"99 homes" (<99 homes>) is a very hard American movie. It is about the aftermath of the subprime mortgage crisis in Orlando, Florida. The house was swept out. The film is a realist subject, and the shots are also very realistic. Of course, it doesn't mean that there is no sugar-coating in the plot, there is always some, but it is far from making the whole show sweet enough to become a brainless entertainment film.
The film adopts a double male protagonist setting, and the only female lead with enough role in the role is the mother of one of the male protagonists. This is another reason why I think this film is hard enough, that is to go straight to the theme, without having to use erotica. , Chuan Opera, stable opera, etc. to please the audience or make up for the scene, after all, this is not a romantic drama.
I quite like this kind of "hard" mode of movies. The first film was in 2017. Recently, because I read a bunch of movie reviews, I went to the second film again. What I especially want to share here are the two small sections that attracted my attention during the second brush, which are related to psychological loss .
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Dennis, one of the male protagonists, was instantly swept out of his home during this mortgage crisis. He had no choice but to drive a pickup truck, take his son and mother, and go to the motel to settle down. The family got off there, and there were a lot of onlookers standing in the motel’s yard. One of the aunts looked at the large bags of bottles and cans on the Dennis pickup truck and asked Dennis very knowingly if you want to be there. Live here for a while? Dennis replied without even thinking: "We'll stay for a few nights." After hearing his words, several people in the picture all smiled, and the aunt replied straightforwardly: "Two years ago, We said the same." She sneered twice before she finished speaking, hum.
Dennis: Just a couple of nights.
Auntie: Two years ago, that's what we said.
We humans are social animals, and everyone has a psychological appeal to be recognized by others. In this segment, Dennis is consciously or unconsciously trying to draw a line with the life setting of "only living in a motel". However, in the eyes of others (the aunt and the few behind her), they have already been treated One family agreed with this setting. For example, the last sentence said that I don't want you to think that I am like this, and the next sentence says that you are already like this in our eyes. From Dennis's point of view, he himself had not had time to accept his new social status setting, but the public around him accepted it for him earlier, and he was really helpless.
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Another stage occurred earlier in the film. The police enforced the eviction order issued by the judge at Dennis’s house and told Dennis and his mother repeatedly that they would give you 2 minutes to take away the things you most want to take away. , And then leave the house immediately.
Obviously, 2 minutes is not at all ample time needed to organize important items. Dennis asked the policeman angrily, did you say the 2 minutes was written on your rules? His implication is not difficult to understand, that is: Do you say that 2 minutes is 2 minutes? Don’t hold the chicken feathers as the arrow, OK? We are also dignified. You just give 2 minutes to deceive people too much. I want you to come up with the basis for this execution.
The police's answer was only a simple sentence, which I think knocked Dennis down completely. The police said: "Two minutes is an extra favor to you."
The police can say this because, at that moment, the owner of the house was already the bank that issued the Dennis mortgage. The Dennis family did not have any legal right to stay in the house for an extra second, so giving 2 minutes was really legal. Be kind.
Dennis: Can I ask is that'two minutes' on your play board?
Sheriff: Sir, the two minutes is a courtesy.
Compared with the verbal identification in the motel scene, the police adopted a more direct behavioral identification. The subtext behind the police is that we sympathize with you as a disadvantaged family, so we take the initiative to provide you with humane law enforcement — that is, the "2 minutes" that made Dennis feel uncomfortable at the beginning is the suspected overlord rule, it turned out to be one This kind of compassion and kindness from the strong to the weak. And there is no need for you to ask for it, we will consider it for you, and we will give it to you directly, because you are weak.
It doesn't seem to matter when Dennis accepted his social hierarchy setting, because the police around him or the crowd eating melons had already interacted with him according to his new setting in the first place. Personal dignity is so high that it is too late to adjust, and the social identity class label that has been affixed has reached the low point where it should reach. When Dennis understood the overtones in these two scenes, the feeling of psychological loss I felt really made me very sympathetic. In any case, this will not be the external recognition he wants, but the only recognition he can get at that moment is the most realistic one. Heart-breaking? Heartache? Heartbroken? I don't know exactly what kind of mood Dennis is, but the rapid sinking of personal dignity and self-awareness will not be an easy taste. I don’t need to be pityed, but pity is like a delivered takeaway. It has been placed at the door of the house. No one cares when you are ready to open the door to receive the goods.
I don't know if it is because the film is too close to reality, the topic is heavy, and the sugar coating is too little. It is said that watching the film from the box office after the release is not pleasing. I'm not going to talk about the evaluation of the whole film here. You can go and take a look. This article of mine just wants to talk about the kind of pain caused by the huge tear between self-knowledge and public identity. This is a true part of our lives. Many people have experienced it. This empathy for most people I should feel it too.
It is to remember two real and sour psychological losses.
This article was first published on the public account: DUOYUx2
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