It's a thrilling film, a critically realistic film.
The mean is the pass of the mean, and the noble is the epitaph of the noble. Most people are evil and good.
It's strange that it's enough to show sympathy, but so many people agree, even understand and forgive. Are you also like Tom, born at the bottom, well versed in China's social rules and human relations, and working hard to climb up, the only difference is that there is no murder.
In fact, this is due to the original author's mastery of psychology and the director's accurate capture of the audience's psychology.
"In short, those who can identify with this kind of scum must also have their own scum, brother, you have to be careful in the future. It's this kind of scum..." A film reviewer said, I agree with him very much, I remember when I watched "Perfume", there were many people who defended the poor murderer, and some people were very Admired him, and one called him angelically holy. I TMD can't wait to dig this man out and beat him up. You can suffer for the sake of your ideals, but you must never sacrifice a kind and innocent life without morality. Otherwise, you will be a demon, and a demon is a demon. You can be pitiful, but not lovable and admirable.
Success can be exchanged for perseverance and hard work, and even, I can understand and forgive you for making some small mistakes by walking a little back door, slapping the ass and sending some gifts to close the relationship with the leading customers, and maintaining the happy life you want, as long as it is not I can understand someone as greedy as Tom, who can turn a crow into a phoenix without breaking his hand. Isn't this kind of value in China? It was proposed by a great leader. No matter whether it is a white cat or a black cat, the cat that can catch mice is a good cat. Opportunity and fairness appear so thin and ridiculous in front of the black cat. A "Dream of Red Mansions" reflects thousands of years of Chinese human culture. As long as you're not greedy, hypocritical, and vicious like Tom, you make mistakes again and again, and you make a big mistake. It hurts the people around you that you love and those who love you. Compared with those who only cheat for money and not for your feelings, Tom This kind of person makes people feel more horrible and disgusting. Look at the three people Tom killed, two are the people he can trust and rely on the most. And those who were not killed but hurt by him are the people who once trusted and even loved him the most.
The first person he killed was Dick.
Dick, he was a wild horse that let himself go, but he was a sunny, kind and innocent wild horse nonetheless. Dick and Tom actually have the same pursuit, like beautiful things, but Dick has a local tyrant father, and all the good things are at your fingertips. Daddy Dick said that you cannot choose your parents when you are born, and parents cannot choose their children. Yes, this is life, I really have to obey. And Tom is a diaosi living at the bottom, without a good father, he envies the extravagant life of the upper class, so he would rather be a substitute for others (play the piano for others), be a waiter (dust dust on the shoulders of the rich), and also Squeeze into high society. This is also understandable, he is running for life and earning what he deserves with labor. But he deliberately changed himself to cater to Dick and listen to jazz that he didn't like (I hate this kind of music as much as Dick's father, if I don't like it, I don't like it. Even if the girlfriend I'm pursuing likes it, I will euphemistically express that I don't like it. Why? Deliberately cater to, the old saying goes that Yun Junzi is different), deliberately dropping records to attract Dick's attention. In fact, the devil in Tom's heart was cultivated by himself step by step until he was released. Why does Dick gradually hate Tom? It's because Dick found out Tom's work, and Dick didn't understand the simple kindness of rejection, and the guilt over the death of a local woman selling "tea eggs" on Our Lady's Day, but Tom was really a Mother's bitch, standing on the ground. The high point of morality slams Dick, angering Dick.
In the section of Our Lady's Day, I think the author of the novel is allegorical. The biggest difference between Dick and Tom is that Dick has a sense of shame and guilt, and he will repent when he makes big mistakes. And Tom is different, he is completely the demon of vanity driving him to lose himself step by step, while standing at the highest point of morality, pretending to be a Virgin, while coveting Dick's gorgeous life and his inner beauty. The Virgin Mary and vanity in Tom's heart are either the east wind overpowering the west wind or the other way around. He has never been firm like the grass on the wall. He will never exile himself for mistakes and pursue inner redemption like the pure and kind Dick. Tom loved Dick, so after he killed Dick, he floated in the sea with Dick's body in his arms. The picture was beautiful and touching. Anyone can imagine how painful it is to kill someone who loves someone who is kind to them. It didn't help, however, Tom was frighteningly rational. Maybe I can come to a conclusion, fall in love with emotional people, marry rational people, but don't expect rational people to give you even half of your love for a lifetime. Tom actually wanted to escape, but vanity prevailed again, and the hotel receptionist mistook him for Dick, awakening him that he could pretend to be Dick and take over Dick's life. Yes, that's the biggest difference between him and Dick. The heart of the Virgin is just a weapon for him to overcome his deep inferiority and suppress the vanity and greed in his bones to show his noble personality. There is an old saying in China that wealth and honor cannot be promiscuous, and power cannot be submissive. The real nobility is that people have poor aspirations. Gentlemen love fortune, in a proper way. But Tom, so he did.
He then kills Dick's friend Freddy, who often taunts him, making him even more inferior. Freddy was keenly aware that something was wrong. At the critical moment when he was about to be exposed, Tom had to kill him, and Tom had no turning back at this time. Even Dick's girlfriend found out and was almost killed if Peter hadn't just opened the door.
To be honest, Tom's skills are not very good, and he almost came to light many times. Compare Dr. Hannibal in the "Silence of the Lambs" series, Kaisha Sousa in "The Usual Suspects", and many other high-IQ crimes in movies. , he seems to have insufficient intelligence. But the wonderful thing about this movie is not to let you see how high-IQ people are, but to seriously and calmly criticize social reality. Some people say that if you dig deep into the top ten richest people in China, you will definitely see the black abyss where they can't see the five fingers. I don't say no, and I don't say yes. I don't comment.
"No matter what you do, you will give yourself a reasonable excuse. Who would think that you are a bad person? You can put the dust in the basement, lock the door, never think about it, and I will do it. Until you When you meet someone who is willing to understand you, you want to give him the key, let him unlock the lock of your heart, and walk into your heart. But you can't, because your heart is too dark, you hide your inner demons, and you don't want people to see you Ugly."
That's what Tom himself said, what he said to Peter, and it's heartbreaking for Peter the most pitiful.
Tom: Would you bury the past in the basement and then shut the door and never go in? I do that.
Peter: Oh my God, yes. Instead, I need a building to bury.
Tom: ...then you meet someone special and all you have to do is give him the keys. Said: "Open the door and go in."...But can't, because it's too dark and ghosts are everywhere, and if he finds out how horrible it is...
Peter: You play too much sad music, that kind of music Makes you cranky.
Tom: I just want to vent my secrets and memories, open that door... let the light in and illuminate everything. Wish I had a giant eraser to erase everything and be human again. But the question is, Peter, if...if...if...I don't know what to say...
Peter: Then give me the key.
How could such a beautiful man who is elegant, simple and gentle as jade fall in love with Tom? Is it because of the sadness revealed by Tom in the dark abyss? Only at this time is Tom the most real, but this dark door Tom will never give him the real key to open.
Peter treated Tom with endless tenderness, and this tenderness was all contained in those transparent eyes, which made people fascinated. I like Peter so much that even boys like me adore me, not to mention girls.
Peter was lying on the bed writing the piano score, smiling and gently talking about Tom, Tom would... Tom would... Tom would..., Tom leaned on his head gently Peter was on his back, with a ribbon in his hand, ready to start. There is no killing process in this part, but the horror and heartbreak reaches the climax of the film, but Tom keeps crying "Oh, God!" Peter strangled to death, accompanied by Peter's breathless voice. After killing people, Tom returned to his room. The camera lens moved slowly beside the door. Inside the door was a lonely Tom, and outside the door was the black color specially treated by the director. The movement of the camera gradually narrowed the door gap until it was completely Darkness, implying that Tom himself sealed himself in the darkness of sin.
At the beginning of the film, it was Tom's lonely scene in the house at the end. He said to himself: "If time could be reversed, if the past could be erased, from the beginning of my life, from the time I borrowed my school uniform..."
The world There is no if, the sins committed by people, God will pursue and judge in dreams.
It turns out that the movie "The English Patient" I just watched a few days ago was also directed by the film's director, Anthony Minghella.
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