Film Review, Blood Father, Redemption of Love

Anahi 2022-04-19 09:02:27

New film express, strongly recommend "Blood Father". The long-lost Mel Gibson has finally returned to the screen, much to the delight of fans, whose tough-guy image has been deeply rooted in the hearts of people since the "Mad Max" series in 1979. This time, with the new work "Blood Father", the return of the fire line, let the audience look forward to it.

As a pure tough guy movie, Mel's performance is as good as before, and he interprets the character of this tragic tough guy very well. His actions, words, and eyes fully express the inner world of the protagonist, and his acting skills are well deserved.

The film's male protagonist, Link, is a former criminal who is an alcoholic. Now he is in the serious business of tattooing, hiding his inner wounds alone and hiding his name. Until one day, his daughter was in danger, and Link had no choice but to return to the rivers and lakes, bravely enter the tiger's den for his beloved daughter, and kill all the evildoers. It deduces a bloody legend of a tough old man's "dragon crossing the river" style.

As a highly recommended new film, there will be no shortage of highlights.

What to watch, veteran Hollywood actor
Mel Gibson (playing Link), naturally needless to mention, aside from some problems in his private life and speech, in terms of acting skills,

William H. Macy (playing Kirby) is "impeccable", He has been famous for a long time, and he likes the Frank he performed in Shameless the most. He is famous for his acting skills and is famous for Erin Moriarty (playing Lydia) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

. After 90s, I didn't know each other before. I met him after watching this film. What should I say? After all, he is playing against Mel, so his acting skills are at least

good to watch. In terms of refreshing and tense storyline
scenes, the director places the actors in an endless desert. This design is very close to "Mad Max" and has a great sense of substitution, which makes the audience feel at once. It reminds me of Mel, who was the protagonist of "Mad Max" in his early years. Coupled with the intense firefights and bloody gunfights, it is simply a reset version of Mad Max. The director's wonderful concept and design made many Mel's nostalgic fans instantly excited.

In terms of plot, the film is about a father saving his daughter. Recall that the most similar movie recently is Liam Neeson's "Hurricane Rescue" trilogy. Compared with the two, they have the same plot, and Liam's interpretation seems to be better.

Narratively, Blood Father is straightforward and clean. Purely hardcore "father-daughter" movies, without any other inexplicable elements, the ideas are clear and unambiguous.
It is no exaggeration to say that this one-and-a-half-hour movie is completely based on the established trajectory, there is no trace of deviation, no redundant dialogue, no redundant characters, no redundant unrelated themed plot, only tension. Thrilling, intricate storyline.

What to watch, the actual meaning of the film is
the contest between "sin" and "love". Only "love" can save the world.
Sin, "Blood Father", shows a New Mexico state where gangsters, killers, drug dealers, and criminals of all kinds are rampant (a bit like "sin city"), and the director goes to great lengths to portray this crime-riddled area.
Love, Link's fatherly love, "selfless love" runs through the whole story. He gave up his hard-earned quiet life, re-armed himself, and finally perished with the enemy in order to save his daughter.
The contrast between "sin" and "love" makes the audience think more while enjoying the film.

Written at the end, "Blood Father" is not only watching the actors, not only watching the intense and exciting plot, but also watching the message of "love" conveyed by the film, which can be used for a lifetime.

Recommended crowd: everyone
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Extended Reading

Blood Father quotes

  • Link: Where are you hiding the shit? Tell me right *fucking* now, this is not cute! I worked too hard and this place is clean, I'm not going down for a game of FUCKING HIDE AND SEEK!

  • Lydia: You ever think about... what the world would be like without you? If I just went ahead and killed myself this would all be over.

    Link: Oh, so that's where we're at, giving up. Fine. You kill yourself then I'll kill myself and I'll take some innocent people with me. How'd that be?

    Lydia: You think I'm kidding, Dad, but I've tried.

    Link: Yeah, so have I, plenty of times. Where's that got us?

    Lydia: I took all of my stepdad's pills when I was twelve.

    Link: Girls take pills when they want somebody to find them.

    Lydia: I tried to hang myself when I was ten years old.

    Link: Well, that didn't work very well.

    Lydia: You understand what I'm trying to tell you?

    Link: Yeah, sure. Congratulations.

    Lydia: I was ten years old.

    Link: I knew a ten-year-old kid, killed his whole family with a rock.

    Lydia: What the fuck does that mean? Why don't you ever listen to me?

    Link: I'm listening, okay.

    Link: [Points to the top of his head] Look. Feel this, right up here.

    Lydia: No.

    Link: Yes, come on, it's important. Feel it, come on.

    Lydia: [Touches his head] Oh my god. What is that?

    Link: Yeah, drove my bike off a cliff on the PCH, split my head wide open. The point is I meant to do it, but they saved my ass anyway and there's a steel plate in my head. And look at this.

    Lydia: No. I don't want to. You're a fucking Cyborg.

    Link: I opened up my wrists in prison. Then I got sepsis, spent two months in the prison hospital watching game shows then I really wanted to kill myself.

    Lydia: Alright, you win.

    Link: No, there's no winning or losing. You either wanna wake up in the morning or you don't, and if you can't find a way to live with yourself, well then, why run? Why come to me, why do any of this?

    Lydia: I don't wanna die.

    Link: That's right, you don't wanna die. Cause you're a seventeen-year-old kid and you got a lot to live for. Okay? You may not wanna wake up tomorrow, but the day after that might just be great. Might be the best fucking day of your life. You know? You don't wanna miss it, right?