克罗索巨兽

emm……一头雾水。

被微博上的小视频吸引专门找来看的，然而整个影片让人有些摸不着头脑，难道是表达的太隐晦了么。

人物的行为奇奇怪怪，就算按照醉酒来解释也有些逻辑不通。亏得一开始觉得高深莫测，以为怪物是主角心中负面情绪之类的一种具象化（韩国人做错了啥-_-||），然而最后也没有明确或是模糊的解释。

整个故事呈现的磕磕绊绊，是为了反映男主黯然失色挣扎无望的人生？还是衬托女主虽然浑浑噩噩酗酒瞎搞但最后拯救苍生的光辉？理解不能。

唯一的体会大概是好孩纸不能酗酒吧☺

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。

怪兽在市中心同一位置每天同一时间像打卡考勤一样来破坏，棒子市民为啥仍然还是不离不弃，在废墟里班照上舞照跳吃嘛嘛香跟没事一样？怪兽最后一次出现了，大家伙全都像初次见面一样惊愕的盯着怪兽看来看去，就是没人逃跑，直到怪兽开始破坏了才恍然大悟:我们应该逃跑啊！拜托人家已经在首尔破坏了一个多礼拜了你们还在纳闷个啥？

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)

1星给特效，2星给脑洞，剧情暗示女主有酗酒的问题，但是通篇没有任何她酗酒的镜头，所以看起来反而是最正常的一个。前男友开局赶人，能理解，一个正常生活的人无法容忍自己的另一半乱来。后面听到人家做服务员就要去把人家接回来是什么意思？二号男更是莫名其妙，一开始的童年伙伴暖男形象，我都忘记是什么时候开始黑化的了，好像是女主跟他朋友睡了之后吧？但是你用韩国人来威胁女主算个啥？强行点题？我觉得你就是下个药强个奸都比这靠谱吧？最后女主回忆起童年的时候男二其实已经是黑的，踩烂了她的模型又不说原因，敢情这货从小就是个有破坏欲的变态？