On November 5, 1997, the French community discovered a game, a new David Fincher thriller. A year and a half after seven viewers from all over the world stopped, the director returned with this singular and dividing work, which was taken by Michael Douglas in a state of grace.
If the film is a lot, it is especially because of its result, which lets us in some minds. Some are crying, some are experiencing this escalation, but the game leaves no one indifferent.
Reality or fiction?
The plot will lead to San Francisco, where Nicolas Van Orton saw it, which is interpreted by Michael Douglas. A rich, cold and lonely businessman, he intends to celebrate his 48th anniversary, at the same age as his father when he committed suicide. It seems that nothing has been able to bother the detailed order of its existence.
But it was without the counting of his younger brother, Conrad Van Orton, who camped Sean Penn. It is an old random drug addict that leads to an inactive and careless life. In the case of this anniversary, Conrad offers him an enigmatic gift: a mysterious company called the CRS (Récre Services), specializing in the Tailor -Made “Games” organization.
Conrad assures: Just a simple call to start a “game”. With curiosity, Nicholas goes to the CRS offices, strangely located on the stone’s throwing from his own bank. He conducted a series of tests there, without understanding the goal … until his life is so controlled, cruelly slipping.
Throughout the film, David Fincher is led by a boat viewer in his high tension in a paranoid thriller. The more scenes, the more manipulating the story is to be more surprising, even shocking.
Imperial Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas plays with a terrible character who is soaked and calculated, which will lose a little bit of his beard. Its more important confusion will be contaminated by the viewer to the final conclusion, with an amazing intensity.
In fact, along the movie, Nicholas really fails to sort between reality and the moments of the game he subscribed to. David Fincher was very clever, creating a very mental confusion in society, which is completely helpless at the end of the film, as well as a businessman by Michael Douglas.
At the end of history, the latter manages to take responsibility for CSR, a company responsible for its calamities. Remotively, he takes Christine (Deborah Kara Unger) hostage, employed by the firm and climbing the roof of the building. The latter is trying to justify it, but Nicholas does not want to hear anything.
In the hands of a gun, he wants to discover the truth at any cost. Under the tension, then he pointed to the pistol at the door of the roof, which suddenly opens. Show! We realize that Nicholas has just brought Conrad, his own brother; The latter wanted a welcome bottle with a champagne bottle to celebrate his birthday with dignity and reach the end of the game.
Irony
In front of all his relatives, Nicholas has just stopped his brother and turned the story into a heartbreaking tragedy. To break, he cannot withstand the horrors of his gesture, the man invalid himself to end his life.
In addition to landing … a giant inflatable mattress mounted on a chic restaurant under the incredible eyes of consumers. And there, the final surprise: his brother, who was soaked with false blood, is re -emerging, alive, that he was happy on his birthday. This whole event was just a huge staging that was orchestrated in small details.
Nicholas, shot, shocked, then grabbed his arms, applauded by the assembly. So it ends with this completely crazy story that is woven by David Fincher. This unexpected turnover is perfectly orchestrated by the filmmaker who transfers the viewer with all the emotions.
When everything breaks down, the story works on a 180 degree hand. What seemed to be an irreversible drama, it turned out to be a huge fuss, a life -sized game. This inversion is stronger because it plays the emotional sense of the viewer. A few minutes later, we are surprised by the extreme tension, and then we go to the terrain. This is an excellent art in stopping manipulation.
A cynical human transformation
However, this conclusion caused a clear debate among fans; Some have turned out to be great, some emphasizing the grand and small reliable side of this final. For his part, David Fincher decided. He regretted when he tried to bet on such a radical outcome.
“I saw this film as an episode of the fourth dimension, where the character experiences abstract horror. Then, in the end, there is a simple explanation that it was a film whose viewer himself is a hero and paid for it.He said Cinémathèque Française during a visit to the October 2023, quoted Three colors.
However, this final is excellent as it emphasizes the radical transformation of Nicolas’s personality. A businessman, literally and symbolically, to celebrate this metamorphosis.
At the beginning of the film, he is a cold, cynical person who has been released by himself, a kind of modern scroll. Finally, all of these adventures make him a broken soul, a vulnerable creature, and eventually … makes a person. The emotional shock that lives is also a spectator. This is the end of a revival: a person who, with the loss of everything (sights, status, comfort), finds essential.
If you give you some of these lines to look at the game, do not hesitate, David Fincher’s feature film is available on the HBO Max Platform.
Source: Allocine
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