Drew Goddard, a ghost writer-director and producer who opened a unique black aesthetic with "The Clover Files" and "Cabin in the Woods", wrote and directed himself again in 2018, gathering "Thor" Chris Hemsworth, Gold Award-winning film Emperor Jeff Bridges, Tony Award For Best Actress Cynthia Aliever, "Extreme Car Thief" Jon Hamm and "Mrs. Gray" Dakota Johnson and other hard-bottomed stars, each pregnant with a ghost fetus, sometimes with a heart, and stationed in the Royal Hotel across the two major states.
Priests, singers, salesmen, and nameless women checked in one by one at dusk, the night was low, thunder and lightning were mixed, they came and went, they did not trust each other, but they also gradually understood that the painful memories of the dark past were about to emerge one by one, until they exploded uncontrollably.
Set in the late 1960s, Murder at the Royal Hotel is located on the california-Nevada border. Gorgeous crystal lights, pink goose down carpets, coin jukeboxes, brightly lit reception counters, but can not hide the empty Nevada domestic table casino (Nevada's entire territory of legal gambling).
The United States in the 1960s coincided with the rise of the black civil rights movement, the Cuban missile crisis in Central America, the peak of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia, which was the most stupid, suspicious, and dark bad era. The lonely and deserted hotel decoration scene highlights the empty buildings of Americans after the 50s, and the lively no longer exists; the heavy rainy nights symbolize the sinister situation of the us diplomatic isolation in the 60s.
The lonely priest Flynn (Jeff Bridges) symbolizes the collapse of the Christian faith, the melancholy black soul singer Darlene (Cynthia Aliever) is the frustration of the rise of rock and play, the salesman (Jon Hamm) door-to-door tactics are outdated marketing, the gun-laden dakota Johnson symbolizes the feminism of sexual liberation after the legalization of the 1960 compound oral contraceptive pill, and her dirty signature hints at the catharsis of traditional social morality on women's repression, and also opens the "" The Suspicion and Suspicion Between the Characters of the Royal Hotel Murders.
Soul singer Darlene's light blue sedan just happened to drive at the junction of the two major states, the bright red divider in the hotel parking lot splits the screen screen diagonally in half at the beginning of the film; the singer, priest and salesman's check-in long marble counter, Darlene's mustard yellow couch for drinking a little wine at night, Chris Hemsworth's sexy half-naked wandering among the yellow flowers, the golden ratio of the two-part scene shooting, is choreographer Drew Goddard's use of photography layout, Hint at the dual identity of the characters in the play: the appearance in front of the crowd and the unknown other dark side.
The priest symbolizes the Christian United States of America, the singer is a projection of the development of American music, the sales business and the hotel concierge represent American mercantilism, and the idle handsome man is a metaphor for the prevalence of hippie culture in 1960. Passers-by are the epitome of American culture, but they are also super crooks, bank robbers, federal investigative agents, Vietnam War snipers, and even American cult leaders.
They are bright on the surface, but the memories hidden in the mysterious past are all unbearable pains, the narrator constantly switches back and forth, and the backstory is flashbacked in a marquee technique, just like the Yoshimitsu Katayu in front of the death: the loss of hands and siblings, the loss of self, personal threats, and even the indescribable post-traumatic sequelae of veterans.
The choreographer vaguely alleges the spiritual price that must be paid by the glamorous and powerful national apparatus of the US state apparatus: the characters of the various families try their best to hide their suppressed fragile emotions, and for many years they cannot vent, and finally sit in rows at the gambling table, revealing their true selves in almost similar scenes of psychological group therapy, but leading to the edge of spiritual collapse, so that they spill blood and flee and collapse.
"Murder at the Royal Hotel" is similar to the ghost director Quentin Tarantino's 2015 eighth feature-length film "Eight Wicked Men" in that both scenes are set in isolated restaurants/inns that pass by short stays and do not have a shop before and after the village; the time is set in the eerie social atmosphere before/after the War in the United States; and the bad weather heralds the imminent development of the dark side of human nature;
The characters are suspicious of each other, you come and go, each pregnant with a ghost fetus, all of which supplement the character's past story with flashbacks; their occupation and clothing represent the epitome of the middle and lower classes of American society, and also represent the seven original sins of human arrogance, greed, jealousy, anger, laziness, lust, violence (food): each one is playing a wishful thinking, but he cannot know that he is in danger.
The black aesthetic of "Murder at the Royal Hotel" and the bloody and violent "Eight Wicked Men" are suitable for stage adaptations, but Drew Goddard is slightly different from Quentin in that Darlene, the seemingly weakest, timid, and unarmed soul singer in "Murder at the Royal Hotel", is the most understanding of human nature, the most persevering, and the most brilliant for the viewer.
Because, music heals the heart; music, touches the heart; music, conveys emotions, without barriers.