时光网 News "Goldfinch" based on Donna Tate's Pulitzer Prize novel is 149 minutes long. It may not be the longest movie of 2019, but after watching it, audiences are prone to this illusion , Because the plot is too protracted and boring.
"Look at ourselves, almost like everyone else," said a character halfway through the film "Goldfinch". This should have been an emotional moment when two young people who hadn't seen each other for so many years since they were invited, because they both realized each other's maturity.
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However, it turned out that this has become the most representative and most problematic shot of the film, making this movie seem like a collection of various ideas carefully collected. Overemphasizing metaphors and ignoring true and believable moving stories, "Goldfinch" does not fully express a three-dimensional character who is experiencing difficulties in life. The
movie "Goldfinch" tells the story: After a terrorist bombing at a museum in New York, Theo Decker lost his mother in the incident (played by Oakes Fogley in his childhood, and Ansel Ay as an adult Ergot) was adopted by a family of wealthy classmates. The hostess Matriarch Samantha Barbour (Nicole Kidman) takes good care of Theo.
But when he left Theo with his mother's long-time alcoholic father Larry (Luke Wilson) temporarily sober, and brought his new girlfriend Xandra (Sarah Paulson) to his new home in Las Vegas, everything It's worrying. There, Theo met Boris (Fin Wuffard), a Ukrainian immigrant. Like Theo, Boris felt like an outsider in this vast and hot desert area.
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straddles the secret of "Goldfinch" and also the origin of the title: On the day of the terrorist attack, the young Theo brought the priceless century-old painting "Goldfinch" unscathed museum. An antique dealer who was fatally injured in the attack asked him to do so, and it also combined Theo with the aforementioned gentleman’s partner Hobie (Jeffrey White) and his injured nephew (Aimee Laurence and Ashley). · Cornings) connected.
In "Brooklyn", director John Crowley portrays a particular space-time texture very beautifully. Although "Goldfinch" explores some of the same themes, it still feels artificial and too rigid. From a technical point of view, this film is indeed excellent, and sometimes even makes people enjoy it. Art director K.K. Barrett and photographer Roger Dickens did create the environment of Nevada, which was scorched by the scorching sun, and contrasted its fashion with the noble New York. Theo started out as an outsider in New York, and slowly became one of them.
But everything in the film seems unnatural, "Goldfinch" seriously lacks the kind of narrative driving force that pulls the audience forward, and it fails to make everyone care about the story too much. In the vast majority of the 149-minute film, there is no sense of temperature or tension—it seems that Theo's secret is not afraid of being discovered or revealed. The
film slowly unfolds from the character introduction, flashing back and forth between the young Theo and the older one. Screenwriter Peter Strauhan stuffed the indispensable turning point of this story into the last 30-35 minutes, which caused the audience to be pulled out of New York and came to Amsterdam—this will make audiences unfamiliar with the original work. Laughed, even shrugged.
To put it simply, "Goldfinch" is a typical adaptation failure, mainly because it is not suitable for the movie format. Tate’s writing style is somewhat poetic-her prose is like lyrics, which resonates deep in her heart. This style, coupled with the exquisite characteristics of the "Goldfinch" novel, and the exploration of sadness, identity and belonging themes, makes this story more suitable for a limited drama, which is as long as six to eight hours, which is better than an adaptation. Independent movies are better. There are still some very beautiful shots in the
film-most notably Theo confessed his unrequited love for Pippa. However, due to the rush of the plot, the depth of the character establishment is not very clear, "Goldfinch" did not have time to carefully explore Theo's inner world, And did not make it clear how he was inextricably linked with the lifeless "Goldfinch" painting.
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in the process of watching it makes people feel that this movie will never be finished-like a movie prison, the audience is locked in that airtight, self-satisfied cage, forced People believe that the tormenting metaphorical poetic narrative in the film is a profound artistic expression, but they do not realize that this is just a long and boring failure.
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