In the beginning, ethnic conflict was the core of the film’s director’s desire to express the most. The father wandered between Indians and whites, and his granddaughters were also wandering between barbarism and urbanism. The director took great pains to explore this tastelessness. The story of the ethnic group is also very old-fashioned. Then I added a lot of father-daughter alienation as the main line, but until the end of the movie, I discovered that the real main line is a Rambo story (the decadent protagonist went to the tiger’s den to save people because of the past, and it happened in the process of saving people. In order to change his identity, he changed from selfishness to a hero who sacrificed himself to save others).
Looking at it this way, many people will say that the original intention of the director was Rambo, but why are all action scenes and related plots deliberately avoided? When the father confronted the wizard for the first time, the wizard said, "Your soul told me that you want to be a real Indian." The wizard later said, "Do you guys do less bad things to my people?" Father Asked happy Jim, the Indian guy who also served in the white cavalry, "You must be proud of your behavior." The bad Indians themselves are a group of Indians who served in the white army to destroy the Indians. The little girl yelled and killed the Indian who saved him by mistakenly thinking he was a bad person. The scars on the scalp of the captain of the cavalry team, so many racial issues plots show that this is the real intention of the director.
So let's treat him as an action movie depicting realism? No way. Several episodes broke into the plot, the girl exposed her identity with a telescope, the girl had to hand the gun to the mad woman when she ran away, the mother left the comb, the girl was rescued by the Indians and thought it was a bad guy yelling, all these treatments forced the action film story to be weakened. Realism pave the way. So what is finally presented to us is a road movie that wants to talk about ethnic groups and father-daughter relationships but not good, or a western action movie that mixes ethnic groups and father-daughter relationships but has a lackluster plot.
Cate Blanchett’s performance was very good. He and Tommy Lee Jones were originally superstars who could perform very wonderful two-person shows, but they added a little girl. The director could not remove the little girl, so he rarely appeared. , Then why bother to write about her? It is estimated to pave the way for the contradiction between "civilization" and "barbarism" (LILY stands for longing for civilization, DOT stands for worshiping nature)? Everywhere you can see the movie's constantly changing focus, where you have to come a little bit, and the result is lackluster everywhere, wasting such a good actor.
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