The American dream roughly has one goal. On the road to success, this set of shots has nailed a polarizing ending to the so-called "American Dream." This film tells how a man in the oil business in New York in the 1980s walked step by step to his established goal. The theme cannot be separated from "people and money", but the director Chandall adopted the "gangster theme". The narrative style of the film is slightly literary and artistic, and the film also exudes the temperament of "film noir" everywhere. If it is a tribute to a classic gangster movie, the viewers feel that it is not enough. More often, it feels like "taking a picture of a tiger and drawing a cat", which is still the ultimate one, because watching the movie feels unpleasant, then You can still feel this kind of superficial flow from the first few sets of shots, but the core of the gangster movie is far from being touched by this movie.
The male protagonist adheres to his own rules from beginning to end. The goal is not to cause trouble to him. What causes trouble is how to reach the goal. In order to reach the goal, he has to choose a path that is near and far. This is similar to marching. In the "three strategies of upper, middle and lower", the male protagonist always chooses the most correct path. Facts have proved that he succeeded.
The male protagonist portrayed in the film is an extremely complex person. On the surface, he is actively working hard for his dreams. In fact, he already owns a luxury car house, a beautiful wife and a beautiful son, and is at the pinnacle of life. However, he wants to go to a higher place. The goals set up naturally drew competitors and big troubles. From the beginning of the story smoothly, to when the police, local prosecutors, lawyers, landlords, banks, subordinates, and competitors came to trouble him in turn, he still adhered to the original His belief is that violence cannot solve everything. To reach the upper class in New York, one must have a clean background. So when the police searched the house, the male protagonist eagerly concealed all the books, but later proved that there was no problem with those books. At the critical juncture of the acquisition of the land, the wife took out the account that had been embezzling the company's money. The male protagonist accepted all this from the first violent anger and "coincidentally" with his wife. It should be explained that the male protagonist’s wife is a gangster. My daughter’s principle is to eat black and use violence to control violence. This is contrary to the male protagonist’s code of conduct, but at a critical juncture, the male protagonist gave up the code, and most of the time insisted on doing decent business. His sudden change of attitude is enough to prove the complexity of his personality. He is also a complete hypocrite, false morality, combined with the suicide of his subordinates in the previous article, and his behavior proves once again that under capitalism, in the turbulent times , There is no promise to be a good person.
At the end of the film, the policeman who has been looking for trouble also turns the enemy into friends with the male protagonist, and Qianquan colludes. We are not familiar with this kind of trick...
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