The Nine Queens is a great movie about two trying to sell fake stamps to a rich stamp collector. It is both funny and intellectual. The movie takes place in Argentina. From the start, the movie shows the corruption and crime that is widespread throughout Argentina. The main character Juan is a brilliant person that likes to trick people into giving him money. He meets a guy named Marcos who is a "professional con man." The movie seems pick on the dumb people as Juan and Marcos con people as if it is casual practice. Throughout the movie they meet many people who are also con artists.
The movie relies on a lot of suspense. The two people seem to go through the most difficult and complicated scenes throughout the whole movie. The unthinkable happens constantly. The movie takes one scene and completely changes the situation to a favorable one to a what the hell just happened situation. All this suspense keeps the watcher watching. People wants to know what happens later and that is what this movie is good about. The suspense and the excitement of the movie is what grips the audience and keeps them awake.
The con act that happens in the movie is as brilliant as Ocean's Eleven except not as high budgeted and less money. However, the movie does one part wrong. All the scenes and description of the movie make Argentina sound like it is full of screw ups and bad luck which is realistic. The lighting, colors, and background gave the movie a more realistic look to it. At the end, the movie loses its realism and gains a type of intellectual fantasy. Overall, I enjoyed the movie, but the amount of unexpectedness that happens is ridiculous.
-Raymond Chian
This film analysis is more like a plot summary of the movie. Towards of the end, you do talk about the mise-en-scene. I think that if you could have analyzed it a bit more and applied it to some scenes, your analysis would consist of less plot summary.
ReplyDeleteI think that this review needs more analysis. It seems to have a lot of summary but no actual analysis. I also think that it gets a little bit confusing towards the end. So maybe if you slowed down and finished your thoughts all the way then this review would make a lot more sense.
ReplyDeleteI do not completely agree with about the unexpectedness comment, however, I believe that all the events that happen in the film represents real life, both are unpredictable. Also, your statement "All the scenes and description of the movie make Argentina sound like it is full of screw ups and bad luck which is realistic" is totally untrue; the film is just exaggerating the corruptness of Argentina and it is focusing on this aspect. The end of this review/analysis is confusing and I do not really know what you are trying to say.
ReplyDeleteThe author said, "the con act that hapens in the movie is as brilliant as Ocean's Eleven except not as high budgeted and less money." I would like to add a little background about the filmmaker, Fabián Bielinski to help to shape up his credibility in this film review. Bielinsky won in an Argentine competition, which has received 350 screenplays and got funded to his film. This competition was organized to yield higher quality screenplays, thus "Nine Queens" is not only as brilliant as "Ocean's Eleven", it is more worth to watch than "Ocean's Eleven".
ReplyDelete-Felice Yeow Xinyi-
Your style is a little bit informal. First sentences could be more engaging. Good ideas, but writing needs development.
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