(This article was originally produced by Poison Tongue Movie: dsmovie)
On the last day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Sir is going to announce a big benefit!
Sir has been in the North American branch of the American Empire, specializing in grabbing the hot new films and topic masterpieces that have exploded in North American theaters!
Here's the first wave.
This issue of the North American theater line sneak peek, poisonous tongue North American branch reporter @ Sanshui brought three movies.
Pick up the call.
Go to the soup and go to the fire
Hell or High Water
From cannes "A kind of attention" section.
Douban doesn't seem to be very excited... 7.7 points.
Because Chinese may not have thought that this film has set off a huge wave in North America.
Rotten Tomatoes freshness 98%.
The mainstream media unanimously agreed that -
Best movie this year
Soon after the release, the theaters hastily increased the number of films more than tripled, and the box office quickly broke through the 10 million mark.
Overwhelmed by the praise, I feel that the film party itself is a bit unresponsive.
What kind of team can make these vicious-eyed film critics continue to pay attention?
Director David Markkenz has won the British Academy Award every time he shoots ("Young Adam", "Deep Prison Father and Son").
Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan has also played such a good card as "Border Killer".
The two join forces to create a melancholy, cold-style Texas crime drama, and it is difficult to lose.
Plus these few starring actors -
The male protagonist, Chris Pine, is a typical Bad Boy, a big handsome guy.
The "Star Trek" series, as well as the "Wonder Woman" that is being filmed, all kinds of big IP big productions, good youth rice does not eat, but to play a Texas rough man.
What's more, he hasn't acted yet.
Pine used this tough guy movie to teach the little fresh meat a good lesson -
Don't care about the appearance, grab a good script, only to exercise acting, the appearance is counted as a P.
Ben Foster, after watching Battle of Yuma and Mechanic, you'd think the supporting role was underrated.
The early work "Broken Soul Gunshot" is very unpopular, but it has a high score of 8.8.
There is also the Oscar-winning film emperor, Jeff Bridges, this rough, hard and paranoid, occasionally tender old uncle, always addictive.
It is said that more than half of the middle-aged and elderly audiences in the theater are silver-haired, and they are all fans of his old man's family.
The story takes place in the Western United States, in the declining state of Texas.
The aftermath of the financial crisis shook the land, and people who could not afford to take out loans were forced to live more and more difficult by the banks.
The protagonist, Toby (Chris Pine), and his brother Tanner (Ben Fox), who has just been released from prison, have a troubled life.
The brothers' mother had just died, and the land left behind had been uncovered for oil but was about to be reclaimed by the bank.
In order to repay the loan and save the last bit of money, the two decided to take a desperate risk and rob the bank that forced them to go nowhere.
On the other hand, the retiring veteran detective, Marcus (Jeff Bridges), also begins to investigate the matter.
Capitalism, which is "all evil", has finally become the main villain.
Criticisms of bank hegemony, indictments of the depths of life, fill the entire film.
They only give your mother a small loan every year, making her poorer and more indebted, so that she can take her land.
Toby, who is kind and kind, gives the waiter a tip at the restaurant, which is taken away by Inspector Marcus, who later investigates, and the waiter is furious on the spot——
When you have warned the two boys, hurry back and return the money to the old lady, or my daughters will be sleeping on the street.
Even when Inspector Marcus questioned the witnesses who witnessed the robbery, the old cowboys looked indifferent, even a little resentful.
How long have you been sitting here?
For a moment, it was enough for me to watch the bank that had robbed me for thirty years be robbed by someone else.
This collective dilemma created by the whole story paves the way for the main line of the robbery of the bank by the two brothers, Toby and Tanner.
And what Toby said is simply speaking for all dicks:
Poverty is like a disease, passed down from generation to generation, and I can no longer pass it on to my sons.
"To the Soup" meets the criteria that a good story should meet:
If you want to show the unexpected, you must first be reasonable.
Logically, it is because the audience can feel the shock that poverty brings to everyone's life.
As for this unexpected, it happened after the brothers robbed the last bank.
After all, the robbery of this file cannot be smooth.
In the munitions-infested Texas, the melon-eating masses carrying guns and ammunition with them are not easy to mess with.
Fortunately, the male protagonist has such an "extralegal" brother, so that this 1vN gunfight is eye-catching.
Toby's brotherhood with Tanner, the director handled it very subtly.
It was nothing more than two people grabbing the money, opening a bottle of beer, and sitting in the courtyard.
- Then why do you still help me?
— Because you opened your mouth to me, brother.
Wang Xiaobo has a saying: Life is a slow process of being hammered.
In front of these two Texas rough guys, there are two paths to choose.
The first one: I was hammered by the bank for half a lifetime, and then I will still hammer back and forth, and live a miserable second half of my life.
The second one: In turn, hammer the society hard, either you die or I live.
Do you want to know which one they chose?
...... No spoilers.
Sanshui one-sentence evaluation: the best new Western of the year, out of the resources must see.
Arms dealers
War Dogs
Douban 7.3.
The film was directed by Todd Phillips, who had filmed the Hangover series, and Bradley Cooper, one of the stars of "The Hangover", also participated in the production and starring.
So you will find that whether it is a movie poster or a trailer, and other movie promotional channels, it is unscrupulously written:
Right! It's me! It's the one who made "The Hangover"! High up!
The two main actors are "Burst Drummer" Miles Teller.
and "Wolf of Wall Street" Jonah Hill.
The familiar combination of "Crazy Fat Man" and "Geng Zhi Boy".
It is clear that it is to stage a "hangover" drama of mutual pit teammates.
The richest man? You have to set a small goal that you can achieve, let's say I earn it 100 million!
--Jianlin Qian is Wanda's Wang
Ordinary people probably regard this sentence as a paragraph.
However, the pair of aspiring young people in "Arms Dealer" really decided to practice it.
David (Myers Teller) was originally a massage guy who was teased by guests every day.
Meets junior high school classmate Efraim (Jonah Hill), a light rod commander of a shell company.
The two dicks actually started a deal with the Pentagon.
And it's a $300 million arms business.
He also knows how to firmly follow the teachings of the "Treasure Book of Chicken Soup in shanghai"——
In business, we must let others have a little more, and we must have a little less of ourselves, in order to be long-lasting.
You may ask, how did the two dicks get the favor of the Pentagon?
First, they have guts.
Drove directly into Iraq, crossed the "Triangle of Death", and delivered the ammunition to the US military.
- You drove over? Through the Triangle of Death?
- Triangle of Death? Man!
And the brain —
Not an arms tycoon, how do you do business with the U.S. government?
The answer is: act as an intermediary.
Lao Mei did not do business with China, so the brothers ran to buy Chinese bullets, then transported them to Albania, changed their packaging, and sold them to Lao Mei.
There were also arms dealers who were blacklisted by the Pentagon, and the brothers bought their arms and sold them to the U.S. government.
One of them is the old driver Henry (Bradley Cooper).
Don't off the old driver!
Made a lot of money and lived the life of a drunken fan.
Luxury cars, mansions, beauties.
The more you have, the more greedy people become... This is an old saying, but it is not false at all.
In the second half of the film, the conflict of interests becomes more and more obvious.
The calculations between the brothers, the suspicions of the family, and the U.S. government that finally found itself fooled.
David finally found it difficult for him to get out of the vortex of money.
If "The Hangover" represents the American youth —
"Before ending singleness, TM should go to Las Vegas to make a wave" paper drunken gold dream.
"Arms Dealer" represents the old American middle class -
"Get rich overnight, and by the way, wander on the line of life and death" daydream.
Seems to be more miserable?
- What? Meaning I have half a chance to live and half a chance to die?
- Yes! That's why we're on this safer path!
- How safe is it?
- Almost half and half!
Sanshui evaluation: high-quality fast food tablets, a dose of strong medicine in the ordinary autumn file.
Lights between the oceans
The Light Between Oceans
The husband and wife of your male god Fa Shark and his girlfriend Kan Mei.
Douban is only 6.7.
Many fans said that they have hit the rocks, and the biggest problem is "long".
Such a mediocre film, why should it be brought out to tell it?
Haha, because this film, it is really very interesting -
In a word, you must have never seen a Qiong Yao film taken by a foreigner.
Adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name, it doesn't matter if you haven't seen it, the trailer has given 80% of the plot.
After World War I, veteran Tom (Michael Fassbinder) brings his young wife, Isabel (Alicia Wekand), to a remote australian island to serve as a lighthouse night watchman.
One day a small boat rushed up on the beach with a corpse and a baby on board.
Tom was unable to defeat his wife, and the two eventually buried the body and left the child behind.
Two years later, the family of three returns inland to visit their relatives and meets their daughter's birth mother, Hannah (Rachel Vichy), and Tom is caught in a dilemma and makes a very painful decision.
From the introduction alone, you can see several major elements of Qiong Yao: love, life, coincidence, the key is a word...
cruel.
In "Ocean", from the first time they saw hot love, they were sweet to greasy.
Kiss.
Letters.
Shame.
Touch the nose and nose.
The whole person is going to be "drunk".
I have never seen such a blatant and heartless show of love.
After the sweetness has passed, immediately abuse, unreasonable abuse.
Happy to be pregnant?
abortion.
A miscarriage, not enough to abuse the level, abuse out of style?
That's twice.
After the abuse as usual, the heroine is highlighted a miserable, the male protagonist begins to accompany the silly things, and all the decisions are quite brainless -
The baby is cute, stay when you give birth to yourself, the biological mother or something, I didn't think about it.
The body is buried on the spot, anyway, people can't be resurrected from the dead, the family of the deceased, I didn't think about it.
The child is strange and pitiful, the little toy left for her, the keepsake of recognition or something, I did not think about it.
EXCUSE ME?
When he met his daughter's birth mother, he secretly sent her a souvenir.
I'm afraid the other party won't be able to find the door.
The truth was exposed, and the law shark took all the blame on himself——
The body, I buried.
Kid, I robbed it.
Man, you think I killed you, and I admit it.
As long as my wife is not scolded, you can shoot me.
Kan Mei is a typical "I don't listen I don't listen I don't listen" role -
Three views? Can you eat it?
How do others feel? Shut me up.
I've had a miscarriage, twice.
I'm so vulnerable, you all have to be considerate of me.
Hum, the revenge of the woman, you and I husband and wife are broken!
Each uses a word to sum up, the male protagonist is "deep well idiot", and the female protagonist is "unreasonable".
The so-called Qiong Yao, the heavens and the earth are big, but they are no bigger than a love word.
Qiong Yao's novels have a consistent logic, that is, "love will not change, cannot change, cannot change." In order to maintain the supreme guiding principle, at the expense of everything". (Comments by Taiwanese scholar Lin Fangmei)
In order to push love beyond reason and disregard, it generally takes a long preparation.
Maybe it is because of this that Aunt Qiong Yao has not made much movies since the 1980s, and has concentrated on making TV dramas.
After all, there are dozens of episodes, you can concentrate on laying, slowly paving.
And the foreshadowing of "Ocean" is too simple and rude.
The original book is not like this - as a typical post-war homecoming novel, this story is about the psychological trauma left by the First World War.
Tom was originally a battlefield body collector and was physically and mentally numb.
Isabelle lost two of her brothers in the war.
The whole world is devastated, and love and newborns mean a lot to the hard-hit.
This is tom's connivance with his wife.
Only then did Isabel suffer from the repeated loss of her loved ones.
These backgrounds are not traced in the movie.
So this couple in the movie, only left with simple works, and for the sake of abuse.
From this point of view, it is still a long way from the American version of "Deep Rain".
Of course, in addition to Qiong Yao, there are still a few points to watch...
Magnificent Australian coastal scenery.
The Solo Show of the Law Shark -
Boyfriend Force MAX.
Parent-child force MAX.
The first half of the film is full of "cold dog food on the face of the random shooting", and the second half is trapped in the honey juice embarrassment of "Qiong Yao's bitter feelings".
Fortunately, Hannah, the birth mother played by the goddess Vichy, held up the scene and did not let the whole movie become the self-amusement of the two people, Fa Shark and Kan Mei.
For "Lights Between the Oceans", a rare foreign "Qiong Yao" movie.
Sanshui evaluation: If you want to see the face, you should concentrate on the face, and you must look at the story... Guarantee that you are abused.
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