After the large-scale screening, I went to the cinema again. Knowing the plot, this time I can focus on some details that I couldn't see or notice last time, and I can also think about the whole movie. Some of them feel stronger and are added at the beginning.
On the whole, the strongest feeling is Natalie Portman's superb performance. I remember at the end of the Lost drama, I heard American commentators praise Terry O'Quinn for his excellent performance as John Locke. The saying is "His eyes changed" when he plays the black smoke monster, which is actually a very vivid saying.
It is not difficult to read the lines well, and it can be corrected if the actions are wrong. However, it is very difficult to perform the right eyes, and it is extremely difficult to perform two different expressions and eyes. People who have seen it should be able to feel the change. From the middle-aged loser who was helpless before to the Millennium Johnson who was cunning and unscrupulous in order to achieve his goal, he must thoroughly understand the mentality of both of them to be so accurate.
And Natalie Portman's performance in this movie is similar to it. In the final performance of the black swan, the reason why it is so powerful and appealing is that besides the visual effects of music and dance, her demeanor and eyes are also extremely amazing and penetrating, and her momentum is full of confidence and magic.
Looking back this time, I saw Nina's passive Nuo Nuo, totally ashamed and scared, but the shock was even stronger. She interpreted both so accurately and vividly that she had to feel the magic of the 28-year-old girl. Besides, every time she faces the mirror alone in the dressing room of the bathroom, it is an extremely difficult emotional performance, and the audience can see her feelings which are usually forced to suppress in front of people and released when she is alone. In this movie, a very close long shot is used to shoot this kind of scene, which is actually the best way to test acting skills.
And she did it perfectly and it was better every time. The most classic one is the phone call she made to her mother after she got the role of Swan Queen: on the one hand, she was happy and excited to choose the result. on the other hand, she looked back on this bitter, wronged and hard process, and she couldn't help crying. at the same time, she was a little nervous about whether she could play well … In just one minute, her face perfectly explained thousands of feelings that could not be expressed in this language. The audience saw that it was really a little girl in the world hiding alone in the bathroom for the success she had worked hard for many years, and her feelings broke out completely. These tens of seconds were far beyond perfection. But it wouldn't be too surprising to see her perform like Leon when she was 12 years old
Then, as I said before, people who are interested like me will go back to the cinema and watch it again, trying to figure out which clips are illusions and which are real scenes. But even after reading it for the second time, I still can't give a definite answer to whether some parts are true or not.
For example, to find out what happened to Beth, the movie itself seems to have no view to justify all the details, leaving the audience with a certain space for analysis and imagination. If you look at it as a suspense movie, this seems to be a little insufficient, but I believe that the director himself has not positioned it as a suspense movie, but actually it is more like a modern literary movie from some angles. I don't know the precise definition of modern literary movies, but what is certain is that this slight deficiency has little impact on the overall effect of the movie, and it may be slightly less when re-reading: "Ah! I see. . ”
But if the director weakens the appeal even a little in order to cater to the perfect puzzle effect, it will certainly do more harm than good. It makes sense to think about modern literary movies in this way
The last point was put forward by a friend of mine who studied music. He felt that the overall rhythm of the movie was the best among the works he had ever seen, and he did a very good job of connecting the past with the future. In this kind of movie, which does not rely on suspense to solve puzzles, his technique of thriller and suspense seems unnecessary, but it is actually carefully arranged by the director and screenwriter.
The purpose is to lead the audience from beginning to end, and often switch back and forth between tightness and relaxation, which is not as dull as most literary movies, nor as frequent as horror movies. Instead, it gradually absorbed the audience's attention, so that the audience became more and more engaged and focused in two hours, until the atmosphere reached a high point and the story was brought to a climax.
At this time, the audience's psychology was thoroughly broken down, and their hearts were most strongly shocked when they were most involved, with excellent results. This is a very clever psychological technique. My friend told me that many people will try to use this technique in music composition. This also explains why many people think that the plot of this movie is not complicated enough, but it has a strong appeal. It also explains why the effect of watching in cinema is much better than downloading.