The first Ace Agent is my favorite type of work. It wraps the hymn of violence and beauty with adult fairy tales. It is crazy yet elegant. The second Golden Circle is not crazy enough except that the BOSS is not crazy enough. It is still a movie that can be used in many commercial The movie that kills the blood in the sequel.
In fact, I am quite afraid of the American retro-style picture language, because it always gives me a warm and lively front, and a cold and cold feeling from the side, especially in the shadow of happy hours under the neon lights, there is some kind of greedy and irritable hidden in the shadows. Monsters, people can't live lightly, and they can't live in fear all day long. In contrast, telling you plainly that death is coming is a relief.
In 2018, Edward Hope's "Night Wanderer" was exhibited in Shanghai as a representative work of American modern art. I stood in front of the crowded paintings, and the inexplicable American horror feeling emerged from the light and dark colors. Blocking my ears like sealing wax, as if the fear of this paint can deprive you of hearing and make you feel alone in the crowd. Before the bloodshed, death has come.
In 2019, on the way from San Francisco to Los Angeles along Highway 1, passing through Solvang, in the dark night, the retro buildings at the end of the road and its brightly lit windows along the street send chills down your spine. I hate the feeling of empty towns, flashing neon lights, gorgeous bright colors and unknowns in shadows. In 2020, when I rewatched "The Golden Circle", it also made me feel this way. In the film, the design style of Poppy's Yard is close to the retro town with neon lights flashing at the end of the highway in the 1960s in the United States, exuding the familiar "hometown" taste in Poppy's memory. There are only cold robots in town. Maybe the villains are all lonely. They have small ideas and hate betrayal. Compared with the volatile hearts, only machines are worthy of their trust. Or maybe it's loneliness that makes the villain, and there is nothing to be afraid of without worrying about it. Agents, villains, ordinary people, the reason we are afraid of unknown monsters hiding in the dark is because we are not experiencing real happiness. Some people use drugs, tobacco, alcohol, and desire to numb themselves to get "happiness", but they are eventually captured by the monster. Maybe everyone is alone.
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