When bloody hammers, burning photos, and human heads sucking in plastic bags appeared on the screen, we seemed to foresee the massive violent and thrilling scenes and cruel and bloody killers in the next film. Indeed, they appeared in our sight. It was Joe with an indifferent face. The close-up shots were advancing continuously, and the motion shots shot upwards. We saw him. He is a retired soldier. He is not as handsome and cold as Leo. He has a messy beard and hair, and a fat body. Covered with scars, he can get rid of the street with a single punch. He wanders in the black alleys of New York. Maybe he has just finished his mission. He has a family and an elderly mother in the family. This is how he appeared in front of us, in the image of an ordinary killer. "40, 39, 38, 37..." Then there were repeated countdowns and breathing sounds. The sound montage of the combination of sound fragments, broken pictures and clips, and constant flashbacks all tell us: he is not here, he has not been there. He seems to be here, he seems to be living in reality, he can eat and bathe, perform tasks, and even make jokes with his mother, but all he wants is how to commit suicide, how to suffocate himself with a plastic bag, and how to swallow a knife. Suicide. He has experienced domestic violence, wars, and severe post-traumatic stress disorder. However, he is still a killer. He is experiencing a long and single pain. He has long been lost, and his ego has long been lost. absent. I have to say that Jacques is really in place, indifferent, calm, restrained, serious, and silent. The tone of the first 20 minutes of the film has been set. This cold, painful killer is here. Then the story begins. Joe received the task of rescuing the congressman’s daughter who was sold as a prostitute from the kidnappers. In Angle baby’s music, he rescued the congressman’s daughter Ni in a series of interrupted violence. Na, Nina also kept counting down, she also knows how to avoid pain: "40, 39, 38, 37, 36, 37, 36..." Her indifferent and calm face made him feel as if he had seen the past. Myself-the little boy whose flashback screen keeps appearing. However, the mission did not end. The governor’s dirty deal with the congressman ended in the congressman being killed. Nina was robbed again, and his boss was also killed. The important thing is that the only reason he lives in this world is that his mother was also killed. Shot, at this time, he finally had no reason to be "here". The camera quietly sent him and his mother to a secluded place, and the moment he and his mother sank to the bottom of the lake, everything was over. If he didn't meet Nina, all this would be over, but in the lake, he seemed to see another pain waiting for him to save. My interpretation of the film is life and existence. It is not so much justice that prompted him to save Nina. I would rather believe that at the moment he made this decision, he saw the hope of liberation, which is more like a kind of redemption. . In the rescue scene, he walked through the corridor with young naked women, all the blood was taken away, it was the music of the angle baby, everything was quiet. But, seeing the Governor Joe’s expression lying in a pool of blood was my saddest scene. At that moment, his expression was very complicated. Nina killed the Governor, but he seemed to foresee Nina’s future. He wanted to rescue her. He He wanted her not to be like himself, he wanted her to exist, but at that moment he understood that they had nowhere to hide. So he broke down, took off his clothes, he cried, and he didn't cry when his mother died.
Where else can they go? The girl quietly ate the blood-stained salad, comforting him: It's ok, Joe. It's ok. It's like when a member of Parliament died, he comforted her.
In the last scene, they went to the restaurant to eat together, Nina asked: Where are we going? no one knows. He shot himself over. No one cares or cares, this is the end.
He finally completed salvation and liberation.
"Today is really a good day" He and she left the table, like they had never been here, in fact they finally started to be here. This is the first film I watched at this Shanghai Film Festival. The audiovisual of the film was perfect, and the story deeply moved me. It's my favorite movie.
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