Poetic sadness. You pee a lot because you can't stop to watch.

Linnea 2022-04-19 09:02:06

The style of the whole movie is quiet and deep, without too many impurities. With a touch of sadness, like a calm and sad song, there is not much ups and downs, but it makes people feel inexplicably heavy.

The ancient town of Italy, the winding mountain road, the calm and complicated heart of the old killer, narrated it in a style like a western verse, like a drop of blood in calm water, slowly melting away, like a piece of life The lines are free in the water. You find that this is the real thing.

Life is meant to be peaceful. In this impetuous society, the human heart has long been indifferent to the impermanent world, and is used to looking at the world calmly enough.

Where do so many orgasms come from? So much passion?

Use such a light rhythm to express the fragility of the powerful killer's human nature, in a quiet town far away from the sky. Happiness is at the moment when love comes, the prostitute's bright eyes, the sentence "forever?" hits the heart. At that moment, you realize how beautiful the world is and how charming love is.

I think the more throbbing is that we are always living a very ordinary life and talking about love in an ordinary way. When this kind of story was played out in a quieter way, I was suddenly moved for some reason, and suddenly wanted to talk to someone and talk about something else. Let yourself not be immersed in a touch of inexplicable bitterness.

The final task is to build a sniper rifle. The result is a tool for someone else to kill himself. It's a shame he was so diligent in the first place.

Life is such an irony.

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Extended Reading
  • Monte 2022-04-22 07:01:31

    Anton Corbijn continues the "control" style from his last film "Control". But in terms of content, for those of us who are used to watching Hong Kong killer films in the 1990s, it is really lackluster. In addition, the title of "The American" and all the labels and topics related to American identity appearing in the film have a vague insinuation in it.

  • D'angelo 2021-12-17 08:01:13

    Most of the time, he was still a killer in the cloud but turned into Qiu Xi in the end~

The American quotes

  • Clara: [speaking to Jack] You are a good man but, you have a secret.

  • Pavel: And above all... don't make any friends, Jack. You used to know that.