Depression, emptiness, confusion, and Clyde's impotence

Ford 2022-04-23 07:02:05

Clyde and Bonnie are lost because they lose their sense of self-worth, so they rob a bank without paying attention to the actual amount and other crazy behaviors (Bonnie and Clyde)/Following the limelight idol (Moss), but the actual inner The psychological desire is not to enjoy and engage in the criminal journey itself, but to obtain feedback and affirmation from the outside world, thereby winning the public's attention and fulfilling the ideal self.

The cruel fact is that they are powerless against a society dominated and controlled by a powerful "official", and the police newspapers describe them as lowly bank robbers with a purely negative image, and all the "chivalrous acts" they have done. It will not enter the positive reports of newspaper articles as they imagined, and complete the shaping of cool hero images for them, and further, when the police even forget to add a few fake crimes, Bonnie and Clyde expose themselves even more. They are completely incapable of resisting the "official" negative negotiation of their slander and authority, and they are incapable of shaping that ideal self-image in front of the public. Being denied by the outside public/"official" (the newspaper is a powerful and unshakable official/system public opinion tool) and unable to complete the external identity of the ideal self, resulting in sexual impotence under the surface passion of Clyde and his girlfriend, which is the The embodiment of real anxiety and incompetence under the cover of Ryder's false orgies. Clyde's real cravings were not satisfied until Bonnie's poems appeared in the newspapers, thus regaining her sexuality.

The emptiness and confusion of the protagonists should be caused by the objective social environment such as the economic depression in the United States. Life is boring, nothing is accomplished, and no one cares. As a result, they cannot feel the attention and affirmation of their self-worth from the outside world, nor can they find their own meaning of existence. . At an energetic age, some young people who are aware and unwilling to the fate of their youth's boring and meaningless withering, with irresistible animal passion, throw themselves into a crazy and grand burning, even if the end is a dead end. I'd rather die cool, rather than silently wither away from life. "Bonnie and Clyde" is an enlarged, intense, enriched version of "Let's Go" and "Outlaw". The same emotions and the same youth stories are being played out on screens and in reality all over the world.

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Bonnie and Clyde quotes

  • [about Bonnie's poem]

    Clyde Barrow: You know what you done there? You told my story, you told my whole story right there, right there. One time, I told you I was gonna make you somebody. That's what you done for me. You made me somebody they're gonna remember.

  • Clyde Barrow: Alright. Alright. If all you want's a stud service, you get on back to West Dallas and you stay there the rest of your life. You're worth more than that. A lot more than that. You know it and that's why you come along with me. You could find a lover boy on every damn corner in town. It don't make a damn to them whether you're waitin' on tables or pickin' cotton, but it does make a damn to me.

    Bonnie Parker: Why?

    Clyde Barrow: Why? What's you mean, "Why?" Because you're different, that's why. You know, you're like me. You want different things. You got somethin' better than bein' a waitress. You and me travelin' together, we could cut a path clean across this state and Kansas and Missouri and Oklahoma and everybody'd know about it. You listen to me, Miss Bonnie Parker. You listen to me.