The film's elaboration of the theme "desperation" is quite unique. At the beginning, I couldn't understand how the male protagonist could act so freely and elegantly in such a desperate situation. He always had a smile on his face, and he never got drunk, never yelled at his throat, or even seduced women. They went to bed with the politeness of inviting them to a ballroom dance. He never complained, and there was no trace of the injustice of fate in him; he was committing suicide but never talked about death, but only enjoyed the life before him, as if suicide were nothing more than a natural process. At first glance, it seems that he is not an alcoholic who has reached the end of his life, but more like a gentleman who occasionally comes out to have fun at night. However, after tasting it carefully, I realized a little bit. It is precisely because I believe that I have been abandoned by this world and I no longer need to ask for anything from this world, so I can be so free and easy; To go to death calmly, that's why it can be so graceful. So Ben is like an actor who knows that his death is coming, trying his best to show his last performance as gorgeous as possible. The brightly lit and prosperous Las Vegas under the camera is the most luxurious stage he could choose. Everything is gorgeous and tragic, too gorgeous to be dazzling, and too tragic to be heart-wrenching. I have to sigh with emotion for Nicolas Cage's superb acting skills, and he interprets extreme despair in an extremely joyful way that is similar to a state of madness. The capture of the inner world of the characters and the control of acting skills are all achieved. To the extreme, I personally think that many of the roles he has created after this film are incomparable.
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