Brother Cage's performance is still in place, showing the calmness, wisdom, justice and perseverance of a state policeman, but I feel that the director wants to start with the male lead family to make his role more plump, but he can't stop it.
Cusack plays a hunting madman who ignores his life and regards prostitutes as animals. As a demon, he also has its causes, but the film only briefly introduces his behavior and instinctive sexual desire, which more or less reflects The characteristics of patriarchal power finally made this character with the most analysis and torture humanity surfaced. The scene where Cusack’s psychological defenses collapsed at the end of the film was indeed quite good.
The film has maintained a stable tone from beginning to end, lack of climax, but the sense of substitution is still OK. I feel that the director has actually cast more perspectives on the portrayal of the heroine, and more to express a concept of salvation.
Through the cracking of cases, the film shows us the causes of a series of tragedies, and these causes are just as desperate as the title of the film:
1. The society's discrimination and indifference to marginalized persons such as prostitutes. For example, the police who presided over the rape case at the beginning of the film ignored the receipt of the evidence, and the male protagonist’s wife initially treated the victim Cindy’s attitude. This is a hotbed for tragedies, and these have condoned those demons, making them feel confident about their crimes and confident that they can continue.
2. The childhood trauma caused by the unfortunate family environment to young children has created more and more prostitutes and drug addicts. The heroine Cindy in the film is a girl who does not get the warmth of the family, a father who has never met, an uncle who has sexually assaulted herself, a mother who is only 15 years older than herself, and she did not give warmth and care to her daughter's experience. Avoidance and embarrassment are the main reasons for countless youths who abandon themselves. They no longer trust anyone, escape the past, escape life, and lose their originally happy childhood and beautiful life.
Fortunately, the warmth we can see at the end of the film is salvation: the devil is brought to justice and can no longer slaughter living creatures. This should also be a kind of redemption for his crimes and constant crimes. . By stepping up to testify against the murderer, the heroine realized self-salvation of escaping childhood pain, returned to trust, and returned to the mainstream of society. By cracking this case, the male protagonist played by Cage gained his wife's understanding of his profession, and to some extent realized the redemption of the drunk driving murderer of his dead sister who could not be brought to justice. The act of caring for the heroine by the man's wife shows us that a certain change is taking place in the previously indifferent society. This may also be a kind of redemption for human nature itself.
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