Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother will make you forget all about Marvel’s Blade disaster
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother will make you forget all about Marvel’s Blade disaster
《Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother》将让你彻底忘掉漫威《刀锋战士》的灾难
Marvel’s mishandling of its Blade reboot will likely go down as one of the studio’s biggest mistakes. There was a great actor in place to play the vampire hunter (Mahershala Ali), and a promising director set to take over the reins (Bassam Tariq). In retrospect, though, the disappointing demise of Blade might not be such a bad thing, because Tariq and Ali have collaborated on something much more interesting than a superhero reboot: the powerful hitman thriller Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.
漫威对《刀锋战士》（Blade）重启项目的处理不当，很可能会成为该工作室历史上最大的失误之一。原本已经选定了一位出色的演员来饰演这位吸血鬼猎人（马赫沙拉·阿里），并有一位前途无量的导演（巴萨姆·塔里克）准备接手执导。然而回过头来看，这部《刀锋战士》的夭折或许并非坏事，因为塔里克和阿里合作了一部比超级英雄重启电影更有趣的作品：强有力的杀手惊悚片《Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother》。
That was one of five movies I was able to cram into a very hectic third day at the Toronto International Film Festival, and it was one of those days that drives home why events like TIFF can be so special. Each film I saw was drastically different from the last — there was everything from a drama about drifting cars to a throwback horror flick based on a famous Japanese ghost story — which was a great reminder that there are still plenty of new ideas left in the world of film.
这是我在多伦多国际电影节（TIFF）极其忙碌的第三天里挤出的五部电影之一。这一天让我深刻体会到为何像TIFF这样的活动如此特别。我所看的每一部电影都与前一部截然不同——从关于漂移赛车的剧情片，到改编自著名日本鬼故事的复古恐怖片，应有尽有——这有力地提醒着我们，电影世界中依然充满了新鲜的创意。
So let’s get to it. Here are some rapid-fire reviews of everything I saw on day 3 at TIFF.
那么，让我们进入正题。以下是我在TIFF第三天所看影片的快评。
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
《Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother》
In theaters in October. Latif (Ali) lives a life of contradictions: he’s a devout Muslim and loyal father, but he also works as a hitman, albeit one who works under a specific moral code (only kill bad guys; never use a gun). But both his faith and his code are tested when his wife dies and he’s forced to become a single father to three kids, including a newborn baby. At the same time, his blood-soaked past comes back to haunt him, putting everyone at risk. We’re in a great moment for pure action flicks like Furious or the John Wick franchise, but Your Mother offers something very different. It’s a powerful character study, one where the action is comparatively fleeting, but all the more powerful and impactful because of it. It’s a film that always left me guessing just how Latif was going to get through this, and, despite being very serious and often solemn, the story also has plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. Ali is excellent as the morally questionable righteous killer, but I was also really impressed by John Cho as the villain, a charismatically unhinged leader of a right-wing church group.
10月上映。拉蒂夫（阿里饰）的生活充满了矛盾：他是一位虔诚的穆斯林和忠诚的父亲，但同时也是一名杀手，尽管他遵循着特定的道德准则（只杀坏人，从不使用枪支）。然而，当妻子去世，他被迫成为三个孩子（包括一个新生儿）的单亲父亲时，他的信仰和准则都受到了考验。与此同时，他那沾满鲜血的过去找上门来，让所有人都陷入了危险。我们正处于《速度与激情》或《疾速追杀》系列这类纯动作片的黄金时代，但《Your Mother》提供了截然不同的体验。这是一部强有力的人物研究作品，动作场面相对短暂，但正因如此才更具冲击力和影响力。这部电影始终让我猜测拉蒂夫将如何度过难关，尽管故事非常严肃且时常显得庄重，但其中也不乏令人捧腹的时刻。阿里作为一名道德存疑的“正义杀手”表现出色，但我对饰演反派的约翰·赵印象同样深刻——他饰演的是一位充满魅力且精神失常的右翼教会领袖。
In Alaska
《In Alaska》
No theatrical date yet. A slow-burning crime thriller, In Alaska, co-directed by Jaap van Heusden and Vinnie Karetak, follows a suicidal teen named Woody (Leo Matthew Temela) who, after a tragic mishap, finds himself wanted by the FBI for causing millions of dollars worth of damage to an oil pipeline. It’s a film of two sides: Woody’s desperate attempts at survival, and veteran agent Susan (Noomi Rapace), the only one who realizes the damage wasn’t caused by eco-terrorists. In Alaska is a moodier take on the genre, and one that asks some difficult and important questions about both its leads, particularly Woody, who constantly grapples with whether he even wants to live at all. What starts out bleak ends on a much more hopeful note.
暂无上映日期。由贾普·范·赫斯登和维尼·卡雷塔克联合执导的《In Alaska》是一部慢节奏的犯罪惊悚片。影片讲述了一名有自杀倾向的少年伍迪（里奥·马修·特梅拉饰），在一次悲剧性的意外后，因对输油管道造成数百万美元的破坏而被FBI通缉。这是一部双线叙事的电影：一边是伍迪绝望的生存挣扎，另一边是资深探员苏珊（劳米·拉佩斯饰），她是唯一意识到破坏并非由生态恐怖分子造成的人。《In Alaska》对该类型片进行了更具情绪化的诠释，并对两位主角提出了一些困难且重要的问题，尤其是伍迪，他一直在挣扎自己是否还想活下去。故事以阴郁开场，却以充满希望的基调收尾。
The Face of Horror
《The Face of Horror》
No theatrical date yet. Conceptually, Anna Biller’s The Face of Horror is a mishmash of styles and influences. It’s based on the influential Japanese ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan, but adapts the tale for 14th century England. It then renders the whole thing in the style of Technicolor horror classics. That curious combination works, though, as the film has a campy sense of theatricality to it, with over-the-top performances and classic-style special effects — including some truly memorable make-up work — that lend its grisly tale of murder and betrayal a distinct vibe. And it’s all held together by two strong lead performances: Eleanor (Kristine Froseth), the jilted wife-turned-nightmare of Edward (Jonah Hauer-King), a smarmy and morally-dubious knight who is the kind of asshole you can’t wait to see get what’s coming to him.
暂无上映日期。从概念上讲，安娜·比勒的《The Face of Horror》是多种风格和影响的混合体。它改编自极具影响力的日本鬼故事《四谷怪谈》，但将背景移植到了14世纪的英格兰，并以特艺彩色（Technicolor）恐怖经典片的风格呈现。这种奇特的组合效果出奇地好，电影带有一种夸张的戏剧感，表演极具张力，特效也采用了经典风格——包括一些令人难忘的化妆效果——为这个关于谋杀与背叛的恐怖故事增添了独特的氛围。影片由两位主演的出色表演支撑：埃莉诺（克里斯汀·弗劳赛特饰）是被抛弃后化身为梦魇的妻子，而爱德华（乔纳·豪尔-金饰）则是一位油嘴滑舌、道德败坏的骑士，他是那种让你迫不及待想看到他遭到报应的混蛋。
Babies
《Babies》
No theatrical date yet. A film that explores that nagging question many long-term couples are forced to answer repeatedly: when are you going to have a baby? Written and directed by Lauren Miller Rogen, Babies is centered on Annie (Anna Kendrick) and Aaron (Seth Rogen), the only childless couple in their social circle. But Annie can’t stop thinking about the question — there’s a lot of her internal monologue debating the pros and cons of having kids — and the couple are forced to really confront the idea when a close friend and her young daughter come to stay with them, providing a taste of parenthood. Babies works for two reasons. First, it’s hilarious: Kendrick and Rogen have a blast together, and the supporting cast includes the likes of Issa Rae, Zach Cherry, and Ed Helm. But it also feels grounded in a way that makes it very relatable, whether you have kids or not.
暂无上映日期。这部电影探讨了许多长期伴侣被迫反复回答的那个恼人问题：你们什么时候要孩子？由劳伦·米勒·罗根编剧并执导，《Babies》聚焦于安妮（安娜·肯德里克饰）和亚伦（塞斯·罗根饰），他们是社交圈中唯一没有孩子的夫妇。但安妮无法停止思考这个问题——片中有大量她内心关于生孩子利弊的独白——当一位密友带着年幼的女儿来借住，让他们体验了一把为人父母的感觉后，这对夫妇被迫真正面对这个想法。《Babies》之所以成功有两个原因。首先，它非常搞笑：肯德里克和罗根合作得非常愉快，配角阵容还包括伊萨·雷、扎克·切里和艾德·赫尔姆斯等。其次，它非常接地气，无论你是否有孩子，都会感到感同身受。
Drifter
《Drifter》
No theatrical date yet. If Good Will Hunting and The Fast and the Furious were smushed together, you might get something like Drifter. The film is directed by longtime Fast star Sung Kang, who also plays the lead role of Tree, the janitor of a smalltown race track who moonlights as a driver for a drug kingpin. But all he really wants to do is drift, and events conspire to bring him to an event where he’ll go up against the best drifters in the world. The challenges are much more than just on the track, though; Tree has spent most of his life alone, so he’s forced to learn to open up to others.
暂无上映日期。如果把《心灵捕手》和《速度与激情》揉在一起，你可能会得到像《Drifter》这样的作品。该片由《速度与激情》系列资深影星成康执导，他同时饰演主角崔（Tree），一名小镇赛道的清洁工，兼职为毒枭开车。但他真正想做的只有漂移，一系列事件将他带入了一场比赛，他将与世界上最顶尖的漂移车手一决高下。然而，挑战远不止在赛道上；崔大半辈子都是孤身一人，因此他被迫学习如何向他人敞开心扉。