodox and honest but moved people’s hearts. It lies in the director’s brilliant finishing touches to religious propositions and human philosophy throughout the film. It's worthless to stop using the thrilling sound effects and the lens to pile up the atmosphere (except for some photography worth mentioning).
It is a huge mistake to let Nicole Kidman play this film. I think it would be better to choose a new role in the art world. She herself did not fully understand the story behind the film and the emotional appearance of the characters, so In the film, the character performance of Anna, Steven's wife, is completely superficially supported by her own solid acting skills, and Steven’s mental depression and depression in the crisis faced by the family show that he is acting hard. It can only be said that the director's actor arrangement is too lacking and needs to be improved.
At the same time, the editing of this film is jerky in some places, and does not have the characteristics of its own style of narrative. The switching between shots makes the audience at a loss, making such a naive plot in a film that seems to be finished in a dozen days. To show the classic fairy tale about the holy deer, for the audience, it is no different from selling dog meat with a sheep's head.
There is no denying that some film critics say that the director has tried Kubrick’s various horror expression techniques, such as telescopic lens and hand-held follow-up, but the tribute application of this method of large length in the film can only reduce the formal standard of the film. What he learned was just a little bit of Kubrick, and he didn't handle the relationship between these methods at all.
The two weird shots in the film are not bad: 1. When my sister Kim was looking downstairs outside the hospital window with her mobile phone, Martin stood in the parking lot and called her. The camera turned to my sister and mother looking out the window. When outside, there were only two empty wheelchairs beside the car, Martin had disappeared. 2. When Steven drove around in the underground parking lot and was about to go out, he saw from the right window that Martin jumped over a car, and Martin called and said that he was somewhere else. Fortunately, Steven didn't pay much attention at the time. .
Generally speaking, this is a bad film that is not worth watching, and the director is more suitable for making romance films. for example
These shots are so delicate and sweet that they don't match the overall film style.
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