novelraw Chapter 189
Chapter 189
"OUCH!"
Nick couldn't help but let out a cry of pain. It turned out that Emily, who was beside him, was too fascinated by watching the movie, so she pinched his arm hard before she knew it, and pulled out a few bristling hairs.
Emily heard Nick's low cry, and said sorry without turning her head. The whole person's mind was still immersed in the picture of the movie, but she just subconsciously rubbed a few hands on Nick's arm, more like wanting to Dry your palms that are sweaty from nervousness...
Nick felt very helpless, but he didn't stop Emily from staring at her, because most of the people in the auditorium were like this at this time, weren't they?
"Another close-up."
"I bet the damn director absolutely loves her, he and his camera are swooning over her!"
As a professional film critic, Peter Travers is one of the few who can distract himself while watching movies and conceive his own film reviews.
Obviously, he is not as invested in the film as deep as the average audience, because many times he needs to maintain his professional standards and relative objectivity-only relative objectivity.
It is true that Josie Horton's performance just now is absolutely wonderful. The actress's control over the fine muscles of the face is amazing, and the director of the movie did not hesitate to show this to the audience.
The interested pupils, the rising and falling corners of the mouth, and the calm and steady gentle expression convey not "ruthlessness", but pure "evil" and "madness" - as well as the ultimate "quietness".
"Evil" may come from the sufferings the heroine has suffered in the past, but it may also be the influence of her morbid personality disorder. In her world, there is no morality and no restraint. The strong go to heaven, and the weak deserve to die;
"Crazy" is due to the heroine's talents and abilities far beyond ordinary people, including her self-taught in crime, most of what she wants can be easily obtained;
"Quietness" is the stillness in which Mount Tai collapses in front of it without falling down.
Unlike ordinary crimes of passion, Iris has always been emotionally stable, feigned and planned, and for most of the movie, she is more of a sympathetic victim than a perpetrator.
But the interestingness of the story lies in the reversal after the reversal, and the controversy and discussion that each character in the movie can bring.
It has to be said that this is definitely the career highlight of Josie Horton's career, because this role, through her interpretation, has two qualities that many actresses dream of: reason and madness.
Rationality means that the character gives people a sense of wisdom. Compared with pure force contest, there is a sense of effortless crushing in brain confrontation, and the elegance that always exists in her body - the elegant halo that comes with the elite class —and a sense of unapproachable mystery.
It gives her performance an ascetic allure.
And madness is not hysterical roaring or ferocity, she is always a very quiet person, quiet, calm, and lonely.But there is an unbridled wildfire growing in her heart, lurking in the silent place, sparks start a prairie fire.
"Iris" is destined to be a controversial character full of destructive beauty.
I'm afraid after tonight, Hollywood will have another classic femme fatale image, not so sexy or slutty, lacking a strong sexual life drive, but looking warm, kind and a little weak, in fact, more indifferent than anyone else.
"The key is that pure vulnerability in her." Vincent Camby thought slowly, enjoying the end of the movie, "She always makes people feel that she can be saved, in a way. , which completely satisfies some of the romantic fantasies of people."
"But the director's problem is also obvious—"
"Ernest Dawson is too partial to his heroine, which is also one of the disadvantages of many actresses' works, that is, movies are often keen to discover the charm of the heroine, while ignoring the shaping of other characters. "
"For example, the actor played by Russell Crowe is generally a downcast and confused wild dog. He has been walking on the edge of the dark life according to his instincts, until love arose in his heart, and tenderness came into play. And it was born. This line can be dug deeper, the actor Russell Crowe... oh my god, this is it?"
In the movie, the check-in announcement in the waiting hall sounds.
Iris took her luggage and passed by the distraught Bentley, without even stopping in her footsteps, like a light and flying bird, heading towards the free world.
Because of lowering his head, Bentley's originally firm face fell into a shadow. The unacceptable but expected result filled his heart with chaotic emotions. There were violent struggles and gloomy pain in his empty eyes. .
In the end, he just raised his eyes and silently looked at the back of Iris leaving.
This seems to have come to an end.
A string of pure and transparent zither sounds sounded outside the faded and darkened screen, like a calm and gentle trickle.
Subconsciously, one can imagine the figure of a young woman at the piano, and the mountains and rivers depicted by her emotions.
The music she played was so moving.
Not with that ostentatious, impassioned arrogance.
It is a kind of childlike ignorance, a heartbeat like the first love, as if you have found your true place of belonging for the first time in your life, peaceful and joyful.
Perhaps only in the performance of this piece, Iris is truly free.
The soft and serene instrumental tone fully demonstrates the tranquility of the valley. The piano deduces a cello-like crooning with symphonic thinking, and even the ethereal and ethereal vocals can be faintly heard.
Then, the melody gradually became tense, and the end of the music was about to come like a storm.
It was at this moment that almost all the moviegoers who were about to leave the screening hall were disturbed by a bang of a gunshot—people thought that the movie had finished showing.
Everyone was collectively pressed the pause button, and every pair of eyes couldn't help but return to the re-lit big screen. Obviously, the screen that was supposed to scroll the job list has not been drawn to an end, and the story has not yet reached the real end.
For the first time, the tone of this film is so bright and lively.
The bright golden sun, the clean to cloudless blue sky, the brand new Boeing airliner, the busy tarmac and the check-in staff in warm uniforms and smiling at Iris, it all seemed light and dreamy.
But following the perspective of the heroine Iris, she slowly lowered her head in surprise, only to see blood spattering from her chest, polluting the Swiss air ticket she held in her hand.
Screams, cries for help, cursing, footsteps...even the sound of the piano, all the sounds stopped abruptly, Iris' eyelids became heavier and heavier, and the Obermann Valley that belonged to her could no longer be reached.
The screen really went dark.
After three seconds of silence, the lights in the auditorium came on, the credits and Radiohead's "How I Made My Millions" prelude appeared at the same time, and then the British male voice singing in a low voice made people drowsy and wanted to sink to the bottom of the sea immediately, just like Let it fall as the lyrics say.
So depressing.
Whether it's the movie, the ending, or the final soundtrack.
After watching "The Perfect Victim" on the premiere day, the theater hall was full of wailing.
"Iris is definitely not dead!"
"The leading actor is such a scumbag!"
Emily, who was hiccupping from crying, hugged a strange girl. Her boyfriend Nick held popcorn and Coke that hadn't touched much, and looked helpless and embarrassed.
However, even more embarrassing than Nick was Gavin who was sitting next to Nick before.
His two little friends were weeping loudly regardless of their appearance, and each of them was holding one of his arms, especially Hesis's tears and snot were all wiped on his woolen jacket found in a second-hand store.
Heck!
Why can't he leave these two idiots behind?
Gavin rolled his eyes helplessly toward the ceiling of the hall, tried his best to stretch out his right hand and pinched the bridge of his nose, and then prepared to resign himself to sending the two immature children home.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they heard that they were going to leave, Hesis and Brady would immediately come back to life with full blood, and they both got rid of Gavin to talk to the stranger in the hall, with no trace of the heartache a few minutes ago appeared on their radiant faces. And the mood for high fives and hugs, as if celebrating a time spent in a screening room.
Gavin, who had a faint headache, became more and more helpless, but accidentally saw Nick with two buckets of popcorn in his left hand and a glass of Coke in his right. The two brothers and sisters exchanged glances, and shrugged tacitly.
Gavin, who was alone, encountered a new situation.
"Hi." A young girl came up to greet him.
"Hi." Gavin bought a can of coffee from the vending machine, gave the girl a habitual smile, opened the coffee and took a sip.
"My name is Sally," Sally said. "You don't look like someone who came to this movie because of the heroine."
"Oh, so what kind of person do you think I am?" Gavin kept the corners of his mouth curved, and leaned against the wall with a cup of coffee, "Gavin, my name."
Sally continued, "You look more like Cool Guy that no one loves."
Gavin just smiled noncommittal.
After he finished drinking the coffee in his hand, he said: "No, you are wrong, now I am a fan of the heroine."
Gavin threw the coffee can into the trash can, and when he returned to the theater hall, he went to the investigator of the data company and filled out the questionnaire on "The Perfect Victim" carefully, especially in the column of free play. I wrote a lot.
After finishing writing, he was still a little dissatisfied.
So he asked the investigator: "Why isn't director Ernest Dawson's name listed in the option of 'Who attracts you the most in the movie'? I want to circle both him and Josie Horton."
"What?" The investigator remained polite.
"Ernest Dawson, the director of this movie." Gavin added "from Ernest Dawson's camera" in front of Josie Horton's name on it while speaking, "I have to say, she is completely different in other movies. Even though many people think that Josie Horton in "Titanic" is already beautiful, but I think "The Perfect Victim" is the most charming."
The investigator first took the completed questionnaire, and then murmured angrily, "Listen, buddy, if you need to share your movie-watching experience, or even just want to scold the director, go to the hall outside where ghosts and wolves are howling." , instead of spoiling me here - heck, I haven't even seen the movie myself!"
"Then you won't be disappointed with it." Gavin said, "Good luck, buddy."