這部片的技術陣容確實不錯,值得拍拍手 。但劇情的水準就有點像夜市的彈珠台——時好時壞,靠運氣。有點可惜,因為台北的夜晚本來就超有戲,氣氛十足、角色滿街跑,要是能把這些夜裡的故事串在一起,應該可以拍得又潮又迷人。
比如說,每段故事的角色都曾經走進同一家通宵營業的便利商店——可能只是進去買罐啤酒或買包菸——也就是那張樂透教訓發生的地方。這樣的巧合就夠形成一種微妙的連結了,不需要真的碰頭。更不用安排什麼靈異插曲,因為深夜裡那些自然發生的人與人的交會,本身就已經夠引人入勝了。
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
CONS:
• John Travolta getting this role instead of Al Pacino
• The director of Blow Out casting his wife as one of the leads
• The director of Co-ed Frenzy angrily demanding new wind in the trees sound recordings immediately
• Convenient nocturnal wildlife
• Clear lighting during a nighttime underwater rescue from a car that sank beneath the Henry Avenue Bridge
• Cop asking Travolta at the hospital "if there was a girl" and whether she was inside…
“I love photographing women. I’m fascinated by the way they move. I love to follow them. I love to make the audience get involved in their dilemmas.”
These dilemmas include getting stalked, knifed in the throat, strangled in a public bathroom stall, murdered in the shower, or impaled on a spinning electric drill bit long enough to emerge through the ceiling of the room below dripping with blood, to name just a few scenes from his body of work.