克罗索巨兽

一开始有一种烂片的错觉，但随着剧情的逐渐铺开，儿戏之下逐渐开始了两性间的探讨。 女人的感觉不会有错，就比如女性幼时对成年男性的莫名畏惧一样，不明白为什么但本能使然----这是进化给女性的馈赠。所以当女主宿醉醒来，发小儿给她送来沙发电视时，这个好意却让人感觉不那么对劲，毕竟不问自送也是一种越线和冒犯。当女主觉得她没说过要这些东西时，发小儿却说女主醉了后要过，那么究竟要没要过？其实影片一开始和前男友的对话，还有为数不多的对女主醉后的描写都在告诉我们，女主醉后的日常真的只是睡觉而已。所以，发小儿在撒谎。随着发小儿醉后和女主的冲突又送家具补偿，get到女主的弱点后开始威胁，这感觉就越发不妙了。而当前男友找来并和发小儿对抗时，真相已经显现。前男友要你跟他走？回去干什么？继续醉生梦死的废物生活么？发小儿威胁你留下来，留下来见证压迫的开始么？两个男人为争一个女人正面对抗，作为女人爽吗？我看未必，因为争夺本身，争夺的就是物品的占有权；“争”还有另外一种方式:争取。在“争取”里，女人才是个有脑袋的人，如果是争取的话，男性双方都不会那么做。演至此处软肋已被掐住，似乎以后跪着活已成定局，然而影片告诉我们:他是强大的机器人没错，但你也是个怪兽，你不必怕他，除此以外，你并没有他想的那么废物，你有头脑又有力量，所以你必将用自己的方式解决一切。无穷夜里，每一个女性都有一双不灭的眼睛，那是照亮我们前路的明灯，拥有这一切的前提，是觉醒。 此剧的存在意义大于它诠释的意义，因为作为男性导演的本剧，这种自戮或者说救赎般的使女性觉醒并干净洒脱的挥刀自宫的做法，是男性作为“事实当权者”这个群体里难得的操守和仁慈。想起亚瑟王和女巫的故事：女人最想要的是什么？主宰自己的命运。 综上所述:把你当废物前男友是要不得的，处心积虑嫉妒迷恋想占有你的发小儿更是噩梦。所以并没有什么情真我养你和落难遇真情，有的只是以爱之名下的私欲横行，压着你的，并不是爱。所以妹子啊你要醒一醒，挥刀自宫，大道即成。 最后请记住:刀在我们手里，即使不是现在，但任何时候都不晚。 ------------------------------------

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)

脑洞大开，有两种情况。一种是奇思妙想，另一种是脑子进水。这部影片显然属于后者。

影片一开始就出现了一个酷似哥斯拉的怪兽。紧接着画风一转，男女主角登场。竟然是我们美丽的“公主”安妮·海瑟薇和帅气的“大表哥”丹·史蒂文斯。顿时我对此片充满了期待。

然而，接下来的剧情属于毫无正经地胡说八道。公主居然就是怪兽，公主的好朋友是机器人。只因童年时两人双双被雷劈，所以有了特异功能。然后，好朋友突然性格扭曲，机器人黑化。公主怪兽则成为了正义的化身，一掌拍死了机器人。至于大表哥，他只是来打酱油的。最惨的是首尔人民，只因当年一个熊孩子的恶作剧，付出了惨痛的代价，这是什么仇什么怨啊？

最扯的是，这样不符合逻辑的胡编乱造，还有人可以解读出正能量的中心思想，我也是服了。

想到今年的高考语文梗。选取的是巩高峰的《一种美味》进行阅读理解，文章大体内容是一个家庭吃鱼的经历。最后两道小题“理解《一种美味》”和“文章结尾赏析”。该文章末尾为“现在，它早死了，只是眼里还闪着一丝诡异的光。”考完后有人问原作者巩高峰“那种诡异的光，究竟表达了什么？”巩高峰忍不住吐槽：“我是真做不出来，我估计我做出来还没有他们做得好。现在标准答案没出来，我怎么知道自己想要表达什么啊，我又哪里知道结尾有什么意义。我本来只是搞笑的！”

影片制作方被哥斯拉版权方日本东宝株式会社告上法庭。我觉得完全可以这样自辩：我们没有抄袭，我们就是来搞笑的！

emm……一头雾水。

被微博上的小视频吸引专门找来看的，然而整个影片让人有些摸不着头脑，难道是表达的太隐晦了么。

人物的行为奇奇怪怪，就算按照醉酒来解释也有些逻辑不通。亏得一开始觉得高深莫测，以为怪物是主角心中负面情绪之类的一种具象化（韩国人做错了啥-_-||），然而最后也没有明确或是模糊的解释。

整个故事呈现的磕磕绊绊，是为了反映男主黯然失色挣扎无望的人生？还是衬托女主虽然浑浑噩噩酗酒瞎搞但最后拯救苍生的光辉？理解不能。

唯一的体会大概是好孩纸不能酗酒吧☺

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？