Director Kurt Wiemo is very interesting, in 1995 directed his debut thriller "Bad Hero" was fired by the investors due to shooting contradictions, but still hangs his name, which should be his debut work. The previous game did not get much attention, but in 2002, his "Torn Doom" began to be known and concerned by the world, and he himself loved the film very much, and claimed that this was his debut film, and when he met his favorite movie, the director would sometimes play tricks.
From his film can see his love for action movies, and then sure enough, directed films such as "Deadly Violet", "Stealing The Sky Game", "Spy In the Sea Plan", "Agent Schott", "Extreme Thief", etc. are all action types, although the word of mouth box office is different, remarkable, of which "Deadly Violet" has brushed twice, found that he and he have a relationship, these movies have been seen, but never thought of being the same director, because individuals also like action type movies, Even the visual enjoyment of watching the action is a kind of beauty even if the plot is weak, and this on-screen encounter is full of accident and inevitability.
The wonderful thing about "Torn Doom" is the gun path portrayed by the director, the overall action is very dazzling, this gun path is a new film martial art that combines Chinese kung fu, American-style automatic weapons, and Japanese kendo, with a different charm.
When the door is slammed open, flying in, and bullets flying around, the male protagonist John Preston (Christian Bell) waits quietly in it, like a beast in the darkness, and then suddenly shows its fangs, ending all the rebels in the dark, standing on a moral standpoint that should be well criticized, but from the standpoint of their respective forces, they are independent.
The future Batman Christian Bell's protagonist is angular, the overall action is vivid and capable, full of the beauty of action art, if starring someone else, it is estimated that Keanu Reeves of "The Matrix" can be competent, after all, the latter can dodge bullets in the Matrix.
Putting aside the cloak of action stunts, the core of the theme expressed in this film is worth pondering: Are the inherent emotions of human beings good or bad? Is there an ultimate solution to our habit of choosing between antagonism and rebellion? Is emotion blocked or combed?
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance, this is the eternal truth, but the leader of the utopia one-sidedly believes in the power of faith, believes in the power of armed forces, but does not know that the moon is full of lack, the water is overflowing, human emotions are too diverse, extreme is always inevitable, but it is precisely because of the extreme human society is full of color, and the Libyan state in the movie is trying to find the ultimate Dafa, just like the dark tone in the movie, full of gray, it is too difficult to balance, How to grasp and measure this balance is still not perfectly solved to this day.
In the art of cinema, the discussion of human emotional control has not been proposed once, and oppression through force is not the solution, but what if it is a gentle way?
"Rushing Out of Tranquility" tells the story of the crew of The Tranquility who discovers a conspiracy in a distant galaxy whose original intention is so beautiful that a special potion is added to purify the air throughout the planet, which can make humanity quiet and peaceful, and there will be no disputes from then on.
This potion is similar to the medicine that everyone in this movie has to enter at regular intervals, but it is a large-scale operation, and as a result, human beings pay the price for it, and the entire colonized planet goes to two extremes: one is like an old monk, who has indeed become peaceful, but forgets to eat and drink, and starves himself to death, and the other is a kind of person who becomes manic, although he survives without humanity, and takes killing as his nature.
"The End of the Tear" places this emotional control in the context of human beings experiencing war, whether it is peace or war, all people will not doubt the choice of the former, but what if this peace is to control and satisfy personal selfish desires, only allow the state officials to set fires, and do not allow the people to light lamps?
When the great works of art of mankind burned in front of John, he did not feel anything, because at this time he thought that these were the culprits of emotion and should be eliminated.
But what John didn't know was that a net began to spread around John, and Vice President Duppen, who was the apex of actual power in the name of a priest, began to want to further control everyone, but the resistance forces were always eradicated, and it was necessary for a person who seemed completely impossible to betray his organization to find the resistance organization, and as a result, John was so gorgeously selected, but these gamers forgot that sometimes they had to choose the right person, and choosing a wrong special master could lead to different consequences.
John's sixth sense is very sensitive, able to feel the fluctuation of emotions from the slightest, and as a result, the companion replies infrequently: Yes (yes), only the questions and affirmations caused by the different tones of voice make John suspicious, and finally as we see, the elimination of the companion is not negotiable.
Of course, it is precisely because of his sensitivity that he was chosen as an internal line, just as Vice Chairman Du Peng proudly told him under the pretext of Master's image: My inner line must think of what they think, and must feel what they are confused.
So, they waited for John to make a mistake, watched John test emotions step by step, and in this respect, even the most desperate person would eventually fall into human nature without drugs and return to his own emotional experience, as Mary said: to feel. And John was a man who had the ability to feel emotions he had never felt.
This also carries a paradox in the movie, any slight mistake, such as John washing his face when breaking the potion resulting in no injection quota in the morning, if there is no way to get the goods, it is possible to destroy this desperate control, even if the rebels are all eliminated, the loopholes still exist, everyone may make this mistake, the emotional experience can not be eliminated after all, so the control of utopia can only be regarded as self-deception.
In the control expression of human emotions, a child's ability to control and disguise is so strong. Even John, who claimed to have a sixth sense, did not feel that his son had long since stopped injecting, but he was so calm.
The most ridiculous thing is that the ultimate boss is also a sentient and intentional person, and he does not have a needle every day to eliminate his emotions, but his emotions are exchanged for the price of countless people's emotionlessness, thinking that this can bring long-term stability and personal pleasure.
Human emotions are like volcanoes, which need to be continuously released to remain stable, and if they are under strong pressure, the volcano will eventually erupt. John's outbursts are uncontrollable, but when emotions and reason reach a state of equilibrium, they will bring more powerful fighting power, which is also after the authorities have been recognized by the central bureau, John began to have a lot of mood in the face of detection, and when the fluctuations subsided, a heroism was born.
The scene from the gunfight to the knife fight in the last paragraph has the momentum of the Matrix, which fully reflects the director's gun skills, which is also the most gorgeous chapter of this movie aside from the plot, and there is a reasonable point in the unreasonable, John's ability they are still too underestimated.
Hollywood's personal heroism is inevitably reflected in this movie, with his own strength, John ended this control, when the godfather's totem disappeared, resistance blossomed on all sides, emotional control has become a masterpiece, when violence against violence, whether the world should return to peace or the continuation of violence is not explained, the film only explains the resistance to oppression, and does not explain how to rebuild or how emotions are balanced, and perhaps the problem of balance can never be correctly answered.
The verse in the movie is very interesting, everyone has their own dreams, in the process of realizing dreams, you can pursue dreams, but do not step on the wings of other people's dreams, otherwise it can only bring destruction rather than the so-called utopian illusion of peace.
You always know and I'm alone
Leave my dreams at your feet to spread the wings of dreams
Gently step on the steps
Because you stepped on the wings of my dreams
John's companion died at his hands, and the verses he said at the time of his death were ironically said again by Vice President Dupont, but the deaths of the two were the same, one began John's journey of emotional experience, and the other made this emotional control into the yellow flowers of the past, and finally became a fantasy.