[FilmReview]Problemista(2023)
Underlay by his immigrant status and queer identity, Salvadoran-American writer/comedian/actor Julio Torres manages to visualize his own fanciful conceits (a creative mind inherit...
電影《問題專家》豆瓣評分多少?口碑怎么樣?
電影《問題專家》在哪里可以看在線播放?
電影《問題專家》結局是什么意思?(微劇透)
(微劇透)結局是亞歷杭卓在荒誕現實中找到了自我表達與立足之地。影片以超現實手法收尾。推薦觀看《龍蝦》——同為充滿隱喻的黑色喜劇,探討個體在規則社會中的異化與反抗。
電影《問題專家》和《瞬息全宇宙》比哪個好看?
電影《問題專家》適合什么樣的人看?評價如何?
適合喜歡蒂爾達·斯文頓怪異表演、胡里奧·托雷斯作者風格的觀眾,是部小眾文藝喜劇。推薦觀看《法蘭西特派》——同為導演作者風格強烈、群星云集且敘事結構精巧的文藝作品。
電影《問題專家》主演蒂爾達·斯文頓表現怎么樣?
電影《問題專家》劇情講的是什么故事?
劇情講述薩爾瓦多玩具設計師亞歷杭卓在紐約面臨簽證危機,為留美而侍奉一位古怪藝術家的荒誕生存故事。推薦觀看《布魯克林》——同樣講述年輕移民在紐約面臨的去留抉擇與身份追尋。
電影《問題專家》是喜劇片嗎?搞笑嗎?
電影《問題專家》導演胡里奧·托雷斯還有哪些作品?
電影《問題專家》值得去電影院看嗎?有什么看點?
視乎對小眾作者電影的喜好,看點在于獨特的視覺美學、移民議題及蒂爾達·斯文頓的表演。推薦觀看《皮囊之下》——同樣由蒂爾達·斯文頓主演,以超現實風格探討異類視角下的社會觀察。
Underlay by his immigrant status and queer identity, Salvadoran-American writer/comedian/actor Julio Torres manages to visualize his own fanciful conceits (a creative mind inherited from his artist mother) and welds trendy elements, like cryogenics, NYC art scene, toy design, into his feature directorial debut PROBLEMISTA, chiefly regarding the symbiosis between Alejandro (Torre), a struggling toy designer-to-be and Elizabeth (Swinton), a cuckoo art critic who employs him as her assistant.
Trying to secure his toehold in the Big Apple, Alejandro, an immigrant from El Salvador, is not a rudderless young adult adrift in the megalopolis. His vocation is to be a toy designer and he has more than enough talent for it. But after his application to the Hasbro intern program is rejected, he must seek employment to validate his visa. His best chance lies in Elizabeth, who is hurt for an assistant who is conversant with computation, namely, FileMaker Pro, the database application (an initially funny frivolity is magnified ad nauseam, even Swinton looks out of sorts rephrasing that accursed moniker), as she is bent on organizing an exhibition of his painter husband Bobby (RZA), who is currently a "corpsicle" in a cryogenic experiment.
The premises are quite far-out, and Swinton risibly makes a splash of that exasperating, overweening self-centeredness which is the sequela of residing in NYC far too long. In her garish get-up, with frizzy, cochineal tresses, Elizabeth is a nightmare for anyone to encounter. But she is tolerated considerably despite of her outrageousness and flamboyance. Perhaps because she doesn't care for pretense, unapologetically being true to herself, a tenet Torres seems to propagate and abide by unconditionally.
Only a good boy like Alejandro, whose anonymity almost reduces him to a nonentity (his brush with fetish is a stiff tease), can handle Elizabeth’s eccentricity without protestation, and is emboldened by her to be proactive for once, boldly claims his place in the Hasbro company, other than settling for a stopgap. Still PROBLEMISTA’s allure remains on the surface. For all its scintillating brainwaves (the anthropomorphic Craiglist guy, the dark place where Alejandro must contend with the downside of human nature, etc.), the story is loosey-goosey and Swinton is weighed down with the heavy lifting to keep the wacky storyline afloat while the meet-in-the-future finale doesn’t mount to anything but a beggar belief reaction from Elizabeth. “Looks like we both have made it!”
Not enough goodwill (a heightened reconciliation between two rival women), plurality and genderqueer affirmation (cameos from trans-artistes Charlene Incarnate and Shakina, Torres’s boyfriend Scully is cute as a button) could lift PROBLEMISTA from the slapdash assemblage of half-baked ideas and half-hearted novelties. Torres makes a good fist in crafting his debut feature through his own perspective and personal reflections, but mirabile dictu, that will not necessarily set the world on fire. PROBLEMISTA is safely ensconced in its own niche of queer absurdity.
referential entries: George Miller's THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING (2022, 7.0/10); Sofia Coppola's ON THE ROCKS (2020, 5.9/10).
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