Sometimes there are benefits to being nominated for these awards. Otherwise, a police and gangster film about robbing a bank will be finished after watching it, and you will not think about what it is good for. Not as hot as the title sounds, "Going Through Water and Fire" actually looks quite boring, with not much soup and fire. Instead, the street scenes of several Texas towns continue to appear in the camera, and just like the northeast presented in "Fireworks in the Day", they are dilapidated, deserted, and withered like ruins. In general, movies use such lens language, presumably to tell us that this place is going downhill. So all the characters' complaints and discussions have a foothold. The Indians complained that the whites took away their ancestral lands; the whites complained that the banks took their money; the cowboys complained that they had bad luck and couldn't count on the officials; and the officials complained that there were not enough people to help the cowboys. The economic situation is not good; deprivation and anger float like ghosts in everyone's mind, and in desperation, there will always be people who choose to take risks. Our story takes the first step so logically.
Aside from the dilapidation and anger, this film is quite a positive display of the Texas style, especially the industrious, brave, and honest western cowboys' love for guns and ammunition. But rather than a more vigorous shootout, I find it more interesting to think about when they choose to draw their guns. People don't commit me, I don't commit prisoners, private territory is inviolable, and the two unfortunate robbers didn't complain about civilians pulling guns to beat them into sieves, but taught the little gangsters who showed off with guns-how to use guns, when to use them, there are already rules in this place. What is customary will become culture over time.
One of the characteristics of culture is that it demands respect. So, the economy is not getting better, the status quo needs to change, people love guns, oppose gun control, and other superficial but enough reasons... Trump wins. I know, I know, not everything has to be political, and Texas is Republican no matter what. So even if the film wants to express some positions (I do think so), what makes it a good movie is the means by which it expresses those positions, which is its portrayal of the vernacular of Texas. rustic. Back to the name of the movie, "Hell or High Water". I checked the dictionary. The original text should be "come hell or high water." If you explain it in English, it means no matter what difficulties are encountered. In Chinese, it means "no matter how many difficulties you face". Look, it's not too desperate. The ending doesn't count, and Trump's presidency doesn't count either.
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