"Dawn of Love Owl" - Jianghu is gone, morality is lost

Flo 2022-04-19 09:01:29

The first contact with Brian de Palma was watching "Black Dahlia" under the temptation of the goddess Scarlett. And I don't judge this movie, what I want to say is "Dawn of Love Owl". If "The Godfather" made me meet Al Pacino and "Scarface" made me really like him, then "Dawn of the Owl" made me fall in love with him without hesitation. Jianghu morality, when you mention this word, the first thing that pops up in everyone's mind may be the Hong Kong gangster film, that romantic era. Like foreign films like "Goodfellas" and "Once Upon a Time in America", I have also seen some gangster films about rivers and lakes, but "Dawn of Love Owl" is the first time that I can feel the generality of rivers and lakes in foreign films. He talks more What is more is not brotherhood but morality. A good movie can let you put aside the geographical background and feel the cultural background. I'm not judging its artistry or comparing it to other films, Parma is a commercial director in his own right. Carrito, a former underworld eldest brother, an old Jianghu, quits Jianghu if he wants to make enough money, but how can it be so easy, as said in "Swordsman", where there are people, there are Jianghu, you How to exit the arena. When he just got out of prison, he thought it was beautiful, but what he saw was no longer the river and lake he was familiar with, the faces of the new generation of little Maotou that he did not know. The best friend, a friend who practiced Carrito would praise him as "good enough". In order to reduce his sentence, he brought a tape recorder to transcribe Carito's words. The good brother, Bachangka, who was betrayed by Carito, betrayed Carito because Carito was not cruel enough. In five years, everyone has changed. Seeing him always reminds me of Ah Bao in "The Death Gold", a person who guards the so-called morality of the rivers and lakes, and the supreme principle in their hearts, which allows them to satisfy their spiritual beliefs in this cruel and bloody society. Benny, they say he looks a lot like Carrito When he was young, Carrito would get annoyed and say "he's not like, not at all, he's just a jerk" and they're just as ruthless, they're both young and famous He rose up, but he lacked what Carrito agreed with. Carrito looked down on him and refused to accept his face twice, and Carrito buried himself for himself the second time because he was soft-hearted and did not kill Benny. bane. It is true that the prison is not to make people reflect, but to kill the spirit. It has no spirit and is not cruel enough, but Carrito, who still obeys the morality of the rivers and lakes, is destined to be annihilated by the times. "David is my friend, I owe him what I have, and I will repay what I have, no matter right or wrong, I can't change this." After Carrito said this, he was doomed to his tragedy after slamming the door despite his girlfriend's dissuasion. His friend David betrayed him long ago. When I recalled this passage several times to hear him say this line, I always had a special feeling, a bit of desolation. It's true that his girlfriend is right, everything he went to school in Jianghu will only kill him. Now the morality of the rivers and lakes is left with a pedantic and stupid image in people's minds. The rivers and lakes are passing away, and no one is preaching morality. There is only use and being used. You are alive because you can still be used. At the end, the train is about to set off, and Kalito has also broken out of the siege and reunited with the girlfriend protected by Bachchanka. I hope the movie ends here, and I hope that Bachchanka will still be his good brother. He insisted on what he believed in the morality of the rivers and lakes, but in the end he was betrayed by his good brother. He could have left safely, because of morality, even if he took revenge on David who betrayed him, he would not cooperate with the police. Carrito in the emergency bed looked at the advertisement of the place he wanted to go to in his dreams, the woman dancing in the sunset, a peaceful life, isn't that what Carrito wanted, his girlfriend was crying beside him, and he was in his belly The child, Carrito could only let go, the dream ended, as his girlfriend said, "In the middle of the night, I ran into the hospital with you covered in blood." The train is about to set off, and Carito has also broken out of the siege and reunited with the girlfriend protected by Bachchanka. I hope the movie ends here, and I hope that Bachchanka will still be his good brother. He insisted on what he believed in the morality of the rivers and lakes, but in the end he was betrayed by his good brother. He could have left safely, because of morality, even if he took revenge on David who betrayed him, he would not cooperate with the police. This is fate. It doesn't matter whether its values ​​are correct or not, I just like this "The Dawn of Love Owl", he let me see the image of the utopia in my heart, killing, committing crimes, but I have the bottom line of the rivers and lakes in my heart and follow this morality and loyalty, although it is already in my heart. fade away slowly. How romantic and how sad. good brother. He insisted on what he believed in the morality of the rivers and lakes, but in the end he was betrayed by his good brother. He could have left safely, because of morality, even if he took revenge on David who betrayed him, he would not cooperate with the police. This is fate. It doesn't matter whether its values ​​are correct or not, I just like this "The Dawn of Love Owl", he let me see the image of the utopia in my heart, killing, committing crimes, but I have the bottom line of the rivers and lakes in my heart and follow this morality and loyalty, although it is already in my heart. fade away slowly. How romantic and how sad. good brother. He insisted on what he believed in the morality of the rivers and lakes, but in the end he was betrayed by his good brother. He could have left safely, because of morality, even if he took revenge on David who betrayed him, he would not cooperate with the police. This is fate. It doesn't matter whether its values ​​are correct or not, I just like this "The Dawn of Love Owl", he let me see the image of the utopia in my heart, killing, committing crimes, but I have the bottom line of the rivers and lakes in my heart and follow this morality and loyalty, although it is already in my heart. fade away slowly. How romantic and how sad.

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  • David Kleinfeld: Fuck you and your self-righteous code of the goddamn streets. Did it pull you out of a 30 year stint in only 5 years? No, it didn't, I did. Did it get you acquitted 4 fucking times? No, it didn't, I did, so fuck you, fuck the streets, your whole goddamn world is this big, and there's only one rule, you save your own ass.

  • Carlito: If I ever, I mean if I ever see you here again, you die.

    [Snaps fingers]

    Carlito: Just like that.