Chapter 1304 1304 Great Works
The "LA Times" film review is like a heat wave, spreading indiscriminately across the North American continent, but Nicholas's article is more like an editorial than a film review, which is why the "LA Times" is willing to provide an entire page. reason.
In terms of professional film critics, the famous Roger Ebert is obviously full of expectations. Since the birth of "Pulp Fiction", this top film critic has become a little more interested in Hugo, not professionally. ——Roger has always been impartial in terms of professionalism. Good works are good, and bad works are bad. This has no direct connection with the actor, and he must remain objective; it is personal curiosity, and Hugo's selection of works always brings surprises , and always full of fun.
Roger wrote a film review for the "Seven Deadly Sins" for the first time. This article called "The Birth of a Great Work" not only expressed Roger's attitude from the title, but also gave a three-and-a-half star out of four. The evaluation and four-star recommendation show that Roger's admiration for the "Seven Deadly Sins".
"This is a city with constant rain and rain. The old police detective Samose wears a raincoat and a round hat; the rookie Mills, who has just been transferred here, is bald and rainy, and it seems that he will never grow old. The first partner of the two There was a murder in the sky, the fat dead head-down in a plate of spaghetti. Samosey later returned, flashlights roaming the filthy apartment, finding mountains of spaghetti sauce. No matter how fat you are, you won't turn your home into a food warehouse.
The horrific murder set the tone for David Fincher's "Seven Deadly Sins," one of the darkest, coldest, most ruthless, and desperate films ever produced by a major Hollywood studio. The torrential rain continued, and murders followed one after another. Distorted blood appeared on the scene of the murders, and 'gluttony' was written on the back of the refrigerator in the fat man's deceased's home. After two murders, Samose realizes that they are facing a serial killer who punishes the victim with the 'seven deadly sins'.
It's a boring and clichéd opening, like a great selection of Agatha Christie's detective novels of the 1920s. But it's the nineties.
The only difference is that the stage of "Seven Deadly Sins" is not the idyllic villa of high society, but the daily life of two detectives - one of them is tired of the ugliness of the world; the other is unprepared. Interestingly, solving the case is not the focus of the film, because the two police detectives spent countless scheming but failed to arrest the murderer. In the end, the murderer voluntarily surrendered himself, which announced that their suffering had come to an end.
Relatively speaking, this is more like a discussion of human nature. The old police detective has experienced the depravity and crimes of falling into hell, and the young man has gone through an evil trial pitifully.
Before the official review of the film, a tidbit must be mentioned. In the initial internal test version of the film, the disappointing ending made the audience who participated in the test screen very dissatisfied, so that David Fincher had to add Ernest Hemingway's sentence in a voiceover at the end, Gives some tiny hope. But the original ending remains intact, making Hemingway's quote a deadly joke.
The movie was supposed to end after Samosser's "I won't go far," because Hemingway's comfort was barely felt.
Samosey's mystery and restraint run through the whole work, and this is also the best performance of the actor's career. The actor has an air of indifference, prudence and poise, and I don't recall him playing any weak roles. He understands the cops who work in the worst part of the city. How much ugliness and injustice are to be seen - but must be swallowed.
Alone, he lives in a shabby apartment, bookshelves are nailed to the wall, he uses a metronome to hypnotize, he has never been married-although once very close, he is a lonely man, with helplessness but unwilling to compromise With his eyes, he watched the chaos and unhappiness of the city, as well as his own struggles and entanglements.
Realizing that the 'Seven Deadly Sins' was the murderer's main line of crime, he made a choice that ordinary people would not consider: walking into the library to find answers, he consulted Dante. Alighieri's 'Purgatory' Article (Purgatory)', John - Milton's 'Paradise Lost', Geoffrey - Chaucer (Geoffrey. Chaucer)'s 'The Canterbury Tales (The. Canterbury. Tales)'. This is not just to introduce the background to the audience, but a common way of using classic literature to create a disturbing atmosphere in thriller and suspense movies. Finch also uses a flash-through shot of Gustave. Dore's Spider-Woman illustration for Divina. Commedia.
When it comes to the Seven Deadly Sins, Samosey appears to be knowledgeable, while Mills is ignorant.
This technique is similar to William Friedkin's 'The. Exorcist' and Jonathan Demme's 'Silence of the Lambs'. An otherwise mediocre crime-solving film elevates the realm with eerie myths and symbols.
'The Seven Deadly Sins' isn't a deep or significant movie, but it gives the illusion that it is. While all mainstream thrillers put entertainment first, this one wants to shock the audience, which again has similarities with Silence of the Lambs. Samosey's character's knowledgeable appearance brings depth and meaning to the crime the killer sees as a moral statement.
Of course, Samose found the murderer's address by accident and coincidence through the library's borrowing records. But after thinking about it carefully, this should be a clue left by the other party on purpose-because he definitely didn't get the inspiration to kill suddenly in the library. The murderer was deliberately letting Samosa and Mills find themselves.
The five homicides have different methods. The killers were clearly well-crafted and hard-fought—one of them even took at least a year. However, the ultimate killer move he devised in the climax of the film must have come from improvisation not long ago. The "Seven Deadly Sins" relentlessly presented the horror of the murder to the audience, and the flashing footage made people shudder even more. The audience can only understand how the crime was committed through the discussion between the two, although the bag of things in the forensic doctor's hand no longer needs any explanation. Finch makes the audience just feel uncomfortable before quickly moving the camera away.
The murderer of the 'Seven Deadly Sins' apparently took his crime as a warning to the world, and he showed this attitude from the moment he appeared. Mills told him that the "Seven Deadly Sins" would soon be forgotten, but he thought he would be immortalized. Because this is a masterpiece that he has spent his whole life planning. The only uncertainty is how he will complete the manifesto. The people he killed were executed for the crimes they "committed". What lessons does this contain? To impress the audience?
Samosey and Mills represent the classic pairing of recruits and veterans. Andrew-Kevin-Walker's dialogue energizes the pattern with a wealth of detail and Samosey's succinct lines. Mills looked a little thin: young and airy, he didn't care about Samosey's experience and prudence. On the other hand, his wife, Tracy, brought a touch of human warmth to the film. Although she did not have much role in the scene, the audience knew that she loved and cared about her husband. At the same time, she wisely invited Samose, who was never married, to have dinner. It doesn't hurt to have a good relationship with someone who can help and teach her husband. The audience thinks that Trish is just the protagonist's wife, a flat character used to make up numbers. But she'll save her big story for last.
The more we think about it, the more we admire the clever layout strategy of the film.
The most subtle thing about this movie is that the murderer turned himself in to the police twenty minutes before the end of the movie, and has been in charge of the whole movie ever since. When the "Seven Deadly Sins" was promoted in the early stage, the actor's life was hidden in the advertisements, posters and credits, so I will not make an exception. Which actor will play which role is still waiting for the audience to discover for themselves.
The actor has a huge mission, he represents evil itself, and like Hannibal, his role must be filled by a strong actor. Because he is not only a bad guy, but also shows a complex pathological personality. Look at his face, calm, calm, sneering, complacent; listen to his words, smart, wise, clear, and righteous; pay attention to his emotions, calm, fearless, confident, and winning. He is the key to the success or failure of this film, and a slight deviation will lead to failure. But he made no mistake.
The last 20 minutes of the film is undoubtedly the essence of the whole work. A 120-minute work, the real protagonist has just appeared at 100 minutes, which reminds us of "Silence of the Lambs" again. However, it doesn't matter. Because 20 minutes is enough whether it is the end of the murderer's mission or the superb performance of the actors.
The actor's appearance has completely changed everyone's previous perception of the perverted murderer, and he has successfully completed the transformation from serial killer to evangelist to redeemer. No one but the actor was up to the role, and of course, maybe Anthony Hopkins could.
In a short twenty minutes, the actor infused his soul into the film, giving the best performance of his career, a seemingly bland and featureless performance that inadvertently penetrates his soul, even after the movie is over. After that, as long as you close your eyes, the calm and calm face will emerge, and the shuddering taste makes the murderer a symbol of film history. This is another one after The Silence of the Lambs.
'The Seven Deadly Sins' is David Fincher's second feature film after the 'Alien 3' fiasco. At just twenty-nine years old, he infuses the film with a nuanced air that floats indoors with invisible dust , highlighting the light beam of the flashlight and the dark environment, I don't know the reason for this setting, but it is not a bad thing. I remember F. W. In a scene from F.W. Murnau's 1926 'Faust', Satan spreads his black cloak and covers the small village. This is the look and feel that Fincher created in The Seven Deadly Sins.
This is a great work, not only because the film gives enough depth and meaning to social issues, but also because the actors have given enough performances in the film to go down in history. As for the actor's performance charm and the truth of the role, it still needs to be discovered by the audience themselves when they walk into the cinema. "