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Chapter 724: Fresh comedy
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"This is not another "My Left Foot", more like another "Unreachable"."
This is the title of a film review by Pulitzer winner Roger Ebert.
"Unreachable" is a French film that was released this year. It broke the thirteen-year record of "Titanic" with a dark horse and became the box office champion of French film history. At the same time, it also won French film critics. With unanimous praise, he broke into the awards season in the United States with a devastating attitude and became a popular seed player for the best foreign language film.
After experiencing the ups and downs in the early hours of the morning and the ups and downs of news reports, as a film critic, Roger still shielded all off-site information, conscientiously focused on the work itself, and expressed his opinions objectively and sincerely, which can be seen from the title of the film review. After coming out, Roger gave the "anti-cancer me" affirmation in such an analogy way!
"Just like some other recent movies about diseases, Gus-Van-Sant's'Insecure', Olivier-Nakache and Eric Tolanda (Eric-Toledano)'s "unreachable", "anti-cancer me" focuses on a period of earth-shaking changes and turbulence in life in a comedic way, and the relaxed, humorous, moving and delicate brushwork brings this upheaval in life. The chemical reaction in is stated.
Can it become a work that touches the soul like "my left foot"? Maybe not, but it presents a different aspect of life, allowing us to re-examine ourselves and life. What is certain is that the more we know about cancer, the less we want to have anything to do with it. "
It is still a typical Roger style. Instead of judging the merits of a work alone, it places the work in the environment of the same type of film and gives a relatively objective evaluation.
"For a comedy, the format of'anti-cancer me' is very small, so small that it can only accommodate the male protagonist Adam Lerner. It tells the story of one day when Adam was suddenly told of suffering from cancer.
The story is adapted from the personal experience of screenwriter Will Rissel, which makes all the focus fall on Adam. There is not much ambition and not much depth, but this is precisely the reason for the success of the film. ——
The film truly and delicately presents Adam’s psychological changes, outstanding plot details and excellent character relationships, and piece by bit piece together the impact of cancer on life, from the shallow to the deep, from the surface to the inside, from the fictitious to the real. What the audience sees is not an inspirational story about fighting disease, but a true reflection of life: everyone is trapped in their own troubles.
Everyone knows that there are five stages of grief and mourning: denial, anger, argument, depression, and acceptance.
But this is just a text at the psychological level. Only when it really happens and only through personal experience can you feel the weight of each stage, like a cage, trapping everyone in it and unable to break free. This is also the most brilliant part of Will Rissel's entire script.
Rissel has set up several roles around Adam: a psychologist who follows the book and teaches the department step by step. From Adam, she learned the difference between books and reality. Not everything can be arranged, and not everything can be done. Recorded; self-centered girlfriend, this is Adam’s story, but she is immersed in her own grief, pain and struggle, as if she is the center of the world; overly caring makes people breathless Mother, carefully and cautiously in words and deeds, the illness is like a crystal that people have to take care of, so that Adam has been pushed into a sterile space far from daily life and trapped in place.
Also, friends who don’t care, laugh and curse, pretend not to care, pretend to be safe, pretend that the future still exists, but when he escaped to the end and had to face it, the loss and struggle in his heart made **** wound.
Three females and one male. Each character represents a different factor in life, and then interacted with Adam, telling all aspects of the impact of cancer on life, and finally gathered on Adam, allowing the audience to deeply and truly feel the power and fierceness of the disease. It's overwhelming.
Adam, he experienced five stages of grief: denial, arguing, depression, anger, and acceptance. It may not be a normal sequence in psychology, but every moment in life is undergoing earth-shaking changes, far...far more turbulent than the limit that people's imagination can reach.
At the end of the movie, everyone couldn't help but start thinking: How should we treat life? This is the subject left by the movie.
Back to the movie genre again, comedy. Director Jonathan Levine chose to present this story in a comedy way, with humorous lines, snarling counterpoints, and Saturday night live jokes. The whole movie was shrouded in the cold winter of Seattle, but revealed With a hint of brisk and warm sunshine, this humorous yet serious, joyful and deep presentation method gives the movie a freshness and uniqueness similar to the "500 days with Summer".
This undoubtedly makes the movie more watchable. The solid script makes the eyes shine. The steady story, the bright characters and the delicate emotions, together with the playful humor, everything is just right. Will Rissel's brushwork is not only true, but also funny, the previous one The second is still moved by the warmth, and in the next second he can't help but laugh. This tearful effect runs through the laughter. The whole movie is made in one go, and it is a rare phenomenon.
It is worth mentioning that, as the lead actor, Lan Li-Hall has dedicated a refreshing comedy performance, once again showing his ability to control different types of movies, which is another major achievement of the film. After "Love Is Crazy", this is the second excellent work that Hall dedicated during the awards season. It continues the momentum of "Buried alive" last year. Perhaps this year we can report more expectations. "
Unexpectedly, Roger put the weight of film reviews on the play itself, which is too rare for comedy movies.
Since Billy Wilder, there have been few wise, funny but wiser comedy scripts. Woody Allen is the only contemporary American filmmaker who can perfect comedy and philosophy, comedy and irony. The fusion of screenwriters, the vitality of such works seems to be withering. This is also one of the important reasons why works such as "Little Sunshine Girl" and "Juneo" have been enthusiastically sought after by the academy in the past few years.
Now, it is also a little-known screenwriter, an independent film produced at a small cost, and a relaxed and profound comedy. Is it possible that "anti-cancer me" wants to copy the miraculous road of the rise of comedy?
Roger finally gave an evaluation of 88 points. At the same time, he also gave a "four stars" in the recommendation index of four stars. The reason was that "Len Li-Hall's first comedy performance in his career!"
This is evident from the praise and praise of this senior authoritative film critic. However, despite focusing on the script, Roger inevitably mentioned Lan Li at the end of the film review. Although the length is short, he can still see his love for Lan Li. Since "Buried alive", Roger has been full of praise for the new-generation actor, and now it seems that Lan Li is still his darling.
Corresponding to Roger is Michael Phillips, a senior film critic of the "Hollywood Reporter", who has not hesitated to give all the words of praise to Lan Li.
"Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Angelica Houston, Bryce Dallas... This list of actors is undoubtedly interesting, "Pineapple Express", "Overnight", "Too bad "Lai" and other works made Logan a leader among the new generation of comedians; and "In the Cloud" allowed Kendrick to receive his first Oscar nomination in his career. Their joining is bound to make the "anti-cancer me" Has received a lot of attention.
In fact, the performances of Logan and Kendrick are very good. The easy and easy-to-follow performances complement the style of the movie, but the weight, highlights and depth of the entire movie are completely supported by Lanly Hall. This A representative of the new generation of actors challenged comedy performance for the first time, but dedicated the most memorable comedy performance since 2011.
There is a delicate but powerful force in Hall’s performance. The light-weight performance through the detailed processing of eyes, smiles and movements ~lightnovelpub.net~ gives the whole character a vivid and profound image, which is different from the previous ones. The dull, jerky and cute gestures of any role in Hall are unforgettable; and the wonderful performance rhythm and weird pause method inject a kind of strange and sour comedy effect into the movie. With tears in his eyes but a smile on his face, in a trance, people once again think of Charlie Chaplin.
Everything is appropriate and good, every line, every expression, every shot is so touching and beautiful, gently poking into the softness of the heart, under Hall’s powerful performance aura, the whole movie is filled with one This kind of sprouting and bitter atmosphere, the meaning of life does not come from those stormy waves and magnificent waves, but from those plain and undisturbed, the most subtle moments, the most ordinary emotions, but the most beautiful in the world.
It’s hard to imagine that Hall just turned 22 last month; it’s hard to imagine that this is Hall’s first comedy performance; it’s hard to imagine that after dedicating the wonderful performance of'Crazy Love','anti-cancer I've brought surprises again.
In terms of performance quality alone, the "anti-cancer me" even surpasses the "crazy love". In the movie, there are at least three sections, and Hall's performance is simple, thick, delicate and profound, which takes the whole work to a whole new level.
Is this a brand new story? No, on the contrary, this is a very simple story, so simple that there is nothing new, even a little boring; is this a wonderful story? Yes, this is undoubtedly the most worth watching work in this year's holiday archive.
Screenwriter Will Rissel handed in an excellent answer sheet, but the light of the whole movie was concentrated on Renly Hall. Maybe this is the best choice for this year's Christmas atmosphere, who knows? "