Vomiting towards middle-class family life

America 2021-11-22 18:54:20

(Originally published by Tencent Entertainment, written for the Venice Film Festival report)

"Our Michael family kid was injured by the Allen family's child hitting a stick with a stick on X, X, X, X, year X. After friendly consultation between the parents of both parties, Decided..." Before the injured mother and freelance writer Perelop (played by Judy Foster) pressed the "print" button, she cautiously changed the preposition with before the stick to the verb carry, the guilty partner Parents have sincerely and actively assumed this responsibility.

Civilized society has something to say. Children’s trivial matters do not need to go to court. The rational West of social contract theory ensures smooth communication and long live understanding!

But just 70 minutes after the film was fully developed in real time, the social contract under democratic education fell apart. "Don't point fingers at our marriage," Perelop roared; "Don't fucking point fingers at our children," nor did Lansie (Kate Winslet), the aggressor’s mother and investment consultant. polite. The previous polite words were completely infuriated as the famous word beginning with F, and polite inquiries about each other's professions were also on the line as a mockery of non-self professional fields. The purpose of all was to lay down self-esteem and anger each other, which was a complete killing battlefield. I was really tired and collapsed, so I returned to the peace talk table with a cup of coffee and took a short nap.

Foreshadowing, depression, frustration, reunion, another frustration, and the loss of both sides, this is really a wonderful war film, and it is also like a symphony of the ultimate impotence (the motivation is constantly frustrated, but the gongs and drums are not waiting for the end. Voice).

"Why are we staying in this damn house?" Lan Qian repeatedly asked the lawyer husband Allen (Christopher Waltz) to take away the people, but every time the conflict erupted to a climax at the elevator entrance— —A tone that can't even bark the neighbor's dog. So, the good old man who always wanted to restore the situation, Perelop's husband Michael (John C. Reilly), who was a bathroom equipment seller, had to let the other party calm down again and come back to eat some cake and some coffee.

Therefore, the film has an enjoyable rhythm and structure, and the re-charge after resting again and again failed to clean up the endgame, or even let people see the endgame. Even every time he returns to the big part of the fierce battle indoors, he can always be saved by Allen's endless BlackBerry at the moment of the embarrassing climax. "Haha, look at the couple fighting on their own...Hey..." Another important work call came.

From the issue of children's education to the situation in Darfur, the battle front between the two sides is constantly changing. Perelop, who is writing about the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan, is on the rise to the human rights issue, because experience naturally occupies the moral commanding heights, but it can't be worth the noisy red-eyed Lan Qian's sentence: "Your human rights are only worthy of rubbing your ass. "And often on a certain detail, once the husband and wife can't agree with each other externally, it will intensify internal conflicts in turn.

Internal worries and external difficulties caused the four sane adults to completely collapse. Lan Qian, who was disgusted by her husband's constant phone calls, even vomited in the living room of her master's house, vomiting at the hardcover contemporary art coffee table books bought back in London, spitting out to make a living out of flattery. After regaining his vitality, at the next climax of the film, Lan Qian slammed her resentment on her husband again. This time it was the blueberry phone that was unlucky, and this also made the hostess who had just been violated by the filth rejoiced.

Because of the wanted by the United States, Polanski's New York story, which was forced to be filmed in Paris, set up a nearly single-scene theater stage for the acting stars. The lines of sarcasm and sarcasm, accompanied by the witty appearance of each character at the right time, this film is simply rushing towards the best screenwriter award. Of course, the film itself is adapted from the stage play of the same name by the emerging French dramatist Yasmina Reza, who has become popular in recent years, and it has also been performed in Chinese by the Shanghai team. The greatest credit for the wonderful story is the original work. .

What Polanski did was just to turn the focus of the scene on the theater stage that the audience had to pick out with the naked eye to the camera's motion in the constricted space of the room.

The only two location scenes are the scenes of children from school at the beginning and the end of the movie. At the beginning, they waved the sticks of their classmates, and at the end they became two companions of the same sex without guessing. It seems that I want to give a footnote to this fierce battle of middle-class families: human beings are inevitably brought with violent factors when they are born. Peace is only the exception, and human nature is evil by nature.

There is no doubt that the film is so wonderful, how it is five-star looks, but because it too benefits from the powerful original theatrical work, it is not surprising that it ended up with nothing at the film festival.

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