The casting of Nicolas Cage is not quite right for this film. As a well-established actor, he carries this tone of absurdity, of amusement and comicality with him wherever he goes and whatever he does, which is great and truly effective in itself, but comes off as quite jarring in this film. Simply put, he is too funny to go with this heavily bleak, eerie, and devastatingly beautiful film. Other than that, the film is a solid and audacious cinematic adaptation of Lovecraft's mystical story. Mayhem2019
B / 越到后面飞起来越发觉原作的概念实在是太好了:“色彩”既可轻盈冷冽又可粘稠滚烫,既可深入自然山水又可映射于现代屏幕之中,既被人类所制造又永远与生命维持着暧昧的边界。因而当日常意义上的“光”被“色彩”反向定义,甚至色彩超越“光”而占据了传播的主导,超自然力量便可现身其中,人与自然间的媒介便被抹除。影片试图创造的正是这样一种直观迫近而无可逃避的眩惑,它无需解释,它就在那里。联系爱手艺写作的年代,这是否也是接续着马奈、塞尚的某种视觉现代性或是感知主体崩解的体现?这样看来的话,导演在视觉逻辑上的建树还是不够。
林文清
2019-10-12 23:07:58