阿諾拉

我會覺得這套戲是精彩的，辛無論是調度、人物處理、故事鋪排、美術等也是極為精湛。前中尾段各有其精彩之處，我會形容整套戲有如一輛既瘋狂、狂野、橫衝直撞的個性，但內在卻溫婉細膩內心的過山車。辛在整個鋪排上很精準，很快可以令觀眾很快投入到故事，可以深深感受到阿諾拉這份毫不掩飾狂野、奔放、直率的個性，因為這樣的設計，令她同渣男，這段充斥著毒品、性愛、酒精的瘋狂之旅來得合理，而這樣也令中尾段的轉變建立好基礎。當然，辛去設定中段這場橫衝直撞式的公路尋人之旅，個人覺得是整套戲中最精髓的一段，他在整段的鋪排同執行真是經典，他可以在胡鬧中也精準帶出了角色應有的怒火同角色之間的衝突，這樣好彰顯辛大師級的執行力，雖然這段不短，但他可以將四個角色各自個性好細緻地演繹出來，而在拿捏角色在每個場景中情感轉變的處理也是屬教材級水平。當然尾段女主角這樣情感爆發的處理，辛也是處理很精準。尤其是最後阿諾拉在車上這場情感處理，出來的效果不比在夢幻樂園一片中，最後一幕為弱。最後我會講，這套戲拿金棕櫚是值得。痴·影·夢·藝 X 的專頁 https://www.facebook.com/ckwunmovie/

係因為睇咗Mikey Madison 喺Tonight show 嘅訪問，先決定睇哩套戲，之後攞 Oscar, 反而減分.....套戲係ok, Sean Baker 一貫小品，幫低下層，次文化說話，底子係某程度反商業，反stereotype, 中段有After hours 式荒誕，冇一般荷里活式理所當然。橫掃康城同Oscar, craftsmanship 就爭咗少少，Conclave 更值攞大獎，不過，Oscar 一直非質素先行，其他政治氣候更重要。Madison 有吸引力及討好，但演技就唔係影后級數，Demi Moore 同Julia Roberts 都可能會酸溜溜。

因為拎獎先睇，頭段係幾吸引又好笑，中間搵人過程有啲過長，後段有少少悶，整體來講都真係八點檔劇情，但女主角係做得幾好。

Honestly I don’t think it deserves “Best Picture”. The first half an hour, which was full of nudity, sex scenes, drugs, loud music, glamorous lifestyle etc really bored me. It was Pretty Woman all over again without the tuxedos and ball gowns. For the first time in years, I couldn’t help but took out my phone to check the time in a movie theatre. Only until the fights and arguments that came later on did I realise overdoing things and messing around might actually be the style of Oscar Best Director Sean Baker. It wasn’t the best use of my time watching some clumsy guys running around trying so hard to get the marriage of two idiots annulled. It might feel good for a second seeing the rich and powerful get fucked but it sure wasn’t impressive enough for me to call it the Best Picture of the year. Why the movie wins an Oscar is another story. What The Academy honour and celebrate is actually what they think the society in need of. When you think of the experts and influencer problematising how little sex the American youths are having, it makes more sense. Somehow, it is not a movie that honours sex workers but one that celebrates the act of having sex itself. One critics writes, it tells what it feels like to be alive in our time. I wonder what it means. Most of us sell ourselves for embarrassingly little money, dreaming to win the lottery one day. We want to believe in love and justice before we are let down by the world again and again. We morph from being too scared to love into giving it up all together. I don’t get it from the movie, but people who write about it. Critics exist for a reason.