The film begins by describing the accident that the protagonist Joseph suffered on the battlefield in Afghanistan in a form similar to a documentary, and then Joseph was charged by a military court and sent to the hospital.
A tough guy is a tough guy after all, and Hummingbird is not a hospital-themed movie. Joseph successfully escaped from the hospital and started a homeless life on the streets of London, sharing a cardboard box with a little homeless girl named Isabel. Viewers' understanding of street crime often stays on the streets of American cities. This time, the perspective turned to the heart of the British Empire, and only then did they discover a different London.
After a local ruffian exploited the homeless, Joseph and Isabel got separated and broke into the apartment of a businessman by accident. It happened that the man went to North America for business, and Jason became the new owner of the house. In the upside-down drinking, after a chance encounter with his ex-wife, and in the process of helping the nuns distribute alms, the story of Joseph unfolds, but it is extremely depressing, the whole of London has been in a dark state, old, chaotic, everything It doesn't fit in with this big city.
It was another chance that Joseph joined the Chinese gang in London. One of the church masters said very interestingly, "Nowadays Chinese boys don't want to work in gangs, they all want to go to college. My nephew, who went to college, is in the advertisement Working in the company is exhausting."
In front of every turning point, the director will pull Joseph back, so a Chinese gang master is strangled in the cradle. Although he earns a lot, it is some high-risk work that others are unwilling to do. Including collection, driver, escort stowaways.
In this regard, the London of Chinese gangs is also presented to the audience, with Cantonese as the center, pure English, young people in suits and leather shoes, noisy slaughterhouses, and stowaways packed in cardboard boxes. When international students appreciate the night view of the Thames River, they do not know the dirty trade by the river, or the cruelty of the weak in the buildings behind them.
Three women became the main line of Joseph's life outside of work, his ex-wife, wandering companion, and nun. A relationship that could not have been established during the Chengping years develops between four people. In hindsight, the past that the four people have experienced is the reason why they can get to know each other. The horrible past in the eyes of ordinary people is just a glass of wine, a cigarette, a phone call and an expensive show in their hearts.
The protagonist's feelings for the three are very pure, his guilt for his ex-wife, his love for the nun, and his gratitude for his wandering companions. Constantly searching for Isabelle's whereabouts, giving money to his wife, sending nuns clothes, and helping the nuns' relief cause. But at the same time, he was tormented by memories. His comrades were killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan, and his shooting of civilians was like a flock of hummingbirds constantly infesting him, and he could only be paralyzed with alcohol. As the driver took away the gang members, the screaming scream of the little girl behind him whose father was killed made his mind confused again. When Isabel was killed, he finally repeated the same mistakes, one life for another, throwing the killer out of the tall building.
From then on, fate enters the next cycle.
In London at night, the lonely wanderer, under the surveillance of the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, continued his escape with the shadow under the Ferris wheel.
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