克罗索巨兽

怪兽在市中心同一位置每天同一时间像打卡考勤一样来破坏，棒子市民为啥仍然还是不离不弃，在废墟里班照上舞照跳吃嘛嘛香跟没事一样？怪兽最后一次出现了，大家伙全都像初次见面一样惊愕的盯着怪兽看来看去，就是没人逃跑，直到怪兽开始破坏了才恍然大悟:我们应该逃跑啊！拜托人家已经在首尔破坏了一个多礼拜了你们还在纳闷个啥？

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☺

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)

本片及脑洞即题材十分不错，阐述角度也从女主格洛莉娅极端女权主义出发，充分传达了《终究还是一个人扛下了所有》的精神。当然，本人来说绝不倡导所谓的大男子主义，毕竟良好的恋爱关系需要彼此的舒适，而非强调控制和让对方无限制妥协。本片打着科幻片的幌子，直接来一波爱情片和公益宣传。

片中的三位男性的人设较为符合“一团糟”的格洛莉娅：

蒂姆：老是在妥协的小白领： -照顾失业女友，希望其变好不要沉迷酗酒 -分手后，没放下过关心，没挂过一个电话 -不甘愿女主在酒吧做服务员，即上门求和 -被放鸽子后仍在关心，希望得到一个解释

奥斯卡：不停寻求自我优越感的舔狗： -女主离开老家，仍不停打探跟踪女主消息 -各种嘘寒问暖，提供生活用品及工作帮助 -久别后第一次见面，直接带去继承的酒吧 -虽酒吧生意惨淡，但仍然觉得自己是老板 -小团体中的领袖，结交比自己更差的朋友 -付出没有回报后，立即展现变态的控制欲

乔尔：脑子还在发育的荷尔蒙： -对于长得好看女性，眼中只有交配的概念 -一夜情后，女主即使面对压力也无动于衷

那本片女主格洛莉娅是怎么面对他们的呢，控制 -对于蒂姆，就是踩底线，我不听，晾一边，但是我好像还是爱你的 -对于奥斯卡，由于当下环境原因，就满足你舔狗心里，但老娘对你没有半点意思 -对于乔尔，睡睡就可以了，其他别多想

怪兽即自我，处于酗酒和日夜颠倒的生活，会使人成为怪兽，有趣的是这样的情况往往自我并不知道，片中的新闻报道犹如酒醒后回看自己喝大时的视频，一样令自己难以置信。另外怪兽出现选择首尔，可能是当时对于韩美部署事件的暗讽。

你想听个惊奇的故事吗？ 当然想，那你想喝点什么？ Emmm...

当下年轻人理解的夜生活，或许会以酒精、派对、酒店来涵盖， 确实有吸引，但还是凡事有度，避免一团糟，成为那个令自己都难以置信的怪兽。 个人觉得还是学会控制自我的欲望，自律及自由。