我是带着任务来看的,若是平时我不会去看这种电影,环保这种题材怎么想都没什么吸引力,如果你是那种用脑袋看电影的人,一定会觉得这部电影很不错,好的影片是能够让人思考的,而不是一时的快感,当然这因人而异,但能够评奖的影片,必然是有思想的,怎么还不到140字啊。。。哇还没到。。。没什么可写的了
Page 1 In a fancy restaurant, Steve meets a corporate executive who is impressed with his sales abilities. Steve explains his achievement by the fact that he was grown up in a farming community. He believes that the only way out for these farming people is to sell their land to the nature gas company.
Page 4 Introduce the simple farming life.
Page 7 Steve meets his partner Sue, who chooses a stick car that Steve doesn't know how to drive. They go to a local store to buy outfit so that they can pass as a local. They meet a very smooth shop owner who likes Sue.
Page 10 As they are driving, Steve and Sue are surprised at the mini ponies. Steve and Sue go to different houses with great human skills. They are welcomed by the local people because they want to have life-changing money and best education for their kids. (OPPORTUNITY: THE JOB HAS BEGUN.)
Page 14 Back at the hotel, Steve got the promotion as the VP of the land management and Sue talks to her son online.
Page 16 Steve meets the senior supervisor who threatens to object the plan if he is not paid. But Steve is able to convince him to take very little money to coorperate with him.
Page 20 In the bar, Steve meets a very nice girl Alice, who convinces him to do "absolute madness" . Steve embraces the opportunity to connect with the local people.
Page 24 The next morning, Steve wakes up in Alice's house, hanged over as Sue is on the phone talking to his son again.Then they attend the city hall meeting where the senior supervisor's effort of convincing everyone onboard is resisted by Frank, who tells everybody the limitation of the fracking process. (CHANGE OF PLAN: MEETING RESISTANCE)
Page 29 Steve comes to the podium and tries to convince the teacher that fracking process is an almost perfect process. And he is stunned to see that the teacher proposes to vote and has brought a lot of people to stand up against such a decision. And the leader is very unhappy that Steve has downplayed the potential worth of the place.
Page 34 Sue is very unhappy about Steve’s performance. So is the boss on Skype. He wants to pull them out before Steve promises him that he can change the mind of the whole town.
Page 36 The next day, Steve goes to the local café and the waitress tells him not to worry about the teacher. But he also meets a suspicious environmental presence, who goes to talk to the teacher and provides him with evidence of previous screw-ups.
Page 40 Steve tries to talk to the environmental guy, unsuccessfully. And Sue is being invited by the storeowner to sing in public to win public support.
Page 42 In the bar, Sue’s karaoke is a disaster while Alice gives Steve her phone number. Dustin comes up to the microphone and tells everybody not to say yes to the proposal. He turns out to be a much better salesman than sue because he sings very well even if he pretends that he doesn’t sing.
Page 48 Steve and Sue wait for Dustin outside of his motel. Steve fights with him while Sue hands him a bag of cash, which he accepts. But the next morning, Dustin is still working against Global, which pisses Steve off. Dustin is more confident than Steve. (POINT OF NO RETURN)
Page 54 The next morning, Dustin goes to Alice’s school to teach the kids about the damage that fracking can do to the farm. Meanwhile, Steve is already feeling hesitant about selling the idea to the excited people who think that they are going to get rich. (RISE OF THE ANTAGONIST)
Page 60 The waitress is no longer friendly but Destine is connecting well with the locals. And a local who has lost his brother in Iraq is not happy that Steve is lecturing him on American’s dependency on foreign oil and Global is exploiting the poor.
Page 63 So Steve decides to hold a town fair to connect with the locals. Then Steve goes to Alice’s place and she tells Steve how she inherited the big farm from her family of generations. Steve is even more reluctant to do the sells pitch.
Page 67 When a bunch of angry locals want to pick a fight with Steve in the bar, Steve lectures them on the prospect of having “fuck you” money.
Page 71 As Steve works building the town fair, more people sign contracts. Global also sponsor kids’ baseball. (Slow montage)
Page 76 Steve is destroyed with he sees Alice going with Dustin on a date. He is even more destroyed when he sees a poor people buy a race car because he thought he is going to get rich. The next day, the town fair goes to hell because of the pouring rain. (EVERYTHING IS LOST)
Page 79 The teacher invites Steve and Sue to his house for snacks. During the talks, Steve talks about how his Iowa town was wiped out and the teacher worries the consequence of selling their land even though he needs the money too.
Page 84 Steve receives a package in which contains evidence proving that the environmental guy was a liar. He even goes to Alice showing her the evidence to prove that he is not a bad guy. (FINAL PUSH)
Page 87 WhenSteve confronts the environmental guy, he finds out that he has always been working for Global and making sure that people will go for it.
Page 92 Steve can finally see things clear when he meets a girl selling lemonade, who moves him with her integrity. As he is trying to convince everybody to vote for Global, Steve finally tells everybody the truth. Although Steve is fired, he feels freedom and relieved.
Page 100 Directed by Gus van Sant.
很遗憾结局让整片的主题从“融入”降低到“阴谋”。本身施害方与受害方的主次调换是很有趣的点,却白白让刻意为之的反转打破了一切。
这个节奏,简直是Gerry一样的噩梦
虽然编剧和表演上都有不尽人意的地方,但我还是觉得小马的作品,比小本拿奖的那个好。很舒服的电影。
在利益面前,人们会怎么抉择?要环境还是要cash? 让人们各自选吧
结尾逆转还挺有意思
男主角这个倒戈有点突兀啊。。到底是因为被妹子勾引还是发现被公司捅了一刀?。。
若无隐患,何须阴谋。无远虑者,必有近忧。
1.贾森·瑞特曼+索德伯格。2.最后的反转不难猜到,全片就是一个hoax。3.没有范·桑特的范儿了,调子很中庸,能源话题可以看到些许隐喻,结尾很正义很主流。4.各演员均无突破,卡拉辛斯基还是一副Jim面孔。
很主旋律的电影,大公司资源开发和原住民环境破坏之间的冲突,最后的小twist太可以被预料了,好希望能享受到一个电影中小小的一个惊喜啊,可惜了。好喜欢马特达蒙。
结尾不难猜,但是现在已经很少去猜测结尾了,为什么有些人不愿意享受twist出现的那一瞬间时的心情呢?
编剧不赖,走上商业路线是阴错阳差,马特·达蒙本来就是个才子
略显平淡
好温情的电影,当经济利益与环境产生矛盾,该如何抉择?马特达蒙自编自演,少了年轻时的锋芒,多了一些成熟与笃定。
确实,主流到庸俗。
很好!
卖了土地换取更好的生活,不好吗?
两颗星给风光,呵呵。
平淡温吞得该有的东西都模糊掉,看得很累很无味
不太喜欢结尾温情,有点把格调做小了。这个故事大部分时间很暧昧,在态度上也是模糊不清的,不过反转很不错,更明确了主题。马特·达蒙与约翰·卡拉辛斯基都是我很喜欢的演员,总有说不出的好感。片中达蒙和罗斯玛丽都在这两年跟艾米莉·布朗特合作过,然后约翰·卡拉辛斯基又是她老公,幕后推手么?三
好一般。