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I watched the film review of "American Extreme" last year in a domestic theater, and it was translated into "Waste Agents". A stupid translation of the film with the characteristics of the celestial dynasty, which sounds like a bad film. In short, I didn't overestimate the film at the time, just look at it as popcorn.
As a result, the film was unexpectedly cute. It was so damn cute. I didn't expect this film to be so cute. Even after half a year, I would ask myself every time I review it, why is this film so cute?
The whole story is very off-line. Mike and his girlfriend Phoebe, a young man who runs a supermarket, live in a remote town. The two live their own lives while eating marijuana sweetly. When the love is so strong, Mike wants to propose to his girlfriend, so he specially prepared a trip to Hawaii, but because of his serious "small town phobia", he fell through and he couldn't leave the town.
The next day a woman in a different dress came to Mike's supermarket and said some inexplicable statements to him. Mike didn't understand, so he didn't delve into it, and never thought that trouble would follow. Someone deliberately manipulated his car. Mike accidentally killed someone when he went to stop him. Then he entered the game and provoked the killer. The young man living and working in a small town was inexplicably skilled in killing people with a human weapon, which made Mike begin to doubt his identity. ...In
several violent conflicts, Mike gradually recalled some fragments, and his girlfriend Phoebe also revealed to him that he was a super agent who was hypnotized by the CIA, and he was responsible for supervising him in case of a situation. investigator.
Miek argued with Phoebe because of Phoebe's concealment and shock of his own life experience. He doubted each other's love. There were several confrontations with the secret service organization in the middle. The two nearly died. After several setbacks, the two eventually defeated the evil forces. Mike's proposal was successfully re-incarnated by the CIA and became a real agent...with
no suspense, everyone's joy and simple plot.
But why do I say this movie is cute? Still make me want to revisit it when I have nothing to do?
Probably because the essence of life itself does not need too much sunshine to be positive and positive. Most of the time, life is like the pouring rain in the small town in the film, cold and frustrated.
Imagine this: In a sparsely populated, secluded and quiet town, the boy runs his own small supermarket, wipes the shelves every day to replenish the supply, drinks milk and flies over the leaves and the others come, and in his spare time he nests in a small group to draw his own ideas Comics: A big adventure between the Martian Monkey and its friends, traveling across the universe to defeat evil, squeezing a grinning rival, happy and unrestrained.
Go back to your messy and cozy home after work, make a warm hot bath with fried eggs, curl up with your beloved girl in front of the TV and fly leaves, kiss or sticky and greasy together, listening to each other’s favorite black Glue records, tattoos on each other's bodies, heartily sex, cuddling and sleeping...
rainy days, music, teddy bears on the bed, passionate and romantic music, flying leaves, a dilapidated but driveable car Classic cars, the beloved is by your side. There is no lofty ideal, the sun is blocked by curtains, the soul soars in a daze, casually lying in bed, there is not much money to splurge on travel, and the life of laziness to deal with casually, it seems that only the friends of the Martian monkeys are humans. Stooges, you have to hide from the police to get marijuana, and find the right time to buy enough fireworks to propose to your beloved woman.
How mournful... Tickets, powers, worldly, self-realization, in this movie, all the fucking go to hell...but it's so damn it's so enviable.
There are so many examples in this world that both love and life must be positive and noble. It seems that the eternal loyalty of love cannot be proved without a boat hitting an iceberg. How can you dance your life without breaking your legs? Interview one job after another for your children It's responsibility and paternal love..... Wow, such a positive energy has made most of the world's chaotic viewers who spend their lives humiliated. Damn, most people don't meet the thrilling true love. They work hard to be active in the middle class all their lives. They have never tasted what their dreams are until they die. Let the audience go. Life is hard enough to live well?
Who doesn't have inertia, who doesn't want to indulge in desire, and who doesn't have a colorful comic book world in his heart to let his imagination run wild? The boss is a bastard bitch. He conceived of a Martian monkey beating him to find teeth. When he is stressed, he will fly a leaf to make his mind soar and feel bliss. TV series and movies can be without nutrition, as long as there are people watching with them. .....
CIA agents, beautiful fighting scenes, pretending villains, these elements are actually not the reason why I love this film in my opinion. What I love is a simple pair of Perfect fucked-up couples who live in this small town both dejected and depressed. They are essentially living purely in love. Phoebe is in charge of Perfect and Mike is in charge of Fucked-up.
Mike, as the male protagonist, is a Sweet stoned kid. Stupid and astute at the same time, he can draw and paint very well, and tell a story to his girlfriend; have a job that can fill his belly, cook obediently at home, and please his girlfriend; good taste in music, Daily romance is to lie on the front cover of the car with your beloved girl and watch the stars and flying leaves; while sleeping, he still hugs his boyfriend vigorously behind his back, thinking wholeheartedly about how to make a perfect marriage proposal; even killing someone, so scared to hide behind the telephone pole When you tremble, you have to fly a leaf to suppress the shock; the sleeping skill awakens and constantly suspects that he is a robot, and does not understand why he can get hundreds of tanks and weapons information at once, so dejected and decadent, he is naturally not afraid of the world.... .
As the heroine, Phoebe is a bit too handsome. Will comfort people at the right time, never irritate, and full of girlish hearts; can take care of boyfriends who are in a mess like an adult, or groan tenderly and sweetly under the lover to express love; assist when facing danger and not chaos Never hold back, and beat people up without any mercy. Dyeing orange hair, red nails, preparing hot bikinis for Hawaii travel, shocked and sad because Rocket Monkey was betrayed, and willing to stay and sacrifice because he loved a silly boy. Chaotic, cumbersome, and unable to spend too much time to show off, this girl gave up the high salary of the CIA because love accepted it with pleasure.
The dim lights in the room, the rocket monkey graffiti everywhere on the wall, the notes and recipes on the refrigerator reminding Mike to eat, the slightly worn surface of the vinyl records being played too much, the pots and pans on the kitchen counter, the black pepper pot, the bed The mess and teddy bears, the cup noodles that have just been cooked with steam, the hair balls on the socks and the plush carpet... There is nothing special, just the appearance of home, free and easy. From the soundtrack to the smoky smoke, the two lovers nestling like small animals, setting aside the violent and nonsensical plot, is really a lazy and comfortable film suitable for watching while smoking and drinking.
After all, the cuteness of this film is that it does not preach or preach. It just brings you the most sparse daily life, and then brings you a little bit of love.
Because of his phobia of leaving the town, the voided trip to Hawaii, and the work that is not worth showing off, Mike is always guilty and sad. He can live in the world of rocket monkeys as he pleases, but his beloved girl exists so truly. In front of him, Mike will also feel uneasy and low self-esteem.
He looked at the traffic accident not far away and said to Phoebe, do you know what makes people look back?
"The tree in front of me may have been here for decades, and it has done nothing. The car has been running, and the tree has stopped innocently here. It seems that there is something destined to stop the car here by the tree, as if it came from The original meaning of the tree. But in fact, the tree is just here, it simply destroys the beautiful non-stop car.....The tree messed up everything..."
Mike was crying and Phoebe was at a loss.
Mike looked at his girl and said, "I am the tree..."
Life is always bitter, tiring and deterring most of the time. Adding love to it will not be much better. Even in front of the one we love, we are more humble and vulnerable. We are ravaged by life and feel like a tree with nothing to do, and we are patronized by love, and we are even more afraid that we are the tree with nothing to do and meaningless.
It seems that if we cannot make ourselves and others proud, cannot cope with life with ease, are embraced by decadence and knocked down by failure, we are defined as a tree with teeth and claws, empty and ridiculous.
Mike is not a tree, nor is the audience, because Phoebe loves him, and the audience loves him. It doesn't matter whether it is a tree in front of it, it is rainstorm, it is a fence, or the lifted arm of the hitchhiker, or the manual lever that controls the brake.
When life continues, we will run, and one day, there will be love that will make us stop, freeze, and eternal. Whether that love is a city, a job, a lover, a pet, or a full meal.
Phoebe was controlled by the CIA and Mike tried to rescue his girlfriend. Phoebe, who was beaten on the other end of the phone, told Mike that I was the tree.
This is the most romantic place. When Mike started to recall the life he missed after being transformed into a super agent, Phoebe's cold, solemn and lifeless face as a prosecutor in his mind. Then the picture warmed up. Phoebe smiled sweetly to the sun in a warm coat in a piece of reeds. Phoebe, who concealed the identity of the CIA and meticulously, painted red nails in the company of Mike, dyed his hair gorgeously, and dressed casually. Canvas shoes, a sweet smile.
The tree is there, the car is no longer moving, people come and go as the sun rises and sunset, and there are scenery everywhere. The tree is the only beauty in the car's heart, and he has never left his eyes.
Later in the story, Mike proposes to marriage like Phoebe. The two men are bloody and embarrassed. Mike with bruised eyes kneels on one knee and pulls out a ring from her girl. His eyes are deeply affectionate for Akagi and there is no restlessness and low self-esteem. He is clearly fattened by the villain. Hit, but he still laughed so sweet in the dimples. With tears in Phoebe's eyes, he put on his ring and looked at the boy who had successfully proposed the marriage proudly, clasping each other's hands.
A sweet pair of happy endings, it doesn’t matter if you return to the CIA or not. Mike is still the cute fool who built the world of rocket monkeys by flying leaves. Phoebe is still so cool that he has no friends to listen to Mike continuing to play rocket monkeys. Write down the story.
They are not delaying each other's trees, they all stop at each other for love.
This "American Extreme" is not highly rated in China. I don't know why such a niche movie will enter the Chinese market again after nearly a year after it was released in the United States. Of course, I didn't care about the domestic box office. However, although the film is rendered non-mainstream by the Chinese translation, this film is by no means a boring and dry comedy.
Mike's violent monkeys, rigorous martial arts moves, and unexpectedly logical laughs are all very cute. The firework pan and the appearance of Chinese are also quite colorful, and even the arrogant villain finally makes people feel a little bit of pity. . The soundtrack is also very well done, and it's very exciting to listen to it at night.
It's really a lazy and romantic love movie, like flying leaves in a bathtub, the whole soul is rippling.
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