Is there a 25th hour?

Keenan 2022-04-19 09:01:44

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about to serve his sentence in prison the next day, the hero spends his most precious day with his best friend, his father, and his lover, and then he is about to lose his freedom for a full seven years. So all the stories happened on this day.

There are two classic episodes in the movie.

One is the male protagonist in the bathroom of his father's bar. Someone wrote "f**ku" on the mirror. He looked at the "f**ku" on the mirror and himself in the mirror, and issued a message. The lament of the series "f**ku", and all those who he "f**k" are the ugliest side in his eyes from people from different countries; these people he "f**k" actually live So free, but he was going to spend a long time in prison. ——I don’t know if people in the countries involved in the film will protest the film after the film is shown.

And there's the ending, where he's sitting in his father's car, and his father tells him at the next intersection to either go to jail or go straight down the road, get out of here, and never come back. The father's words became pictures of the future life of the male host. He got out of the predicament by his own efforts and lived a happy and happy life. But when the camera came back, he was still sitting in his father's car, his quiet expression as if he had entered a dream.

I still don't understand why the movie is called "25 Hours", where is that 25th hour?

In the end he chose to go to prison or to obey his father, I don't see it at the end of the movie.

Perhaps the answer can be found from the beginning of the film. The male protagonist rescues a dog that has been seriously injured but does not want to die, and finally he establishes the owner of the dog. I think the director arranged this plot to have a moral, maybe set a tone for the whole movie.

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25th Hour quotes

  • Kostya Novotny: [as he arrives late for the party] So how can you start this party without me?

    Monty Brogan: Oh shut up, you fat Russian fuck!

    Kostya Novotny: Fat UKRANIAN fuck!

  • Mary D'Annunzio: I wanted to know why I got a B minus on my paper.

    Jakob Elinsky: You got what you earned.

    Mary D'Annunzio: Nobody else in that class can write! You know it! I know it! Everyone knows it!

    Jakob Elinsky: Don't worry. You're not competing with them.

    Mary D'Annunzio: Yeah. But I am. Okay. I am competing with them. When you apply for college, you might have heard of this, they look at these things called grades and if your grades aren't good enough...

    Jakob Elinsky: Your grades are going to be fine.

    Mary D'Annunzio: Vincent Phiscalla writes a story about his grandmother dying and you give him an A plus. And meanwhile, the night of the funeral, you wanna know where Rhodes Scholar Vince is? Getting smashed at a basketball party and slapping girls asses. I mean, what is that? A charity A+? You wanna know why everybody always writes about their grandmothers dying? It's not because it's so traumatic. It's because it's a guaranteed A+! And you sit there all sentimental "Oh, Vince it was very powerful, very moving." No, it wasn't. You didn't care. Nobody cared. That's what grandmothers do. They die!

    Jakob Elinsky: Sometimes, guys have a hard time showing their emotions.

    Mary D'Annunzio: So, slapping my ass is a way of mourning his dead grandmother?

    Jakob Elinsky: [points to Mary's stomach] What did your mother say when you got that?

    Mary D'Annunzio: Um, she said, "Where did you get the money for that?"

    Jakob Elinsky: And?

    Mary D'Annunzio: What did I say or did I get the money?

    Jakob Elinsky: What did you say?

    Mary D'Annunzio: I said, "He likes me."

    Jakob Elinsky: Does he?

    Mary D'Annunzio: No. Why do you care so much?

    Jakob Elinsky: Just curious.

    Mary D'Annunzio: So, you're not gonna change the grade?

    Jakob Elinsky: No, I'm not going to change the grade.

    Mary D'Annunzio: Great! You know what, this was a big waste of my time!

    Jakob Elinsky: Wait!