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"Extreme Thief" is adapted from the action film "Breaking Point". It is about Utah, who was originally an extreme sportsman. He joined the FBI because of his friend's death in a sport and gave up extreme sports. Later, he was sent to undercover in a keen In the extreme sports criminal gang, they use extreme sports to commit crimes, claiming to return to nature and nature, but Utah eventually became life and death friends with the gang leader Bowdy.
The goal of this group of young people who love the limit is to complete the eight items of Ozaki: 1. Emergence of power 2. The coming of the sky: 3. The awakening of the earth 4. The life of the water 5. The perpetual motion of the wind 6. The consolidation of the ice 7. The life 8. Unreserved trust. Japanese Ozaki is an extreme sportsman. He believes in completing these eight sports to draw human attention to the earth and love for our nature. This is a task that is recognized as unachievable in the history of extreme sports. But this group of extreme sports-loving teams resolutely completed each challenge in order to express their trust in Ozaki and pay tribute to nature. One of them is that their leader, Bowdy, was saved by Ozaki. I think this is one of the reasons why they have always been determined to fulfill the last wish of their savior, at the cost of their own lives.
As the saying goes, interest is the best teacher, that is, in the film, this group of young people showed us their love for extreme sports, which is beyond our understanding. It is a love that penetrates into the bone marrow. belief. Make me believe that anything is possible with love and action.
What the film brings to us is undoubtedly a visual enjoyment, a Hollywood visual blockbuster, like an array of wingsuit flying at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, passing through the canyons of Wallenstadt, Switzerland, and climbing the world's largest 979 meters without any security measures. Drop Falls, Angel Falls in Venezuela, 70-foot waves on the Great White Shark Outer Barrier Reef on Maui, Hawaii, extreme skiing in the Italian Alps.
The biggest visual impact to me was the 100-meter surfing challenge in the film. When the huge waves swept in, the skateboards flew by, and the human beings were so small on the sea, and they were integrated with nature to express their respect for them. with love. This reminds me of "The Fantastic Drifting of Pi". At midnight, a boat was floating on the sea, and the beluga whales were surrounded by the surrounding and looked down, which shocked my heart and marveled at the ingenious work of nature. On the sea, a huge wave that was a hundred times taller came, and speed and passion were the guarantee of life. At that time, in order to integrate into the group, Utah also risked his life to fight for waves with Bowdy, but Bowdy gave up this opportunity to save Utah. next chance. It is precisely because of this that Utah integrated into his team and had a life-and-death relationship with them from the very beginning, and each of their challenges was a challenge to the limit of life and a tribute to nature. The extreme sports itself is very ornamental, coupled with the natural expanse and magnificence, everything is so extreme and amazing.
They had the awakening of the earth: they jumped out of the plane, and the dollars flew and fell from the sky; at the same time, people crossed into the cave of the Yanzidong Tiankeng in Mexico. The precise entry shocked the people in the slums at that time. The banknotes sprinkled all over the sky, people thought they were dead, but they did not know that they fell into the Tiankeng safely, completing the perfect integration of man and the earth. The perpetual motion of the wind: Fly like a bat in a wing suit, glide through the mountains and feel the freedom of the wind. Consolidation of ice: gliding down the steepest snow-capped mountain at high speed, only one with the wind can complete this challenge. Five people soar through the canyons together. Perfect avoidance is that kind of heartbeat. The master of life, at this point in the exercise, there are only 3 people in the team including Utah, and the other one fell off the cliff due to exhaustion at the moment of rock climbing. Freehand, unprotected rock climbing, completely relying on physical strength, skill and strong willpower as rock climbing without any aids, the degree of thrill is evident, Utah still completed this limit with him in order to stop Bowdy. That fusion of man and nature at the end of the cliff goes a step further, below the cliff is the waterfall, and then there is the eighth sport of unreserved trust, Bowdy did not hesitate to get off the cliff in this case. Jumping into the waterfall, Utah may have remembered Jeff, who lost his life because he trusted himself too much while playing the limit together, and jumped down with Bowdy, and they achieved a true integration with nature. It's not just the trust between people, but also the trust humans have in nature. You fear it, love it, trust it unreservedly, and it will give you a chance to "survive". But Utah also lost its love for extreme sports.
At the end of the film, Bowdy returned to the sea to meet the coming of the huge waves in the storm and complete the water creature. Only himself, he will use his life to complete the tribute to nature. Utah tried to stop him, but there was nothing he could do. He fulfilled his promise to Wei Qing and paid tribute to nature with the determination to die. The strong winds and waves are one side of nature, and the bright sun is another.
The original intention of this team must be good, arousing people's protection of nature and love for the earth. But the way it is done seems a bit extreme, a tribute to nature done by helping poor people through crime. The film may not have much drama, but in the process of paying homage to nature, the speed of life and death is exciting enough. The three views are quite right. He makes us reflect on what we have done, and at the same time tells us that it is not advisable to use violence to suppress violence. Man and nature should live in harmony in order to survive better.
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