What exactly did Monty do and think in the 24 hours before he was imprisoned, how did he get in jail, and who framed him, this movie shows us all this in more than 2 hours.
When I watched it, I vaguely felt as if I had seen the introduction of this movie somewhere. About 30 minutes into the opening, Monty began the famous ten-minute cynical monologue and scolding in the bathroom of the bar. I finally thought that I should have seen this commentary on Central 10 or the Movie Channel. He scolded almost everyone in front of the mirror, and all the phenomena in the society, it was really heartwarming, and this section is more like the director's unbridled vent in front of the global audience through the camera~~
The film is for Monty, a drug dealer Arranged two friends with very different personalities, an honest teacher jacob and a shrewd stock broker Frank (or a similar profession, I don't know much about finance). Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance is a dull but kind teacher who accidentally falls in love with his student but always tries to hide it clumsily. His eyes are always full of longing and forbearance. You can feel his surging passion behind his calm expression. He is 100% loyal to Monty, even though Monty is a "heinous" drug dealer doesn't change the fact that he is his friend. And the stockbroker looked shrewd and capable, and at the same time always understood the essence of things around him, and it was his doubts about the loyalty of Monty's girlfriend that caused Monty's own doubts. But this friend always wanted to get rid of Monty after he was in prison, thinking that Monty deserved it, but when they were really facing separation, he also expressed his own voice: it can be stopped, But let his friends go down the road of no return.
In fact, it was himself who gave up on Monty, or, the reason why Monty took this road was not his own choice, but that he was pushed in that wrong direction by reality, and Monty himself was powerless. It is precisely because the film reveals such a taste that I feel too heavy.
Fortunately, at the end of the film, Monty lifted the misunderstanding with his girlfriend and went on the road calmly after repenting. Fortunately, despite their insistence to stay away from this friend, Jacobs and Frank still met Monty's seemingly "absurd" request, and we also know that the fetters of the three of them will not end there. Sitting in his father's car, Monty saw the golden picture, and saw that all the people he had scolded had changed from indifferent faces to smiling faces, and when he saw himself and his girlfriend, they were so happy. Old, I know that hope should be rekindled in his originally desperate heart.
At first, I thought that Monty accepted his father's advice and flew away. When I saw that these were just his fantasies, I was secretly disappointed, but then I thought, well, maybe this is the bright color that the director showed us, let Monty bring Hope to hit the road~~~~~~
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