Chapter 1052 American version Don't talk to strangers
After attending the Oscars, Qiao Feng stayed in the United States for another three days.
Because the end of the road is released.
This is a road adventure movie, it is a thriller, although the leading actors are all acting schools, but they are not actors with box office appeal, and they will definitely not be able to fight in the popular schedule.
It's different at the end of March, this schedule has always been deserted, and few blockbusters will be released in this schedule, so it has always been a fixed schedule for some low-cost movies.
is also because there is no squeeze of blockbusters, so some good quality thrillers and horror films can often break out at the box office in this kind of schedule.
There are no blockbusters released at this time of year, but there is one movie that is very good at the box office.
The movie is called Sleeping with the Enemy, produced by Twentieth Century Fox, starring Julia Roberts.
Big Mouth Zhu's fame style Moon Pretty Woman was robbed by Qiao Feng and Wang Xuxian, Big Mouth Zhu lost the blessing of Feng Yue Pretty Woman, so his fame is naturally not as big as the original time and space, and the salary is naturally not mentionable.
As a result, the production cost of sleeping with the enemy is millions of dollars less.
A drama thriller in its own right, the production cost of sleeping with the enemy was just over $20 million.
The actors in this movie are not so famous, and the actor Patrick Bokin is not as famous as Big Mouth Zhu.
But it is such a movie with low production cost and little fame of actors, but in the cold February schedule, as soon as the painting started, it won 13 million US dollars at the box office in the first weekend.
In the first week, it directly won $30 million at the box office.
There's no way, it's really that the angle chosen in this film is too special, and the impression it brings to the audience is too shocking.
In American horror movies, there are many that are based on mental disorders and mental illnesses, and at first glance, sleeping with the enemy also feels this way.
But in fact, the focus of the film is not on mental disorders and mental illness.
In addition to the horror, it also explores the lack of choices in life, and whether how to deal with the mentally ill and whether self-defense is equivalent to murder.
There is an old saying in Chinese that "marry a chicken with a chicken, marry a dog with a dog", so when you make a promise in front of God that you want to follow someone for the rest of your life, should you keep your promise, never abandon it, and be unswerving?
That's what this movie explores.
The story is very simple, it is about the young woman played by Julia Roberts who can't stand her husband's strong possessiveness and tortures her for a long time, both physically and mentally, so she does everything possible to fake her death and flee to Iowa to start a new life.
However, a small flaw reveals the secret of her fake death, leading her husband to follow the clues to her new home to start a story of revenge.
If you just watch the first half, is the plot of this story extremely similar to Don't Talk to Strangers that left a psychological shadow on many post-90s?
It's all a kind, beautiful woman who married a sick, super possessive man, and then was suspicious of this man all the time, and was violent at every turn.
The difference is that Mei Xiangnan, played by Mei Ting, just kept forgiving and escaping, while An Jiahe embarked on the road of no return, and later chose to commit suicide with remorse surrounded by the police and end his sinful life.
But it was the heroine who slept with the enemy to come to the door to take revenge, and held a gun against her husband to complete the counter-killing.
The first half of the film is very beautiful: the blue sea, the transparent and simple villa, the spotless living room, the handsome and rich husband, the beautiful and elegant wife.
But behind this beauty that seems to be untouched, there are ugly events that are staged every day.
A rich life does not bring happiness, on the contrary, the husband with a mental quirk, Poni, does not allow his wife Laura to have any privacy, and even Jon, the newly moved neighbor next to the beach house, looks at Laura through the glass a few more times, and Pony has to make Laura suffer from a violent beating.
The gap between Martin's superficial gentleness and thoughtfulness and his sudden ferocity is huge, and the strong contrast and twist make the originally harmonious and romantic atmosphere take a sharp turn and cause great shock to the audience.
Especially when he punches and kicks Laura and then carries her to the bed to keep warm, it is even more creepy.
What is Metamorphosis?
That's the perversion.
If it's just a blind beating, it can only be said to be brutal.
And when it's good, it's like you.,And because of a big fart, I can beat you to death.,After the beating, you can still gently touch you.,Ask what kind of heart you felt when you were beaten just now.,This is perverted.
Brutality is character, pervert is heart.
Laura, played by Julia Roberts, has been trying to escape, fake her death and get out, the idea is good, but every time she is caught and captured.
Then the last time she escaped, she looked successful.
After encountering wind and waves on the sea and pretending to fall overboard and die, she escapes to a town with a smell of earth.
Her perverted husband over there was indeed deceived by her, and really thought she was dead and gave her a humble funeral.
Laura arrives in the town, where the modest dwelling is full of warmth, guests can sing intoxicated songs as they drench the flowers in the small garden in front of the house, and the free parade on the street will make Laura really laugh.
If it were just that, the film would be absolutely mediocre.
But when the audience was happy for Laura's happiness and had a smile on her face along with Laura, the camera turned, and a phone call over there shattered all the beauty.
In her husband's cognition, Laura can't swim, so if she can't be found in the vast sea, she can only fall into the water, and then if she can't find her for a long time, she will naturally die.
But a phone call from a Christian youth who practices swimming to her husband Bonnie reveals a flaw in what seemed to be a seamless plan.
It turns out that Laura learned to swim.
Coupled with the wedding ring that Laura threw into the toilet but forgot to flush down, all kinds of suspicions point to one thing, that is, Laura's death this time turned out to be premeditated, and it was another fake death to get out.
The happiness was so short-lived, and the husband unscrupulously found Laura's whereabouts.
On the night of the town's celebration of his holiday, Bonnie fills Laura's surroundings with his own unique breath of life.
This paragraph is another extremely stark contrast.
The whole movie does not have Laura's too much self-description of her nightmarish life, but in the comparison of Laura's before and after expressions, the audience deeply feels the depression and pain of her married life.
When Laura was next to Martin, she was melancholy and depressed, and although she often smiled at Martin's request, she was in a trance, extremely unnatural, and even a little neurotic, and after breaking free from Martin's clutches, she slowly found herself in the true feelings of the new man Bin, and smiled brightly, naturally, full of vitality, showing her generous and lively personality.
At the end, the director once again let the audience know how much Laura is afraid of her husband through Laura's expression.
The director who sleeps with the enemy is really one of the few directors in the United States who can shoot a psychological thriller.
Hollywood thrillers and horror movies often create horror through bloody scenes of blood plasma, stumps and severed arms.
But in sleeping with the enemy, the director made the audience nervous, scared, and frightened just by comparing Julia Roberts's before and after expressions.
The director combines her husband's cleanliness with his psychopath, making it his mark, and the ordinary things become symbols of evil, which can highlight Martin's demonic character even more.
So, at the end, when her husband came to the door, Laura came home and felt her husband's breath just from the orderly cans and neat towels, the kind of atmosphere that had brought her years of terror and horror, and made her desperate to escape.
So Laura's body stiffened, and her eyes were full of fear.
Then, the ending is satisfying to the audience, and Laura, who is tortured, kills her demon husband who is domestic violence.
After a lot of horror screams and nervous breathing, the audience who saw this scene was really relieved.
Then I sighed with emotion about the impermanence of life, my eyes should be polished when I got married, and I went back by the way to Amway with my relatives and friends, and slept with the enemy Zhen Nima is a good-looking movie, and the ending is really satisfying.
The good thing about sleeping with the enemy is that it makes the audience feel a lot of horror and finally has a good time, and at the same time, it also makes the audience realize something.
Then the audience who is a good teacher will unconsciously share their feelings with the people around them, take a look at sleeping with the enemy, and you will know how to get along with husband and wife after watching it.
Or you know you shouldn't beat your wife.
At the same time, female boxers also saw the urgency and educational significance of women's rights struggle.
As a result, sleeping with the enemy exploded all the way after its release, and the box office broke 100 million US dollars half a month after its release.
Then, the end of the movie, which is also considered a women's boxing movie, was arranged by MGM to be released with popularity.