Jack, an Alaskan ex patriot, returns to his Fairbanks home following the death of his wife. He is full of anger, guilt and depression. His reclusive lifestyle is challenged when he meets a graduate student who is investigating the affects of the mining operations on a local water source. The film was shot on location in Fairbanks. The cinematography is beautiful and genuine. There is nothing fake or stereotypical about the portrayal of the subarctic summer and lifestyle. Filmed during in mid-June during the longest day of the year, the cinematographer and the director make excellent use of the midnight sun and the seasonal beauty unique to this part of the world. For this Fairbanksan, it was refreshing to see a film where Interior Alaska is portrayed with such integrity. Daniel Ponickly, who stars as Jack delivers a good performance as the widower who is lost in his grief. Ponickly also wrote the screenplay. This is the second full length feature film for director Zoe Quist. Her first film, Raw Cut, a thriller was also filmed in a panoramic environment -Dubois, WY- she made excellent use of the natural beauty of the environment. Through these two different stories, Quist proved her directing talent and ability. Newcomer Carrie Baker, and veteran Mischa Barton give very good performances. I would have liked to see more of Barton. Syd Wilder, is very convincing as the waitress with a heart of gold and a body for sin as are very convincing in their bad boy roles Jonathan Bennett and Levi Ben-Israel. Billy Zane is well cast as a UAF School of Geophysics professor, Toly Ramirez wrote the score for Mining for Ruby, as he did the haunting music for Raw Cut. The length of the film is 95 minutes and this writer found them to be a very enjoyable way to rediscover his home town.
这剧情把警察写的像傻子，没有警惕性。前面无聊，后面逻辑性不够。
即使看到最后，也不足以支撑前面大段的迷惑行为。
黎明终将到来，是泡沫也好，是希望也好，总要去面对。
还是可以看得下去的，女主颜值一直在线，也很喜欢这种傍晚出来去日本的小居酒屋喝酒的感觉
乔·卡纳汉的新电影《警察局》，一改之前作品直男、硬汉的纯动作片性质。以《黄金三镖客》和《肮脏的哈利》等东木的老动作片为灵感，致敬了《紧急搜捕令》。整体格局更小，重点刻画西部无人区的荒蛮与黑色，比较复古，看着有种科恩兄弟《老无所依》的感觉。但是放在现代网络背景下，有些剧情并不符合情理。“Yeah, well. You in the cop business. So that makes you a murderer. But I'm in the murder business, so that just makes me a laborer. You see how that works?” / 2022.2.5 家
对于我这样的一个非专业观影人士，我能给予的评价就是还不错，不大一样的叙事方式。墨西哥海边美景赏心悦目，男主看似扑克脸的表演挺让我觉得扑朔迷离的。
阿根廷啊，西班牙啊之类的悬疑片，甚至还包括一些墨西哥的悬疑片，气质非常独特，阴郁，忧伤，悲壮又有点小小的邪念，很类型但又很文学。这个故事有bug，比如最后一段，作家又没搬家，作为曾经的助手她并不需要借由记者才能找到他，随时可以去见他。当然bug归bug，这电影所写的两重故事的互为映照，有点末日感的风雨环境，特别戏剧化甚至歌剧化但又没脱离真实的氛围，等等地方都还是能带来一些启发的。
跟Chronic一样胡编一个结尾，强行结束。资本的光鲜与血腥在瞬间切换。
一开始导向纯粹的视听情境，核心事件对主角失去了吸引力，大量“不知从何结束，又不知从何开始”的非理性剪辑，又以一种非常human的虚无主义观点去打破感觉-运动的关联。之后电影则变得精神分析起来，它先是来到了《新秩序》的反面，不是实在界之力冲破了符号现实的壁垒，而是符号秩序对主体的永恒支配：尽管选择放弃家人、金钱和身份，主角还是命运般地被指派到符号网络的一个点位，接受来自大他者的惩罚。而最后的反转又将电影推向了所谓崇高化的问题：这份超然并非凭空得来，是生理性死亡的预兆给予了他面对符号性死亡的勇气。在两次死亡的中间地带，或站在那只被解刨的猪的位置，Neil以异世的姿态迎接自己的命运
关于一个小错误引发了一场小悲剧，受害者却用一个个更大的错误引起更大的悲剧的故事。
因为15年前的私心，对乔·卡纳汉一直颇有好感，现在仔细想想这兄弟水准一直不高。Who the fuck is Toby Huss? Denis O'Hare look alike.
关于一个小错误引发了一场小悲剧，受害者却用一个个更大的错误引起更大的悲剧的故事。
是天谴，还是人祸？不管怎样，悲剧已经发生…
活个寂寞，远离尘嚣，遁入虚无罢了。★★★/6.5
蔚蓝晴空，日正当中，中年男子尼尔与家人在墨西哥的度假胜地，享受奢华的悠閒假期。白天在泳池边小酌，晚餐与乐手暗送秋波，一切都十分惬意，直到手机铃声划破空气。电话那头母亲病况危急，大家只好收拾行李，搭上下一班回国的飞机，不料尼尔在登机口找不到护照，只能与家人分道扬镳。走出机 场，尼尔搭上计程车，开往的却不是回饭店的方向，而是市区的破烂旅社⋯⋯。
这不是white privilege的虚无，这就是普通人的虚无，white privilege只是为了将这种虚无表现得更加纯粹。如果你觉得它无病呻吟，那么，恭喜你。
没有什么前因后果，没有人物形象的深入描写，好似留白，但又有点让人琢磨不透
这打了草稿没打磨就开拍了。我其实觉得故事能写的更精彩一些，基于以下几个原因：
到底是谁在套路谁，我认为男女主都有可能有预谋。
蒂姆罗斯塑造的这个人物很好。本来觉得最后患癌真是多余，但又想世事本来就是这样，虚无就是虚无，患癌不患癌又怎么样。觉得患癌多余是不是也是我对所谓人生的编排太过傲慢，觉得有没有也就无所谓了。
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