"Going Through Fire and Water" started with violence, and even Texas English made me uncomfortable, and it continued until Tanner and Toby robbed the second Texas bank. Jeff Bridge and his Indian partners started to hunt them down, while Tanner and Toby came to a small restaurant for dinner, the handsome Toby caught the waitress's eyes and came over to flirt with him, Toby neither catered to nor violent, completely indifferent Silence, leaving a tip of $200 - the mastermind of the bank robbery, her mother took the land and property to make a "reverse mortgage" without knowing what rights and obligations, she passed away again, and Toby herself just got divorced , owes his wife a maintenance fee, he must be unable to repay the loan, and the bank will confiscate those properties immediately - and he has found oil in those undergrounds again, and he is afraid of poverty, and does not want poverty to be passed on from generation to generation, his ancestors are poor, he Being poor, he hopes that his son will no longer be poor, and oil is his hope. The purpose of his plan to rob the bank is to keep the oil-rich real estate.
Hearing the gunshots outside, Toby left a $200 tip in a panic and ran away. His brother robbed another bank that was not planned by himself, and was resisted by the people of Texas, and the two ran away. escape. Unlike Toby, Tanner is a habitual violent criminal who robbed banks and spent ten years in prison, but this time, he was here to help. It was not the first time for him, and he knew that he could not escape, but when his brother asked, he helped him without hesitation. Selfless brotherhood! Movies are getting better here. Almost all the past and background are slowly revealed from the dialogue between the brothers: Tanner and Toby were born into a poor and broken family, Tanner killed his father by mistake, Toby took care of his seriously ill mother alone, divorced, lost his son Their custody, the sadness of life ensued. Robbing a bank is a desperate battle between beasts. He said to his son: "Leave the farm to you. Anything you hear about my uncle and me is true, but you can't learn it." Nothing is important to me anymore. For the future of my son, the practice of old beauty in western Texas is somewhat similar to the Chinese tradition.
Toby is taciturn, doesn't gamble or play with women, and can't see any desires. Facing the girl's hookup, the old brother in the same room is having a good time. He still sleeps on his own; Be a good cashier, don't kill people, encounter waiters who are as low-level as yourself, generously give $200 as a tip, the money is not his, as long as the real estate is not confiscated, he doesn't care about the extra money. The only time he was outraged in the film was when a gangster took a gun at Tanner, which stirred up his inner violence and taught the kid to be bruised, at that time Tanner looked on calmly, admiringly saying, "This is mine. younger brother". Another time was when Tanner's death was being reported on TV. Toby was sitting in Cassino, silent, with his head down and no extra expression on his face, but his heart was surging. His best brother "gave his life" for him, and since then He has nothing at all, it is not regret or sadness, his whole person becomes a statue of loneliness.
Toby also loves his wife and son. He rents a small house in the town and works for "wife's farm", watching their lives, and he still has a human anger when he talks to them.
Texas farmers are all descendants of western cowboys. They all draw guns in crisis. Tanner and Toby encountered stubborn resistance while robbing the post office. Some people called the police on their mobile phones in time, and they were surrounded by the public and the police. Toby Injured, Tanner drove the car to a stop, got out of the car by himself, shot and stopped the chasing policeman one by one, and gained time, they found another car that had been prepared earlier, Toby said goodbye to Tanner here, At that moment, they all understood that it was a goodbye, and the older brother Tanner was even more prepared to cover up the sacrifice for his younger brother, and he did not have any sensationalism at all. The older brother pulled down his sunglasses: "You know I love you, don't you?" "I mean it" (I mean it). He is a villain. He wounded 3 lives in the post office and shot an Indian Mounted Police officer in the head. He deserved it, but he still felt pity for him. The director should also love this character, so that in the end he was beaten by Jeff Bridge. He was still sitting upright in the head shot, like a stone sculpture in the wilderness, maybe he represented many of the brutal and violent gangsters in Texas during the Great Depression.
Finally, I want to talk about Jeff Bridge, the old mounted policeman, who is about to retire. (If he is in the Hong Kong film, he must be the one who was made up, but the brilliant Taylor Sheridan is not, he is not the screenwriter of the Wind River hunt for the Wind River Valley. Can't help it!) Choreographing Indian-related racist jokes all day, as a yellow person, it's very unpleasant. However, he had a strong relationship with Indian partner, and to avenge him after his death, he shot Tanner to death.
Tanner and Toby, Jeff Bridge and Indian partner, the story is described in two lines, they are mirror images of each other, in the depression environment, no one is better than the other. Tanner and Toby are sleepy beasts, but Jeff and the Indians are not happy. They are waiting to retire, passing the time in racial jokes, and seem to find the only spice of life. When the white people moved westward, they took away the land of the Indians (the Comanche Native Americans mentioned many times in the film), occupied resources, and established their own rules here. Now times have changed, and plundering and being plundered are still repeating in this land, but the relationship between the plunderer and the plundered has nothing to do with race, and large enterprises represented by banks have plundered generations like the robbers' brothers. poor white peasants. This sentence came out of the Indian partner's mouth. He was not angry because of Jeff's joke, he knew that they were on the same boat now.
In the end, I had to talk about the fat waiter in that restaurant. The $200 might be her half-month rent. She said she couldn't recognize Toby, so she gave up what she got. Very interesting episode, but also revealing human nature.
Many people like to compare this film with "No Country for Old Men", but I don't feel it personally. When I watched "Old", I didn't know much about movies or life. I understand now, I hope it's not too late and I can still appreciate it.
Life is like a confused account, drink a beer and listen to music when you are done. "You ask me to", "Dust of Chase" and "Sleeping On the Blacktop" are all great.
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