How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand
How many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they are forever banned
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
reminds me of this song by Bob Dylan (checked it online, "Forrest Gump" also used it as an interlude), as the song asks " How many roads does a man have to walk before he can be called a man"? The most exciting part of this film is the process of the protagonist Will's exhausting sprint. On the road with no direction, no result, no help, and almost hopeless, a person is confused, fearful and even a little at a loss, but this This path must go on, even if his wife does not understand and does not support, even if everyone betrays his relatives, even his adjutant betrays him, even if his friends hide from him because of fear. Under the empty camera behind the shaking, the law enforcement officer in the isolated small town is even more weak. It seems that the whole world has abandoned him, but he must go on.
This movie, which was listed as one of the top ten by many fans, was watched on a dark afternoon. At that time, I was not in good health and could only stay in the room by myself, and I was not in a good mood. It set off the dark afternoon, but after watching this movie , I can't calm down for a long time. I can't forget what Helen Ramírez, played by Mexican sexy beauty Katy Jurado, said to his current lover, Will's lieutenant Harvey: You're a boy with broad shoulders, but you're too immature to not Like Will, he has wider shoulders. Helen, who was Frank Miller's lover, then had a relationship with Will, and now associates with Adjutant Harvey. She is like a mirror in the movie, through her words, through her appreciation of Will. Understand the charm of this man.
The beginning and frame of the story are somewhat similar to Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai". The beginning is the appearance of a few robbers, without words, the horse gallops away, overlooking their prey, and then the quiet and isolated town is in danger. The whole movie was also covered by this cloudy cloud, the sense of crisis weighed heavily on no one's head, and a difficult problem was placed in front of him, as if he saw the desperate battle at the end at a glance, looking forward and fearing. In "Seven Samurai", the organization of the Seven Samurai and the peasants occupies most of the film, and then the battle scene with the robbers is unprecedentedly spectacular; and in this film, I heard that the bad guy Frank Miller a few years ago was because of The northern government withdrew the lawsuit and returned to the town, and the town fell into a panic. The magistrate Will's partners were afraid to show up because they were afraid of Miller's revenge. They all chose to escape one by one. With the town and the enemy, he wants to deal with the whole world himself and himself.
And Will's choice is also confusing. He was originally on the day the story happened. His duties as a town law enforcement officer had ended, and a new sheriff would take office tomorrow. At the same time, today was his big day. Quaker's Quaker wife gets married, and when everyone hears that his old enemy Miller is coming back for revenge, they quickly put him in a carriage and let him choose to leave. Not long after he left, Will told his wife that he would choose to go back, so he turned around and resolutely completed his final duty. Wife believed in Quakers because she had seen her father and brother killed with her own eyes, "opposes any form of war and violence, respects no one and asks others to respect herself, all equality, no oath, against baptism and communion, I advocate that everyone should be like brothers, advocate pacifism and religious freedom", so she first chose to stand against her husband.
The origin of the movie name "Noon" is because the whole movie is waiting for the arrival of noon. The time shots in the movie, one after another, the noon train will bring back Miller, who was released from prison and returned to the town for revenge. , it will also take Will's wife and lover who chose to leave, everyone in the small town is staring at the clock and waiting, some people are waiting for fear, some people are waiting for death, some people are waiting for their return . Except for Will, who was searching non-stop, looking for a partner to fight with, everyone else waited quietly, waiting for that moment to come, as if they were all obeying the arrangement of fate.
Will finds his friend, who hides for fear, his friend's wife tells Will he's not at home and is ashamed of her husband; Will searches in the cantina, and through the eyes of his adjutant, can Feeling Will's weakness, the whole bar was celebrating Miller's return, and Will was facing the whole world; he continued to search, came to the church where he was worshiping, took off his hat, and slowly took the man who killed many People's hands, alone telling everyone the reason for their arrival, the church suddenly boils, everyone quarrels, everyone complains, there is no solution, time is running out, Will's face seeps sweat, a lady Standing up resolutely, laughing at the men's hesitation and incompetence, Will seemed to have found help, but at the last moment, the men in the church decided to let Will go, as if that was the only solution.
Will, who was not helped by anyone, was still walking, he chose to stay, he chose to fight, as if he had to gamble, and he was ready for death and wrote a suicide note. He also found his old lover and told the Mexican woman Miller's arrival. And his lover and his wife were on the way to the station in a carriage. The scene where he went to fight alone was heartbreaking. His wife had her own beliefs and seemed to be estranged from him. His lover knew him best. , but rather affectionate. Maybe every man has this kind of daydream.
The exciting ending still appeared at noon. No accident, Will didn't find a helper in the end, everyone betrayed him, but he still had to fight. The final appearance of the bad guy Miller, who had set off for a long time, and the gunfight were not too intense compared to Akira Kurosawa, maybe the momentum ahead was too long. And the help of the Quaker wife, and finally the embrace with Will, is a beautiful stroke and heart-warming.
How many people like the feeling of being "on the road": in Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Forest", Watanabe-kun and Naoko strolling quietly and one after the other in the noisy city are a wonderful feeling of youth; On the way, the beer love all the way is long-winded, it is the tune of American hippies, everything seems boring, like a feeling of beat. But how far does a man have to walk to be called a man? I think a man should be like Will, even though he is facing the whole world, his every step is so difficult, but he still takes it one step at a time, even though he knows that death may be coming.
To the self who is overwhelmed and afraid in real life, tell yourself to learn to be firm, to be a man like Gary Cooper, to be like a rolling stone like BoB Dylan.
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