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Nobody 2
Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Sharon Stone, Colin Hanks, Christopher Lloyd, More...
Suburban dad Hutch Mansell, a former lethal assassin, is pulled back into his violent past after thwarting a home invasion, setting off a chain of events that unravels secrets about his wife Becca's past and his own.
The Waterfront
Holt McCallany / Maria Bello
For decades, the Buckley family has ruled Havenport, North Carolina, from the local fishing industry to the small town's restaurant industry. However, as patriarch Harlan Buckley (Holt McCarran) recovers from two heart attacks, their fishing empire begins to falter, and his wife Belle (Maria Bello) and son Kane (Jack Weary) do their best to keep the family business afloat. When their attempts spiral out of control and into crisis, Harlan steps in to take back control. Buckley's daughter Bree (Melissa Benoist), a recovering drug addict, is haunted by her own demons over the loss of custody of her son and becomes entangled in a complicated relationship that could threaten the family's future forever.
The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball
Theresa Gallagher
In Elmore, reality bends and family life gets weird. Gumball pulls Darwin, Anais, and the whole town into adventures - from fighting evil fast food to dealing with an AI crushing on his mom. The show's so wild, it needed a new name.
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Kaitlyn Dever, Jack OConnell, Dan Stevens, Sam Neill, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Matthew Modine, Delroy Lindo
While the film continues the epic behemoth showdown between the previous film, it will also introduce multiple human characters to fight alongside Godzilla and King Kong to fight against a catastrophic threat that could destroy the world.
Zootopia 2
Jason Bateman, Ginnifer Goodwin, Guan Jiwei, Shakira, Kunta Brunson, Fortune Feimster
Brave rabbit cop Judy Hopps and her friend, the fox Nick Wilde, team up again to crack a new case, the most perilous and intricate of their careers.
Shrek 5
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Zendaya
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The Roses
Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, Andy Samberg, Kate McKinnon, Allison Janney, Belinda Bromilo, Sunit Mani
Ivy and Theo are a perfect couple, successful in their careers and happily married. But beneath the surface of their so-called ideal life, a storm is brewing - Theo's career is plummeting, while Ivy's ambitions are growing, fierce competition and hidden resentment are about to explode.
The Old Guard 2
Charlize Theron, Uma Thurman, Henry Golding, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Marwan Kenzari, Matthias Schoenaerts, Luca Marinelli...
Andy (Charlize Theron) and the Undead Army reassembled, showing an unprecedented sense of mission, and vowed to protect the world. Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts) betrayed and went into exile, while June (Wu Qingyun) escaped from the water prison and bore a grudge. Andy found that she had lost her immortality. In addition to trying to face the facts, she had to do everything she could to resist the mysterious force and not let her efforts for thousands of years go to waste. Andy, Neil, Joe, Nicky and James Copley teamed up to seek the help of their old friend Dua, hoping that he could solve the mystery of immortality.
Jurassic World: Rebirth
Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia -Rulfo...
Five years post-Jurassic World Dominion, an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough.
Elio
Jonas Kibreab, Zoe Saldana, Remy Edgerly, Brad Garnett, Jamila Jamil, Shirley Henderson, August Linn
Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.
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Jackpot!
Set in the near future, the economically challenged state of California has created a lottery rule: you need to kill the winner before sunset to legally claim their prize. Katie (Awkwafina), who has just moved to Los Angeles, unexpectedly finds out that she has won the lottery. She must team up with amateur jackpot protector Noel (Cena) to ensure that she survives until sunset to claim the multi-billion dollar reward. At the same time, Noel's rival and fellow protector Louis (Simu Liu) also wants to escort Katie all the way to sunset to earn a generous commission.
Moana 2
Under the sudden call of the ancestral spirits, Moana (voiced by Auli'i Cravalho), Maui (voiced by Dwayne Johnson) and the new crew will set out to the other end of Oceania, going deep into dangerous and unknown waters, facing a new adventure they have never seen before.
A Complete Unknown
The film is set in the New York music scene in the early 1960s, recreating the beginning and end of Bob Dylan's electric guitar controversy. At the age of 19, Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) came to New York's West Village from Minnesota with his guitar on his back. His folk songs were appreciated by his idols and favored by music fans. Bob, who was originally unknown, quickly became a hot new star in the New York folk music scene. At the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, Bob Dylan used an electric guitar on stage for the first time, which not only subverted the definition of folk music, but also rewrote the future of American music. This film is adapted from the documentary "Dylan Goes Electric" written by Elijah Wald.
Macbeth
This version of Macbeth is directed by Max Webster (Life of Pi). When the audience takes their seats, they wear headphones, and the ambient sound effects are played in the headphones in the form of 3D sound effects, creating an uneasy and terrifying atmosphere. The sound effects heard by the live audience from the headphones will also be mixed into the soundtrack of the video version.
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La Dolce Villa
Eric, who lost his wife, worked hard alone in the United States; his only daughter fell in love with a villa worth "one euro" in Italy. His loving father flew to Tuscany to stop the sale of the property. Unexpectedly, the father fell in love with the beautiful local mayor. The shabby house looked its most beautiful after careful decoration, and everyone was happy. Although I could predict the ending after watching it for five minutes, I was still very happy to finish the movie because it was so beautifully filmed! [两個心R]Highlight 1: Both the male and female protagonists are extremely good-looking. The female protagonist looks a bit like Sha Lianna, but more beautiful. [Balloon R] Highlight 2: The scenery of Tuscany is also very charming, whether it is the buildings, hillsides, or the sea, everything is beautiful. No wonder the three sisters Antonia sit in the hot springs and play around every day. I envy them so much. I don’t even need to learn this life philosophy of “doing nothing and enjoying leisure time”. I’m already familiar with it [shy R] [Wither R] Complaints: The plot is a bit clichéd, the conflict and reconciliation between father and daughter are too smooth. It would be better if the attitude towards life could be explored in depth. It seems that the whole movie is too much for Valentine's Day.
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Last Breath
"Last Breath" is a film based on a real submarine disaster in the North Sea of Scotland in 2012. When experienced deep-sea diver Chris was on a mission in the North Sea, a huge storm caused the ship to drift, and his oxygen tube was cut off, trapping him on the seabed, with only 10 minutes of backup oxygen! In the dark sea storm, the captain, technicians, and the leaders of the diving team Ducan (Woody Harrelson) and Dave (Liu Simu) worked together to launch a thrilling rescue operation. Before watching the movie, S asked me, if the backup oxygen only lasts 10 minutes, why can the movie be shot for 90 minutes? Shouldn't it be finished in 10 minutes? I said, maybe there is a synopsis of the previous story, reminiscing about life, or it is like "24 Hours", shot from one person's perspective. After watching it, I found that these are not all correct. The main reason is that after the oxygen was exhausted in ten minutes, the protagonist still lasted for 30 minutes! I won't spoil the result, you can go and see it for yourself. Although the film is only 90 minutes long, I appreciate the compact rhythm of this purely commercial film. The story is told neatly, without dragging or over-exaggeration, which is enough. The theater also maximized this effect. As soon as the lights were turned off, the music, pictures and photography came out, which immediately made me understand the difference between a movie that can be released in theaters - even a small commercial film - and a streaming network movie like "The Canyons". First of all, the authenticity of the details. Compared with "The Last Breath", "The Canyon" looks like an AI cutout. Although a beautiful interior scene was built, the rest is all cutout CG, which is completely unreliable. It feels like the male and female protagonists are playing the Sims. Such an old tower, but the interior is brand new. There was a blizzard outside, and the heroine came out in shorts, as if there was no use for the blanket on her body that might fall off at any time. Look at the rust, iron cages, and mechanical air pipes in "The Last Breath", and the difference is obvious. The second is the problem of logic. The setting of "The Canyon" is pleasant, especially the uninhabited forest tower in the subarctic zone of the northern hemisphere, which is simply a paradise for I people, but the various story logic loopholes are like a sieve. In contrast, "The Last Breath" is adapted from a true story, and the whole story is very solid. The director also made a documentary for this movie. Chris lasted 30 minutes without oxygen, which is a miracle in itself, but what is more miraculous is that the team did not give up on him. From the captain, the first mate to the technicians, as well as the leader of the diving team Ducan and the silently dedicated Dave, the cooperation, courage and human brilliance of the entire team who never abandon or give up, regardless of the final result, is the biggest miracle. Finally, I would like to use a paragraph to praise Simu Liu. In mainstream North American movies, Simu Liu is almost the only East Asian face who can play the leading role - I am not talking about TV series and movies with Chinese as the main characters. Do you know how difficult this is? Compared with Chen Sicheng's boastful "🍬探1900" which illogically incites national sentiment, seeing more and more Chinese appear in European and American film and television circles is to do things step by step in a down-to-earth manner. To give an inappropriate analogy, if you support not overfishing, then there is no need to yell at your parents at home not to eat fish. Going to the school community to call on everyone not to eat fish is doing things. Simu Liu's emotional acting is actually not very good, but once the action is added, it is very qualified, and he plays the image of a taciturn but brave and kind comrade-in-arms. Simu Liu is really the pride of the Chinese!
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Black Bag
It feels like authentic British humor, and it was made by an American director and screenwriter. It's quite surprising to think that the editor of Jurassic Park and the director of Ocean's Eleven were both very similar. Let me tell you some interesting details, including spoilers: - At the beginning, when the male protagonist went to find the informant, the informant was hugged by many women and said that he just cheated accidentally. The male protagonist persuaded him to go home, and the informant actually went back. In the next scene where the informant was about to die, the informant was at home discussing going out with his wife on the weekend to ease the relationship - When the male lead pretended to lose his work badge and went to find the female lead, the female lead's boss was shown in the meeting room for the first time. The old Bond showed his sovereignty by switching the glass. - When the male protagonist said goodbye to the female protagonist on the night of the trip abroad, he first spoke French and then German, because both languages are used in Switzerland. The female protagonist frowned slightly after hearing this, which also showed that she seemed to realize that the male protagonist was checking her out. - In the meeting after the vulnerability incident, Uncle Fa delicately showed the panic beneath his calm surface. If you look closely, his hands were shaking when pouring water, and his reaction after leaving the meeting room was also panic. - The first time the male protagonist went to the river to sort out the situation, he didn't catch anything, and he had no clue. The second time he went with the black agent, he caught a small fish, which corresponds to the black guy. The big boss was not caught, but he was eating a still-living fish, implying that he was the big fish and could survive the best. - The body language of the big devil leaning forward to press the elevator button with old Bond in the elevator is so powerful, it instantly expresses the meaning of dominance
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Transformers One
There was a movie that I watched during the Mid-Autumn Festival. I didn't pay much attention to it at first, thinking that the good reviews were all made up by the so-called media. But after watching it, I felt that it really lived up to expectations. It was the latest "Transformers" animated film "Transformers: Origins". The story type is still science fiction adventure. The imaginative world structure of Cybertron and the robot design that is relatively restored to the old animation can indeed impress many animation fans. However, what I want to say most after watching it is the strong and simple revolutionary issues contained in the film and the dystopian narrative that is closely related to reality. There is no extra human perspective, but the experiences of the Transformers are presented in a revolutionary discourse that is unique to humans . Before becoming the Autobot leader Optimus Prime and the Decepticon leader Megatron, Orion Pax and D-16 were two ordinary miners who had to mine energy in dangerous underground environments every day. Although they are good brothers, their personalities, attitudes and philosophies are completely opposite. Orion Pax is a miner with his own ideas, courage to challenge and break the rules. Although he does not believe in the saying "Are kings, princes, generals and ministers different in kind?" and wants to overthrow it, he is upright in his bones, which also lays the groundwork for him to break the rules and participate in the competition, thus starting a series of adventures and uncovering the conspiracy. D-16 was not yet the leader of the Decepticon faction at that time. He worked according to the routine every day and believed in all the information transmitted to him by his superiors. It was a bit like accepting everything, but at that time, it was still peaceful on the surface. D-16 collected stickers of the original Thirteen King Kong, who were the first to resist the Five-Faced Monster, like a fanboy, especially Megatronus, who later became the Fallen King Kong. However, the blackening of D-16, his believer, cannot be regarded as fate, as it also involves some personality and even external factors, which will be discussed later. By accident, they discovered the secret of the current leader, Yu Tiandi - under the pretext of finding a leadership module, he secretly surrendered to the Quintessence of the Five-Faced Monsters, and even exploited his own people in order to provide energy for the enemy. He ordered his subordinates to intensify energy extraction and continue to exploit the miners. What's even more terrifying is that the Skyrim also covered up the Transformers' early memories (tampering with history). Each Transformer originally had gears and could transform, but in order to consolidate its rule (the key point is to remove the military power and monopolize the military and political affairs. Who would want their own people to have guns, be able to transform, and rebel?), the Skyrim took back the transformation gears (depriving the people of their nature) and unified management (dividing the class, and classifying people by whether they can transform or not). It is not difficult to find that the background description of the origins of the Autobots and Decepticon leaders in "Transformers: Origins" is very consistent with the early revolutionary situation. Internally, the upper class exploited the lower working people to the utmost; externally, they put on a fawning face, ceded land, paid compensation, and sold out the country for personal gain. It is difficult not to associate this narrative system with the history of my country's new democratic revolution. Even Optimus Prime's inheritance of the will of the Thirteen and the battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron are more or less closely aligned with certain nodes in history. Interestingly, the revolutionary process presented in Transformers: Origins also conforms to the stage of the New Democratic Revolution. The railway coal miners' strike and the miners' uprising called by Optimus Prime are very similar, both of which are sparks of revolution that burst out from the working class. Let's look at the ruling class. Transformers: Origins portrays Megatron with a very modern feel. I'm not pedantic, but I claim to be superior; I'm not undemocratic, you see, I even give you the competition to make you happy (although this kind of "nipple fun" is also divided into classes, not everyone can participate). So the Cybertron led by Megatron is not the Big Brother-style 1984, but a brave new world - A treasonous clown maintains the current false prosperity with the principle of entertainment first. This is the simple revolutionary tone of "Transformers: Origins", and what follows is the love-hate relationship between Pillar and his fanboy Megatron. Of course, compared to Zhuzi’s helplessness and the magnanimity of a true leader, the darkening of his fanboy is more interesting. From a justice perspective, both Megatron and Megatron are traitors. One betrayed the original Thirteen, and the Quintessons took advantage of the situation, which was considered treason; the other was more different, he only betrayed his allies (on a friendship level), and his inner persistence remained the same, but it was just more extreme. It is reasonable for Megatron to turn evil. What he had before could not be considered self-awareness, and he was not even as optimistic as Bumblebee, who could still find fun for himself while being locked up alone on the 30th floor underground. You can think of Megatron as a rationalist who has spent the first half of his life pursuing an absolute idea. His thinking is relatively extreme, but the premise of this extremism is his support for absolute justice (obedience) and the betrayal of "absolute justice" (Yu Tiandi). Faced with the hypocritical behavior and treasonous behavior of the upper class such as Megatron, Optimus Prime felt that he needed to awaken the people first, unite all the forces that could be united, and proceed step by step from the bottom up; while Megatron's attitude towards this was "an eye for an eye", the same form of revenge, and he would fight if he disagreed! Although his purpose was also to maintain justice in his heart. This kind of thinking develops to a later stage, once in power, or continues to be paranoid, it will turn into an extreme attitude of "whoever stands in my way will die". In the film, Megatron's final act of abandoning Optimus Prime and slaughtering the former supporters of Megatron are all extreme reactions after his beliefs are shattered. Since everything is fake, I will build a new order on the ruins. What was once promised has become a lie forever. This is the tragedy of the cool movie "Transformers: Origins", and it also echoes the transformation of student movements in the late 1960s and 1970s into terrorism (just look at the attitude of the Japanese right wing towards the Japanese United Red Army). At this point, the reasons for the formation of terrorism are no longer important, and he was exiled along with the Holy Knights. Former comrades parted ways because of the "instigation" of a clown, and took different paths due to different choices. What is even more tragic is that what they advocated is still the same, the thing that truly belongs to the people, which has been manipulated by the upper class and has not been fulfilled so far.
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Treno dei Bambini
Among the films I watched recently, the two most tear-jerking ones, "My Favorite Cake" and "Child's Heart Train", are both directed by women. To be honest, I didn't pay attention to who the director was before watching them, but the impression is not deceptive. "Even if there are no descriptive, bloody, violent, or war scenes", it can still make people want to watch it deeply. It is almost the work of female directors. I am not dragging it down, but the female perspective is different. The language of love is outlined in the details, but it is never too sensational. It is restrained at the right time and the camera is restrained. It is probably a kind of female psychological language: because women understand love too much, when they really depict the scene of love, they leave many meaningful fragments and aftertastes, instead of directly cutting the picture in front of you, which is as boring as uncovering the answer. There are many great male directors, including those with scene arrangement and grand worldview, but when describing love, they seem to lack a kind of imagination. It is so interesting. When watching a movie, you are tasting the director's subconscious projection and emotional pattern, and who is behind the camera lens? This emotion cannot be hidden. Or let's put it this way, when male directors film maternal love, they always use the theme of "sacrifice", that is, the mother dies for her child, or the mother sacrifices the happiness of the rest of her life for her child, or the mother gives up something. The purpose is that a mother must be strong, and motherhood contains too much content about self-sacrifice and carries too many private implications. However, stories of maternal love shot by female directors are always more "gentle" to women. Letting a child go is love, accepting a child is love, sometimes coldly pushing a child away is love, but "not forgetting to live your own life" is also love. Female directors are good at shooting women who "live according to their own wishes but also love their children." So I understand that we really, really need more female directors. We need more female directors to shoot "women". For example, the role of "mother" has always been shot by male directors, with all kinds of private goods in patriarchal narratives, and is suffocated by the definitions of "sacrifice", "virginity" and "selflessness". If more female directors shoot women from the perspective of women, then the definition of the word "mother" will move towards new connotations in female narratives. More female directors are filming "what is motherhood" instead of male directors defining what motherhood is. Whoever holds the camera to express ideas is a kind of power in itself.
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Joy
What touched me the most in this movie was what the head nurse said: "We are here to provide these women with choices." Whether it is abortion or IVF, it is a choice that should belong to women and is an option that science can provide to them. At the beginning of the year, I interviewed a patient with cervical cancer during pregnancy. For a young woman who is extremely eager to have children, the cruelest thing is to tell her at the same time: Congratulations! There is a new life growing in your uterus, but unfortunately, there is also a tumor in it that will take your life. Many hospitals advised her to stop the pregnancy and treat the cancer as soon as possible, but she was very determined. She told me that she wanted to keep the child no matter what. Finally, only our hospital agreed to treat her. Two department directors performed an operation together, helping her deliver the baby and remove the tumor at the same time. The baby is very healthy and the mother is very happy. The teacher told me that this is very worth promoting. In the past, you would never have thought that women with cervical cancer could still have children. To be honest, I couldn't agree with her at first. I couldn't understand why this woman risked her life to have a baby. I even criticized her recklessness in my heart and thought her persistence was stupid. And although the treatment and surgery were very difficult, I didn't understand why the hospital promoted the practice of giving birth with tumors.
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Smile 2
The series "Dangerous Laughter" has an interesting design: the identity of the heroine and the setting of the fake smile demon complement each other. In the first film, the heroine is a psychiatrist who wants to help patients, but cannot believe what the patients see; when she herself is haunted by evil spirits, she personally experiences this pain. In this film, the heroine Skye is set as a star who is the focus of everyone's attention. The ubiquitous fake smile has a double meaning: it is the illusion of evil spirits, and it is also her real situation. Although surrounded by applause, no one cares about herself behind the halo. In short, it is loneliness. Even if you are in a crowd, you will become a lone prey. Irony, which was just a spice in the first film, becomes very important in this one. The director seems to have deliberately emphasized this point, wanting to make this film profound. The most exquisite part is undoubtedly the dancing of smiling faces in the mansion on the eve of the tour; the horror atmosphere reaches its peak, and it also completely reveals the dilemma of the heroine. Her team and fans are just like these smiling phantoms, who come with smiles on their faces, but can only add fuel to the fire. Before Skye met Morris, it was also the fans who pushed her away from this last straw. After the "smiley dance", Skye went down all the way, rushing to the destined ending in the illusion. The director used the same trick again. The only friend Gemma who he trusted never appeared, and Morris who could help him was not real. When he opened his eyes, he was wearing clothes he didn't like, still standing on the tour stage, performing the most gorgeous suicide in the spotlight, and the spectators all became prey, and the irony was bursting out. This part of the plot is very similar to "Some Kind of Material", especially the monster that broke out of the body at the end. Whether in terms of characters, plot (second half) or theme, this work is like a sister film of "Something Substantial". The difference is that "Something Substantial" is an art film that focuses on satire, using horror elements to strengthen the expression; while "Smile 2" is a pure horror film that sublimates the theme. The design of this work is simpler and the satire is more direct. Although there is a slight disconnect between the beginning and the end, it is unexpectedly powerful. Which of the two works is better or worse is a matter of opinion. There is a small bug: one of the victims in the previous film was a professor who committed suicide in class, and only one of his students was infected. According to this inference, no matter how many people saw Skye's death, the fake smile demon can only infect one person. Thinking about it this way, the fake smile demon seems to have worked in vain. However, the ending is too shocking, so we should still ignore the imperfections in the setting.
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Plainclothes
"Plainclothes Police" and "Brokeback Mountain" do have many similarities, presenting the persecution of homosexuals in a homophobic social environment and the exploration of nature under the moral constraints of sexual repression. The casting of "Plain Clothes Police" is relatively reasonable compared to "Brokeback Mountain". The actors of the fishing enforcement police are necessary to meet the character setting. Most of the castings for same-sex stories are handsome men and beautiful women, as if those with ordinary looks or bad looks are not even qualified to fall in love. The same is true for heterosexual stories. There are even lines that describe handsome men and beautiful women as "ordinary". The casting is completely inconsistent with the character setting, just like I can't believe that Yuan Quan said the classic line in the stage play "Jane Eyre": "Do you think that because I am poor, humble, ugly, and short, I have no soul and no heart? You are wrong! My soul is the same as yours, and my heart is exactly the same as yours! If God gives me a little beauty and a little wealth, I will make it difficult for you to leave me, just like it is difficult for me to leave you now." This is a problem of audio-visual art form and audience aesthetics. Most humans are visual animals, and the Internet images of film and television dramas continue to strengthen the unified mainstream aesthetics. In recent years, domestic film and television dramas have seen another type of casting that does not fit the characters. Many handsome men and beautiful women are cast with actors with non-mainstream aesthetics, which has been ridiculed by netizens and audiences. It is remembered that more than ten or twenty years ago, there were all kinds of beauties blooming on the big and small screens, but nowadays, beauties are hard to find. The casting of Brokeback Mountain was criticized by the original author Annie Proulx. After the movie was released, many viewers followed their five senses and paid more attention to the love story, which weakened the criticism of the times. She received many fan fiction creations that arranged various new boyfriends for Ennis after Jack's death, which completely deviated from the main theme. She hoped that she had never written this story. The original focus is not the love between two men but the mental state and moral environment of homophobia in a specific era and region. For details, please see the original report Brokeback Mountain creator Annie Proulx regrets writing story. If the original casting was selected, it would not have become a classic love movie with so many audiences today. The two straight male actors were too shy to let go when performing the sex scene, but the two female actors exposed their breasts when filming the heterosexual sex scene. Ang Lee may have filmed it for straight male and straight audiences. It is also a merit to let homosexual-themed movies enter the mainstream vision. I remember that I went to the night market to buy pirated VCDs just for Anne Hathaway. I didn’t know the other actors, I was ignorant about sex and unfamiliar with the era, so I didn’t have much impression after watching the movie. Why didn't the film cast the characters according to the original novel? Because what Ang Lee wanted to film was love. He said, "To create a great love story, there must be huge obstacles. The two protagonists are in the American West, where there are masculinity and traditional values. Therefore, everything they feel must be kept secret. It is a precious, special thing that they cannot describe." This sentence also applies to the later "Lust, Caution". The era is not the focus, so it is no wonder that the sex scene is exaggerated to try to rationalize the psychological changes of the characters, and Mr. Yi is sad sitting on the bed after Wang Jiazhi is executed at the end. I still remember that the media hyped the deletion of the seven-minute nude sex scene. Many mainland audiences went to Hong Kong to watch the full version. Later, it was reported that Tang Wei was "banned". I couldn't help but sympathize with her and cut out the next report as a newspaper clipping. The deleted version of the screen shot pirated disc was circulated on the market. It was not until many years later that I had the opportunity to see the full version. After being eroded by various capitalist films in Europe and the United States, I no longer care about large-scale real and fake. When fake is true, true is also false. The truth is actually not important. Choose the one you are willing to believe in, which is your "truth". Of course, adaptation is similar to the secondary creation of fan fiction. The director can have his own understanding of the story, even if it is a disfiguring adaptation. The creator does not have to fear the judgment of the original party. Seeking common ground while reserving differences has its own merits. "Plain Clothes Police" is told from the male protagonist's perspective throughout, inviting the audience to enter the story and empathize with the characters to feel their psychological changes, from suppressing their nature to carefully exploring and finally awakening to facing their true selves. The police and the priest are filmed with a lot of sexual tension, although the audiovisual aspects are a bit flashy and showy. "It'll pass." Is this a slang term exclusive to priests? It immediately reminds me of the ascetic priest in the second season of "Fleabag". Coincidentally, both of them are named Andrew. I can't help but suspect that the director did it on purpose. There is still tomorrow: decriminalization of homosexuality. The 1961 film "Victim"was the first English film in film history to directly mention homosexuality. There was no same-sex sex scene in the whole film. In 1967, the UK passed the Sexual Offences Act to decriminalize homosexuality. Homosexual behavior in private places by men over the age of 21 was no longer a crime. Many people believe that "Victim" promoted legislation to some extent. In the United States, it was not until 2003 in the case of Lawrence v. Texas that the Federal Supreme Court overturned the fines imposed on John Lawrence and Tyron Deviant. This ruling overturned sodomy laws (this law is mainly used to prosecute same-sex sexual behavior in the United States) across the country. Homosexuals have the right to establish their own intimate relationships without interference from state laws. At present, 67 countries still convict homosexual behavior, mainly concentrated in the Middle East, Africa and Russia. Among them, 11 countries can impose the death penalty, including Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, of which 8 are Asian countries. According to the survey, the death penalty is still being carried out against LGBTQ+ groups in Iran, northern Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen, while the death penalty is still a legal possibility in Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The new Criminal Law of mainland China in 1997 abolished the crime of hooliganism, which is considered to be a sign of the decriminalization of homosexuality in China. The current official attitude is similar to "neither support nor oppose nor advocate", and the mainstream public opinion does not agree. The crime of hooliganism is a crime stipulated in the Criminal Law promulgated in 1979, which refers to openly defying national laws and social morality, gathering to fight, provoking trouble, insulting women or disrupting public order and other serious acts. In the 1983 crackdown campaign, the penalty was expanded to the maximum of death. After the 1997 revision, the crime of hooliganism was abolished and it was divided into the crimes of forced indecency, child molestation, gathering for promiscuity, gathering to fight, provoking trouble, etc. The outlet of desire When it comes to the crime of "gathering for lewdness", I think of the report in 2023 that 6 men in Hangzhou were arrested for gathering for lewdness. Many netizens expressed homophobia, while the case of 10 men and women gathering for lewdness in the same period was ignored by most media. Is it because the public is accustomed to the lewdness between men and women and therefore it has no news value? In 2009, there was a "swapping spouse" case involving 22 defendants (14 men and 8 women) that caused a huge public opinion storm. According to the prosecution's data, from the summer of 2007 to August 2009, 22 people participated in 35 gatherings through forums or QQ groups. Among them, the main culprit Ma organized or participated in 18 gatherings, and 14 were held at his home. Among them, there were only two couples, some for seeking excitement, some for improving the relationship between husband and wife, and several women had this sexual fetish. . Ma is an associate professor at a university in Nanjing, divorced and single. He believed that the activities did not constitute a gathering for lewdness and defended his innocence. The other 21 defendants all pleaded guilty, and the case was not heard in public. In the end, he was severely punished for his lack of clear awareness of the social harm and illegality of his behavior, and was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison. Others had a good attitude of confessing their guilt. 18 defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 1 year to 2 years and 6 months, of which 14 were given suspended sentences, and the remaining 3 defendants were exempted from criminal punishment because of their minor crimes and voluntary surrender. The number of people involved in this case set a record since the establishment of the crime of gathering for lewdness, and it was the first time that a person was sentenced to actual imprisonment for this crime. In 2006, a domestic drama "Don't Dance with Strangers"involved the issue of spouse swapping. In the past, the themes of domestic film and television dramas were more diverse than today. Li Yinhe once said that the crime of group lewdness is seriously outdated and suggested abolishing it. She said, "As far as I know, developed countries do not have the crime of group lewdness." "The earliest case of spouse swapping in China occurred in the 1980s. Four middle-aged couples, intellectuals, swapped spouses. The leader was shot, and then one was sentenced to life imprisonment and another to 15 years in prison."
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
After watching it, I felt like I had drunk a bowl of broth that Éowyn handed to Aragorn. The ingredients were the same, but the taste was really not the same. It is an unforgivable mistake to make the protagonist of Helm's daughter, who has no role in the original book and whose name is unknown (in fact, she is an original character). This is not a female power moment - it is equally bad to set this character as a princess who yearns for freedom, an unwelcome bastard, or a hobbit from the Shire, because it should not exist in the first place. The consequence of this is that the sense of fate and heroism in Tolkien's works were directly destroyed, because the tragedy of the severance of the first line of Rohan became "just the death of the protagonist's relatives and friends", and the distant epic myth became a second-rate adventure animation. So we can see that Hareth, who led the guards to defend Edoras until the last man fell, was a reckless man who was shot through the throat after showing off his strength after successfully fighting the mammoth in the movie. Another son, Hama, died by being captured alive and executed in public. The giant eagle that the Lord of the Rings was unwilling to give away can be fed by humans and help transport the nostalgic equipment... These are nothing. The most ooc character is Helm the Hammerhand himself, who was deprived of the protagonist's position. The Rohan are martial but not stupid. Helm is praised first because he is a leader: a resolute leader who can withstand great grief and lead his people to survive in the desperate situation of a long winter, go out alone to kill the enemy until the opponent is terrified, and finally die standing on the eve of victory. So after the war, the Rohan people spontaneously called the Hornburg Helm's Deep. If it was the demented wild man in the movie who surrendered in public on the city wall, was devastated after the death of his son, and finally gave himself up at the beginning of the siege because he couldn't open a door (literally), I'm afraid the first people to overthrow Helm would be the residents of Helm's Deep. In Tolkien's writing, the reason for the defeat in the Battle of the Fords of Isen was that Rohan and Gondor were invaded at the same time as planned, not because Helm was so stubborn and arrogant that he refused to ask Gondor for help as in the movie. The setting of Hera and the short and shy attendant (I really can't remember the character's name) seems to be a replica of the princess and Merry in "The Return of the King", but the strength of the weak should be reflected in wisdom, courage and skills, rather than luck and logic. The soundtrack, storyboards and Eowyn's narration earned me one star, but that's it. The ending song is very nice, but I'm very angry.
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