There is no real climax, the whole film is straightforward, the rhythm is slow and lengthy; even if Jesse is killed, where the whole film can be called a climax, there is no special rendering, except for the clouds and gloomy sky that seemed to float quickly before. , Even Bobby was in a good mood at first. There is no special suspense, and Jesse's death doesn't seem to show some kind of inevitable or deliberate feeling of anticipation. The music seems to be absent, ups and downs, simple, sad, with a kind of fateful helplessness.
But it's not like some art films, which make it hard to watch; the good thing about this film is that it doesn't make people feel particularly uncomfortable if you stop and watch it, and it's also good to watch it again when you have time (that's how I watched it). of). The rhythm is slow, but still willing to watch, the music is simple but touching. Of course, especially the pictures, which are rarely seen expressions. The hazy or distorted shots that appear from time to time make people feel a sense of trance from time to time. Accompanied by music, it is like being in a dream, as real as fantasy, and it seems that everything is not so. reality. The picture is very beautiful. It is not a flower, willows and green, nor a fertile field. It is a desolate, pure, and empty village. The smoke drinking in the distance, the large snow field, the snow-capped mountains, the dark woods in the distance, the frozen lake, can be seen. A few fish swimming under the ice, wheat fields... All the pictures are in autumn and winter, and spring and summer never seem to appear, which fits well with the desperate and helpless tone of the film.
But the beauty of a film's picture, or the beauty of it, has always been because of the coordination between the picture and what the film wants to show. In another case, the beauty of the picture can be completely not considered beautiful, but monotonous and boring, not to mention that there are many people who are similar to the pictures in the film and are more beautiful than this one, so what is the attraction of this film? My feeling is the complex and real human nature shown in the film, the actors, especially Bobby and Jesse, and the director's superb grasp of the psychology of the main characters in the film, as well as the fit between the film's pictures and the characters' psychology.
Jessie is sensitive and lonely, and seems to have a natural keen perception. He often appears slowly from far away from the screen. He knows that the police are arresting him, so he has no fixed place to live. He also knows which gang members have problems ( I don't know how he knew, so it seemed more mysterious, as if it was just out of insight into human nature, as if Bobby felt that Jesse saw through him the first time he saw him), often suddenly Appearing in the homes of these people, his expressions were gloomy. He was depressed because of the betrayal of his partner and the pressure of the ubiquitous pursuit, and he struggled again because of the entanglement of inner kindness and brutality, which was released from his neurotic behavior from time to time and flashed by. In the end, Jesse seemed to choose to give up. He saw the news about Dickreed's arrest in the newspaper, which confirmed his suspicions about Burpee, and Burpee did not make any strong response. He did not continue to ask, Maybe he's had enough, what kind of mood, despair, is he under his sluggish face when he looks at the little shoes that his daughter dropped in the yard? It doesn't matter at all, it's still decided to end it all. He untied the sling he never took off, deliberately leaving his back to the Ford brothers, and is shown in the video seeing Bobby raise his gun in the reflection of the glass, but he didn't respond. If Jesse killed Brother Ford out of suspicion, it probably wouldn't be Jesse, nor would there be a string of posthumous stories of people going to see, worship, avenge and sing about him, a man who fits the sentiment of the masses side.
The performance of Kathy, the actor of Burpee, can be called a master class. The voice, expression, tears and eyes in his eyes made a man who regarded Jesse as his biggest idol since he was a child and wanted to be Jesse, but eventually became the assassination of Jesse. The inner entanglements and contradictions of the people are vividly displayed. A passage in the film explains the reason for Burpee's behavior, "I've been ignored all my life, and when I was a kid they swore they wouldn't care about me. Since then, Jesse James has been like a giant tree. Tree". This passage can explain all his actions, in the film he is always made fun of, family, friends and James, it was his dream to be Jesse as a child, and when he grows up, when he finds this dream far away, he chooses to kill Jay. West. Burpee's killing Woodhead was a start, because Wood had threatened him when he was an insignificant person, and didn't take him seriously when he was shooting Dick in the house. This practice ultimately made him a coward in the eyes of all. After killing Jesse, he and Charlie continued to perform the scene, partly for money, but more importantly, the act made him more famous than the president of the United States. But his inner pain never stopped because "no one applauded him". Charlie can't stand the inner struggle and commits suicide, Jesse enjoys everything he gets, but also has endless regrets. This is a real helpless life, imagine what would happen if Bobby didn't kill Jesse? The performance of complex human nature is the eternal theme of good films.
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