Lost Town [There are spoilers! There are spoilers! There are spoilers! 】
The gist of the entire film appears near the end of the film: the picture is of a black neighbor facing a homeless home, and then the camera cuts to the scene of the final negotiation between the male protagonist and his son. The voiceover connects two shots, a male voice "Everyone here is a beast" (to the effect), I can't tell whether it's the voice of the neighbor or what the male protagonist said to his son, in fact, both are. Everyone is a beast! The beast lives in our hearts.
The two threads of the film are the inner and outer correspondence of the people of this town. Racial violence is the manifestation of the cruel hearts of these sanctimonious beasts. They think they are the embodiment of truth and justice, and they have launched the most ruthless mass violence against strangers who have done no harm to them, and they have no regard for their lives, let alone their young children and relatives (how familiar this behavior is!); and The events within the male protagonist's family are their real psychological state in the face of their selfish desires, and this line is handled absurdly and hilariously. Just as we are often unaware of the ridiculousness of ourselves being led by the nose and embarrassed by desire. These two clues are actually the inside and outside of the same thing, a portrait of the inner and outer behavior of a group of people.
What this film really means to us is this: Are we inadvertently inflicting unconscious mass violence against our erring fellows every day? As if we ourselves are saints who never make mistakes and never suffer, so righteous and unrelenting. This is as cruel and unreasonable as the group of people you see in the movie who beat, smashed, looted and burned themselves without hurting themselves.
It's a drama of realism, just as absurd as the life we experience every day. I hope that we will not suffer inexplicable harm from irrelevant, more friendliness from strangers, and let the short life be warmer. .
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