Closer to home, I have been paying attention to this film a long time ago, but the first time I watched TS, I was full of disgust and bad reviews for this film. I didn't really understand the meaning and essence of this film until the second time I watched it with a better quality.
Russell, played by Bale, is a steel worker and his younger brother Rodney is the people who live at the bottom of society. And that unfair society is still devouring their lives and residual value bit by bit. This is probably the spiritual connotation of the original title "Lower Residents". Whether it is the pain of the Iraq war or the excitement of boxing, Rodney is the helpless and confused generation. In the quarrel between the kitchen and Russell, we saw the cruelty of the war and the disregard of the country, and when we were about to work hard with Rusell after the last game, the god of death went to Jiang Linlin. It has to be said that fate has made people, and the risky but seemingly safe journey has really become a road of no return. This has never occurred to anyone, let alone Russell and Rodney, who have just ignited the hope of life.
Let alone what kind of resistance the New Jersey residents have to this film, the whole film is really flat and straightforward, without too many waves, just like a straight electrocardiogram, and occasionally there are a few shocks. I don’t know the director. Lack of self-confidence or insufficient ability to control the situation. Even the final chase seemed so calm, if there were no police roars and warnings, there would really be no ups and downs.
Optimism in prison, struggle at the bottom. It all shows that this is the living conditions of the low-level residents, and they all say that the United States is a melting pot. Maybe the director just wants to express such thoughts, sympathy for the low-level people and attack on the unfair status quo. Low-ranking residents, escape from the furnace.
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