We can’t play god
Yesterday, a new film "Psychic Detective" was released.
The title looks decent, but the lead actor has a lot to offer.
One of them is the elegant cannibal Oscar actor Anthony Hopkins, and the other is the Golden Globe Award-winning film emperor Colin Farrell, who is known for his masculinity and evil spirit. In the words of netizens, they are "drama essences", and there are dramas under the eyeballs.
This time, the two incarnated as hanging psychics, the elegant temperament of "Hannibal" became a psychic detective who retreated into the jianghu, colin Farrell played the hand of God, a psychic criminal who was always one step ahead, guiding Uncle Ba to step into the trap step by step, becoming a key part of the overall situation of crime, and escaping a god stick version of "Seven Deadly Sins".
In fact, the producers did intend to make it as a sequel to The Seven Deadly Sins. Only because of the twists and turns in the filming process later, the final name was now "Psychic Detective". By the way, its release in China is 8 months earlier than in North America (the North American release date is September 2 this year).
Anthony Hopkins
For many, Hannibal's three words are more recognizable than Anthony Hopkins.
In The Silence of the Lambs, Hopkins, who originally suffered from aphasia (dyslexia), portrayed a learned maniac.
He plays Hannibal, who has an elegant demeanor, a love of classical music, and has his own experience of eating the human body: "The liver with Chianti tastes great. Cooking the human brain is not a problem. For him, killing people is not slaughter, but an almost sacred art, about taste, and more about beauty.
This seemingly distorted but extremely powerful worldview easily influenced not only our perceptions of bloody violence, but also Hopkins himself: "This character changed my life. ”
So, in Psychic Detective, we can still see Hannibal's shadow.
Anthony Hopkins, 79, plays a retired doctor and psychic detective Johns who assists the FBI.
Have the ability to perceive the past and future of each other as long as they touch each other.
Touching the objects at the scene of the crime can also reproduce the course of the crime.
Like Hannibal, John loved classical music and was particularly fond of Italian opera. In the opening paragraphs of the film, John is suddenly visited by his friend and FBI agent Joe to reminisce about the past while listening to the aria "Chegelidamanina" in the first act of the famous Italian opera Bohemian (one of Puccini's three early masterpieces).
Later, he and his rival Colin Farrell also read a poem by the English poet Manly Hopkins, "Lead Echoes and Golden Echoes".
Although a decent character, because of the peculiarities of his psychic status, John maintains the critical state of good and evil in Hannibal. Maintain an ambiguous attitude towards the discussion of whether psychics have the right to end the suffering of sick people in advance in a sweet way of killing. It is only the character modeling that has the upper hand, which somewhat weakens the original charm of such people.
And his special affection for catherine, the heroine psychologist and female detective, and John's dissection of Catherine's past dark experiences, are also reminiscent of Hannibal's previous relationship with Judy Foster.
Colin Farrell
In "Sniper Phone Booth", Colin Farrell plays a greasy-tongued publicist who carries his wife to support his lover. Everything was easy to do, but it collapsed after receiving a mysterious call from a public telephone booth.
A man who voluntarily exercised his duty as God trapped him in a telephone booth and forced Farrell to reveal his dirty secrets, apologize publicly, and voluntarily accept punishment. Single scene, invisible opponent, Colin Farrell vividly shows the process of the psychological defense line in full swing.
In Psychic Detective, the man who was trapped by "God" turns around and becomes God Himself.
He plays a serial killer who is also psychic and more powerful than Hopkins, can clearly perceive distant connections, and when Hopkins has a chaotic perception of the relationship between the two people, he has a clear understanding of everything.
Embracing a seemingly humane worldview: since we have superhuman abilities, we have an obligation to help those who are plagued by diseases to relieve their suffering, to let them die in the best senses, and their families do not have to face their long-term painful struggles.
Coming from the shadows, Colin Farrell's face was filled with the sincerity of popularizing his exercise of God's office, but the rolling of his eyes revealed a madness that was consistent with this worldview.
This is his best performance, this Hollywood "bad boy" has a masculine face, but he is surrounded by lace news, drug addiction, alcoholism (once drank 3 bottles of whiskey, 12 bottles of red wine and 60 other alcoholic beverages in a week, and 280 cigarettes and a lot of drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, etc.), and he was born in a state of coexistence between the two poles of the opposite: "I am a candle that burns at both ends, and the fires meet quickly in the middle." ”
The Seven Deadly Sins 2.0
From the setting of the villain, it is easy to think of Kevin Spacey in "The Seven Deadly Sins": addicted to religious philosophy, with super high intelligence, in the name of God, with the seven deadly sins of human nature in Catholic doctrine ("gluttony", "greed", "laziness", "jealousy", "pride", "lust", "anger") to warn the world, let the victim die of his own crimes, to atone for his sins.
They are exercising God's duty in a "noble" worldview, in the flesh. Coincidentally, It was Colin Farrell who was discovered by Kevin Spacey and entered the film industry. When Kevin Spacey watched the musical comedy "Brothers of Life and Death", he praised the 22-year-old Colin Farrell and invited him to the filming of "Ace Criminal".
Now Colin Farrell has once again become a disciple of Kevin Spacey, but the shuddering tricks of the predecessors who stripped their skin without leaving fingerprints when committing crimes have been solved at one time by the psychic ability of the hanging. And the vigilance of the world has also become free from suffering, somewhat mildly.
The story of Psychic Detective has a similar structure to that of The Seven Deadly Sins.
A crime scene with no fingerprints, no DNA, and no trace of the deceased always involves the protagonist. Brad Pitt is motivated by his youthful sense of justice, and Anthony Hopkins just wants to save the agent who resembles his daughter.
And the murderer is always ahead of the agent, looking down on the whole situation like a god, and every action of the agent is within his plan. Brad Pitt is the final link in Kevin Spacey's "Rage" in The Seven Deadly Sins, while In Ghost Detective, Colin Farrell commits such a blatant crime in an attempt to lure Anthony Hopkins into becoming his successor.
In the game between the two sides, the decent protagonist will eventually lose a person who is intimately related. Brad Pitt plays Constable Mills who loses his child, and Anthony Hopkins loses his longtime friend, Agent Joe. The dead characters are also part of God's plan, because the villain God never hurts the innocent.
And, of course, the most important. The villain must die at the hands of the protagonist. That year, Brad Pitt's struggling, angry shot hit many spectators.
Now we can look again at how the old and kind "Hannibal" carried out his judgment on "God."
Author | soslow
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