Unusually intelligent Jim Carrey movie - a provocative and prescient media satire. Puts Big Brother and the current spate of docu-soaps firmly into perspective
Truman Burbank (Carrey is a happily married insurance salesman living a normal life in a small American town so perfect that he has never felt the need or desire to leave it. He has a loving wife (Linney, and a loyal best buddy (Emmerich. Life is good until one morning a stage light drops from the skies and shatters on the ground perilously close to him. It is the trigger that sets him questioning everything around him. What is behind the facades of the buildings he has never entered? Why do people seem to be travelling around him in a perfectly synchronized loop? What is going on outside his home-town? Truman is, it turns out, the unwitting star of a top-rated 24-hour-a-day TV docu-soap.
Under the careful critical scrutiny to which it has been subjected, the plot turns out not to be watertight. This is to miss the point of what is a hilarious and breathtakingly conceived satire which also allows Carrey to edge away from broad comedy.
The Truman Show is also oddly moving and has, as you would expect from a Weir film, a pronounced metaphysical slant with Ed Harris playing the show"s archly named producer/creator Christof.
Verdict
One of the cinematic highlights of the 1990s, The Truman Show is up there with Weir"s very best work.
When I first saw 'The Truman Show' I came out of the theatre amazed. This is your first clue that you are watching something different from your normal Jim Carrey movie. I love the dialogue, camera shot, performances, direction, music, and running time of this movie. There is nothing I would do to change it. I came away from 'The Truman Show' feeling inspired which is the goal of good filmmaking Jim Carrey was outstanding as Truman, underplaying him, not making him too comic or too dramatic, but giving true sincerity when asked. He deserved an Oscar nomination. Ed Harris has always been a good actor, but in this movie he's a great actor. He plays Christof with such arrogance and bullheadedness that you don't know whether he's helping or destroying Truman. He and the director, Peter Weir, deserved their Oscar nods.
Weir, who directed the great 'Witness', uses different camera angles to make you feel like you're actually watching 'The Truman Show' and not a movie. He ends it before you get tired of the concept and helped Carrey and Harris give immaculate performances. Andrew Niccol script is a real star in the movie too because of it's inventiveness and ingenuity. Overall, 'The Truman Show' is what I like to call a true American classic.
这是一部关于如何尊重生命和死亡的电影。主人公小林大悟原是东京一家乐团的大提琴演奏家,想要成就一番事业的他,在经历了4个月的管弦乐演奏后,得到的却是“乐团解散”的噩耗与购买乐器的高额债务。迫不得已,大悟与妻子美香回到了故乡,过起了清贫的日子。不久,在一则有着“年龄不限,高薪保,按实际劳动时间计费,旅行助理,NK代理商”等字眼的广告的误导下,不明真相的他成为了专门把死者送往安乐土的入殓师。
从扮死者拍入殓指南DV开始,到第一次近距离接触死者——一个去世两周已经腐烂的独居老太太。他的生活从人生顶端跌入悲惨低谷,每天带着疲惫的身躯回到家中的他,哪怕看见饭桌上妻子煮熟的肉也会想吐;更因为对美香难以启齿,最初的他只能独自在痛苦中挣扎……但渐渐地,在性情古怪、工作认真的社长佐佐木的指导下,他慢慢喜欢上了这份特殊的工作,明白了其实每一个生命都是有其独特价值的。这样的“死亡仪式”,能够满足死者生前的心愿,也缓冲了生者对死者离去的悲痛,并为死者的家人留下最后一眼的“美丽”记忆——这,就是这份工作真正的意义所在。
这是一部有着积极向上意义的电影,尽管没有谈到宗教,可同样让人感觉有宗教一样的平和与神圣。看着入殓师带着严肃又宁静的神情,严格地按照特定的程序,虔诚地给死者洗浴,穿衣,化妆,让人感到:死亡并不可怕——那不是归去,而是启程。也许,入殓工作对于死者毫无意义,只是给生者将难以言出的情感释放出来的唯一机会。既然人们都觉得生如夏花一般绚烂,那死也理应像秋叶一样静美。所以,入殓仪式就是生者向死者表达的最终又最重的敬意,入殓师也正是因为了解这一切,才总是能以其对死者的尊重在最后一刻赢得人们的`尊敬与对这个行业的改观。
整部影片的色调淡雅,忧郁,沉静,内敛——浅黄的草,银灰的树林,潺潺的流水,茫茫的雪山,带着典型的日本式的审美将情节和对白时而沉重、使人热泪盈眶;时而又轻松幽默、令人忍俊不禁衬托地淋漓尽致。在绝大多数电影中,死亡常常被表现为血腥和暴力的结果,只有这部片子,才能让人在认真地思考、感受死亡之余,还能从中得到生活的激励及对生命的敬畏,这是来自内心深处的感动,而不仅仅是悲怆和痛苦。
最后,我想引用片中的一句意味深长的话作为结尾:“使已经冰冷的遗体复生,授予其永恒之美。那是准确的,冷静的,一种至高无上的爱。在最后的时候送别故人,静谧地,那一举一动都是如此的优美……”。
《刺客信条》不单单只是一个人怎么成为刺客的故事,儿时的邓肯亲眼目睹了自己的生父与兄弟被人***害的过程。他也从一个吃喝不愁的贵族沦为了一个乞丐,他当时的脑海中只有复仇,白天他街头乞讨,晚上***人劫财,然而在一个晚上他袭击了前任刺客大师艾吉奥,当时艾吉奥已经是一位65岁的老人。当他看到蓬头垢面的肯威站在自己面前时,这位老人却慈祥地笑了,肯威在他的引导下成为了一个刺客。一步步完成自我的救赎。
而从电影制作方面看:
其一,刺客信条内容虽然设计的大费周章,天马行空,但是核心却是隐藏的主线,需要观众发掘,说明有思想内涵。
其二,采用新式思路延伸电影情节,具有创新性。
其三,内容犯了最大的禁忌,不尊重历史,对历史有模糊的行为。
其四,大规模打斗情节的缺失使其不具备大片品质。这部电影对不知情的观众可能不错,但是熟知刺客信条的观众就难以接受改动了。
其五,最炫酷的还是IMAX开始的倒计时……能让一只鹰都飞的如此卡顿的大片也是少见。
特效的问题我觉得大概不需要我吐槽了,如此不精良不走心的.特效制作也是难得一见。
整部电影都在立志于给没玩儿过刺客信条游戏的同学们捋清楚故事背景。
当然,作为一个在许多许多许多年前玩儿过的伪爱好者,对于整个故事的背景设定,我也不太清楚是个神马玩意儿,因为早就忘记了。但是在两个小时里尝试讲明白那么多事情,也得亏导演能压缩,但是又压不到点儿上。
而今天的我们有着衣来伸手饭来张口的日子,我们是否想过这些日子早晚会失去,就像主角肯威一样,贵族的生活在一夜之间化为乌有,自己的亲人全部撒手人寰,书中的每一个刺客都有自己的悲惨生活,这也告诉我们幸福的生活来之不易,也学会珍惜眼前的一切这也是艾吉奥为什么帮助肯威的原因,他不希望法国的每一个人都有和自己一样的悲惨遭遇,他组建刺客联盟是为了与贵族宣战,与邪恶宣战,65岁高龄的他亲自领导了巴士底狱进攻,并率先冲进了监狱大门,当他倒下的那一刻,身后数百万巴黎民众咆哮着冲进了监狱……
读了这个故事,我学会了要像艾吉奥一样,为了国家,坚守自己的责任;为了和平,献出自己的青春甚至一生;为了父母的照顾,拿出自己应有的努力,才能使自己活得更加光彩有力。
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