The movie tells the story of Sean Archer, a senior agent of the FBI, who spends his life chasing the cunning terrorist Custer Troy, and eventually succeeds in killing Custer by pretending to be the other side through face-swapping surgery.
Director John Woo cleverly used slow-motion, staccato editing and other techniques to render the violent scenes both intense and beautiful, forming a unique “aesthetic of violence” style.
In the film, the church, dove, crucifixion statue, etc. are common elements in John Woo’s film, they are given multiple meanings, is an important part of its violent aesthetics, the church is often the place of violence and death, but at the same time it is also a symbol of hope and salvation, doves are often found before and after the violent scenes, symbolizing the respect for life and the desire for peace, the violence is often rendered very poetic through the means of slow-motion, stop-motion, and so on. Violent scenes are often rendered poetic through slow-motion, stop-motion, etc. The violent and bloody scenes are endowed with romantic beauty, which, together with the smooth graphic effects, makes the whole film full of poetic visual impact.
1997 / USA / Action Sci-Fi Thriller Crime / John Woo / John Travolta Nicolas Cage
Plot Synopsis:
Caster (Nicolas Cage) is a terrorist who was trying to kill Agent Sean (John Travolta), but accidentally killed Sean’s son, who has a vendetta against Caster.
After arresting Kester, he thinks he can put an end to it, but learns that Kester has already dropped a gas bomb on a crowded corner of the city.
In order to find out the location of the bomb, Sean decides to use plastic surgery to replace the face of the comatose Caster with his own, to assume the identity of Caster to extract the truth from his brother.
This matter belongs to the FBI highly classified, only a few people know.
Kester woke up, at this time he has the face of Sean.
So he decided to take the trick, after killing the people who know, he became Sean ……
