I've Been Waiting for You

Alberto 2022-10-12 05:42:47

They are not saints, but at an ordinary moment flashed the sage's brilliance. In the trivial, jumping narrative, I haven't even had time to understand how Bob and Ruth got involved in the gunfight. Bob has escaped from prison. But the film's exquisite details, atmosphere, and profoundness made me forgive this indiscreet story in an instant. Besides, love is always a rash thing.
In order to pay tribute to the rural idyllic spiciness, I ran the movie two or three times angrily, and found that every frame and every line in it was naturally full of affection. Especially every rivalry between Ruth and Bob. Yes, this is a literary film destined to hit the streets, but it is neither hypocritical nor dull. At least it seems to me that their love or misery comes from life. If I were him and her instead of a saint, I would love that way too. if not? Love is a rash but involuntary thing.

At the beginning of the film, Ruth and Bob's rivalry was so exciting.
He wants to do a bad thing by himself. She was annoyed why he said "self" instead of "she and him".
He smiled dozingly and explained that what he meant by "self" included him and her, always.
She didn't want to go to jail, nor did she want him to leave.
He promised that he would not put her in jail and would not leave her.
She angrily said that it was because she would leave him first.
He said, then he will always follow her.
The last good news is that she is pregnant with his child.
I originally thought this was just a small disturbance between lovers, to show Ruth's sensitivity and willfulness, Bob's tenderness and stubbornness, and the strong and sweet love between each other. Unexpectedly, the words came to an illusion, and the two people had already explained their future fate when they acted each other.
In fact, the next scene of Ruth and Bob in the car also has the same function, so many people will cry like dogs at the end.
It is said that the whispers between lovers have the lowest amount of effective information, and that is for others; for two people who fall in love, these whims and whispers can outline their entire lives. The movie is indeed acting like this. For this, I admire the screenwriter very much. I don’t know how much work they took to conceive these lines, or did they do it by accident? In short, great!
Afterwards, Ruth joined the gunfight as he wished, but stupidly shot a policeman. In a panic, Bob took the pistol, wiped Ruth's fingerprints, and said that she just had to wait for him (released from prison).
So there was this heroic scene on the poster.

Ruth and Bob were separated for a long time.

Looking at the storyline, it says that Bob tried his best to escape from prison, and found that everything was a thing of the past. Then I saw the good guy who was shot by Ruth and also shot by Ruth’s Cupid’s arrow. Daughter playing. I think, it's over, Bob is going to be green. This is the so-called "things are wrong".
Fortunately, I was wrong.
The so-called "people are not", as a single mother who has lost her lover, Ruth is indeed a different person. She can no longer be the squeamish girl next to Bob-leave when she is angry, cry when she is afraid. She began to treat the outside world fully armed—the line on the face of the spicy facial paralysis—whether she didn't talk, she didn't laugh, she didn't laugh. During this period, the only time she lost control of her emotions was when the good policeman came to tell that Bob had finally succeeded in repeatedly breaking out of prison. And of course, to find out the direction of her detection. Later, when she drove to the police station alone, she cried and breathed deeply, because she had to retrieve the facial paralysis skill kit before arriving at the police station. Then Ruth continued this bitter journey of waiting in extreme depression.
By the way, Ma La is really good at interpreting a bitter female character in a stubborn way. She will not use some deliberately sensational performances to show off "Look! How miserable I am"; instead, she uses numbness and coldness to make a skin for herself. The skin is filled with bitterness, and she does not want to shake it out for others to see. , But the bitterness accidentally spilled out among her gestures. She quickly picked up those things that were not humane, and choked into her heart again. I think this is the high-level form of an actor's expression of suffering.
In Ruth's depressive and orderly waiting process, the good police officer participated a lot. Although the rhythm of the film is quite jumpy, Bob was in jail one second before and five years later, but everyone (including Ruth's lovely daughter)'s natural and familiar state can be judged from the police officer entering and leaving Ruth's house. This is also an important reason why I misunderstand "things are not humans". So, in fact, if at a certain point in the film, Ruth said that he fell in love with the good police officer, I also think it is logical. This is not a disgusting take advantage of others. He didn't even dare to behave well in front of Ruth, and disguised everything as being friendly and business-like. At this point, Ben Foster's performance is also just right. Compared to the perverted Bob, the down-to-earth police officer is more suitable for Ruth today. Unfortunately, she is not a saint. The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change. For Ruth, what has changed is only her own shell; her heart has never changed.

In the last paragraph, I don't know how many tears were earned by the viewers. The police officer pointed a gun at Bob who had returned to Ruth's house after a thousand risks. He had been shot and covered with blood. I wonder if the police officer will shoot Bob before Ruth arrives. After all, he is a rival in love! Then I felt that I must be wrong again. They are not saints, but they are not demons. Ruth calmly told the police officer to put down his gun and walked straight to the bloody idiot bastard... Finally, Ruth's body and soul could be unified. She removed the skin and collapsed completely. She became the squeamish and aggrieved girl next to Bob again, but she was stronger than before.
Ruth hugged Bob who was about to die, crying bitterly, and then said the first sentence (and possibly the last sentence) after the reunion:
"I've been waiting for you."
I used to hate all kinds of English grammar. Tense, for a scumbag, this is annoying, okay? But here, I love this disgusting one, now it's finished in progress! (Is it the complete progress now?) I think only this complicated and disgusting sentence can express what Ruth has experienced in the past five years. This sentence is enough. At this point, the love between Ruth and Bob, two non-saints, has shining divinely.

Remember what they said at the beginning of the film?
He will not let her go to jail, nor will he leave her. ——So he went to prison and escaped from prison.
He will always follow her. ——So, he crossed many obstacles, and died by her side.
She just had to wait for him. ——So, "I've been waiting for you."

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Ain't Them Bodies Saints quotes

  • Bob Muldoon: Every day I wake up thinking today's the day I'm gonna see you. And one of those days, it will be so. And then we can ride off to somewhere. Somewhere far away.

  • Bob Muldoon: You shot me. Why did you shoot me? I never even seen you.

    Bear: No sir.

    Bob Muldoon: What's this about? Money?

    Bear: It's not you. You and the girl. Everything you tried to do.

    [pause]

    Bear: You're gonna shoot me?