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Alia 2022-04-19 09:02:43
If you really understand the director's intention, don't classify this bloody and violent movie as a crime movie, and of course, don't criticize the incompetence or flaws of the police by the standard of a police and bandit movie. Even, this should not be counted as a revenge film. revenge? Where does hatred come from? Who or what group of people brought down the Jim family and lost everything? No, neither. What really drove Jim to a dead end was this system of killing people without blood, this economic system where the rich get richer and the poor poorer, and it was those who pushed themselves to the top of their wealth through crazy accumulation, but at the same time brought countless millions The Wall Street financiers who pushed people into the abyss of poverty. There are two types of people in this world, one is responsible for producing wealth, and the other is responsible for distributing wealth. The former can only stay at the bottom of the pyramid forever, while the latter are all standing at the top of the pyramid. The problem is that the people who never produce wealth determine the rules for the distribution of wealth. That rule, is finance — and so-called financial derivatives. The "distributor" tells the "producer": If you don't invest to avoid risk, then your property will be eaten up by risk. In fact, it is our risk-averse investments or speculation that lead to crisis after crisis. But on the other hand, even if we are risk averse and don't engage in speculation, isn't this behavior itself a huge risk? This is the current financial system. And financial globalization makes it impossible for everyone living in the world to stay out of it. So, Jim is not a person, but a kind of people - "producers", and when he picks up a gun, his target is not certain people, but those "distributors", the politics of capitalism as a whole , economic and legal system.
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Jim Baxford: [voice-over] I'm still alive and free and I promise I will keep killing. They should all know that I am out there, a soldier of the people... and if the government, the prosecutors and the judges fail on their duty, I will not fail on mine.