Chapter 725

"It's not another 'my left foot', it's more like another 'out of reach'

This is the title of a review by Pulitzer winner Roger Ebert.

"Out of reach" is a French film, which has just been released this year, breaking the record of "Titanic" for 13 years in a dark horse manner, and becoming the new box office champion of French film history; At the same time, it also received the unanimous praise of French film critics, and entered the award season of the United States with a crushing posture, becoming the hot seed player of the best foreign language film.

After the uproar in the early hours of the morning and the ups and downs of news reports, as a film critic, Roger still blocks all off-site information, conscientiously focuses on the work itself, and expresses his views objectively and sincerely. It can be seen from the title of the film review that Roger gives affirmation to "anti-cancer me" in such an analogy way!

"Just like some other recent movies about diseases, Gus Van Sant's" restlessness ", Olivier Nakache's and Eric Toledano's" inaccessibility ", and" cancer fighting me "focus on a period of earth shaking changes and turbulence in life in a comic way, with light humor The touching and delicate brushwork describes the chemical reaction in the process of life upheaval.

Can it be as touching as my left foot? Perhaps not, but it presents a different face of life, so that we can re-examine ourselves, but also re-examine life. To be sure, the more we know about cancer, the less we want to have anything to do with it. "

It is still a typical Roger style, not to judge the merits of a work alone, but to place the work in the environment of the same type of film and give a relatively objective evaluation.

"For a comedy, the pattern of 'anti-cancer me' is so small that it only takes Adam Lerner, the hero, to tell the story of one day when Adam was suddenly told that he had cancer.

The story is adapted from the personal experience of the screenwriter will lissel, which makes all the focus fall on Adam, without too much ambition and too much depth, but this is exactly the reason why the film is successful——

The film truly and delicately presents Adam's psychological changes, outstanding plot details and excellent character relationships, and pieces together the impact of cancer on life, from shallow to deep, from the surface to the inside, from the virtual to the real. What the audience sees is not an inspirational story of fighting against disease, but a real reflection of life: everyone is suffering from their own troubles.

As everyone knows, grief and mourning have five stages: denial, anger, argument, depression and acceptance.

But it's just words from the psychological level. Only when they really happen and experience, can we feel the weight of each stage. It's like a cage, trapping everyone in it. This is also the most brilliant part of will riiser's whole play.

Reesel set up such roles beside Adam: a scripted and step-by-step psychologist. From Adam, she learned the difference between books and reality. Not all things can be arranged or recorded; This is Adam's story, but she is immersed in her own sorrow, pain and struggle, as if she is the center of the world; The mother, who is too concerned and breathless, is careful in her words and deeds. Her illness is like a crystal that people have to take care of, so that Adam is pushed into a sterile space far away from daily life and trapped in the same place.

In addition, he pretends that he doesn't care, he pretends that there is nothing wrong, he pretends that the future still exists, but when he escapes to the end and has to face it, his inner loss and struggle create bloody wounds.

Three women and one man. Each character represents different factors in life, and then interacts with Adam to describe the impact of cancer on all aspects of life. Finally, it comes together with Adam, so that the audience can deeply and truly feel the strength and ferocity of the disease, which makes people gasp.

Adam, he experienced five stages of grief: denial, argument, depression, anger, acceptance. It may not be the normal order in psychology, but every moment in life is producing earth shaking changes, far... Far more turbulent than the limit that people's imagination can reach.

At the end of the movie, everyone began to think: how should we treat life? This is the subject left by the film.

Back to the genre of movies, comedy. Director Jonathan Levin chose the way of comedy to present the story, with humorous lines, slapstick dialogues, and Saturday night live jokes. The whole film is shrouded in the cold winter of Seattle, but reveals a light and warm sunshine, which is a quiet but serious way of presentation, and a joy but deep way of presentation, It gives the film a freshness and uniqueness similar to "500 days with summer".

This undoubtedly makes the film more viewable. A solid script makes people bright. The steady story, bright characters and delicate emotions are complemented by the banter humor. All of them are just right. Will lissel's brushwork is not only real but also funny. One second he is warmly touched, and the next he can't help laughing. The effect of this kind of smile with tears runs through all the time, It's a rare thing that the whole movie is made in one go.

It is worth mentioning that as the leading actor, Raleigh hall has given a refreshing comedy performance, showing his ability to control different types of films again, which is another great harvest of the film. After "crazy love", this is hall's second masterpiece in the award season, which continues the momentum of "buried alive" last year. Maybe we can expect more this year. "

Surprisingly, Roger put the weight of film review on the script, which is too rare for comedy movies.

Since Billy Wilder, there have been few witty and witty comedy scripts. Woody Allen is the only screenwriter in the contemporary American film world who can perfectly combine comedy with philosophy, comedy and irony. The vitality of such works seems to be withering. This is also one of the important reasons why in the past few years, such works as "sunny little beauty" and "Juno" have been warmly sought after by the college.

Now, it's an unknown screenwriter, an independent film produced at a low cost, and a relaxed and profound comedy. Does "anti cancer me" want to copy the miracle road of comedy's rise?

Roger finally gave a rating of 88 points, at the same time, he also gave "four stars" in the four-star Recommendation Index for the reason that "the first comedy performance of Langley Hall's career!"

The praise and admiration of this senior and authoritative film critic can be seen from this. However, despite focusing on the script, Roger inevitably mentions lanli at the end of the film review. Although the space is short, his love for lanli can be seen in the industry. Since "buried alive", Roger has been full of praise for this new generation actor. Now, it seems that lanli is still his favorite.

Roger's counterpart is Michael Phillips, a senior film critic of "Hollywood Reporter", who gave all the praise to lenley.

"Seth Logan, Anna Kendrick, angelica Houston, Bryce Dallas... This list of actors is undoubtedly interesting." Pineapple Express, "" one night belly, "" too bad "and other works make Logan the best comedian of the new generation; While "in the cloud" made Kendrick get his first Oscar nomination in his career, and their joining is bound to make "cancer fighting me" get a lot of attention.

In fact, the performances of Logan and Kendrick are excellent, and their effortless and handy performances complement the style of the film. However, the weight, highlights and depth of the whole film are completely supported by Langley hall, the representative of the new generation of actors, who challenges the comedy performance for the first time, but contributes the most memorable comedy performance since 2011.

In Hall's performance, there is a delicate but powerful force. The weightless performance gives the whole character a vivid and profound image through the detailed treatment of eyes, smiles and actions, which is different from any previous role of hall. The numbness, strangeness and loveliness of his actions are unforgettable; The wonderful rhythm of performance and the strange way of pause inject a kind of strange and sour comic effect into the film. The film is filled with tears but full of smiles. In a trance, it reminds people of Charlie Chaplin again.

Everything is appropriate. Every line, every expression and every shot is so moving and wonderful that it gently touches the inner softness. Under Hall's powerful performance atmosphere, the whole film is permeated with a kind of incipient and bitter atmosphere. The meaning of life does not come from those stormy waves and magnificent waves, But from those ordinary and calm, the most subtle moment, the most ordinary emotion, is the most wonderful in the world.

It's hard to imagine that hall just turned 22 last month; It's hard to imagine that this is hall's first comedy performance; It's hard to imagine that after the wonderful performance of 'crazy love', the 'anti-cancer me' brought another surprise.

In terms of the quality of performance alone, "I am cancer free" is even better than "crazy love.". In the film, there are at least three passages. Hall's performance is simple and thick, delicate and profound, which promotes the whole work to a new height.

Is this a brand new story? No, on the contrary, it's a very simple story. It's so simple that there's nothing new and even boring; Is this a wonderful story? Yes, this is undoubtedly the most worth watching work in this year's holiday archives.

Screenwriter will riiser gave an excellent answer, but the light of the whole film is focused on Langley hall. Maybe, this is the most suitable choice for this year's Christmas atmosphere. Who knows? "