Today, Xiaobian gives you a movie "End of the Game" for Amway, which tells the story of the Phoenix man who mixed into British high society by playing tennis coaches, watching operas, and reading elite books, on the one hand, a rich woman with a lot of gold and ordinary looks; on the other hand, Scarlett, who was poor and sexually extreme. Love & lust money, loyalty and betrayal are intertwined. In the end, the Phoenix Man ushered in the end of his life. Through the clever intention of the tennis ball wiping the net, the ring hits the bar, which tells the real theme of the movie: luck.
In fact, in my opinion, the ending of Woody Allen's movie always has a sense of unfinishedness, and it actually ends like this, but the ending of this "End of the Game" is really too good, at first it looks a bit anti-human, but if you think about it, it is just the finishing touch. The film has a good color and rhyme, a rich temperament, and a meticulous narrative that does not forget the literary and artistic style, both of which are intoxicating to the human eye. The metaphor of opening tennis. The lies on the table swirled. The hidden opera soundtrack is always in full swing. A slow-moving wedding ring.
Personally, the real brave is that people who dare to have good intentions are not good at writing articles and evaluating film reviews, but after watching this film, I still want to write some feelings. After watching the movie, I also went to the Internet to read some film reviews, it seems that most of them are thinking about the theme word "luck", and I think the theme of this film should be two other words: "desire" and "good thoughts". Then I'll write down my thoughts.
First of all, the overall feeling, the subtlety of this film, is that it stimulates the evil in human nature, the director step by step will bring the audience into the inner world of the male protagonist, unconsciously, you will feel the heart for the situation, and feel relieved for his escape, so as to obtain a sense of pleasure for the rest of your life. After all, who doesn't want to make a mistake without bearing the consequences? Who wouldn't want luck to help themselves at a critical time? Such luck allows the male protagonist to "turn danger into disaster" to the peak of life, and at the same time planted a deep sin in his heart, and at the end of the film, the male protagonist looks out of the window and thinks.
And his mental activity is nothing more than two: 1. Luck saved me, and I can continue the life I dreamed of. 2. Luck has hurt me, and I will always fall asleep with nightmares. The benevolent see the wise and the wise see the wise, and I personally think it will be the latter. That is to say, I do not feel that this ending is a happy ending for the male protagonist, on the contrary, it is a tragedy. Because the betrayal of conscience and good thoughts will eventually pay a price. Back to the two theme words I said at the beginning, this is the director's cleverness, first take you to experience the pleasure of desire being satisfied, and then at the end let you rethink the weight of "good thoughts" and "desires".
In fact, after watching so many Woody Allen movies, this drama has the strongest sense of conflict. Compared with the movie "Actually He Doesn't Like You That Much", this one has a greater impact on me. The phrase "people are afraid to admit that luck plays a huge role in success" that runs through the film also makes me feel bad. It looks like a scumbag male protagonist, but it represents the setting of the vast majority of men, which also makes me afraid of movies. It even makes me wonder if there really is an unbreakable relationship in addition to the relationship of monetary interests, and the answer in the movie is no.
Thinking about all kinds of real life, the trade-offs between the two are staged anytime and anywhere, and desire is a difficult word to define, how much is a reasonable need and how much is a greedy desire, in fact, everyone asks themselves when faced with a choice, the good thoughts in their hearts give themselves a clear answer, everyone is actually very clear where the boundary is, but often they are deceiving themselves, so that the good thoughts can be fulfilled. And the real brave people in life are those who are not controlled by desire, those who regard the good thoughts in their hearts as treasures. They can give up many things just for inner peace and purity. You laugh at his childishness, laugh at his simplicity, and don't know that you are a coward dominated by desire.
Although in this whole process, it seems that luck plays an important role in various key nodes, I think the so-called luck only helps each character in the movie to more firmly follow the path that he has chosen in advance. This is what the creator said, what you think in your heart, God will push you in this direction again. People who are swallowed up by desire will not have good results after all. Nora is dead, and the male protagonist will have to go through a long psychological torture for the rest of his life.
Among them, the image of Nora and the male protagonist is very typical, they are very similar to the same sex, chess opponents. They represent a type of person in life, and you can more or less see the shadow of so-and-so you know from them. What kind of people? There are people who are missing and possessed, Nora's family is poor, her father left her mother and son and left her, the male protagonist is a poor boy from the countryside who wants to enter high society, such a lack creates their increasingly inflated desire, and they all have some capital, which gives them blind confidence to make them think that they are close to everything in their desires.
But this is easy to be blinded by desire, unable to distinguish between desire and legitimate need, they subconsciously feel that everything is deserved, because there is something missing, so they have to double the compensation for the lack. They indulge themselves again and again in the game of desire and good thoughts. Gradually becoming a puppet controlled by desire, the film is interspersed with hints of the consequences of this: Nora is always unlucky, her fiancé's mother does not like her, the audition fails again and again, and finally she is killed by her lover.
In the movie, the male protagonist kills people by luck but does not go to prison, walks into the rich by luck, meets his wife by luck, and goes smoothly with luck in his life and gets everything he wants. But the poor man died because of his greed, the innocent man died in his calculations, not all causes and effects in the world can be justified, there is no justice in the world, it is luck to get justice, and it is luck to lose justice. And the male protagonist seems to be lucky again and again, but in fact, he is just going to a deeper abyss, and his conscience is swallowed up little by little and eventually kills people, and even kills innocent neighbors in order to achieve his goal. And what he will eventually usher in, I believe, will be the judgment of conscience on him day after day.
According to the correct three views, in real life, of course, it is necessary to suppress the desire to compromise with reality, Bart leak, Woody Allen let the goods have all three, the price is countless midnight waking up over and over again self-torture and psychological never peaceful fear. In fact, men are the kind of animals who know what sin is and who are righteously committing sin. Once the woman starts to hysterical and loses the breath outside of desire, the man's patience is exhausted, and all he wants is that sexy and attractive you.