控制的极限

Suspicion.

Hitchcock.

Are you interested in films, by any chance?

I like really old films

You can really see what the world looked like...

... thirty, fifty, a hundred years ago

You know the clothes, the telephones, the trains...

... the way people smoked cigarettes...

... the little details of life

The best films are like dreams

You’re never sure you’ve really had

I have this image in my head

of a room full of sand

And a bird flies towards me, and dips its wing into the sand

And I honestly have no idea...

... whether this image came from a dream, or a film

Sometimes I like it in films when people just sit there,

Not saying anything

Have you seen “the lady from Shanghai,”

Orson Welles?

That one makes no sense

Rita Hayworth as a blonde

I think it’s the only film she’s ever a blonde in

It’s like a game, deception, glamour...

...a shootout with shattered mirrors

She dies in the end

Do you like Schubert, by any chance?

I love him

He died when he was thirty one years old

Something like that

影片讲了一个杀手的任务之旅，充满诗意。依然是反戏剧性的设计。当迷幻喜剧片看的话就挺不错。基本就是讲这个杀手和一个又一个的人接头的过程，最终杀掉目标，然后踏上下一段任务之旅。

这部影片有非常重的后面《唯爱永生》、《帕特森》甚至是《丧尸未至》的影子。但想讲的可能跟这三部比都少多了。感觉像是在实验用影像配合迷幻乐表达那些感受。但真的很棒。比如几次主角看画、一次下地铁与一个坐着的老人对视、喝咖啡的时候看路人等。充满诗意…（这种表达也在后面《帕特森》里达到一种顶峰）

配乐上非常像唯爱永生，用了大量小调五声的迷幻乐，以吉他为主。用法也和唯爱永生的相似。加强人物感受的张力，非常有贾木许的风格，特别喜欢。

摄影上也像唯爱永生，但不得不说和唯爱永生比差多了。这部影片和早期的也挺不同，开始用了不少特写。但个人感觉确实差点意思，感觉像是后面风格的萌芽阶段。