调音师英语影评

The piano tuner（调音师）
Micro film，horror film，France，13minutes
Main Award：The thirty-seventh French Kaiser Award for best short film
A man, named Adrien, used to think he was a brilliant pianist but failed in an important piano competition. From then on, he felt very sorry for himself .He pretended to be a blind and chose to be a blind piano tuner. People were more friendly, and were willing to spend more money on his work. He felt very satisfied to turn a blind eye, with an extra advantage: being a silent witness of what people do around him, and sometimes he perceives fantastic things that could be unimaginable in other circumstances. But everything has its price...
The first scene shows Adrien playing the piano in underwear and someone behind him.
But there is a secret in him that is revealed when he is with Simon in a café… and it is a lie that can be a huge risk for the one telling it and one never thinks of the consequences that it can bring. The story of the way
the Taj Mahal(泰姬陵) was built is a verbal introduction to the story that we will see in the last part of the film. And the first scene becomes the last: the circle is closed.
A well-structured film with an element of surprise and with a marvelous turn-of-the-screw in the end, it has only a spot that I would criticize that unfortunately spoils that surprise element so nicely achieved along the film: the quite obvious zoom-in to the last client’s door.
But as a whole, the film is magnificent and we see the effectiveness of the way Adrien manipulates(操纵) people in the cases of the rude waiter who serves him and Simon in such a despotic（专横的）manner in the café, and its end is SPLENDID（极好的）because it is narrated（叙述，给做旁白）in off. Pretending has its advantages and it moves to sympathy and compassion, but sometimes it becomes an unbearable risk.。