After learning that "El Camino" was released, as a poisoner fan, I went to a certain Fei overnight to watch the whole film.
The two-hour movie is actually very limited in length, with a slow pace and a weak sense of story. There are various memories interspersed during the period, which can only be regarded as an explanation for the ending six years ago.
But even so, the familiar rhythm, the shooting technique, and the character's language performance still shocked me, as if I had returned to the time when I was chasing dramas.
I have to say that Vince Gilligan's technique is still the same old-fashioned way, and the shooting of the scene is also unique. The shooting style just follows the consistent style of "Breaking Bad", which is touching and admirable.
The whole movie actually revolves around Xiaofan. It mainly tells the story of how he escaped from Jack after being rescued by Lao Bai, and then ran away all the way, wanting to start over.
The overall narrative process of the film is smooth, and there are basically no major conflicts and contradictions. It is more interspersed with Xiaofan's memories, showing the audience his cruel experience during the time when he was imprisoned by Jack.
There is a very ingenious foreshadowing here. I didn't pay much attention to it when I watched it. After watching the whole film, I think it is really interesting to recall.
When Xiaofan just escaped, he found his former friends Skinny and Badger for help.
Then pay attention to the shots of several pistols given here, including when Xiaofan is taking a bath and eating, the pistols are all placed where you can reach them. This is actually a foreshadowing, which makes the audience curious: why does Xiaofan want to this way? What has he been through?
Then the interspersed recollections that follow explain these issues well.
There is a good background here, that is, in the story of memory, Xiaofan got the gun because of Todd's negligence, and the director deliberately showed that the whole scene was a barren corpse dump.
In other words, there are only two people here, Xiaofan and Todd.
Just pull the trigger lightly, and Xiaofen can be free again. When I was still wondering if there was any bullet in the gun, Todd, just using a piece of pizza made Xiaofen put down her resistance and put down her hope of freedom. It is not difficult to speculate that Xiaofan's psychology at the time was that he had been enslaved and lost hope.
Here, a telephoto lens is specially given, which once again hints at the open environment, further emphasizing the regret for Xiaofan's choice.
This kind of thinking did not change until Xiaofan came out. Although he kept the gun in his hand and seemed to be very fierce, there was a plot here, that he needed money to escape, Xiaofan thought of Todd taking him to his house before, and secretly revealed that he had hidden cash at home.
So Xiaofan went to Todd's house, which had been sealed up, and collided with two posing police officers who wanted to come to his house to find cash after learning Todd's death.
Xiaofan pointed a gun at one of the fake police officers, causing the situation to freeze.
And another policeman used a lie to make Xiaofan put down the gun again.
He told Xiaofan that there were eight police officers downstairs who were ready and ready to go, and asked Xiaofan to give up resistance, because resistance was useless, but Xiaofan really gave up hope of freedom again and was willing to be arrested.
In fact, the mentality of the fans here is still the same as before, so when did the mentality of the fans change?
In two incidents, he found a vacuum cleaner owner who could help forge his identity, but the owner refused to help him and called the police because he lacked $1,800.
Another is that he called his parents, but they persuaded him to surrender.
In my opinion, these two incidents prompted Xiaofan to pick up the gun again. He began to realize that only by himself can he regain his freedom, and only by himself can he win hope, and it also made him more determined to survive.
So he took the initiative to find Neil and kill him.
This can be regarded as a deeper portrayal of the psychology of Xiaofan in the whole movie.
I originally thought that Lao Bai would not appear, but when the film was nearing the end, the door was pushed open, and I watched Lao Bai walk out with trembling all over. Maybe Lao Bai only said some meaningless words, maybe It's just that the director deliberately made Lao Bai show his face to fill up his feelings, but I think it's enough.
Inexplicably remembered the scene where he said "I did it for me" with a blank face.
When I saw this passage, I really couldn't describe my mood. There were also various speculations about the meaning of this sentence on the Internet. It is generally agreed that it is Maslow's self-needs, but I don't agree.
Note that at this time, Lao Bai already knew very well that he was going to die soon, and from the subsequent development of the plot, he also knew that Lao Bai had already made plans for revenge. So I think that Lao Bai's words are said to skyler as well as to himself. It is a kind of relief for himself, a kind of indifference that looks down on everything and does not want to argue about the correct language. It is a kind of indifference that you think I am a It doesn't matter what kind of person, even my relatives and friends, the whole world misunderstands me, slanders me, fears me, curses me, it doesn't matter, as long as I know what kind of person I am, I understand why I do it. enough.
So he deliberately said a lot of irony.
I have been thinking about the meaning of this El Camino. The Chinese is translated as a life extension person, which refers to the identity of Xiaofan, and then the literal translation is the El Camino brand car, which may be an allusion to the car Xiaofan used to escape. Spanish means the way, and it has some connotations, but what does this movie have to do with Spain?
Not disclosed yet.
It's hard to imagine Xiaofan, no, what the future will be like for him who should not be called this name now, maybe he will be immersed in the pain of being imprisoned, maybe he will recall the RV and that person, maybe he Will think of the sweet time with Jane, maybe he will choose to forget everything and live like an ordinary person.
Maybe one day he will accidentally touch the scar on his face, then slowly pull out a cigarette from his trousers pocket, staring at the snow-capped mountains in the distance, take a deep breath, and say to himself:
“I could put things right”
All in all, a lifetime.
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