- The night of Borges
is like a sudden drop of darkness, continuous rain, rain. The wet sky seems to announce that summer no longer exists, and summer is a lie.
"Let him live!" A childish voice shouted urgently. "Let him live, don't kill him." She uttered inaccurate words from the small mouth with only two tiger teeth. This is a clip from the movie "Falling", in which the stuntman Roy is paralyzed from the lower body due to an accident, and every day is worse than death. He howled, resisted, angry, and resisted life, and at this moment, God made him meet Alexandra, a little girl with leaky teeth. The girl was innocent and cute and broke her hand because she was picking pears, but Roy wanted to use the thief The story uses her to help him steal illicit drugs for suicide. This is how the story unfolds.
The film tells the process of gradually establishing a relationship between Roy and Alexandra by interweaving reality and fantasy. Roy wanted to use bizarre stories to lure Alexandra to steal medicine for him to complete his suicide plan, and Alexandra was gradually attracted by the characters and plots in Roy's story. In Roy's bizarre stories, there are slave Indians whose brother was enslaved to death, Indians who touched their eyebrows when they were anxious and whose wife was kidnapped to death by Governor Otis, Luigi who was expelled by Governor Otis, brought monkeys as Darwin, the British scientist who took revenge on the American Strange Butterfly, and the blue thief whose twin brother was executed. Their common enemy is the brutal Governor Otis. For revenge, the four of them go on the road together to kill Otis. The sect sends out mysterious men who help them with their revenge. In the end, the five people who made the trip embarked on a journey of revenge. They crossed the ocean, desert, mountains, and swamps. The shooting locations were all over the world in 18 countries. Every scene can be seen that the director is very careful. While the Avengers Alliance continued to advance, the camera switched to reality from time to time. In reality, Roy finally achieved the goal of letting Alexandra steal medicine for him, but fortunately, the medicine the little girl stole was fake. Roy's suicide failed, but he didn't give up. When he was desperate, he heard Alexandra stealing medicine for him and fell again. Self-blame and unease filled his heart. The girl wanted him to finish the story, but In order to make himself and the girl give up, he wrote the characters in the story to death again and again. The little girl was sad and told the fact that Roy liked the nurse and the man cheated. At this time, Roy was even more heartbroken. Tears, drink after drink, trying to paralyze himself and let himself die like the characters in the story, he said, this is not a relief. The characters in the story Roy made up died one after another, and in the end, the thief Lan would also be killed by the bad guy Otis. The little girl was already crying, and she begged Roy to let the thief Lan live, over and over again, just like stealing medicine for Roy. firmness of time. The ending of the movie is good in the end, the thief in the story won, and Roy in reality was saved, and Alexandra, a girl who came like an angel, brought Roy the confidence and hope of life.
To a certain extent, the movie still uses a lot of symbolism. The slave in Roy's story is the symbol of his work. As a stuntman, he lives every day licking blood on the tip of a knife. At this time, Governor Otis would It's the film director who squeezes Roy like a slave owner. The kidnapping of an Indian's wife to death is a metaphor for Roy's own talent being kidnapped, like a prisoner. The deported Louis was Roy's situation in the hospital, and he basically had no one to speak to. Darwin's search for the American Butterfly represents Roy's long-cherished desire to pursue beautiful things, and the bird living in the belly of the mysterious man is Roy's wish for freedom and success. They all led to Roy's inner hope and struggle, and their deaths in the story also showed that Roy was stepping into the abyss of despair step by step in his heart. Fortunately, Alexandra was about to fall into the abyss. Time grabbed him and saved his soul.
At the end of the movie, the girl left, Roy continued his life as a stuntman, and everything was calm, as if the dynamism that appeared in Roy's story never existed, maybe no one else knew that there was a vengeance alliance, an angelic little boy. girl and a saved soul.
Maybe many years later, on a street corner, they met each other, looked at each other and smiled, and this time it was her turn to tell him a story.
Eternal change is change, death is water disappearing into water, and you are the story I wrote on the water and carved into my heart.
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