First of all, congratulations and cheers for the acquaintance and cooperation between Cronenberg and VIGGO. They really fit to this extent, so that such a hopeless redemption is so unforgettable. In fact, I watched this film about half a year ago, but there are still two things that I can't forget. One is his wife holding her head to his name, the despair and heartbreak of his family, and the other is the ending where although it is open-ended, the result really doesn't matter.
I’m slowly turning over this movie recently, let’s talk about it!
Let’s talk about the first paragraph first. Their quiet way of silence as if they were hanging out scared me. Even in the first five minutes, I thought it was a family preparing to go out for a self-driving tour! Then the protagonist walks into the office, he will press the phone to see if there are coins, he will turn the postcard table to see if there is something he likes, and then go to the water dispenser together. But something was wrong. The dazzling bloody handprints on the counter and the lonely singing of the violin in the background dyed the already quiet and excessive tone with cold colors. But it was such a man who could shoot the little girl with a blank face and turned into a father who put his little daughter to bed with nightmares in the middle of the night.
The family scene that follows is back to a warm and comfortable atmosphere, so calm that it's all sacred and inviolable. The family discusses tomorrow's itinerary together, the car has a soft baby seat in the back seat, the father's car breaks down, and "mom sends dad to work". A little bit happier than normal people.
The devil's apostle has been hidden, and the warmth and calmness of more than ten years has become the truth.
(Final side sentence: VIGGO's kiss scene is still so beautiful.... only for nympho)
The murder of sin is a thing of the past, but justice will actually reveal the cloak of no trace.
The gun at the tip of the finger is still cold to the touch, but the heart is no longer the same.
After the plot as imagined, in the end that is real? In other words, trying to maintain this calm does not want to look back on the past.
But can the past really be abandoned?
In the process of his efforts to deny, his wife found the truth, and his son found the truth. All this forced him to kill his former partner again.
But can you really go back? What is sometimes the devil who has given up his sin?
Remember the same question that once wrote Would God ever say quit? in front of a collegiate church in England
. In the eyes of the young daughter, her father was just a trip away, while in the eyes of her son, her father was still a father, and whether or not his wife would come back to him or forgive him might not matter.
The story is over, what happened has happened; what happened is the past; what should happen will happen eventually.

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