has just finished watching "The Original Diamond", and there is still a buzzing noise in his mind. This movie was released in the United States not long ago, starring Adam Sandler. His previous works tended towards comedy, and movies such as "50 First Loves" and "Remote for Life" are all my dishes. However, in "The Original Diamond", Adam Sandler is not a comedy role, but brings another style. Next, let's talk about "The Original Diamond".
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"Raw Diamond" is two hours long, and most of the movie time is not pleasant. The camera is slightly chaotic, and the characters often speak differently when they speak. You will hear several voices at the same time, giving people a noisy feeling. Even the director added white noise to increase the noise level. However, when I watched the movie patiently, "The Original Diamond" gave a satisfying ending, which was somewhat unexpected. The story of
"Raw Diamond" is like this. During the financial crisis, a jeweler bought a unique rough diamond, but an NBA star borrowed the rough diamond. The star was supposed to return to the diamond the next day, but there were various accidents, so the main story of the movie was that the protagonist recovered the original diamond and brought it to the auction on time.
In the process of recovering the rough diamond, the protagonist has put more and more pressure on multiple debt collectors. The family is also in crisis due to an affair. The protagonist also pawns jewelry to use cash to bet on football, hoping to earn a wave of rejuvenation. However, rough diamonds did not sell at high prices as expected, and debt collectors even threatened the protagonist's life.
had no alternative, the protagonist decided to make a gamble, and he succeeded, doubling 150,000 to more than 1 million. Just when he thought that life had gone through a low point, the debt collector sent him to hell with an impatient bullet, and the dead body still had an ecstatic smile on his face. At this moment, people feel a deep irony. The ending of
is similar to "Othello"-the protagonist finally got what he always wanted, but it was too late and he couldn't have it. "Othello" finally got a wife who truly loved him and would not betray him for other men, but when he found out it was too late, he just killed her. In "The Original Diamond", what the protagonist wants is the big turnaround he dreams of. A huge windfall is about to come in hand, but he can't own it because he was killed after learning the good news. This ironic ending is a good end to the movie, and it also makes people let go of their previous dissatisfaction with the movie watching experience.
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Although the ending of "Raw Diamond" is very good, but the plot is still not perfect. This imperfection is mainly reflected in "knowing it but not knowing why", and there are many suspense foreshadowing that have not been revealed. The audience can guess the relationship between most of the characters in "The Original Diamond", but they don't know why their relationship is like this. At the same time, the choice of the turning range of the whole film in "The Original Diamond" is also questionable.
First of all, the life of the protagonist has not changed much from the beginning to the end. At the beginning of the story, the protagonist's life appears chaotic and rushed. After the customers entered the store, there were noisy discussions. The phone calls one after another, and the protagonist kept talking non-stop. Hurrying is almost the norm in his life. At the same time, at the beginning of the story, the protagonist gets into a lot of trouble, has been in debt, has a bad reputation, and is a selfish, arrogant, and liar guy.
When it comes to the end, the protagonist's life is still chaotic and hasty. Even if he wins the gambling prize, the audience knows that his life must be the same as before, and his character has not changed in any way, and there is nothing to look forward to. If the protagonist is not dead, the story of "The Original Diamond" will only start from a bad start to a bad end, and the value level will not change. When the protagonist dies in a sarcastic way, the value of the story changes to "from a very bad situation to a worse situation".
If "Original Diamond" started from a slightly better situation-he was not bankrupt at that time, the reputation of others was good at that time, and the family was still complete at that time-and then slipped to a worse situation step by step The change in value will be greater and the ending will be more dynamic.
Secondly, "The Original Diamond" does not describe the plot in detail, and the characterization is also insufficient. The relationship between the protagonist and the creditor, wife, lover, and partner is almost fragmented. The audience can guess the relationship between each other from the lines, but most of these characters and relationships have no further explanation. Regarding questions such as "Why are they in such a relationship?" and "What happened between them?", "The Original Diamond" did not answer. At the same time, the subplots derived from the characters are also very fragmented, they suddenly break into the life of the protagonist, and then leave in a hurry. The result of this is to make people confused. The problem with
and subplot fragmentation is that the characterization is also incomplete. In the entire movie, the only three-dimensional role is the protagonist, and the supporting roles tend to be flat. The portrayal of supporting characters is important because they are the key to constructing the protagonist's character dimension. The relationship between different supporting actors and the protagonist reflects the different character dimensions of the protagonist, thus constructing a more three-dimensional, complex and deep character image.
However, most of the supporting characters in "The Original Diamond" show a kind of madness, impatience, anger, self-talking, selfishness, and greed. The interaction between these supporting actors and the protagonist really reflects these characteristics of the protagonist, but it lacks more diversified dimensions. For example, "The Original Diamond" wanted to portray the protagonist's love for the family, but in fact it didn't portray it well because of the lack of a corresponding supporting role to reflect this character dimension. According to "The New World: Spiritual Awakening", both the protagonist and the supporting role are the behavior of the ego, behind which are unconscious thoughts and constant chatter in the brain. In other words, looking at the interaction between this group of supporting actors and the protagonist, in fact they only show one kind of character dimension, they are just the same kind of people in different positions.
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is full of fragmented subplots and flat characters, how does "Raw Diamond" advance the story? This mainly depends on several points. On the one hand, the movie "The Original Diamond" is full of conflicts. Although the dialogue is very confusing, the dramatic tension can be clearly felt. When the protagonist wants something, Life rejects him and says "No, you don't want to". When the protagonist wants the rough diamond, he can't get it, so he wants it more; when the protagonist wants to pawn jewelry for cash, the pawn merchant rejects him, so the protagonist persuades and compromises in every possible way. And so on, through this confrontational force, the protagonist is forced to take further actions, thereby advancing the plot.
On the other hand, "The Original Diamond" also uses ironic turning techniques many times, very cleverly. One very clever example is that the protagonist took all the cash flow to gambling and won a lot of votes. To this end, the protagonist also celebrated. However, as soon as the screen changes, the protagonist learns that his gambling money has not been bet at all, and is taken away by the debt collector. The protagonist is just fetching water from a bamboo basket. Another clever design of
is that the auction estimate of the rough diamond is much lower than expected. Before that, the protagonist recovered the original diamond, and it seemed that everything was moving in a better direction, and he was ready to stand up. As a result, the auction estimate was too low, which made the protagonist very disappointed and angry. Such a turning point can arouse the audience's curiosity. Neither road or road will work. What else can the protagonist do? How to break free from this dilemma? So, the story is pushed forward like this.
"Raw Diamond" is precisely in the chaos and noise to advance the story ingeniously. Although the movie-watching experience is not very good, it does not make people feel that it is runny or empty. It is worth mentioning that this confusion is not only manifested in the scene connection and noisy lines, but also in the language of the shots, long shots, noisy scenery and so on. These designs try to create an effect that the protagonist’s life is full of chaos and uncertainty. To a certain extent, "The Original Diamond" did achieve this effect, but it sacrificed the audience's viewing experience and caused the buzz after the movie was over. To reflect the chaos of life and the impact of this chaos on the protagonist, it is not necessary to use this style of scenes and shots. This effect can be achieved by spreading out a little bit of
on the story level. For example, the protagonist in "The Kramers" has a messy life due to the departure of his wife, and the film shows this effect in an orderly manner. However, "The Original Diamond" seems to be more or less anxious, and lacks the calmness of storytelling, which leads to the lack of dynamic storytelling in the chaos and chaos of the film. Imagine that the situation has changed for the better, then worsened, and then improved again, so that the story goes back and forth. But the "Raw Diamond"Because you can pursue noisy superficial chaos, what the audience receives is chaos, and it is difficult to distinguish whether the situation is turning for the better or for the worse.
All in all, "The Original Diamond" is indeed a movie with a bad viewing experience. At the same time, problems such as lack of subplots and flat characters are also obvious. However, the ironic transition and ironic ending adopted by "The Original Diamond" in advancing the story are both impressive. Looking at it this way, the chaotic scenes and noisy dialogue cannot be said to be bad. These are just the characteristics of "The Original Diamond". Like it or not is another matter.
