The Ghost of You Were Never Really Here
In the first ten minutes, I didn't know what the male protagonist Joey (Joaquin Phoenix) was doing. The impression was that it was a gloomy thing that could not see the sun. It wasn't until after his long journey home that he learned that he was a killer who had yet to start a family, living with his old mother.
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A few days later, he gets a new job to find Nina (Ekaterina Samsonov), the daughter of the State Senate who ran away from home and was kidnapped by a brothel. This is a piece of cake for a killer like Joey who has been retired from the military for many years. He grabbed a hammer and went into the brothel, killing Nina all the way.
Unexpectedly, the other party also has a great background. They followed, took back Nina, and killed Joey's old mother and the youngest son of his boss. But luckily Joey escaped by himself.
After burying his mother, Joey finds out that it was all planned by the governor, and after killing the governor's security, he finds out that Nina has killed the governor. He took Nina away, and the two went to the end of the world.
From the story alone, it is the story of a greasy middle-aged uncle rescuing a little loli from a fire pit. But the director has his own unique processing method which is different from the conventional expression method.
It doesn't seem to be a complicated story, and the male protagonist's constant memories present more of his experiences. He saw the shadow of his father's beating of his mother in his childhood. The blood and the wounds of death on the battlefield in Afghanistan. In addition to contemplation and daze all day, thinking of how to kill myself, I lost confidence in life. In the end, he lost almost everything, and saving Nina became the purpose of his life. On the other hand, it was Nina who saved him and gave him the motivation to live.
It also alludes to the process in each of our lives. We will always encounter many setbacks and failures that make us despair and lose the courage to live. This time is often a belief to support themselves. Giving Nina a new life here is Joy's belief. At the end, Joey even imagined himself being shot to death, but Nina finally came back and told him: "Today is a good day" to get him back on his feet, "Yes, today is a good day." He replied road. Aside from being with Nina at the end, he exists only as a ghost. It was this answer that brought him new life.
The whole movie is full of gore and all kinds of scary and depressing sounds. Up and down are vicious killers and insatiable politicians, Joey lost his dearest mother and almost all of his friends. The only thing left was a little girl whom she never knew. This is the director who gave them new hope to get out of the desperate situation. For Joey, other than being with Nina at the end, he only exists as a ghost.
All in all, the development of a society is also based on the hope in everyone's heart. Migrant workers entering the city and the Beipiao people entering Beijing are all working hard with the hope of success. It is the efforts of so many people that China can make rapid progress in the past few decades. Entering the "moderately prosperous society" that was unimaginable at that time. This film seems to be low, but in the end it still brings us a hint of bright future.
Finally add a sentence, such a story, how to say how reasonable. That's what I'm talking about here.
Director Lynne Ramsay has made several acclaimed stories, such as "What's Happening to Kevin" and "We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)", but they tend to be less well-received. She was nominated for a Cannes Palm Award for the film, and Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" (see my blog post "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" ). Sorrow " and " The Sorrow of "The Death of the Sacred Deer ") won the Cannes Screenplay Award.
Joaquin Phoenix won the Cannes Best Actor Award for the film. Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for "The Master (2012)" and "Gladiator (2000)" for "Gladiator". Oscar nominated and Golden Globe for Walk the Line (2005) and Golden Globe nomination for Inherent Vice (2014) and Her (2013) (See my blog post "In the beginning of man, "Nature is inherently evil"" "In the beginning of man , "Nature is inherently evil" ).
Ekaterina Samsonov is an American actress of Russian descent.
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