Under what circumstances does one plus one equal three

Dejah 2021-12-16 08:01:02

As the most successful Chinese director in the world today, the name "Ang Lee" alone is enough to be the whole reason to watch this movie, not to mention the addition of Will Smith. The following content involves spoilers.

The opening scene of the story is Will Smith, a deadly shooter with a lot of shots, finishes the assassination mission cleanly. However, because he was about to accidentally injure the child next to the mission target, this mission also put him under tremendous pressure, so he decided to wash his hands in the golden basin.

Experience tells us that golden basin washing hands will always wash the trouble. The death shooter, who thought he could enjoy his retirement, visited his old friend, the snobby butler Afu who had just been killed by the clown not long ago. From an old friend, the protagonist learned that the last mission he performed was strange, involving the mysterious "Gemini Project."

The conversation between the protagonist and his old friend was monitored. His former work unit, DIA, an intelligence agency that was one cup bigger than the CIA, immediately sent a killer to kill the two. The protagonist’s old friend was unfortunately killed. The faint blue picture of his body falling into the water reminds people of the beautiful "Juvenile Pie". In the second half of the film, there is a fight in the shining green water in the well water. It can also evoke similar memories of the audience's previous work by Director Ang Lee.

The team sent to the protagonist's house was not so lucky. The protagonist has long been psychologically prepared for what kind of urine his original work unit is and what he will do. Long before the opponent started, he uncovered the female agent who was placed next to him in charge of surveillance tasks, and also checked the household registration. This watcher is considered to be a daughter of her father's inheritance. Her father is an old policeman who is always involved in all kinds of troubles inexplicably. The mantra is "Yippee-ki-yay, Motherf[bee]".

After solving the killer who broke through the door, Will Smith sneaked into the house of the female agent who was in charge of monitoring him. The latter is about to become the next assassination target for the organization because of showing his feet. Sure enough, before the two took refuge in a boat, a killer attacked the heroine, and after a fight, she was subdued by the latter. After the sweet-looking actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead switched to short-haired betting, she felt a bit like Sigourney Weaver, the queen of "Alien".

Director Ang Lee’s previous work "Billy Lynn’s Midfield War" shot with high frame rate technology caused discomfort to some viewers because the screen was too bright, so this time he specially selected a lot of scenes with insufficient lighting, such as Although the scene of the heroine and heroine sailing away is in dimness, the details are still clearly identifiable, and it also inherits the aesthetic style of director Lee Ang's films.

Since the enemy's power covers the entire United States, to ensure the safety of life, we can only flee abroad. For this reason, the protagonist urgently turned to his other old friend-the guardian Pharaoh who drew a dragon on the left and a rainbow on the right with Dr. Strange all day long. Although he doesn't have the ability to open any door here, he can easily take the protagonist to any place he wants with his superb airplane driving skills.

The assassination of the protagonist failed, so Cliff Owen, the senior cadre of DIA and the head of the Gemini Project, took over the follow-up action against Will Smith. He is best at dealing with agents who do not obey orders. He used to fight Jason Bourne for three hundred rounds, but now he is promoted to be a leader. Chase down the protagonist and a group of people.

Even if you haven't watched the trailer and only watched the poster of this film, it is not difficult to guess that this so-called adopted son is a clone of the protagonist. A few years ago, Will Smith's popularity plummeted because he insisted on holding up his son. I don't know if he has ever thought that his son's biggest competition will actually be a young version of himself created through special effects technology. From then on, Jaden Smith’s acting career has become even more difficult. I don't know if there is such a thing as "Smith Father and Son Reunion Dinner", anyway, as a "Will Smith Only Fan", I am happy to see this. The year before last’s "Caribbean Seaweed 5" and the year before last’s "Captain America 3", Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Jr. both regained their youth on the big screen with the help of special effects technology. Although only a few seconds, they have already The fans were thrilled. So everyone should be able to understand why I value this film so much. As a 20-year-old Will Smith movie fan, one Will Smith is already worth the fare, and one more will certainly make a profit, not to mention two Will Smiths of different ages, let alone two. Individuals also have a lot of opponents.

The first encounter between two Will Smiths led to the most exciting action scene in the film. The street car chasing in one go is breathtaking. The two protagonists' fighting styles reflect their same skill reserve and different combat styles. One is steady and heavy, the other is quick and swift, reminiscent of the bamboo forest of Li Mubai and Yujiaolong. Fighting swords. Director Ang Lee has injected martial arts-style lightness into the standard car chasing scenes of Hollywood action movies, without sacrificing the sense of percussion. After reading this paragraph, people can't help but sigh that Death Shooter is indeed a member of the suicide squad, and he is particularly motivated to kill himself.

The first encounter of the two protagonists set a very high starting point for the second act of the movie, but unfortunately the following plot of the second act failed to maintain this fast-paced and tense sense. The passage where the protagonist goes to Europe to pursue the so-called truth is a little boring-there is no need for a character to reveal the secret, the audience knows that the young Will Smith is a clone of the protagonist. It is not worth the loss to stay too long in order to shake off this loosely wrapped baggage.

Without the same high-quality action scenes as the previous car chase scene, to support the rest of the second act, it is mainly Will Smith's acting skills. For the interpretation of the middle-aged protagonist, he naturally came at his fingertips-this is a well-known Will Smith-like hero, with good business, experienced, and mature with a little bit of decadence and naughty. The audience is walking towards the name of Will Smith. In the theater, what I look forward to is to see such an image on the screen. What surprised the audience more in this film was the young version of Will Smith. At first, most viewers may be a little uncomfortable, because the face can be rejuvenated through technology, but the voice is difficult to pretend. Upon hearing that iconic voice, everyone thought of the Will Smith-like hero mentioned above, and it was not easy to correspond to the second generation of this stunned young clone official. Fortunately, the visual information provided by the film was convincing enough, and this initial sense of discomfort gradually disappeared, and everyone's focus shifted to the face and expression of the young version of Will Smith. Over fifty years old-like the hero in the film, 51 years old this year-Will Smith has successfully portrayed an image of a young agent who is both arrogant and childish. Of course, the special effects team of the film also contributed to this aspect.

In the second half of the second act, two Will Smiths, one old and one young, confronted again. The old one tried to do ideological and political work for the young one, but was rejected and almost killed by the other party. The relationship between the two Will Smiths is easily reminiscent of the high-reputation comics adaptation of the movie "Wolverine 3" the year before, but whether the young version of Will Smith is playing X23 or X24 here is still unclear. Persevering in recognizing the thief as the father, never repenting, or killing the adoptive father to completely blacken it all seem to be possible endings. After all, the ending of "Wolverine 3" is a desperate battle between two Hugh Jackmans, one old and one young.

As a mainstream commercial film for the masses, this film does not intend to go too far on the dark road. The young version of Will Smith wakes up after passing through the dark night of the soul, and fights alongside his cloned parent body. The big villain's top-seeded player reversal, and at the critical moment, there must be a stronger villain to come forward, and this real big villain looks like-yes, it is Will Smith, he is the "X24" of this film.

The Gemini is two, isn't it two? How did it become three? The black man behind the scenes, Cliff Owen, came out in time to explain that he wanted to build an entire army with Will Smith's high-quality genes. Except for the godson he himself raised, the others were all emotionless war machines. So the two protagonists played by Will Smith are equivalent to Jan Golfett and Boba Fett in "Star Wars", except that the villain's clone army was destroyed before it was built. What is particularly puzzling here is that since Cliff Owen has such a big killer in his hand, why not use it early, instead of sending his son and teammates to the opponent? The screenwriter David Benioff did not disappoint the audience.

At the end of the story, the young version of Will Smith enters the campus like an ordinary teenager. When the old version's protagonist comes to pick him up, I think in the eyes of his classmates, this should be a pair of ordinary father and son. This film explores the ethical dilemmas involved in the human cloning technology, but in order to maintain the overall bright and positive atmosphere of the film, without excessive digging. But this can't stop the audience's enthusiasm for exploration. Assuming there are many clone fighters like the final booster, what should the protagonist and his group do? Should they be allowed to continue to be killing machines or should they be humanely destroyed? If the villain showed his true colors before he was killed, could the protagonist team still be able to play a killer? Setting aside these assumptions, even the definite plot already in the film is extremely scary to think about.

This film continues the discussion of the oppression of patriarchy involved in many works of Director Ang Lee in the past. The middle-aged version of Will Smith and the villain Cliff Owen represent two patriarchal images. In the end, the enlightened and kind father prevailed. However, the relationship between the winning "father" and his "son" is very delicate. The second generation has repeatedly described the mother of the cloned mother as his own mother, but that should obviously be his "grandmother." Complicated ethical issues are also reflected in the relationship between the two male protagonists and the female protagonist. This iron triangle is easily reminiscent of the "step marriage system" of some nomads in ancient times. The gentle and elegant director Ang Lee is very good at concealing the inducement of ethical taboos hidden in the seemingly harmless royal stories, and his film works can always attract the audience to chew the aftertaste.

On the way back from watching the movie, I just hit a piece of news. It was Will Smith’s answer to the question “If I met a young self? Why doesn't the Men of the Police pick up "The Matrix"? In what I wrote before, I mentioned that when I didn't watch many foreign movies 20 years ago, my two favorite actors were Keanu Reeves and Will Smith. If someone asks me what I want to say to myself when I was young, then my answer is: the two actors you like now are still active 20 years later, each of which has two important works released a year, and you will be in these four movies After the screening, each wrote an article about Lorry's comments to "show love" to them.

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Gemini Man quotes

  • Junior: You made a person out of another person, then you sent me to kill him. You made a choice to do this to me.

  • Henry: [to Junior] Twenty-five years ago, Clay took my blood, he made you from me! The government chose me because there's never been anybody like me. He's been lying to you the whole time. He told you, you were an orphan, and of all the people in the world to come after me, why would he send you?

    Junior: Because I'm the best.

    Henry: [aiming his gun at Junior] You are obviously not the best!

    Junior: You're just trying to rattle me.

    Henry: I'm trying to save you!

    Junior: I'm not you old man... I'M NOT YOU