I thought it was a thriller at first, but it turned out to be a suspense.

Tatum 2021-12-21 08:01:16

3.10 It is a pity that it took a few weeks to write a film review. I will sort out the memory of the interview with the production team after the film. I hope I haven't forgotten too much~

At first I thought it was a thriller, but it turned out to be a suspense. At first, I thought that the murderer was a supernatural ability, but finally discovered that it was man-made; in other words, it was more because of inner fetters.

In fact, the male protagonist has never been relieved from the grief of the death of his daughter, so he lost his guard against the red dwarf. He doesn't believe in psychics, but wishfully believes that the dwarf is the incarnation of his daughter and chases after him.

The tourist attraction of Venice is sunny and noisy on the water, but the director photographed Venice in the fog in winter. When there are no people in the streets, it is terrible. The closer the river bank, the echo of the footsteps becomes more and more The big, damp sensation hits the face—this feeling was expressed through the mouth of the blind old lady.

The biggest suspense of this film is the "funny mystery", which makes almost everyone in the film full of suspiciousness. The weird psychic sisters, the absent-minded bishop, the police officer with words in the words... After experiencing all sorts of conspiracy traps, It was discovered that the real danger was just a murderous dwarf, and there was no malice against the male protagonist. The sister flower even gave the correct warning. It was actually his demon to the death of his daughter who really brought the male protagonist step by step into danger. I blame myself for not doing my best as a father.

On the scene of the film’s final funeral for the male protagonist, the female protagonist was dressed in mourning, but the close-up did not look sad and weeping, but seemed relieved. The director said that he wanted the actor to see her husband off with a smile because she understood her husband. Finally freed from the pain of bereavement, reunited with her daughter in heaven.

· Editing part

The opening clip is worth learning. There are no lines, just some symbolic plots to the last cup, the youngest son rides a bicycle and grinds to the broken glass. And interspersed with the daily conversations and actions in the house, the actions echo each other in the ups and downs. For example, the ball thrown by the daughter instantly turns to the hostess in the house to catch something. What happened after the little girl went to pick up the ball? Then the climax was reached when the male protagonist foresees a puddle of blood from the magnifying glass.

The couple’s sex section was well filmed, but the nudity plot was also questioned by the public at the time. The good thing about the shots is that what the two people show is not the passion in love, but the couple who have been in the same boat for many years, and even have experienced the pain of bereavement. They still support each other, rely on each other, and find warmth and love in each other. The need for companionship. Although it took a long time to shoot, the whole process was a very natural and affectionate sex scene.

And in the editing, a series of actions such as putting on clothes and dressing after sex are interspersed with the process of sex, and the details of the actions are echoed back and forth, which is an artistic treatment. The camera said that they took a lot of meaningless close-ups in this scene, so they had a wealth of material selection when editing.

This editing technique also blurs the timeline and avoids the old-fashioned narrative sequence of sex before-middle-after. The sex scene seemed to have happened on the spot, and it seemed to be the warmth in the minds of the two after the lingering. When they finally walked out of the hotel, the wife not only held her husband, but also leaned her head lightly on his shoulder. The two were obviously in a more intimate relationship, which was an indispensable explanation for the characters' feelings. And without the performance of this sex, there would be no such strong persuasiveness.

Some slow motion processing is also an attempt to edit myself, such as the male protagonist rescued a drowning daughter in the water, such as the tableware that fell on her after his wife fainted in the dining room... The slow motion strengthened these plots. When the man saved his daughter, he was prolonged and howling, like a desperate beast.

· Screen part

When the hostess met the psychic sister Hua in the bathroom for the first time, multiple mirrors with different angles showed different characters in the same plane at the same time. This composition is worth learning.

One of the characteristics of the lens is that I like to use the fast zoom in technique, such as zooming in to the sparkling river water through the railing beside the river. Maybe you want to present a macro environment before highlighting the plot.

· Highlights

Because filming is not allowed in the Venice Hotel, the sex scene was shot by several people in the film crew sneaking into a room with a small machine and the actors.

The male lead was in distress in the church and almost fell off the workbench. Because it was too dangerous, the avatar was reluctant to do it, so the male lead had to play it himself.

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Extended Reading
  • Darryl 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    Editing God, I like the part of making love the most, and give each other an expressive soul to the clothes. The plot setting is more like a slap in the face of detectives and social reality movies. The information of the "case" is replaced, and the source of tension becomes chaotic and attractive. It is really a masterpiece. Too bad the heroine ruined the whole movie.

  • Evangeline 2022-03-27 09:01:10

    The Mid-Autumn Festival is really a bit tricky to watch. In essence, it is a very traditional and classical British supernatural story, and the editing is indispensable. The first part is very challenging watching habits, the editing imagination is too rich and it is not very acceptable, but all intentions will gradually become clear in the later process, and the mystery will gradually be revealed, so in the end, the wife and two goddesses appear. When I was scared to pee.

Don't Look Now quotes

  • Laura Baxter: One of your children has posed a curious question: if the world is round, why is a frozen lake flat?

    John Baxter: That's a good question.

    Laura Baxter: [flipping through book] Ah, here it says that Lake Ontario curves more than 3 degrees from its Eastern end to its Western end. So frozen water really isn't flat.

    John Baxter: Nothing is what it seems.

  • Inspector Longhi: The skill of police artists is to make the living appear dead.