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Killing Them Softly: Cannes 2012 Review
Posted: 05/22/2012 4:25
Director: Andrew Dominik
Runtime: 104 minutes
Dominik's Killing Them Softly is about the state of America and the economy that keeps its motor running. But who's paying for that motor and where are we getting it from? Set in a Rust Belt-looking, once-industrial city where the primary service industry appears to be crime, Dominik, to no surprise, utilizes the camera to its full advantage. A bit more surprising, then, is the filmmaker's superb use of sound editing -- the abrupt, brutal sound mix complementing his fluid camera moves beautifully, as illustrated in the film's opening scene.
On a technical level this is perhaps the most memorable film of the fest so far, thanks to Greig Fraser's hyberpolic cinematography. It's a film that warrants another look, and maybe one more after that. How many genre films can we say that about?
我看了覺得很不好意思，怎麼讓自己的老師這樣講，一定要檢討檢討。但我同時也很納悶，不知道自己訂的這書名究竟聳動在哪裡? 這書英文原名是《Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives》，我把它翻成《動物園的故事：禁錮的花園》，理應很貼近原意才對。結果親自拜訪我的老師時，發現他手上稿子的書名竟然變成《禁錮與瘋狂－探索動物園的真相》，我一看簡直沒氣死，媽的也差太多了吧，難怪被嫌棄說太聳動，我趕緊澄清說那不是我翻的，同時對出版社編輯興師問罪，說當初講得好好的，怎麼在未經我同意，把書名給改成這樣? (媽的這書是報導文學，內容明明就故作平實超然，哪來什麼瘋狂? 什麼真相?)
