Life is fragile, life is complicated, human nature is unpredictable
Naked relationship (THE PAPERBOY) film review
I have been troubled by rhinitis and pharyngitis these days. At noon, under the effect of anti-allergic drugs, I watched a movie "the paperboy" with my nose hard to breathe and drowsy. The movie "the paperboy" was intermittent, and then fell asleep completely. After waking up, It was rebroadcasted again, and at the end it was difficult to understand what themes of the movie were going to go through. I quickly searched the Internet and read a few film reviews before I gradually understood the relationship between the characters and the implicit background of the movie. , Role setting and theme.
When I first saw this movie, perhaps most people, like me, thought it was just a thriller or a case movie. The beginning of the story was about the murder of a white policeman. Halfway through seeing it, I still thought that Murderer Cusack was wronged, a low-level white woman Charlotte (the implied role in the movie should be a white prostitute) life is boring and hopeless, always hoping that something miracle can happen, in the correspondence with the prison inmates, read When it comes to "you make me feel at home", I feel full of responsibility that he loves her and wants to save him, as if he discovered the value of his own existence in an instant, and has since embarked on a path of no return.
The background of the story takes place in Florida in the 1969s. The peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean in the southern United States is also the hottest state in the United States. When I was in the United States last summer, I drove to this state. The plan to go to KEYWEST, the southernmost part of the United States, is truly a corner of the United States. It was not completed due to time. However, many Chinese people are still familiar with Miami and Orlando. For Florida, the climate is hot, especially in summer when it is wet with hot flashes.
"Florida" is derived from Spanish, meaning "place where flowers bloom". In many places in the United States, traces of Spain remain. Many people in "Florida" speak Spanish. It can be seen how influential the maritime power Spain was at that time. . In its south, there is the largest national wetland in the United States (Everglades national park).
Going back to the movie itself, at the end, you will find that this movie does not focus on whether Cusack killed the policeman, but on the growth of the ignorant adolescent JICK in the movie. This is to watch the movie again. Name: THE PAPERBOY. It turned out that the film focused on the issue of American values during that period. A film review wrote that "69 was a special era for the United States-the Vietnam War, which exacerbated racial and civil rights issues in the United States. In 1967, the economic growth rate dropped to 2%. In 1970, the economic growth of the United States came to a complete standstill. In fact, the United States had an economic crisis in December 1969. So the Americans of that era had the same feelings in the film: they were extremely depressed. And in a depressed atmosphere, certain emotions must be released, and what followed was Revolutionary movement for sexual liberation."
There is nowhere to release the depressed life, especially in the humid and sultry swamps of FLORIDA, JICK, who has no motherly or even fatherly love, in the boring life after being expelled from school (he was expelled from school because he drained the water in the swimming pool. , Is this too boring performance?) The adventurous and vulgar CHARLOTTE brings freshness and hope to his life. He became deeply infatuated with this hot-headed vulgar woman who was twice his size, and regarded her as the object of his masturbation. Later, CHARLOTTE fulfilled his wish, but still rationally rejected him. Further spiritual requirements, because she clearly knows that they are not all the way, she is just the process of JICK's growth, although for most young people, this experience is dispensable, the key is that the person is not right.
CHARLOTTE’s fantasy was realized, and the murderer Cusack was free. He took her to the swamp and loved her or tortured him in extreme ways. This fantasy fell into the cruel reality that made her unacceptable, perhaps regretting, perhaps resisting, The last thing I offered was the price of life. I experimented with my own life and ended in tragedy.
There is also a main line in the movie that JICK’s brother Ward, a reporter from MIAMI TIMES, a gay man, on the one hand helps Charlotte realize her fantasy, on the other hand, he wants to use this to make a name in the press, and his colleagues are also of the same sex. Mate, a NEGRO. Fortunately, Ward's sense of justice has not been lost. It was very painful to learn the innocence evidence fabricated by his same-sex partner. Between fame and the truth, he chose to seek the truth.
Facts have proved that no matter whether Cusack killed the police or not, he is still a wicked person. He killed CHARLOTTE and Ward, which is more important than finding out whether he killed the police. The bad guys are bad guys, with evil thoughts in their hearts, and there will always be a day when they will be exposed, and it doesn't matter which specific thing it is. You see, the black companion of Ward didn't take the sensational manuscript he made to go to New York to develop, and he didn't miss Ward at all.
Life is fragile, life is complicated, and human nature is unpredictable. It will ferment in a specific environment and become unimaginable. Years later, when JICK recalled this experience, what would he think?
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