The Oscar movie handbook ＂The Phantom Sewer＂ is Lewis’s ＂swan song＂？

On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Oscars, 1905 Film Network and China Film Report, together with 12 senior film critics (11 were present in this issue), launched the Oscar Film Handbook, which gave exclusive and authoritative ratings and comments on the nine films nominated for the best film this year, so that fans of all departments could know and participate in the annual Oscar feast for the first time.

This manual will be continuously updated from February 27th to March 3rd, and the fourth issue will bring you scores and comments. If you want to know all the ratings of 9 nominated films by 12 senior film critics in China, please continue to pay attention to China Film Report WeChat WeChat official account.

What fans are worth looking forward to is that at 7:00 on March 5, 2018, the 1905 movie network will broadcast the Oscars live all the time. This is the best gift for fans and also a feast for the giants of movies.

The 11 senior film critics invited by the Oscar Film Handbook (in no particular order) are:

Chen Shiya, Executive Editor of Global Screen

Zeng Nianqun, Executive Editor of Youth Film Handbook

Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Content Department, Laoyang Time Network

Editor-in-Chief of Xiaoqi Iqiyi Film Channel

　Editor-in-Chief of A Lang’s Watching Movies magazine.

Zhou Liming film critic

Sairen film critic

Cui ting film critic

Red fish film critic

Yabo’s Gun Draft

Qi Zheng’s China Film Report is an international senior editor.

Scoring rules: Each shortlisted film is divided into seven items: director technique, script, art direction, photography, editing/sound editing, soundtrack/sound effect and performance, with a score of 5 for each item and a total score of 35 points.

The Phantom Sewer

Director:　Paul Thomas Anderson

Screenwriter: paul thomas anderson

Starring:　Daniel day-Lewis / Vicky Krieps / Lesley Manville /Camilla Rutherford

Type: Plot/Love

Producer country/region: USA

Language: English

Zeng Nianqun (Executive Editor of Youth Film Handbook):

Similarly, The Phantom Sewing Man is not a sweet love in the traditional sense, but a niche and strange feeling with a slant sword. The love struggle between the hero and heroine in the film is like an emotional war, with extraordinary aggressiveness and explosiveness. When the two sides of love seek a new self through the attack of love, everything that is used to it is subverted by the war of love. The difference is that war is destructive, and the result of this love war is win-win. Despite the high degree of completion of the film, there are many touching scenes, but the sadomasochism in it still makes me unable to digest, and there is an uncomfortable feeling of foam crossing the wet glass.

Zhou Liming (film critic):

Although this film is dominated by Americans, it shows the elegance and texture of British films. The rhythm of not being slow and not getting sick, because of the excellent performance, is also quite interesting. The theme of the film is the uniqueness of artistic genius and how to get along with such people, but the excavation is not deep.

Sai Ren (film critic):

The film with the least ambition in this year’s Oscar is estimated to be just running with you in the end. It does not resonate with the grand sense of home and country, but in the love mode that should be tailored to suit one’s own circumstances, it has entered the wrestling of control and anti-control to fight poison with poison. Although the story is quite dangerous, it is Anderson’s most calm film in recent years. This is also a pan-political film, that is, the position of slaves and masters may change at any time. A large number of pure white color blocks are processed, which has a lazy dying breath. Lewis stayed in his daughter’s country for a long time. He thought he could lead an honest and clean life. Unexpectedly, he often walked by the river, and there were no wet shoes. What makes me dissatisfied with the film is that it lacks more interesting details. It is too solid and neat.

Yabo (Gun Draft):

As Daniel Day-Lewis’s farewell work (or perhaps another empty shot), The Phantom Sewer makes a tailor’s love story both classical and gloomy. PTA mirror and music complement each other, making the whole film like an oil painting with profound skills, which not only presents a full aesthetic feeling as a whole, but also makes the details very exquisite. But this movie is like an unbalanced Chinese costume. From the outside, it looks good in style, which can reveal face. It is just that there are some simple linings, morbid love can never find a way to penetrate people’s hearts, and elegant characters lack rich inner world.

Chen Shiya (executive editor of Global Screen):

As a farewell work of Daniel Day-Lewis, a great acting artist, The Phantom Sewer is an out-and-out topic movie among fans and media practitioners. Although the director paul thomas anderson’s performance is not as good as that of The Master, among the nine nominated films, The Phantom Sewing Man is probably the most mature one, so that the bizarre love-hate entanglement between a high-end garment tailor and a restaurant maid continues the eternal loneliness of human beings and the complex theme of "Others are hell" in Anderson’s films in a glamorous picture. Unfortunately, Lewis’s performance this time is not as brilliant as that in "Blood Will Come".

A Lang (editor-in-chief of Watching Movies):

The greatest charm of the film is the naivety of love, which is embodied in the form of beauty, just like the protagonist’s tailor’s career, his coldness and arrogance are beaten back to the original shape in the face of love. At the same time, the film also shows another essence of love, which is possessiveness and control. Love is an extreme way of human nature, which has too many collisions with human nature, and also the ultimate way to embody human nature in the form of beauty after colliding with things. Daniel Day-Lewis once again contributed his own performance height. On this planet, he is the king of performance.

Xiao tuo (editor-in-chief of iqiyi movie channel):

The victory of classicism and the perfect display of the retro trend in the 1950s on the big screen have recreated a beautiful fashion world. Taking the love story as the line, it tells the crazy game and control in their relationship, and the extreme collision between beauty and ugliness. Actors are of course the biggest highlight. This year’s Oscar is a big year, right? Daniel Day-Lewis continues to make people want to stop.

Lao Yang (Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Time Network Content Department):

If we simply analyze the story, paul thomas anderson’s new work is really nothing new. A young woman from a lower class comes to a noble family and falls in love with an artist with super control. You can imagine the contradictions and conflicts about class differences and gender differences, and you can see them more or less in the movies.

What makes this film outstanding can be summed up by a "cinematic sense" that is difficult to explain clearly in one sentence, including photography, soundtrack, lens language, costume design, and Daniel Day-Lewis’ divine performance. Paul thomas anderson "studied under" robert altman, who is an anti-tripod figure in the American independent film industry. His strength has been proved by several works such as Blood Will Come, Master, etc. This time, Anderson has returned from abstruse to simple, and his skill is still good.

Red fish (film critic):

The rare work of "Dojo in a snail’s shell" in this PTA film, although the pattern is small, the gas field is still Anderson-style deep depression, and I will never give up until I tell the horror of a story. However, compared with other PTA films, this film is still a little fresh after all, and it can’t satisfy the fans who are dumped by the forces that dare to question and even violate everything in "Blood is Coming" and "Master" — — Perhaps, I can’t satisfy Daniel Day Lewis. Such a role is obviously not suitable as the last farewell performance of his radiant pre-screen career. I guess he will come back again.

　

Cui Ting (film critic):

Paul thomas anderson’s film is a little short of material selection. It is a relatively literary film, which is a bit boring and lacks the feeling of surprise. By comparison, it is almost better than Hehe. It was this close that made it difficult for the film to win important awards. Not surprisingly, The Phantom Sewer was nominated for best actor, and Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for best actor three times. But this year, Gary Oldman was so good that Daniel didn’t have a chance this time.

　

Qi Zheng (international senior editor of China Film Report):

PTA never lets fans down, and his control of stories has a fascinating temperament. It is a thorough examination of human nature, a divine question, and the courage to subvert everything. This film is the most understandable of all his works, and the smallest in pattern, but it still doesn’t disappoint the audience. Even when you see the end, you suddenly realize that this is paul thomas anderson’s directing art.

In the first 30 minutes of the film, paul thomas anderson made the film exude classicism and elegance by using film techniques similar to "showmanship". In the middle of the film, the audience may once think that the quality of the film will decline, but the director buried all his strength at the end. He discussed the completely different possessiveness of men and women for love with absolutely unique character settings. Lewis pursues the completeness that love gives him in pain and struggle, and Vicky Krieps interprets the possessiveness of the hostess and a little deformed love.