Texas First Bank, a 60-year-old bank teller unlocked the door. As soon as she lifted the door, she was shoved forward from behind and fell heavily to the ground.
Two robbers in ski masks appeared in front of them. They robbed banks early in the morning, but they only wanted loose money under one hundred denominations, and they only robbed the First Bank of Texas.
Toby and Tanner are half-brothers, Toby is tall and thin, with a sullen look on his kind face, Tanner is the opposite, his hair is disheveled, and there is a dangerous atmosphere everywhere.
Every time they robbed, they changed their car and went to the casino to launder money. The loose money in the drawer could not be traced by the police without ink, and the money laundering was never in trouble. It was all within Toby's plan.
But it's not the idea of robbing the older brother of a repeat offender, it's the plan of his younger brother, Toby, who has no criminal record.
Toby is nearly 40 years old, divorced, and has two children. Not long ago, his mother died of cancer. His mother left a small farm, but because he could not repay the loan, the farm was about to be taken away by the bank. Oil was discovered.
He also owes a large amount of alimony to his ex-wife, and although he loves his sons, he cannot visit them. Poverty deprives all possibilities of life.
The series of robberies he planned were actually not robberies for him, but to get back what belonged to him and the chance of life for his children.
As the old man who witnessed the robbery said: Before this bank was robbed, it had robbed me for thirty years.
He revealed the truth in one sentence, who is the real robber, no need to go into details, but more of a resonance.
In the film, Toby, the robber, is not the real villain, but a microcosm of all the people at the bottom of the society. The reality is so overwhelming that he can't breathe.
And the fire that spread across the wilderness is the best metaphor. Each of us is the cowboy driving 300 cows, running in vain in the face of this "real" fire that destroys the sky and destroys the earth, until a certain Individuals are cornered and choose to go through fire and water.
Toby said that poverty is like a contagion, it is passed down from generation to generation, and what you can give your children is not advice, not lessons, not love, and nothing but money can guarantee them a chance in life.
Unfortunately, it is reality.
PS: In fact, the film is not good-looking, the script is much better, the key is such a theme, it is too easy to resonate.
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