The fourth feature of Spanish genre-bucking filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo (whose debut film TIMECRIMES 2007 is a mind-boggling wheeze on time-loop), COLOSSAL is a shaggy-dog story which marries a woman’s striving for temperance and getting her life back on track in the middle America with a kaiju’s mysterious manifestation in the hub of Seoul, thetelekinetic synchrony of their actionsflouts any rationale but it is an ingenious premise to tickle audience’s interest.
Gloria (Hathaway), a jobless writer has a drinking problem, is unceremoniously dumped by her piqued boyfriend Tim (Stevens) and has to move back to her hometown. She touches base with her childhood friend Oscar (Sudeikis), who is congenial enough to offer her a job as a barista in the bar where he has inherited from his father, although it isn’t a perfect option for a woman who tries to dry out, but a woman needs to survive, Gloria takes the offer.
When a Brobdingnagian monster repeatedly materializes in Seoul at the exact same place and same time (8:05 a.m. in Gloria’s time zone) and afterward vaporizes into the thin air, a personal tic triggers off Gloria’s curiosity and following a simple experiment it certifies that the monster is actually her avatar: if she walks into a playground nearby exactly at that time, the monster will simultaneously appear in Seoul and whatever she does during that special spatio-temporal frame, the monster will follow suit, which means it can wreak disproportionate havoc to the city of Seoul. If that is the case, why not staving off from the magic playground at that particular time, everything will be easy-breezy. Nevertheless, the plot thickens when Oscar steps in, it turns out that a giant robot is his remote avatar, Gloria must thereby handle with care of their increasingly passive-aggressive relation especially after she spends a romantic evening with their common friend Joel (Stowell), because it seems that Oscar is enamored with her, or is he?
What follows is a rather unexpected change of gear, the movie’s light-hearted backbone and absurdity subsides when Oscar lets rip his domineering bearing over Gloria by threatening to rampage Seoul if she disobeys, and more upsettingly, there is no specific reason behind his transgression, it is not that he is driven by jealousy or a past grudge, it is just his complexion, a self-hater who takes insidious pleasure in making other’s lives miserable, which essentially stems from his own unhappiness, stuck in a dead-water life in a small town. As a barkeeper, there is not much deal he can bargain, but now, possessed with the destructive superpower, he has the leverage to hector Gloria into subservience, and it is not difficult to detect its mordant connotations pertaining to today's reality (an egoist's bullying culture) and a slightly offensive sideswipe at small-town dweller’s low self-esteem.
How can Gloria defeat this man-demon in her own way without a third-party’s involvement (its shoe-string budget doesn’t allow it)? Vigalondo again proves his innovativeness (with a junket trip to Seoul as its rewarding divvy)in the genre storytelling, after a convenient memory recovery of what instigates their avatar’s presence in Seoul in the first place, which happened 25 years ago when both Gloria and Oscar were school-kids (a cheap CGI of thunderclaps is a requisite for the scenario), Gloria outsmarts Oscar with a deus ex machina (which has no logic groundings but story-wise, an emboldening maneuver) and triumphantly humbles her indomitable nemesis. In toto, gingered up by two outstanding performances from Hathaway and Sudeikis, in particular the latter’s gradual metamorphosis from a goody-goody to an obnoxious sadist, COLOSSAL shores up a strong feminist manifesto of a woman’s own freestanding ritual of finding back her mojo, against its built-in limits in rounding out its yarn of incredulity.
referential point: Gareth Edwards’ GODZILLA (2014, 6.4/10)
1星给特效,2星给脑洞,剧情暗示女主有酗酒的问题,但是通篇没有任何她酗酒的镜头,所以看起来反而是最正常的一个。前男友开局赶人,能理解,一个正常生活的人无法容忍自己的另一半乱来。后面听到人家做服务员就要去把人家接回来是什么意思?二号男更是莫名其妙,一开始的童年伙伴暖男形象,我都忘记是什么时候开始黑化的了,好像是女主跟他朋友睡了之后吧?但是你用韩国人来威胁女主算个啥?强行点题?我觉得你就是下个药强个奸都比这靠谱吧?最后女主回忆起童年的时候男二其实已经是黑的,踩烂了她的模型又不说原因,敢情这货从小就是个有破坏欲的变态?
虽然我觉着看的时候并不觉得能直观的体现女主是在一个醉酒的状态的,但是影片的确有尝试在表现女主的醉酒状态下的特殊。
而这个点就是
眼妆(??)
直接上图
可以看到虽然不是很直观,但是女主在不同状态下的眼妆的确是有不同的,这虽然不能在观影上起到一个良好的引导作用(所以就有了那个突然晕倒但其实是醉倒弄得好多人一脸懵逼的情况),但也算是可以作为一个依据去解释影片中女主的一些诡异举动吧。
如果刚好有二刷的话也许能作为一个细节注意一下。
最后吐槽一下,整个影片整体来说对于醉酒的特殊精神状态表现上效果属实是差,很多时候你都感觉不错这些角色醉了,这也导致观影者有时无法理解那些角色的所作所为,如果能够更加充分的把角色的醉酒表现出来整个影片估计能够上一个层次。
一部很尴尬的电影,你把它当成SNL式的恶搞吧,它又太正经;你正经的把它当剧情片吧,它又毫无逻辑,完全不通;你把它当科幻吧,它纯粹是恶搞;你把它当喜剧吧,它又人设苍白,人物行为讲不通,更不好笑;你说它影射核问题和政治局势,那纯粹是绞尽脑汁的想找个夸它的理由。开脑洞之前先想好逻辑吧。
哈哈哈哈一本正经胡说八道,全程黑人问号脸,但毕竟怪兽片套路化严重,拍成这样还挺有趣的。
新奇创意背后支撑这部令人眼前一亮的反类型作品的是精巧工整的剧作,主角与反派两个角色遵循着巧妙的对应与对立,不论是致命缺陷的对应、过去与当下的对应,还是内心转变与抉择的对立都是工整精巧的,就连地点也要对应。剧作层面上的叙事是女主克服致命缺陷与童年创伤历程的解构与有想象力的具象化。
不是怪兽片,不是爱情片,不是治愈片,至于是什么类型,我也不知道啊。一会儿打,一会儿哭,一会儿温情,一会儿丧,一锅大乱炖,并不知道看了什么。 @2017-05-03 20:20:40
還挺有意思的...............男的反轉得有點雷,大表哥怎麼就炮灰了呢
天哪我简直不敢相信这是我大安妮和大表哥一起拍的电影,各种傻逼情节让人分分钟想弃片。无头无脑根本不知道想表达什么。内心的愤怒化成怪兽互相掐架?傻逼朋友一会儿好人一会儿大恶人?无力吐槽
年度最大脑洞片候选,估计斯坦·李和他笔下的漫威宇宙也写不出拥有这种超能力的英雄吧
word妈呀这应该是我今年看过最反套路的电影了吧。以为是怪兽片以为是爱情片以为是鸡汤片,结果是个女主手撕男主的恶搞片!内心阴暗的人直接狗带吧!表白我安妮·海瑟薇,哪怕演一个酗酒的撸瑟,智慧和美貌也双双在线呀~~~
这个怪兽很大吗?我看还没有导演的脑洞大。
为啥首尔不疏散……
重新回乡,面临的是巨大的挑战,见到不想见的人,回忆起不堪的过去。当然,编剧把儿时的创伤衍生为巨兽去伤害别人这点我真的不是很能搞懂中间的逻辑,但是起码故事按照设定也算讲通了。本片大家演技都还在线,没有可以特别指摘的地方。平平淡淡一出戏。不怎么推荐。
这是什么神节奏。看到觉得浑身难受的标准节奏。
最后很燃,过程比较闷。海瑟薇一把把男主抓起来扔到远远的,嗯,这一定是个日韩风格漫改作品,浓浓的二次元味。以男女主互相心理缺点化作怪兽为喻,梗却是老美打个喷涕韩国就抖三抖,弱国你们要雄起揍它啊这样。
这种设定反而有种教育意味,长大了也还是伤不起的孩子。构思很有意思,但是三流的的表演,四流的制作。
披着怪兽科幻片外衣的小清新女权主义电影,有点小悬疑有点小惊悚。中段让人想起危狱惊情开头,结尾如果改成怪兽一脚踩下去两人形神俱灭同归于尽不就更意味深长?!
脑洞实在太大,果然是拍过《26种死法》的导演才干得出来的事。为了迎合这个天窗般的脑洞,电影里某些人物都被塑造的非常诡异,性格的骤变让人无语。不过这样无法用类型片来定义的片子,也许才能被称得上电影中的“先锋”吧。
其实就是一部独立电影而已,接着脑洞说那些现代人的心理困境以及女性意识的觉醒,有很多莫名其妙的地方但是倒不至于让人讨厌,不过比较可惜的是喜剧感几乎没有。
槽点太多到底想表达什么?告诫韩国老实点儿你们的小命都在宗主国美国手上?告诫不要喝酒,一喝就断片儿天生脑子有毛病的更不要喝?还是让我们小心身边的变态朋友一朝变态一辈子变态?丹丹龙前男友角色起的作用就是为了凸显女主的不上心,韩国人民心也是大,每天定点袭击都阻止不了他们在事发地聚群。
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找大表哥英味原声出演这样一个傲慢中产男友还蛮好笑的 这样黑英国人吗哈哈哈 脑洞够了但爽劲没跟上 怎么感觉安妮海瑟薇发福了