[US Entertainment] From web dramas to Oscars

Chapter 72

Silence, there is endless silence after clicking a screening.

In fact, the plot of the movie "Buried Alive" is very simple.To put it really simply, a man working in Iraq was kidnapped by terrorists and buried alive in a coffin.After he discovered that he was buried alive, he tried his best to get through the phone and then asked others for help.The man who called for help had his company, but was turned down.There is the U.S. government, but the U.S. government shirks it.At the same time, the kidnappers also used him to threaten the U.S. government and his family to threaten him with self-harm, and recorded the incident in order to destroy the U.S. government's impression in the public mind.After all, what face does a country that can't even save its own people call it the number one in the world?The United States was also panicked by the actions of the terrorists, so it called the protagonist to tell him that they were rescuing him.Digging hard for him.However, in the end, when the protagonist was full of hope but was in danger, he said sorry...

Lu Xun once said a word: The so-called tragedy is to destroy beautiful things for others to see.

And "Buried Alive" happens to be such a movie.The mood of the protagonist is like a roller coaster, from panic to hope, then to disappointment, to hope again, then to despair, then to panic, then hopeless, then hope again, and finally... Wait until you hear that voice When I'm sorry, no one can understand what the protagonist's feelings are.

There are no more ups and downs in life than this.Coupled with Fopper's superb acting skills, people have a strong sense of substitution for the movie story.So, "Buried Alive" became popular!

Of course, this hotness is a small-scale hotness.Just like "Memento", those who like him regard "Buried Alive" as a classic.People who don't like him don't like him anyway.A week after "Buried Alive" was released, discussions about "Buried Alive" began to explode.Each newspaper has its own point of view, but each point of view is so well-founded.As people often say: There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people.Various film critics in the media have endless explanations for "Buried Alive".

"Ridiculous movie! Don't the two studios have a budget?"

——"Global Daily"

First of all, I want to say that this movie has some good points, such as the buried suffocation that Fopper shows.Here, we would like to thank Fopper for his wonderful efforts. Perhaps this is why our Venice best actor confidently said on the Oscar podium that he has the ability to be brilliant at next year's Oscars.However, what is the most important thing for a movie to be good or bad?It's the plot, the whole movie all I saw was an actor struggling in a box and he cost me two hours of my life watching a ridiculously pale picture.Maybe that's why Luc Besson hasn't made a movie for nearly six years.He couldn't find the movie investment budget.In other words, the picture in his head was just frozen under a background.

"Best satirical movie of the year! This is Buried!"

—— "Film Observer"

After six years, Luc Besson once again analyzed a very good satirical movie for us.Why is it satirical film instead of film noir or something?Because this movie clearly explains the ugliness of human nature and government.

There is such a segment in the details of the movie. When the male protagonist kept asking for help from the US government, the government asked some questions in a serious manner, but did not make any substantive actions. At that time, the voice of the U.S. government was the one who really cared, because it was worried that once such a video was spread, it would have a very adverse impact on the U.S. government in terms of international affairs.

同

At that time, the US government said on the phone that it was trying to beg him, and there was a sound of digging sand on the phone, and the hero's hope was ignited again.But I don't know if you have noticed that when the main character is on the screen, there is no such sound around him.Now that he has understood the coffin.It shows that the distance between the excavator and the hero is very close.But like this, the male protagonist didn't hear a sound.This shows that no rescue team came to rescue the male protagonist, because the male protagonist is just an ordinary person, and it is not worth their waste of energy.

And there are many other manifestations of the male protagonist’s underground class status. For example, before the male protagonist finally called the US government, he first called many people.But for the hero's dilemma.Their attitude is indifferent.The film analyzes a society that has grown apathetic.

The tragedy of the hero is used to explain the cruelty of life and society.This society is chaotic, and there is always hope in despair.Also, people are using all sorts of things to cover up their indifference and the hopelessness of society.It seems that the U.S. government is carrying out its own lies until the end, deceiving people to hope, but the final choice is to cruelly give up the hero.The last few sentences of sorry, plus the hero's sentence: "Okay." It fully expresses the hopeless emotion of people in a desperate world.In the end, the hero fell from the peak of hope to the valley of disappointment. This is really a wonderful irony!

"Actor-level acting skills! Fopper tells you what the truth of society is!"

--"New York Times"

After watching the movie, many people think that this is a very classic movie that satirizes the country and society.But I have a different opinion. I think "Buried Alive" is a movie that satirizes people themselves.

First of all, the hero put the straw of his own survival on the mobile phone.It is true that this method may be able to get a little help by contacting the outside world, but it is definitely not very effective. After all, is it a good way to let the people in Iraq in the United States locate their mobile phones?

Therefore, under normal strange road conditions, you should find a way to escape by yourself at this time.Take a look at the tools he has, a mobile phone, a flashlight, the rope that binds him, two fluorescent sticks, a sharp knife that can cut off his own fingers, a metal wine bottle...

The emergence of these tools can completely save themselves.The male protagonist encountered a great opportunity and didn't grasp it.Why the hand can save itself.It's still an issue with the phone.In the movie, the hero can talk to people outside.You have to know that the collected signal cannot spread too far under the influence of land occlusion.So that is to say, the geographical location where the hero is buried is actually not too far from the real ground.Probably only a few feet away.The maximum extent will not exceed one meter in thickness.And this is also the normal buried height.Even if it was buried alive, the real condition is that the buried place will be higher than other places, forming a hillside shape.But please pay attention.What exactly is the hero buried? !It's sand!Not thick soil.

Sand is known to loosen more easily and therefore break through more easily.Therefore, as long as the male protagonist does not go up after passing the broken coffin board, he can largely reduce the sand blocking through his own coffin board.What's more, the space of the coffin where the protagonist is held is still so large, the male protagonist is lying in it, and there is even a distance for him to move around.But what did the hero do? He pinned his hope of survival on others, as if most people in this society were encountering difficulties, and they always asked for help from others to overcome difficulties.But he didn't realize that as long as he could, he himself would be able to tide over the difficulties...

"This is "Buried Alive", and this is life!"

——"Weekly Analysis"

Godard said: "A film only needs a girl and a gun." At this time, Luc Besson told us: "A film only needs a man and a coffin."

In the claustrophobic space, the broad social picture and human metaphors released by the tension are far beyond imagination, so that the depressive and hopeless emotional impact it brings is unprecedentedly powerful.When a person wakes up, he finds himself buried in a coffin in the desert.He only has a mobile phone, a small flashlight and a few other things at hand. In this suffocating space, he must find a way to survive.The fate of the protagonist is as ups and downs as the universe.But in the end it all comes down to darkness...

Life is a burial alive, everyone is lingering in the dark, claustrophobic and suffocating predicament, struggling to survive, while the rigid system and selfish and indifferent interpersonal relationship are more chilling executioners than terrorists, placing people in the A colder despair.Such themes are greatly exaggerated in the film:

I don’t know if you have noticed that a sentence is repeated many times in the film: Who cares whether you live or die?

As the saying goes, in this society where interests outweigh the sky, no one really cares about you.why?Not because of the individual selfishness and weakness of human beings.Not because of anything else.It's just because of the hopelessness of my social status.It's like the place where the protagonist himself is buried, underground.Most people in this world are like this, living under the darkness with only a little bit of light, waiting for the final burial in the endless darkness.If you want to escape, you can only work hard on your own.Because there is no one who is the savior.

The only person who can save yourself is yourself.

For a period of time, "Buried Alive" seemed to have attracted the attention of most media.Similarly, Fopper's popularity has also increased.And at such a moment. High School Musical is out...