"You Were Never Really Here" is a bloody and poetic movie. A story that seems exciting enough, there are fascinating things, and there are places that make people shudder. But unfortunately, there is only a mediocre rude temperament left in this film, and a little bit of stupidity.
This film belongs to the kind of work that can only be truly understood by the audience watching it twice. The film seems to be a tribute to Martin Scorsese 's work " Taxi Driver ". Bloody trading venues and themes of political corruption are all in this film. Shown. Images and music shuttle between memories and reality, jumping between reality and illusion, like dreams but not dreams, sometimes confusing. Certain scenes in the film still have a certain degree of visibility. For example, when Joe returns to his home, he finds that there are bad guys lurking in it. The camera flashes back to the scene of his father's violence, which gives the picture a deep meaning. In the last five minutes, Ramsey added some visual performance skills. Although it feels like a gimmick or a mischievous joke, it is also shocking enough. Joe's story of saving Nina is also intriguing
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"You Were Never Really Here" is the protagonist reflecting on the meaning of his own existence: childhood cannot protect his mother from being beaten by his father, and he still cannot rescue his mother from the killer as an adult. Even when she finally plans to take revenge, she finds that Loli is not only You don't need your own salvation, and you can even help yourself with revenge. In the fantasy of the protagonist at the end of the film, he drank himself in the restaurant, facing the blood on the floor, but everyone in the restaurant turned a blind eye to the point. The theme of the movie is also very obvious, that is, society's neglect of individual demands. Little people can only fight for their own destiny
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