Let's talk about Hans Zimmer's OST first. Actually, I heard it a few months ago very early, laugh. At the time I thought it was just a mediocre work, but after watching it, I have to say that this is actually a great OST, and it works so well with the movie. It’s not a complicated melody. Maybe there’s actually no phrase that really counts as a melody. It’s just that a few notes with a sense of tension are repeated step by step with the bass of different instruments under weak accompaniment. Accompanied by the picture, the audience's heart is also quietly tightened. The first listening is not necessarily great, but being with the movie can well change with the pace of the movie without being overwhelming, which is also one of the characteristics of an excellent OST.
Going back to the movie itself, the performances of Langela and Sheen can be said to be amazing. Their performance is so accurate, smooth, natural and full of gorgeousness, whether Nixon or Frost, superior or inferior. Whether it was Nixon's self-confidence and introverted slightly aggressiveness in the first three interviews, or Frost's loss of control and the tension under his self-supporting smiling face at this time, it was a feeling like a gushing out. The call in the middle of the night was so overwhelming, the voices of the two people were slightly distorted and then came to each other's ears, still with such a slight fatigue, both of them were. In the last interview, the most stressful climax, Nixon admitted to the mistakes he made to the American people. At this time, Langela was full of emotions, and the close-up of Nixon in the camera was like that with exhaustion. The guilty old man was completely no longer confident and strong before, so that when the shooting ended when he walked out of the room, the rickety back suddenly made people feel that he was much older. The performances of the two people in the interview were so precise, and even too precise, but people felt that they lacked the roughness of the real world. However, we cannot express dissatisfaction with this, because such an excellent performance is so addictive. They are not imitating Nixon or Frost, they are creating Nixon and Frost. After watching this movie, I can't help but look forward to seeing Doubt in the hard drive before I can see it.
At the beginning, the plot was unhurried and slow, and then conflicts, pressures and tensions gradually piled up in the interviews that gradually fell into trouble, leading the film's rhythm to start with a slow and irreversible acceleration, until the last time. It collapsed with a huge shock. There may be a little bit of slow heat, but after the first quarter, I started to feel some can't stop feeling in it, and I look forward to what kind of staggered forwards between the two people will be in the future. The whole story—including all the details—is as exquisitely carved. The intervening interviews with the parties give the film a touch of documentary flavor, and make the tone of the film undoubtedly closer to the historical perspective.
However, this film is not a documentary, nor is it simply imitating or reproducing history, but trying to create history. Excellent rhythm control, precise shot scheduling, exquisite performance-no matter from which aspect, this movie has indeed succeeded in making history, and it is excellent.
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