This movie is very good, but few people seem to know, and the name is "Assassination Stronghold".
Directed by Peter Travis, the film tells the story of the assassination of the President of the United States during a speech, and the murderer is confused and difficult to catch. At the moment of life and death, a coincidence happened...
Synopsis
It has been more than 6 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but the United States has not given up on the fight and condemnation of terrorists, and the current President Ashton is always on the cusp of the global fight against terrorism.
As a secret agent tasked with protecting the president, Thomas Barnes was shot and wounded on a mission a year ago, and although he recovered from the gunshot wound, his mental state has not been stable, but he is convinced that he can once again take on the task of protecting the president;
He arrived in Spain with another agent, Kent Taylor, with Ashton, to give a speech in a square in the center of the city... Almost instantaneously, Ashton, who was speaking, was shot, and several explosions occurred in the city, filled with smoke, splashing stones, screaming in pain, and the square was suddenly in a mess.
In the midst of the chaotic crowd at the time, there was Howard Lewis, a tourist from the United States who recorded everything in DV;
Lex, an American television news producer, she happened to be on the scene to report... Thomas, Kent, and Ashton himself will be included, and we will repeatedly see through the eyes of each of them what has happened in the same 15 minutes of time.
As the plot progresses, the film explores the story of the assassination from the perspective of eight key characters—including the president himself, the secret service agents who protected him, and a tourist who stumbled upon the square.
This movie looks at the name, and the assassination is related, the story of a fearful person assassinating the president, the ending is a little girl who tries to turn the tide, turn things around, and the popular point is that people who want to live are alive, and people who want to die are dead.
psychoanalysis
Some people say that the ending is too bloody, and a little girl actually turns the clouds and rain, so that the terrorists can put down their murderous hearts and become Buddhas, but in my opinion, this is the director's great wisdom.
From a psychological point of view, our life is determined by the subconscious mind, the energy of a good thought is a hundred times or even a thousand times that of a bad thought, why can't an innocent little girl turn things around? The simple, the pure, the good, is the most powerful.
This film more vividly shows that everyone is their own universe, what we can see is only the tip of the iceberg within our own perspective, in fact, what happens does not matter, how you think is important, just like the same thing, different people may have the opposite feelings;
And how did you get your feelings? This is the same as our basic feelings, and the basic feelings are often formed in childhood, if your basic feelings are happy and joyful, when you encounter setbacks, you often feel that it must be a rainbow after the wind and rain, if your basic feelings are sad, even if you win the lottery, you will worry about the unexpected storm.
So it's not what happens, how we feel, it's how we feel, how it happens, like that saying, not because we believe because we see, but because we believe.
There is no heart, there is no heart, there is no heart, there is no phase, and the heart arises.
The film also reflects a philosophy in the sense of reality from the side, the world is unfair, and there is an imbalance where there are people.
This imbalance is precisely the deepest part of human nature, and the person who tries to change is only himself who changes in the end. Good and evil seem to be distinct, but in fact they are blurred.
Shooting method
Compared with "Amazing Crisis" and "The Fall of the White House", "Assassination Stronghold" uses a rewind shooting method to re-reveal the process of assassinating the president from several different perspectives. If you watch a movie 5 times, it's boring.
But this movie uses such a method, but it does not seem boring, but wonderful.
In 20 minutes, the film is re-enacted from a different perspective. There are familiar scenes, the same stories and people, but the angle has been changed to another, and the further expansion of the space will leave many suspenseful places, which is addictive. Watching it, you can't help but walk into the movie, like a fog.
Depth profiling
If, over the past few years, people have relaxed their vigilance against terrorism because they've been at peace, this film will get you back on your nerves. Director Peter Travis created such a thriller action movie "Assassination Stronghold" for the American election by constantly repeating the images that Americans are most afraid of happening.
Travis is still quite good at mastering the rhythm of the story, he successfully maintains the mystery of the whole event, through continuous repetition, the truth is revealed part by part;
But he forgot that if every repetition had to add the explosion scene to the momentum, the action scenes that had been created with huge funds had become cheap because they had been watched too many times.
In addition, Peter Travis has not forgotten to constantly adopt the pale and cheesy formula of action movies: for example, a child in distress; a person who has experienced an explosion in the square calling home to report that he is safe; an agent with a dual identity... Wait a minute
When Travis can't remember not to express this artificial, contrived plot setting, he begins to blow up something repeatedly, and finally ends with a lengthy, meaningless car chase scene.
Of course, if you're a big fan of action movies, you'll love the big bang scenes in it, as long as you can ignore the all-overly obvious flaws in the plot:
The evil mastermind behind the scenes, killing thousands of innocent people at a time, is indifferent, why is he particularly soft on a little girl this time?
Would secret agents really allow the president of the United States to stand in a square with open windows on all sides to give a speech?
Behind the scenes, the US president's legal advisers quietly plan their next move, including a retaliatory bombing of a terrorist base in Morocco, in contrast to the vague explanations of the terrorist plot and purpose of the terrorists. It's really scary and violent.
In addition to the powerful star effect, the beginning of the film is still very exciting, and you will feel that what you are watching is a tense and exciting thriller movie.
However, the style of the story has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and by the end, it has become a completely brainless action movie, and you can even faintly see the shadow of the "Spy Shadow" series from some scenes.
In addition, the dialogue here is too concise, which cannot cause any emotional waves, and also offsets the depth of the story's possible development, and the structure makes it so that the dialogue that is already unbearable to see has to be repeated over and over again...
Although the use of structure, the film is still a very clever attempt, but unfortunately it is not as successful as other similar films, mainly limited by the style of genre films.
Before the release of "Assassination Stronghold", it was "snow hidden" by the distribution company for nearly a year, just to find a suitable day to make a lot of money, and the problem of terrorism that threatens the world restored in the film has unfortunately become an evening entertainment program.
Although the "multiple timelines" sound full of expectations at first glance, the practice of changing the soup without changing the medicine does not really capture the audience's heart.
Having said so much, the final truth, so extravagant and difficult to find...
If "Assassination Stronghold" is to show the picture in a changing angle and give us the revelation of the truth, then with it as a place to set sail, along the long river of film and television to travel deeper and farther, we will be pleasantly surprised to see a strange and beautiful palace standing on the riverbank, solemn and mysterious.