Movie: Best Bid
Genre: Love, Drama, Suspense
Director: Giuseppe Tornadore
Writers: Giuseppe Tornatore, Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Jeffrey Rush, Jim Sturgis, Sylvia Hox
Release date: January 1, 2013
Awards: 57th Italian David Awards, etc
The movie "Best Bid" is so wonderful that it was known from the beginning that it was a naked and elaborate hoax, but I was willing to stare at it intently because it was as elegant and beautiful as a work of art. Watching the owner of a top art auction house step by step into the trap set by the scammer group, he did not even want to remind him, pretending to be an accomplice of the scammer, and as if he were the protagonist, he experienced love full of rescue and conquest pleasure, reversing the advantages and weaknesses of human nature back and forth, and the perception experience was very rich.
Oldman has been in the art appreciation auction industry for decades, with an eccentric temperament, solitude, living in a mansion, with family property and social fear, and he excludes housekeepers and servants from the private living space in order to "clean". He has a habit of cleanliness, is meticulous, collects all kinds of gloves, wears gloves all year round, and is afraid of physical contact with others. Oldman and had a special hobby, there was a secret room behind the glove display shelf in the luxurious cloakroom, which collected portraits of women from different periods, which was the pride of his life, and his good friend Billy often helped him buy many precious paintings at low prices through black box operations.
It seems that a diamond king who has protected himself well has been targeted by scammers, and what they are looking for is the portrait in the chamber of secrets.
An heiress, Claire, calls to say she has a large antique inheritance to auction, and her parents tell her that only Oldman can help her. Claire claims to have agoraphobia, so she doesn't show up and talks to Oldman every day through the mural. People with special fetishes look maverick, but in fact, their hearts still long for the recognition of the same kind. Although this approach annoyed Oldman, he was also surprised that there was a person in the world who was very similar to himself, hated the crowd, was elusive, and moody.
Oldman has never touched a woman, no matter how many female portraits are collected, claire is like a mysterious princess living in a secluded old mansion in the city, even the housekeeper has never seen her, and privately reveals some information to Claire, which makes Oldman crazy and curious. Oldman uses the opportunity to go to her house to take stock of the artwork and peek into her, discovering that Claire is really a pale, thin, young girl.
Claire's large mansion is littered with metal gears that seem to be the products of famous robot manufacturers centuries ago, and he takes the parts to a good friend named Robert to identify and repair, while pouring out his own experience, Robert constantly gives him tips on how to get this woman. Claire is too mysterious and unknowingly begins to occupy Oldman's brain.
The human eye can only see what the brain wants to pay attention to, and when people are wishful thinking, they can't see anything. Entering a person's heart is often accompanied by a sense of hardship and boredom, quite a sense of curiosity and conquest, and Oldman's emotional and intellectual balances are gradually out of balance. The Chamber of Secrets is full of portraits of women from different periods in Oldman's lifelong collection, and any flat gaze can not compete with the frightened eyes of a castle princess, and Oldman lacks nothing, lacks real women.
People who pride themselves on never losing their hands may be the most likely to be calculated, and the details of success and failure are also details. Claire is a "perfect" victim who needs a strong man to protect her and guide her, and Oldman has a lot of similarities with her, an old man who is completely captivated and constantly eats the "bait" thrown by the scammer group. Oldman bought a new mobile phone himself, and it was convenient to contact Claire from time to time, afraid that Claire would go missing and go crazy again, and the auction business would not be able to take care of it.
Oldman himself did not expect things to turn out like this, he is very young in his emotional life, he can identify works of art, but can not identify people's feelings. Good friend Billy is incredulous about what he has done, and warns others that feelings, like works of art, are true and false, and that any feeling can be disguised. But Oldman couldn't listen to anything.
The beloved princess escapes again, Oldman saves her in the dark basement, the relationship between the two reaches a climax, and the "beauty plan" of the cheaters completely works. Oldman is like a new person, full of vitality, he wants to bring Claire into his life, but due to Claire's "agoraphobia", it happens that Oldman is attacked on a rainy night, Claire rushes out of the old house for love to save him, and naturally enters Oldman's mansion, Oldman leads Claire to visit the mansion, and incidentally looks at the collection in the secret room without hesitation.
After Oldman ended his last auction in his life, Billy said he would miss him in the future, as if he would never see him again. He returned to the mansion with great interest, claire gone, his young friends gone, and the paintings in the Chamber of Secrets gone. There was a talking robot in the Chamber of Secrets: "There's always something crazy that can obscure the falsehood, and I can't agree more, so I'll miss you, Mr. Oldman." ”
Everything has a price, and Mr. Oldman has experienced a unique romantic love with his life's collection, which is enough to taste for a lifetime. The distraught Oldman finds that the "Claire" mansion people go to the empty building, and the dwarf who sits in the coffee shop opposite every day is the real owner of the old house, Claire, who has a good memory, and rented the house to the young man named Robert two years ago for filming.
Count the division of labor among the crooks in this bureau. Claire is in charge of the emotional part, playing a mysterious princess waiting to be rescued, Robert is responsible for assembling robot parts and giving Oldman the idea to pursue Claire, Robert's girlfriend is responsible for creating some sense of urgency, making Oldman think that young Robert will snatch Claire away, and the lame doorman uncle in the old mansion is "forced" to pass on some of Claire's secrets from time to time. Who is the big boss who makes the scam? It was Oldman's good friend Billy, only he knew the paintings in the Chamber of Secrets, and he was crazy about art collecting, and the painting of Claire's mother was painted by Billy, leaving an autograph behind it.
Oldman later gave up calling the police, he fell in love with "Claire", personally went to the "day and night" café in Prague that Claire mentioned, and he was reluctant to wake up from this dream, and maybe one day Claire would come here to reunite with him.
It's a hoax, but there's still a real part that can be chewed up and discussed, so it's a movie worth watching.