This article was first published in the movie public account "Yunhe Movie", and contains a lot of spoilers. It is recommended to read after watching the movie. The overall score is 8.5.
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Regarding the main plot of the story, Yuncheng will not repeat it. The story is explained very clearly. The answer was revealed in the middle of the film, but as Daniel Craig said in the film, there is a hole in the donut. , There is a donut in the hole, and there is still a hole in this donut. After watching the movie, Yuncheng also feels that there is still a hole in the center of the whole movie. The movie did not explain everything to us. The plot, this hole is also the biggest mystery of the whole movie: the real setter is not actually the American team, that is, the grandson of the father in the film, Lanson, but—
The old man himself.
I believe that many people immediately had doubts about this conclusion. They were not in a hurry. Listening to Yuncheng slowly state the reasoning process for reaching this conclusion, let’s talk about the most obvious point of the story first, or it can be said that it is based on the clear direction. One of the most obvious "loopholes" in the above logic is that the old man is very likely to find that the medicine given to him by the young nurse Marta is not wrong, because the old man mentioned several times when he learned that the wrong medicine was only ten minutes left. When the time came, there were a few minutes left, first 8 minutes, last 6 minutes, and then never mentioned it again, and when he mentioned it for 6 minutes, he had not explained to Marta how to remove the suspicion, and even his daughter-in-law, Jonnie, did not come. Knock on the door, in other words, five minutes have passed since Mr. Slobby had confessed everything to Marta, and his body should have reacted to the overdose of morphine long ago, and compared to the housekeeper in the second half. The performance of the attack when he was injected with an overdose of morphine did not seem to be a seizure state at all, so after the old man explained all this, he actually knew that Marta had not given the wrong medicine. Of course, this caused a bigger problem. Now that he knew that he didn't take the wrong medicine, why did the old man commit suicide?
The answer is actually very simple. It is simple because it can be summed up in one word, which is the description of the master twice in the film through the mouth of the American team and his daughter- dramatic . Because the old man is a famous detective novelist and very drama, he expects his life to be a dramatic end, rather than an unknown death. If there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, his death will be turned into a grand mystery. He will be very happy to do so.
The old man is 85 years old and has both fame and fortune. As far as his personal career is concerned, he has no regrets. The only thing he can't let go is his family. Seeing a family that looks like a divorce and is deviating from the right track, he is heartbroken, and He hopes that by changing his will and not leaving a share of property to his family, everyone can get back on the right track, instead of taking his family property and sitting in the air and doing nothing, he is still the most similar to him, but the most idle grandson Lansen Lingling. He felt heartbroken. A young man who was as smart and talented as himself, just because he can continue to suck blood from home, he likes to work, has no achievements, and will go to waste in the long run, and the Sloan family will never go back to the past. Glory.
After explaining the motive, let’s take a look at how the old man promoted this plan. He deliberately told Lansen about his will to amend his will, and said that Marta would play chess and fight drugs with him, and then watch Lansen. Because Lansen is similar to his own, he probably thought that Lansen would harm him. If Lansen, who is skilled in calculations and familiar with killing tactics, chooses to return to drop the package of medicines, he will commit suicide to let Lansen grab the inheritance. At the same time, Lanson will not be charged with murder. This is the last gentleness of the old man towards him. If Lanson didn’t want to kill him, he might continue to amend his will and leave a copy to Lanson. He deliberately knocked over the chessboard and dropped the chess pieces and medicine together to ensure that Marta was in a panic. Zhong will not confirm whether the medicine and its bottle correspond to each other, and it also convinced Marta that she had indeed mistaken the medicine bottle in a panic, and not that the medicine has been packaged. So pay attention to this problem for eight minutes. The old man Shi asked Marta: Are you sure there is no XX ketone (antidote)? On the surface, this question is that the old man is determining whether he can be saved, but he is actually confirming another question-Is Lanson going to kill me? Because Marta, who can't lie, cried and said that the antidote should be in her first aid kit, but she didn't know why it was gone, and she didn't vomit after she said it, indicating that this was the truth, and the old man understood everything.
And Lanson’s killing intent on the old man was also the last straw that prompted him to commit suicide. The old man must use his death to teach his family, and the escape technique he taught Marta was actually full of loopholes. The place where Marta parked can be seen by surveillance, and Marta’s non-liar nature made it difficult for her to completely conceal the true situation that night. The reason why the father had a lot of trouble was to convince Lanson. His plan was successful. If Lanson persists, he will pay for his actions. If Lanson stops, with the blood test report that can prove Marta's innocence, Marta will inherit the property smoothly. The reason why the old man chose Marta is also because of Marta’s kindness and will never completely ignore his children. She will definitely give them the necessary relief and assistance, such as continuing to provide Meg to school, but she can not let it. The children go to squander his own property and eat according to their own ability, instead of sitting and eating. This is the original intention of the old man in arranging all this.
Ending Marta holds the old man’s cup, which says "My house, my rules, my coffe". My house, my rules, and my coffee (money) are both an indication that the transfer of property has been completed, but also a hint The father's control of this dramatic story has just officially ended, and Marta's decision-making power is in the hands of Marta.
The person who really deserves to sit on the throne of the sword is the old man, and the man who controls all clues is the old man.
About political metaphors
A lot of insinuations about Comrade Chuan Jianguo: First, Lanson sneered at Detective Bronk when he said that his mother was "made from scratch." When he started his business, he also borrowed one million dollars from his father. It is also a irony that Trump's achievements today are inseparable from his father's strong support.
Regarding immigration policy, Trump’s anti-immigration policy is also mentioned in the family discussion in this film. Marta is a Paraguayan from South America. She is a legal immigrant, but her mother is later than her, but she is not a legal immigrant. In fact, it is because of the changes in immigration policy, and the so-called legality is just because the interest groups headed by Trump change according to their own interests, and there is no effective and tenable legal basis. Combining with the Sloan family’s unpredictable behavior towards the father, it can be seen that the director’s desire to express Trump’s anti-immigration is only for his unsuspecting children to forcibly reduce competition (although for practical reasons) Obviously it won't be so naive), because their children can't make it into a climate, so they can only have a vegetarian meal like the third child in charge of a publishing company.
Speaking of Marta’s nationality, there is also a very interesting stalk. In the film, there are three theories about where Marta is from the Sloan family. The detective said she was Colombian, and the eldest son-in-law said she was Paraguayan. After Lanson was exposed, she said she was a Brazilian, so it can be seen that the Sloan family, who kept saying that Marta was her family, did not even know where Marta came from. This shows the hypocrisy of the family and their treatment of Mar The indifference of immigrants like Ta, also reflects their white supremacy.
In addition to the disguised window on the third floor of the old man, there is also a political metaphor, which implies that Trump’s strict immigration policy prevents immigrants from entering the United States openly and can only come in through a small road, but Lanson also climbed once, this It is a metaphor that when the United States was founded, it was nothing more than a group of white people who did not belong to the American continent. They came through the wind and waves as the "Mayflower", and did not get the consent of the Native Indians, so they were nothing more than a group of "thieves" entering the house. .
Lanson finally emphasized that why a South American occupies the ancestral home where our Sloan family has lived for generations. Bronk reminded him that the old man bought this house from a Pakistani in the 1980s, and it is also implying the United States. The upper-class elites claim to be the masters of the American continent, but this piece of land was only taken from the Indians by their ancestors, and they did not originally belong here.
The sword formations like the iron throne also have no ulterior motives. They look compelling and do not get angry. In fact, they are fake and cannot kill people at all. It is also a satire that the United States is a picture of everyone. Aggressive appearance, in fact, strong outsiders, no real guys. Maybe the only real knife in that house is the one used by the old man to commit suicide. The next generation of foreign powers and middle-aged workers headed by Lansen, who have no real guys in their hands, will sooner or later defeat their ancestors.
The last picture is quite meaningful. An immigrant standing on the balcony on the second floor with a cup declaring sovereignty, watching condescendingly at a group of white people being driven out of the house, is not only a hint, but also a spur: the immigration policy has been rude. Stopping it will only accelerate the decline and fall of the United States. If the backbone of the white people who claim to be the masters of the United States does not work hard to create their own performance, they will eventually be replaced by immigrants, and one day they will be expelled from this land, just like back then. They slaughtered the Indians the same.
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