The life of the protagonist Joshua is full of twists and turns. His mother took drugs and died, and he had to dial the phone of his grandmother, thus returning to a criminal family that had feared him. This film focuses on showing the family life and relationships of this family. An atmosphere that makes ordinary people feel weird surrounds this family, and the role of grandmother is the most weird. She is the representative of the split state of this family. She handles housework and has a deep love for her sons, and the whole family looks like a harmonious ordinary family without too much violence and signs of infighting. However, they are precisely a robbery and drug trafficking group. Under the leadership of the "Godfather", they have become a criminal group that must be eradicated in the eyes of the police. In this kind of family life, the grandmother’s affectionate kiss to her sons and the family’s laughter, Outside of this family, the crime and the tension of the upcoming round up form a tension full of turbulence and uneasy feelings, and become the main line of the film.
Joshua’s role in this film is first of all an observer role. In many cases, it can be said that he did nothing and has nothing to do with the plot, just to witness the decline and death of this family. In this film, the director did not give much artistic, dramatic and romantic treatment to crime and death, but made death come suddenly, desperate, and realistic. Suddenly, there were family members talking and laughing. Some people died and some were arrested. The feeling of the sudden collapse of the family made Joshua's anxiety and entanglement even more dramatic and infectious. "The Godfather" is a core character who embodies the word "animal" in the film. If the grandmother is expressing the animal world of the law of the jungle, there is still "tiger poison but not child"-like affection, then the "Godfather" embodies It is more the cruelty of survival of the fittest. He has a cold appearance and is murderous when he laughs. It is for the benefit of the family, or more accurately, for his own benefit, he can do anything, even if necessary, even hunt down family members. The police on the other side did not show the nobility of the justice side, but they had similar interest-driven logic of action, and they also had the instinct of animal hunting. As a result, Joshua became the most painful intermediary, a tool that all parties wanted to fight for or get rid of, and all parties put on a posture of "I'm good for you", trying to win over this child. However, what they did not expect was that the standard of behavior under the law of the jungle, and the final externalized behavior, could only be a hunting lesson taught by a male lion to a young lion in the animal world, and Joshua quickly learned this. Everything, learned to face the hunger and thirst of the prey, observation and tolerance, and at the end of the film, with a sudden shot and another sudden death, he declared his rite of passage in the animal kingdom.
"Animal Kingdom" is a crime drama full of tragic colors. It seems very dull, and it makes people lose patience a bit. At the same time, it has the restlessness that manifests in the dullness, everything is going on dullly, the two sides of the round up and the breakout secretly competed, forming a kind of anxious situation, making Joshua's destiny even more uncertain which side it will fall to. It is also in the depression that the emotions that burst out are more impactful, and Joshua's final outburst is even more in the dullness. It is the smell of death in the depression. After a catastrophe, he knows how to better. Survival, without mercy, without fantasies, he hugged his grandmother who was stunned by his behavior, and this grandmother tried to kill Joshua for the benefit of the family. This embrace was full of irony, but he had watched the whole thing. This film, you will feel, this may be the norm in the animal kingdom.
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