The plot turns out to be like this

Eddie 2022-10-04 22:02:49

The whole movie is the layout of the case in the case, an old case 40 years ago, or a crime from the children’s time, is now being tortured. The other is the current serial killer. The two cases proceed alternately, unfolding the whole plot.

In fact, the murder is just the coat of the film, and its core is still the blood of the literary film. It even uses magical expressions to highlight the protagonist's inner ups and downs. For example, David went back to the American Civil War after being drunk. Does the director want to tell everyone that behind David's drunkenness is the painful struggle between heaven and man in his heart? Not as good as the last shot, David even appeared in the history book photos with the generals in the Civil War. Is it to cherish the memory of the spiritual world that has passed away? Or is it an insinuation that people today are not old-fashioned?

Of course, the director also used an abnormal order (messy) editing technique to insert some of the cameras in front and back. On the one hand, he wanted to show David's struggles for personal growth after war and hesitate, and on the other hand, he showed that people's lives were difficult after Hurricane Katrina raged. , The helplessness of natural and man-made disasters. These are a little troublesome for students who want to watch the plot.

Finally, the director wants to tell everyone that the stylized expression of the inner technique has slowly faded. Actually:
you don’t need to cry when you cry, you don’t need to smoke when you’re hesitant

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In the Electric Mist quotes

  • Dave Robicheaux: Did you know Cherry LeBlanc, a little white girl about nineteen years old?

    Old Woman: She work here, ain't she?

    Dave Robicheaux: You know if she had a boyfriend Tawn?

    Old Woman: If that's what you wanna call it. She in the business.

    Dave Robicheaux: Mr. Prejean involved?

    Old Woman: Ask him.

    Dave Robicheaux: I don't think he was. Otherwise he wouldn't be tellin' me all these things.

    Old Woman: She a sad girl. I told her, 'A pretty white girl like you could have anything you want'. When that girl dress up, she look just like a movie star.

    Dave Robicheaux: Who was her pimp?

    Old Woman: I don't know nothin' else, me. She wasn't about to give the name of some rich white man to a old black woman.

    Dave Robicheaux: What rich white man?

    Old Woman: Some rich white man, maybe, get her out the business of sellin' jellyroll. She said that just before somebody done them awful things to that girl.

  • Dave Robicheaux: Lou Girard always called at night. I have picked him out of the gutters from New Orleans to Lake Charles, held him when he had the shakes, and driven him to A-A meetings more times than I can remember. And he had done the same for me.