Idealized crime

Mona 2022-01-11 08:02:24

There is a line in another Woody Allen movie "The Purple Rose of Cairo", which probably means that many people go into the cinema and watch the movie and make themselves crying, but they never get tired of it. The movie itself is illusory and fake, but it can attract so many viewers. The same is true for the audience's fascination with crime-themed movies. Most people who watch crime movies have never committed a crime, or do not realize that they have committed a crime, but still have a strong sense of substitution. Movies have a beautifying effect. The audience will be immersed in criminal movies for a long time until they change their moral values ​​and legal consciousness, which will idealize criminal behavior. To idealize crime is still a narrow crime. Crime movies are leading the way in South Korea, which perfectly filmed social cases and hoped to have a warning effect. But in another dimension, returning to individual crime cases, the deepening of crime cases is a manifestation of the strengthening of the individualism of the perpetrator. Individualism is to treat everyone (no matter whether they commit a crime or not) as a poet and as a person with integrity. . Good crime movies can give the criminals enough respect. For example, at the end of "The Battle of Midway", the scenes of Japanese officers choosing to sink into the sea with a warship are impressive. This is not to beautify the enemy, but to respect the enemy. A good war movie respects the enemy, and a bad war movie vilifies the enemy. Because to demonize the enemy is to demonize oneself, and to respect the enemy is to respect oneself. Movie lovers are more or less aware of what Jesus said about "being guilty". They subconsciously identify with original sin and realize that they may also be sinners, so they will naturally reduce the dimension of crime to the individual or even themselves. Can it be treated like a man of integrity? This is another interpretation of how crime movies can arouse people's hearts. Woody Allen’s movie uses a very funny plot to explain that sinners should also be treated properly, sinners also have vigorous love, sinners also have childhood and parents and friends, even in a sense, sinners do not know themselves? (Perhaps it is related to Woody Allen being a Jew) The interpretation of pan-crime is not simply a policeman, but can also involve psychology, sociology, and so on. This is originally a comedy film, but the viewer can't understand it purely from a funny perspective. Just like Feng Xiaogang's movies are not only funny but also realistic. The actor Virgil is very pitiful. His life's career is a crime. His dream is to rob the bank and keep going to prison. But he robbed the bank for the first time because the bank clerk mistakenly wrote "gun" as "gub" on the note he handed to the bank clerk. The bank clerk expressed his incomprehension, so the note was passed on to several colleagues, and finally Virgil was penniless. Arguing with a senior white-collar worker in a bank office that the word on the note is "gun"? Still "gub"; the second time to rob the bank When another group of gangsters came to rob the bank, Virgil suggested that everyone in the robbed bank vote on who they would like to be robbed. Of course, he failed in the two bank robberies. He was chained and headed to Virginia to repair the road. Later, the group of them ran away and ran across the grasslands and the countryside with their ankles. Virgil became a celebrity and won the Thief of the Year Award. At the end of the film, Virgil was arrested. A man standing on the street reading a newspaper. Virgil tried to rob him. The man was a policeman, but he talked to Virgil about their previous band. But in fact, Virgil was not a member of the band. He just lied to others for a long time. Having stayed in the band, this kind of conversation successfully aroused Virgil's vanity, made him give up his vigilance, and was eventually arrested. To understand the meaning of the chain, the chain represents the bound. Virgil is an idealist, at least when it comes to crime, he can struggle with which shirt to wear on the morning of the bank robbery, and he can escape from prison with a gun made of wood without changing his face, regardless of the consequences. At the same time, behind his criminal ideals, Virgil was a Jew and suffered too much in his childhood. The United States in the 1960s was the world of hippies, pure-bred whites, and native Indians. It is hard to imagine how embarrassing the Jews were. Woody Allen himself is also Jewish. He is keen on playing the jazz clarinet. His monotonous Jewish background expresses the chains of the Jewish family through Virgil's parents. The girl Virgil loves works in the laundry room. As a thief, he knows that he is not worthy of her, so he decides to grab the bank for the girl and his own happiness. He originally wanted to get rid of the chains, but was eventually bitten back by the chains. Behind it, Virgil is a Jew and suffered too much in his childhood. The United States in the 1960s was the world of hippies, pure-bred whites, and native Indians. It is hard to imagine how embarrassing the Jews were. Woody Allen himself is also Jewish. He is keen on playing the jazz clarinet. His monotonous Jewish background expresses the chains of the Jewish family through Virgil's parents. The girl Virgil loves works in the laundry room. As a thief, he knows that he is not worthy of her, so he decides to grab the bank for the girl and his own happiness. He originally wanted to get rid of the chains, but was eventually bitten back by the chains. Behind it, Virgil is a Jew and suffered too much in his childhood. The United States in the 1960s was the world of hippies, pure-bred whites, and native Indians. It is hard to imagine how embarrassing the Jews were. Woody Allen himself is also Jewish. He is keen on playing the jazz clarinet. His monotonous Jewish background expresses the chains of the Jewish family through Virgil's parents. The girl Virgil loves works in the laundry room. As a thief, he knows that he is not worthy of her, so he decides to grab the bank for the girl and his own happiness. He originally wanted to get rid of the chains, but was eventually bitten back by the chains.

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Take the Money and Run quotes

  • Bank Teller #1: Does this look like "gub" or "gun"?

    Bank Teller #2: Gun. See? But what does "abt" mean?

    Virgil: It's "act". A-C-T. Act natural. Please put fifty thousand dollars into this bag and act natural.

    Bank Teller #1: Oh, I see. This is a holdup?

  • Virgil: Nobody wears beige to a bank robbery!