"Brooklyn Secrets"
The two-week New York Film Festival ended last weekend. The highly anticipated popular films and filmmakers have all appeared and met with enthusiastic New York audiences. The closing film of the festival-the new film "Brooklyn Secret" , directed and acted by Edward Norton , began its official screening at Lincoln Center.
may be due to the long time span of the film festival, so everyone has become tired. There are not many media friends who came to watch "The Brooklyn Secret" today, and there are still more tickets on sale at the audience screening in the evening. . But what I have to say is that after two and a half hours of watching the film, the book’s small note selfishly believes that the film is one of the three films in the opening, midfield, and closing films of this festival ("The Irishman", "Marriage Story", you can check the previous book New York Film Festival report) favorite one.
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The story is set in New York in the 1950s, "Brooklyn Secret" tells about a detective Noel (Edward Norton) who suffers from Tourette Syndrome, in his mentor and boss After his detective Frank (Bruce Willis) is killed, he is determined to launch an investigation and embark on the road to find the truth. The plot of the story is tortuous. Behind a murder is the entangled rights struggle. It is also the complicated social environment that was surging before the race movement in the 1960s.
The detective part presented in "Brooklyn Secret Case" is actually not that complicated. The interlocking story line can only ensure that it becomes a qualified detective movie. really makes this film out of sight. It is the core of the period drama. The "Brooklyn" in the film title of
refers to Knoll's nickname, and it also refers to the location of the story, Brooklyn in the 1950s. At that time, the development of Brooklyn was lagging behind, and it was not closely connected with the island of Manhattan. Most of the people living here were poor African Americans and Hispanics.
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In order to further develop Brooklyn, the Municipal Construction Bureau and real estate developers need to relocate the indigenous people and then sell or develop their land. Because of the existence of apartheid and racial discrimination, coupled with the complete inequality of rights, such land development is often accompanied by violence and inequality at the same time. Therefore, under such a special background, there will be homicides in the "Brooklyn Secret", and there will be interlocking, downward pressure on government secrets and social scandals.
So, although the main line of the movie is Knoll's investigative journey, we followed him, and while digging out the truth of the incident a little bit, we unearthed the true face of American society in the 1950s beyond the incident itself.
So we saw that this film is not just a detective drama. Under the shell of a detective drama, director Norton has the freedom to complete the theme and narration of a period drama that needs to be completed.
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And the most lamentable thing is that in addition to the zeitgeist and angularity, the "face project" of this movie is also in place. Norton has restored many New York landmarks through perfect special effects technology, coupled with his unique soundtrack, fascinating lens language and color scheme, the era of New York in the 1950s is vividly on paper. With
lining and topping, the audience is easily immersed in this rich New York landscape painting under the background of the passionate jazz music, which makes people feel that the two and a half hours of viewing the movie seems like a white horse.
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In addition to the brilliant content of the film, Norton also contributed another classic screen image of himself in the film. In every scene of , you can feel his attitude towards this Intentional interpretation of the role. As the screenwriter, director and actor of the film, Norton once again showed us his admirable artistic talent and dedication to the film industry.
met Norton himself, who was about to go to the stage to do a question and answer on the file where Xiao Ji went to the toilet. He looked at me shyly. After preparing for nearly ten years and finishing such an excellent movie, Uncle Norton at is still so humble and sincere. I really have to sigh.Under his charm.
The following is a quick review of other films of this New York Film Festival:
La Gomera
, La Gomera
An undercover policeman falls in love with a gangster girl. The plot direction is confusing at the beginning, and it becomes weaker and weaker after halftime. Guessed the scene of the desperate mandarin duck. Generally speaking, it is a well-regarded love spy movie. Except for the mixing of several narrative lines in the first half, which successfully created a sense of conflict in the spy war scene, the whole movie of does not have many surprises . In the film, I have thoughts about the choice of music, but I always feel that I owe it. In addition, the part of learning whistle language in the plot is very interesting. Watching the male and female protagonists finally blow their whistle through the window, the romantic atmosphere is full. The montage of the first half of Siby
is really well done. It fully achieves the novelization of the film. The constant flashbacks and the switching between characters make people think that they are reading a stream of consciousness psychoanalytic novel. But the second half of the chapter collapsed very quickly. Basically, after the heroine "entered" her own novel and interacted with those characters, not only the plot but also the editing were obviously messed up. Of course, it may also be because too many laughs delayed the narrative and affected the film's potential for thinking about art forms.
Agnès on Varda Varda par Agnès
If you can have a perfect life, it must be a life accompanied by movies. Through this warm and moving documentary (or a master class), together with Grandma Varda, we re-walked her journey of film art creation over the years, and watched how she passed 35mm film lenses and documentaries. The lens, the lens of the film camera and the lens of the visual arts capture and explore the warmth and beauty of the world. Living, creating, and having fun, after a long journey in life, Grandma Varda bid us a deep but sudden goodbye.
Pain and Glory
I remembered his childhood when he was still old, Pedro's autobiographical drama, every frame and every second is infused with his most sincere feelings for the movie. Although the old director in the movie is tortured by illness, when he always remembers his childhood, the bright village, the hardworking mother, and the midsummer when his lust began, the time will become brighter. After watching the whole movie, there is no complaint about aging. What you can see is an old man with a clear heart, combing his life and looking back at the touching moments of his journey. There will be setbacks caused by aging, but as long as he can still create movies, the fire in his heart will continue to burn.
