"Why?"
"His soul is dancing!"
I must admit that the first thing I remembered after watching this movie was Denzel Washington's Alozzo in "Training Day" . The same policeman is also a good and evil policeman, and he is also a good and evil policeman who is entangled with drugs. Alozzo appears to be more pure. A man who uses violence to control violence is caught in a gang dispute and urgently needs a lot of money to settle it. Troubled police officer.
If Alozzo's laughter makes you feel uneasy about being stared at by predators, then the laughter of Officer McDonagh, played by Nicolas Cage, is even more maddening, as well as the numbness and helplessness in the depths of madness.
Suffering from back pain for a prisoner, addicted to drugs and indulgence to relieve back pain. We can even feel that the protagonist is slowly decaying from body to soul, slowly sinking into the mire.
The sense of violence and weakness alternates with the sense of madness. Although Cage has gradually become a bad movie king, the expressive power that goes deep into the bone marrow cannot be replaced by ordinary people. Even so-called old drama bones.
The water snake at the beginning of the film is like the protagonist himself wandering among the railings of the law, coming in and out. And the iguana is more like the materialization of the protagonist's mad spirit.
As a remake, director Werner Herzog once said he never saw the original once. And the original director Abel Ferrara said directly at the Venice Film Festival: Everyone who remakes my film should go to hell.
Haven't watched the original so far, so it's hard to compare the old and the new. However, in the second half of the new version of the film, the plot is too dramatic. Gamblers won money to pay off gambling debts, the enemy was killed by drug dealers, drug dealers were arrested for previous murders, and the rescued prisoners helped themselves to detoxify. In the end, Officer McDonagh ended up having a good time with the family. Like a magazine review, a black crime film becomes a crime comedy.
But I have to admit, if it wasn't for McDonagh, I almost thought Nicolas Cage wouldn't be able to perform.
"I will kill you, salute the dawn"
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