"Evil and Righteous"

Aletha 2022-10-22 21:41:28

This "Yi Zheng Yi Xie" is an American movie, this year's new film. It's about two thieves pretending to be doormen in the hotel, and they drove directly to the guest's house to steal while parking the car for the guest. The first was scared back by the watchdog, and the second Sean drove a Martha Tier on the road, thinking that he had caught a big fish. As a result, upon entering the mansion, a woman was tied to a chair, covered with scars. I wanted to save her, but the owner was coming back soon, so I had to call the police and leave. Kyle, the owner of this mansion, is a sadistic man by nature. After realizing that Sean had discovered his secret, he didn't panic at all, but thought that he had found another victim. After repeated contests between these two professional and non-professional, poor boy and rich second generation, in the end, it is natural that justice triumphs over evil. Kyle was defeated by talking too much. This may be deliberately done by the director.

It is a typical American thriller. The novelty is that the main positive character is a thief, but he has completed a just action. The title also makes this clear. From a legal point of view, one code is one code. Sadism is naturally a serious crime, and theft cannot be spared. But from a moral point of view, we must be on the side of thieves. When a thief is caught in the street, the usual method is to give the thief a foul first, and then send it to the police station. And when this thief has unexpectedly acted of kindness, he will immediately be appreciated by people. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that we will make up for the past. A fearless heroic act can make us forgive and forget his faults. Illegal but reasonable. Come to think of it, the code of ethics is closer to human nature. The law is embodied in clauses and formulas. All kinds of behaviors must be quantified. In the face of complex social behaviors, the execution will inevitably appear to be slightly rigid and rigid, and injustice will also occur. However, in the evolution of the law over thousands of years, a thief’s sentence has changed from cutting his nose to the current sentence of detention. A wise man sees the unfairness of the law more often and promotes its improvement through constant questioning and questioning. But we ordinary people should adopt a tolerant attitude and expect the law to move closer to human nature.

The character portrayed by the director, Sean, is not the people we usually see who make a living by stealing. He grew up in a normal family, loves photography, and dislikes a constrained life. The reason for stealing is one of novelty and stimulus, and the other is for the sake of rice. Perhaps in his subconscious, there is a plan to rob the rich and help the poor, full of positive energy. He also understands that his idea is not morally valid, and in the eyes of the world it is "evil". Just a little relief to myself. When he met the girl who was tied up during the theft, his first thought was to save people. In his moral bottom line, human life is the most precious. For this reason, he did not hesitate to report the crime by surrendering himself. He even almost took his own life in order to save others. Among them, there are some factors that irritated him by the police's inaction and Kyle's constant stimulation, but saving lives has always been his unchanging belief. What he did is just the reverse of the proverb: Do it with small evil, and do it with great good. In the face of big right and wrong, he had been timid, hesitated, and retreated, but in the end Sean still did it bravely. There are two sides to everyone's personality, and sometimes they are contradictory. It is such a critical occasion to really test a person. In the end we saw the brilliance of humanity shining from his body.

The character of Kyle is the opposite. The rich are born and have everything they want, but they don't have a good education. He is polite and polite, but in his bones he is extremely evil. I abused horses when I was young, and abused people when I was older. He killed Sean's partner, and in order to cover up the crime, he also killed three people in the neighborhood at the same time. He has a mysterious cellar in the yard in front of the mountain hut, which contains many souls who have been abused to death by him. In his eyes, everyone is just a plaything in his hands, thinking that with money and intelligence, everything can be settled. Maybe he thinks that there is no mysterious fairness and justice in society, let alone kind humanity. He said to Sean: "It's weird of you. The strong urge will make you risk your life to save a woman you don't even know. It's damn incredible. What do you think you will get?" This is him Thinking. This is also human nature that he will never understand. He thinks torture to others is happiness, and he thinks that doing whatever you want in this world is freedom. In fact, people like them will never understand what freedom is and what happiness is.

Nowadays, there is a mentality of "hatred of the rich" in society. Most of it is because the wealthy of the rich makes the people who have no money envy and hate them. Commonly known as "Pink Eye Disease." But on the other hand, it's also because there are so many rich people who don't know their surnames with some money, thinking that they can override the law and morality, with less restraint and more arrogance. There are also people like Kyle who show off their wealth to satisfy their vanity, hurt others to satisfy their perverted pleasure, and commit crimes. It is these behaviors that people "hatred". Basically, what people hate is that things that shouldn't be bought with money have become commodities. This exchange adds disorder and chaos to society. To a certain extent, it complies with the old saying of "being rich and not benevolent".

There are many scenes in the film that show the clever functions of the mobile phone, and Kyle has played these functions superbly. Mobile phone tracking, observe the real-time dynamics of the home, remotely control the refrigerator, coffee maker, remotely open and lock the door. It's really attractive. It's a pity that the owner of the phone used it to do bad things.

The two protagonists of the film performed very well. Especially Kyle, played by David Tennant. I saw that in the films he starred in, most of them played positive characters. This time playing a negative role was so in place, violent, cruel, contented, and sensible. really good. It's just that the script seems old-fashioned.

My score: 5.5.

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Bad Samaritan quotes

  • Sean Falco: You... are fucking crazy! You know that... right?

    Cale Erendreich: No... no... no. Because crazy people get caught.

  • FBI Supervisor: [Waiting for Search Warrant to enter property, gunshot rings out] What was that ?

    FBI Agent Olivia Fuller: Probable cause.