- After watching "Public Enemy",
Will Smith's affectionate interpretation, the production skills of Hollywood blockbusters, and the famous action film director, many elements combined to make the film "Public Enemy" guaranteed the box office of the year. To say what's good about the movie, I think it's the genre.
"For the safety of the people". Many villains have a high-sounding "excuse" when they do bad things that people hate. This is sometimes the belief of the villain. With belief, that is, with a firm concept, can he go further and further on the road of the villain. Even in reality, when the "Prism" plan was exposed, the NSA still said: "It is because of the Prism plan that terrorist plots
have been foiled again and again." society. At first, people hid in caves and built fences in order to avoid wolves, tigers and leopards. This is the prototype of the "country". People choose to give up the freedom of action for safety, and it is also the first instinct of human beings to survive. In modern society, there are more and more "dangers", and ferocious beasts have turned into terrorism, hiding in the dark and waiting for an opportunity. If the government can really act according to the rules, it will be fine to protect the safety of the people without going the wrong way. But since human beings have politics, it has been completely different.
In the American context, the term Politician mostly refers to a derogatory "politician". In the movie, the old hacker Biri who was a special agent has a sentence describing the big villain Tom Reynolds, which illustrates this point: "He is not a technician, he is a politician." What's more, bloody opponents, greedy and perverting the law, doing all kinds of evil, these scenes have everything in the American TV series "House of Cards". A government with a glossy surface, because the country is strong and huge, because of the huge and prosperous, it becomes mysterious and unpredictable, and because of the mysterious and unpredictable, it becomes alienated from the people. Therefore, in today's belief in the supremacy of democracy (or in the 90s when the movie was released), conspiracy theories are still very popular among the audience, so "Public Enemy" caters to everyone's appetite, wrapped in the coat of action movies, decorated with stars, A bucket of sweet popcorn burst out.
Tony Scott, the director of "Public Enemy", is good at making action movies, and there are many scenes of you chasing me and fleeing in the movie. If you have to add some American political and legal culture to this action movie, you can still do it a little bit. The Western world pays attention to the three powers - the legislative power, the judicial power, and the executive power are independent of each other. However, "maximizing the benefits within the institutional framework", even with the protection of the separation of powers, it is inevitable that the powers will penetrate each other, and it is inevitable that some people will achieve their goals through concealed means. The villain Reynolds is an NSA cadre. Although he is not even a deputy director, he killed a congressman who opposed the "Telecommunication Security and Privacy Act" in order to achieve his dream of getting a promotion and a salary increase. He even forged FBI documents. The lynching trial is lawless. In this incident, the administrative unit forcibly interfered with the legislative unit (unlawful, but not detected), in an attempt to strengthen the administrative unit's rights (legal) and narrow the scope of the judicial unit's vision (legal) through legislation. During the whole process, people's freedom was regarded as nobody care.
Digression: A lot of times, this is the case. Human beings have gradually created culture, politics, and economy in their production activities, but in the end they are constrained by culture, played by politics, and oppressed by economy.
To be safe or free? Everyone has their own reasons. Dean's wife is also a lawyer and a human rights fighter. She said: "Yes, let them monitor the bad guys, but who decides whether a person is a good guy or a bad guy?" Apparently, German Chancellor Angela Merkel should not be considered an enemy of the United States, but she was monitored, Numerous EU leaders were also tapped. For ordinary people, it is quite ironic that online conversations are being monitored when playing World of Warcraft (relevant news has been reported). The real situation has slapped the governments of various countries loudly. In real life outside the movie, you have been monitored and there is nowhere to hide. For safety, people build fences. But now, can you give up privacy in exchange for security?
In the film, the protagonist Dean does not eat hard and soft, and is not afraid of black and white power. But when Dean sees politicians on TV who think there should be more surveillance, he agrees (although under pressure from his wife, a human rights defender, he relents on the spot). In order to win the lawsuit, Dean risks being discovered by his wife to meet his ex-lover, and spends a lot of money to find Bi Rui to monitor the boss of the gang. His approach obviously involves the privacy of others. Not to mention Berry, who used to work at the NSA, but faced a real enemy of the state. But after he chose his son to go it alone, he still engaged in this kind of shameful deeds. Although he talked about brotherhood and raised his daughter for his dead comrade-in-arms, in fact he still couldn't stop the job that harmed his comrades-in-arms. You can tell from the expression of enjoyment in the bank's work, he really doesn't care about your privacy, what he wants is the pleasure of voyeurism!
Even at the end of the film, Reynolds told Birui about his philosophy: "There are millions of lunatics in the United States, the weapons are rifles, poison gas and bombs, and 10-year-olds can steal state secrets from the Internet, or make nuclear bombs, for national security. , must violate personal privacy." In fact, because of the relationship between character modeling, he was asked to say all kinds of hateful words. If it was changed to another form, it might be easier to accept: "Comrades, now the reactionary forces at home and abroad are rampant, A small group of hostile elements have already penetrated into our people. For the democracy and freedom of the United States, and for the common people like you and Xiao Hei to live a happy and harmonious life with American characteristics of capitalism, we must aim at the nooks and crannies, and let the bad guys have nowhere to go. Hide! Give the belt to the party and the government, and the people will thank you." Look, isn't it a lot more comfortable to say that? Just like the adults said to the children, "What does the bear child know? I'm doing this for your own good."
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