克罗索巨兽

人与巨兽的联系是非常棒的创意，可惜主角设定上的瑕疵，即使她最后拯救了世界，也难以与她共情。

故事讲述颓废又酗酒的失业青年Gloria被男友赶出家后回到家乡小镇。

一次偶遇年少好友Oscar，迷茫的生活似乎有了转变，她来到Oscar的酒吧兼职服务员，Oscar也热情地为Gloria空荡荡的房子增添家具示好，但Gloria似乎读不懂Oscar的好意，与Oscar的好友眉目传情甚至发生one night stand。

期间，世界发生一件大事：远在大洋彼岸的韩国被突如其来的巨兽肆虐，全国高度警惕巨兽的再次到来。

Gloria渐渐发现自己与巨兽的联系：她就是巨兽，巨兽就是她，只要Gloria出现在小镇的公园空地，巨兽就会出现在韩国，并且二者动作一致。

这一诡异的发现让Gloria心生歉意，原来她在无意中使那么多人丧生。

但巨兽不止Gloria，Oscar也控制着一头巨型机器人。

索爱不成的Oscar恼羞成怒，以成千上万的性命控制着她。

不堪忍受的Gloria利用对称原理，来到韩国，控制着出现在小镇的巨兽，将失去理智的Oscar抛向远方，故事到此结束。

影片于2015年拍摄，2017年上映，就创意来说，在我目前的观影量里绝无仅有，可惜在主角Gloria的人物设定上，个人目标，特别是道德品行上的设计莫名其妙。

Gloria没有对电影中任何一个男角色产生情感。开场同居的纽约男友忍受不了Gloria的谎言和颓废，要求结束关系并希望对方好好找工作好好照顾自己，而回到家乡的Gloria后来确实这么做了，但又很难理解她与另外的角色发生关系是为何。

而Gloria对Oscar的示好却又全盘接受，从未对Oscar明确二人关系，观感上就像吊着一个对自己献殷勤的男人一样，实在令人费解。

写完这一通后忽然觉得Oscar有点可怜…

以上。

本片及脑洞即题材十分不错，阐述角度也从女主格洛莉娅极端女权主义出发，充分传达了《终究还是一个人扛下了所有》的精神。当然，本人来说绝不倡导所谓的大男子主义，毕竟良好的恋爱关系需要彼此的舒适，而非强调控制和让对方无限制妥协。本片打着科幻片的幌子，直接来一波爱情片和公益宣传。

片中的三位男性的人设较为符合“一团糟”的格洛莉娅：

蒂姆：老是在妥协的小白领： -照顾失业女友，希望其变好不要沉迷酗酒 -分手后，没放下过关心，没挂过一个电话 -不甘愿女主在酒吧做服务员，即上门求和 -被放鸽子后仍在关心，希望得到一个解释

奥斯卡：不停寻求自我优越感的舔狗： -女主离开老家，仍不停打探跟踪女主消息 -各种嘘寒问暖，提供生活用品及工作帮助 -久别后第一次见面，直接带去继承的酒吧 -虽酒吧生意惨淡，但仍然觉得自己是老板 -小团体中的领袖，结交比自己更差的朋友 -付出没有回报后，立即展现变态的控制欲

乔尔：脑子还在发育的荷尔蒙： -对于长得好看女性，眼中只有交配的概念 -一夜情后，女主即使面对压力也无动于衷

那本片女主格洛莉娅是怎么面对他们的呢，控制 -对于蒂姆，就是踩底线，我不听，晾一边，但是我好像还是爱你的 -对于奥斯卡，由于当下环境原因，就满足你舔狗心里，但老娘对你没有半点意思 -对于乔尔，睡睡就可以了，其他别多想

怪兽即自我，处于酗酒和日夜颠倒的生活，会使人成为怪兽，有趣的是这样的情况往往自我并不知道，片中的新闻报道犹如酒醒后回看自己喝大时的视频，一样令自己难以置信。另外怪兽出现选择首尔，可能是当时对于韩美部署事件的暗讽。

你想听个惊奇的故事吗？ 当然想，那你想喝点什么？ Emmm...

当下年轻人理解的夜生活，或许会以酒精、派对、酒店来涵盖， 确实有吸引，但还是凡事有度，避免一团糟，成为那个令自己都难以置信的怪兽。 个人觉得还是学会控制自我的欲望，自律及自由。

The fourth feature of Spanish genre-bucking filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo (whose debut film TIMECRIMES 2007 is a mind-boggling wheeze on time-loop), COLOSSAL is a shaggy-dog story which marries a woman’s striving for temperance and getting her life back on track in the middle America with a kaiju’s mysterious manifestation in the hub of Seoul, thetelekinetic synchrony of their actionsflouts any rationale but it is an ingenious premise to tickle audience’s interest.

Gloria (Hathaway), a jobless writer has a drinking problem, is unceremoniously dumped by her piqued boyfriend Tim (Stevens) and has to move back to her hometown. She touches base with her childhood friend Oscar (Sudeikis), who is congenial enough to offer her a job as a barista in the bar where he has inherited from his father, although it isn’t a perfect option for a woman who tries to dry out, but a woman needs to survive, Gloria takes the offer.

When a Brobdingnagian monster repeatedly materializes in Seoul at the exact same place and same time (8:05 a.m. in Gloria’s time zone) and afterward vaporizes into the thin air, a personal tic triggers off Gloria’s curiosity and following a simple experiment it certifies that the monster is actually her avatar: if she walks into a playground nearby exactly at that time, the monster will simultaneously appear in Seoul and whatever she does during that special spatio-temporal frame, the monster will follow suit, which means it can wreak disproportionate havoc to the city of Seoul. If that is the case, why not staving off from the magic playground at that particular time, everything will be easy-breezy. Nevertheless, the plot thickens when Oscar steps in, it turns out that a giant robot is his remote avatar, Gloria must thereby handle with care of their increasingly passive-aggressive relation especially after she spends a romantic evening with their common friend Joel (Stowell), because it seems that Oscar is enamored with her, or is he?

What follows is a rather unexpected change of gear, the movie’s light-hearted backbone and absurdity subsides when Oscar lets rip his domineering bearing over Gloria by threatening to rampage Seoul if she disobeys, and more upsettingly, there is no specific reason behind his transgression, it is not that he is driven by jealousy or a past grudge, it is just his complexion, a self-hater who takes insidious pleasure in making other’s lives miserable, which essentially stems from his own unhappiness, stuck in a dead-water life in a small town. As a barkeeper, there is not much deal he can bargain, but now, possessed with the destructive superpower, he has the leverage to hector Gloria into subservience, and it is not difficult to detect its mordant connotations pertaining to today's reality (an egoist's bullying culture) and a slightly offensive sideswipe at small-town dweller’s low self-esteem.

How can Gloria defeat this man-demon in her own way without a third-party’s involvement (its shoe-string budget doesn’t allow it)? Vigalondo again proves his innovativeness (with a junket trip to Seoul as its rewarding divvy)in the genre storytelling, after a convenient memory recovery of what instigates their avatar’s presence in Seoul in the first place, which happened 25 years ago when both Gloria and Oscar were school-kids (a cheap CGI of thunderclaps is a requisite for the scenario), Gloria outsmarts Oscar with a deus ex machina (which has no logic groundings but story-wise, an emboldening maneuver) and triumphantly humbles her indomitable nemesis. In toto, gingered up by two outstanding performances from Hathaway and Sudeikis, in particular the latter’s gradual metamorphosis from a goody-goody to an obnoxious sadist, COLOSSAL shores up a strong feminist manifesto of a woman’s own freestanding ritual of finding back her mojo, against its built-in limits in rounding out its yarn of incredulity.

referential point: Gareth Edwards’ GODZILLA (2014, 6.4/10)