Even though Capone is still dangling his cigar, the swift and violent Italian like a Chicago typewriter in his hand still blurts out from time to time, almost everyone is willing to look at it from the corner of his eye, but it is undeniable--
In 1947, Capone was already a dying man who had feces and urine, had syphilis sores on his face, talked horribly, and fell into hallucinations all day long.
"Capone" is about Capone's last, tragic, and unspeakable last time.
There are many movies about the death of a person, especially the death of biographical characters. Films with the same theme of Capone are screened out. "Public Enemy" also tells about the destruction of gangster characters, which are relatively close in themes. The Fourteenth Death Chronicle is closer in form (a period of life before death).
Unlike the adoration of John Dillinger in "Public Enemy", which is almost Robin Hood or William Wallace, nor is it the almost outline depiction of Louis XIV in "The Chronicle of the Death of Louis XIV" (but great The inner glory of the monarch still relies on Leold's skill to shine on the audience), "Capone" uses a lot of unrealistic lens language and changes in the process of Capone's physical self-collapse, showing the craziest, ugly, timid, and despicable protagonist heart.
The film itself is a punishment for Capone.
To this most notorious and murderous gang leader in Chicago and even the history of the United States, some people say that he is a hero who robs the rich and the poor in the Prohibition era, and has been on the cover of "Time"; some people say that he is a murderer, and all of the United States is because He was angry with the "Valentine's Day Massacre" that he planned.
In short, he is a good man, but he is definitely not a good kind to be praised.
And his ending is quite a cycle of retribution.
The film tells how Capone fell into an illusion and lost his dignity in his last year, 1947, but still chanted the history that society rejected.
This film is like beating a dog in the water, only describing his embarrassment, without mentioning his glory in the slightest.
As a historical figure from seven to eighty years ago, what can still be remembered today is probably not his three crude but sincere false last words:
1. Heavy machine guns are better than machine guns;
2. Pay taxes to the federal government on time;
3. Be sure to wear a condom when making love.
The three last words perfectly interpret his life. He started from relying on the submachine gun nicknamed "Chicago Typewriter", became the gang leader who dominated the United States, and was defeated by the federal government because of tax evasion, and finally died of cerebral congestion caused by late syphilis.
The hallucinations brought to him by syphilis became the core of the film without much meaning.
There are a lot of illusions mixed with past life fragments in the film. I don’t think it is for us to understand his past. In fact, from walking through these illusions, it is also difficult for us to see fragments with logical integrity, and sometimes flashes of childhood Capone. , Vain spies (in fact, there is always surveillance), hungry crocodile (I think the crocodile represents his greed and viciousness in the gang boss period), the luxurious ballroom full of corpses, which is mixed with him The memories of childhood and adulthood were transformed into colorful but meaningless dreams in the brain due to the influence of syphilis.
Almost most of the film's time is spent in this illusion.
What does the director want to express?
Maybe in order to explore the feeling of syphilis invading the brain, he must be knocking the medicine.
For Tom Hardy, it must be admitted that he has tried his best to be ugly. The original makeup photos shocked me. Fortunately, the actual film is not so disgusting. The whole film Tom Hardy speaks phlegm in English, and occasionally pops out a few Italian words. Most of the time, he sits on a chair in the garden, by the lake, or on a boat.
He really likes to sit, peeing and shit all sitting.
We spent most of our time watching a dying old man, constantly changing diapers, from smoking a cigar to holding a carrot.
The only place that refreshed me was at the end. Watching this old man dangling a cigar, he once again picked up the "Chicago Typewriter" and fired at the crowd in the distance!
It seems to have seen the son of the gangster who is rampant in the night of Chicago!
Those who stand in my way die.
It only took a few minutes, and then he became an old man with incontinence.
So I know, the true meaning of this movie——
The elderly need care and love, so they often go home and have a look.
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