Counting your fingers, it has been a full 4 months since the last time I entered the cinema.
With the passage of time, the number of new films is getting smaller and smaller, which will become not an easy task to find a good-looking and suitable movie for their own tastes, and many people even ridicule the streaming platform at this time as important as the summer air conditioner.
Therefore, during this time, in addition to the best time to make up for old films, some unpopular and niche films that have not been or have time to pay attention to in the past will also become a choice.
For example, this one to be recommended to you this time, the people who have seen it on the Douban mark are only more than 1,000 people, scoring 6.4 points.
It is the British crime film "Good Guys Are Hard to Find".
This film can be said to be unknown from the director, screenwriter to cast, even if you recognize the actor's appearance, you can't name it.
But if nothing else, after watching the movie, you will definitely be impressed by the heroine Sarah Berg, and even be fanned.
Sarah Berg
This post-90s sister from Ireland, not only white and beautiful, slim body, has starred in "Tudor Dynasty", "Relative Universe" and "Agent Carter" and other dramas, the number of works is not small, her acting skills and appearance are also proportional.
It also looks a bit like the unskempt "Little Rose" Natalie Domel (Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games).
Natalie Domel
One of the production companies of "Good People Are Hard to Find" is Frakas Productions, which has checked the films produced by this company in the past, which are basically small and medium-cost, non-first-line actors, and the theme is niche, and even weird genres, and the word-of-mouth is mostly decent.
But the subject matter and specific genres of hunting also make these films have a good viewability.
Like the relatively high attention in recent years: the 16-year-old French thriller "Raw Eating", which tells the story of a girl who has been following vegetarianism until the age of 16, after entering veterinary school, she stimulates the hidden desire to eat raw meat in her heart.
The newcomer Who played the heroine, Garrance Morrillier, who was only 18 years old at the time, also had a face and acting skills.
Stills from "Eat Raw"
In addition, there are 18 years of LGBT themes, "Girl" about transgender identity; 19 years of science fiction suspense film "Ecobox" starring Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Putz, and the small-budget marine version of "Alien" "Sea Fever".
Stills from "EcoBox"
The common denominator of these works is that they follow the same route of international film festival premieres, and the box office performance of the theaters is very average, and the highest-grossing "Girl" is only $4.17 million.
"Good People Are Hard to Find" also has some of the characteristics of the above works, but under the curiosity of the story and the sense of revenge process, the film also reflects some of today's social problems, with a certain practical significance, not just a simple cool film in the eyes of many people.
The first shot of the film creates a suspense, giving a half-minute long close-up of the heroine Sarah, whose face is covered in blood, as if she has just broken free from her panic, making people wonder what she has just experienced.
Later, we learn that Sarah is a single widow with a pair of children, her husband was accidentally murdered together, and the son who witnessed the whole process suffered from temporary aphasia due to shock.
And Sarah, who has no job and has lost the only source of income in his family, is obviously living a very poor life, and when he goes to the supermarket to buy necessities, he has to make a shopping list and make a careful calculation. It was only because her son stole a piece of chocolate that she had to return some of the things she had planned to buy to have enough money to settle the bill.
In addition, we can also see that Sarah is indeed a good mother and wife.
I love my children very much, I am very patient with them, I speak softly, and I tell them bedtime stories every night.
As a widowed young woman, but also clean and self-righteous, inevitably there will be physiological needs, it is really lonely and unbearable, but also will only take out adult "electric toys" to solve their own problems, encounter no electricity, secretly borrow the battery in their son's toys to use.
From her words with her mother, we also learned that her mother has always had opinions about this son-in-law who has just died, and Sarah's insistence at the beginning has also affected the relationship between mother and daughter, and even if life is very embarrassing, when her mother asks her if she is short of money, she would rather say that she is doing well than accept help.
Coming here, we can also roughly outline the personality, family background and life status of the character of Sarah.
Until an uninvited guest broke into her residence and completely changed her life.
After robbing a bag of drugs from the gang, a gangster hides in Sarah's house and hides the drugs here, then sells a few small bags every day as needed and gives Sarah a share. Although Sarah did not want to take this money in her heart, she was forced to resist and she really needed money, so this "cooperation" was still "harmonious" for a while, and even Tito did not forget to buy delicious food to bring to the children when she came.
This balance was upset after Sarah's son accidentally destroyed the drugs.
Annoyed and angry, Tito wanted to forcibly snap Sarah at this time, but was unexpectedly stabbed in the eye by Sarah after being caught and used the "electric toy" hidden under the pillow, and then Sarah used the knife placed on the dresser to stab Tito's abdomen several times after taking the battery last time, and Tito who had lost too much blood was killed.
Seeing this, we found that the intention of describing Sarah's physiological needs before, without the "loneliness and intolerability" of that time, there would be no counter-killing this time.
In order to destroy the body and cover up her crimes, Sarah had to buy axes and saws, dismember Tito's body, and scatter the discarded pieces.
After the dismemberment, the plot at this time finally coincided with the close-up shot of her at the beginning.
Although Tito is dead, his name allows the gang to link Sarah to the drugs they have been robbed of, and sarah eventually discovers that her husband's death is related to the gang.
Directly triggered in the end, Sarah went to the meeting with a single knife with Tito's head, and single-handedly destroyed the gang and avenged her husband.
On the surface, "Good People Are Hard to Find" is a female revenge movie with a theme that is not fresh, it has both the more heavy elements of killing and dismemberment, and the climactic passage that looks very relieved and enjoyable as the final revenge for the husband, which makes it have the entertainment necessary for a genre film.
Of course, there are some problems with the script of the film, but for this type of film, it can be appropriately ignored, at least in terms of completeness, and it is not bad. Details and foreshadowings such as "electric toys" and "knives" that have a driving effect on the later plot are also more than one in the film.
If anyone who has been following European film festival films has always known the famous British director Ken Lodge.
His works are known for their realistic style, focusing on the concerns of the British underclass and the critique of social issues, and are regarded as the spokesmen of the British working class.
Ken Lodge
Works like "Sorry We Missed You" and "I Am Black" in recent years have given us a glimpse of the more real and unfamiliar side of European and American countries under the seemingly glamorous appearance.
Stills from "Sorry We Missed You"
The identity and encounter of the character of Sarah in "Good People Are Hard to Find" also brings out a lot of social problems in today's Britain, allowing us to interpret and discuss this movie from another level.
Judging from the environment of Sarah's mother's family, her original family should be middle class, so she must also be well educated, but because of love, married to a man who is not welcomed by the mother and has a bad record, the mother-daughter relationship has caused contradictions and estrangement.
The unexpected death of her husband was a heavy blow to her, and without an economic pillar, the three mothers and sons who had no one to rely on suddenly became the bottom people who took the minimum guarantee.
Even the supermarket employees, whose economic conditions and social status were not much better than her, looked down on her, from the first time she reminded Sarah to take the chocolate package that her son stole to check out, deliberately embarrassing her, to another sexual harassment that directly asked her "how much is a night" with bad intentions.
All of this reflects the unfriendliness of this society to vulnerable women.
The murder of the husband in the case was not only not regarded as a victim by the police, but also received due attention and investigation, but also was code-named into the seat, and colored glasses were also worn on the family. Whether it was going to the police station to inquire about the progress of the investigation, or facing the inquiries of two police officers who came to Sarah's house after receiving a complaint from a neighbor, Sarah was treated with contempt and disregard.
The bias and inaction of surveillance and law enforcement agencies against the underprivileged groups with bad records can also be seen here.
In addition, psychologists and social workers affiliated with social welfare institutions cannot do even the most basic sense of responsibility of "seeking a job in their place".
Psychologists will only point out problems based on theory, not give solutions.
When social workers come to visit their homes, they only hope to deal with them as routine, and do not want to write too tricky troubles into reports to increase their workload and difficulty. It is worth saying that the montage formed by this dialogue with the social worker and the dismemberment picture that Sarah constantly recalls in his head has a sense of substitution and emotional rendering.
The similar behavior of these civil servants in the film is also very representative in the real society, and there are not a few public officials with selfish and hypocritical faces who treat their work well and have no sense of responsibility.
This "Good Guys Are Hard to Find" is like using a Ken Rocky-style social realism core, wrapped in the form of a female revenge genre film.
Of course, I don't blow this up to how good this movie is, as a genre film, it is problematic in itself, but the creepy heavy mouth scenes and the deasspiring revenge scenes have made it qualified to watch.
But it's also the part that reflects the real problems in more depth, and it's not hard to understand why Rotten Tomatoes gives the film 91% freshness.
And a good mother and wife like Sarah is really hard to find!
The title "A Good Woman Is Hard to Find" is also very accurate.
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Author: Hui-Movie