This article is from WeChat public account:GQ Report (ID:GQREPORT), author: Plum wind, edit: He Tao, cover: the movie” Gemini killer “
1. “Gemini Killer” became an exception for Ang Lee
Ang Lee is the kind of director who can’t bear to criticize. Although he has produced a number of world-renowned movies, his interview with anyone is always a sigh of smile, as if he is afraid of dissatisfaction. His innocence and humility from his bones earned him the respect of even those who didn’t like his movies.
The same is true of his movies. No matter how provocative or how cold the subject matter is, he can always wrap them in an ethical or love story. The cruelty or murder in the film, Li An can always use the Taiji-like bones of the bones, break up and smash, but plainly and meticulously placed in the film’s meridians, the first look is unremarkable, but integrated but reminiscent Infinity, great stamina.
His movie is the kind of thing that lets you unload your heart. Their low-key and solid, always make you accept it without any conflict, but give you a big blow at the climax, then aftertaste When he found his smashing and anti-bone.
For example, “Diet Men and Women”, the beginning is about the emotional confusion and crisis of the three sisters. In the end, what really makes people feel the shock is the hidden secrets of the father and the young woman in the neighbors. The oldest sex, in such a traditional family, stubbornly presents its powerful energy in such a slightly absurd way.
For example, “The Fantasy Drifting of the Juvenile School”, when the film was magnificent and meticulously paved with a thrilling story of a young boy surviving at sea, suddenly a darker version was released, leaving those looms before the film. Unrest and weirdness are actually implemented, and even pushed to the edge of the more unimaginable human darkness.
In the mainstream creative atmosphere where the film language is not surprisingly endless, Ang Lee is a low-key master who is particularly good at warm boiled frogs. He is like a master of Go, never cares about the gains and losses of a city and a pool, but cares about the overall trend. It is precisely because of this, Ang Lee’s film has never had such a swaying hole, the kind of stunned eyes.
But the Twin Killer has become an exception. In this movie, all the advantages of Li An’s previous movies have become shortcomings.
His tenderness became the chief culprit of the slow plot. His meticulousness became a disagreement that could not be distinguished. His consistent thinking is profound and has become the main cause of the problem. His complexity and embarrassment make this simple and bright action movie even more overwhelming.
2. The film lacks a real plot thrust
In this movie, the biggest problem for Ang Lee is to lose people.
Why should Willy Brocken play revenge? Is he a morally clean patient? He can’t tolerate any violation of his behavior, so he said he wants to kill the boss who let him do the wrongdoing?
Or, he is a killer who is full of anger because of grievances. He has done so much dirty work for his organization, but the organization does not miss the old feelings.It is a kind of anger to be abandoned when he scribbles his roots.
But in this movie, we can’t see Henry going to find the behind-the-scenes culprit and the real motivation behind the reasons, we can’t even see his anger.
When he knew that he had killed the wrong person and was deceived by his boss, he was still sloppy and sloppy with the female detective, asking her to drink coffee just to let the other party admit that she was a federal agent. .
Without anger, the film lacks a real plot thrust. He is not fighting for justice, nor fighting for his own dignity, or even fighting for his own intelligence. He seems to be fighting for an inherent inertia of action films.
We just talked about the complexity of Ang Lee. Li An is a too mature director, so that he actually has no feeling for the model of the action film. The male lead and the female agent are very life. The foreplay of the game is actually a conscious reaction to the kind of stereotyped action film. He consciously broke the clichés of the action films, but did not know his final direction, so the life scenes that were incompatible with the rhythm of the action films became a flesh that was inconsistent with the tone, which seemed to be dragged and unintelligible.
Because Li An doesn’t believe in the format of the plot, but he has to shoot them, and eventually becomes very false, we can’t see the emotions in the film, such as the one at the beginning of the film and Henry. The young companion, and the old friend tycoon who asked him to find a plane, what kind of impact did Henry bring to Henry? What kind of variables will it bring to his actions?
We can’t see it. The death of these two people, like the death of two passers-by, did not bring any emotional embarrassment to Henry.
The film is to show that Henry is a cold-blooded machine that was forged by the cruel reality? Obviously not, when he faced the cloned one, he was 20 years younger than him.At the time, he was obviously shocked and panicked. For a killer, it seemed even a bit too sentimental.
This paragraph is obviously what Li An really wants to shoot.
He wants to shoot himself to face a kind of repentance and pity he once had, and to make a correction and make up for the past self life. Henry hopes that Xiaoke will give up the current killer life and correct it. The reason is that he realizes that his life is worthless.
The film didn’t shoot this at all, because we couldn’t see Henry’s reflection on her killer career, couldn’t see his kind of remorse, and couldn’t see him in his heart when he retired. Fear and anxiety. Without such fear, it is difficult for you to feel the unmannedness of Henry’s previous life. You can’t realize that he wants Xiaoke not to fall into the painstaking efforts and deep regrets of the bloody days of violence.
3. Intricate three sets of parent-child relationships, failed to expand
The emergence of the young version of Henry-Xiaoke brought out a major theme in the Ang Lee film, that is, the father-son relationship. From “Pushing Hands”, “The Wedding Banquet” to “Eating Men and Women”, “Ice Storm”, and even “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “The Hulk”, the love between the father and the son, or the contradiction between the two generations In these movies, they will be either hidden or invisible.
This movie actually has a good foundation. It actually involves the relationship between the three groups of fathers and sons. Henry is a similar father-son relationship with Xiaoke. The big villain Cray Weris and Xiaoke are a kind of father-son relationship, and between Cray Weris and Henry is also a father-son relationship. These three relationships are complex and this is a particularly interesting story setting.
What kind of emotion does Henry have for Xiaoke? When he saw the exact same self, there was shock in it, there was such a person, and this person actually killed him.
There is joy in it. Such a half-life killer, there is actually a person who is so close, which has more or less a hidden comfort to his lonely life.
At the same time, there is a sense of responsibility born out of pity. He can’t let his bloody copy go to his old path. He is responsible for Xiao Ke, and he is responsible for the mistakes he has made and the things he has lost. Although these emotions are not very deliberate in Henry, we can feel this more or less.
The father-son relationship between Wei Ruisi and Xiao Ke is more in the film, but it is also the most boring part of the film. Because of the emotion between Wei Ruisi and Xiao Ke, there is no time to express, so the two people quarrel with each other, even the fragment of the big murder, just like in the love movie, there is no bedding, it is as hard and awkward as the melee.
And The most pity, and the most promising relationship, is the father and son between Wei Ruisi and Henry. Henry is a kind of father who is raised by Wei Ruisi to some extent. This is a spiritual father. However, Henry is faced with a choice. For his son who is a copy of his blood, whether he wants to be with his spiritual father. Make a clear distinction between life and death? The struggles and wrinkles in it are worth chewing and dissecting.
If there is such a relationship, Henry begins to seek an answer from this spiritual father; later discovering that this spiritual father actually used himself as a mother to cultivate murder weapons, which made him desperate.This kind of action film actually needs a kind of innocence. This innocence means that someone will always give everything for their own conscience. And Ang Lee is the kind of person who is so complicated that he has objections to the existence of conscience and its standards, so he wants to make him simple and hearty, and shocked by simple and hearty. And sorrow, it is not an easy task.
Speak a little more about the film. If it can’t have a decisive influence on the overall tone and atmosphere of the film, like Crazy Max 4, then this kind of vision is actually a trick.
We can understand that Anan, who was too embarrassed before, talked about the madness of the young man, but it is not appropriate to discuss the technical progress. Especially for the Chinese film circle that loves to take shortcuts and does not like to work hard, it is a bad demonstration.
This article is from WeChat public account:GQ Report (ID:GQREPORT), author: Plum wind, edit: He Tao, cover: the movie” Gemini killer “