Hostess: You let me fly thousands of miles to guard the vacant room alone?
Male lead: I have some ass and I want to kiss.
Hostess: Where?
Host: I'll be back in a few hours.
The meaning is obvious, don't ask, my business troubles me, and I don't want you to be involved too deeply.
Of course, the hero said that to protect the heroine.
As a result, the hostess learned the address from the note and followed. This is the turning point of the film.
Some unpleasant things happened at the meeting.
After this meeting, the gang boss knew the male protagonist’s weakness: the female protagonist. At the same time, the male protagonist himself also more clearly confirmed his feelings for the female protagonist.
So the hero has no retreat.
It is necessary to give the general plot of the film a look. A lot of hidden information is supplemented by the brain: the male protagonist is a fairly reputable diamond broker, American, who has a family with no offspring, and often buys diamonds of unknown origin (such as stolen goods). Matchmaking with sellers. One day, his Russian seller informed him that he had a large quantity of goods to be shipped. He flew to St. Petersburg to make an appointment with the hotel, but the seller was nowhere to be seen and lost contact. At this time, the buyer also arrived, and his accent was a gangster. The male protagonist guarantees the supply, but it takes more time. South Africans were drawn from their conversation. South Africans consider themselves to be friends of the male protagonist and want to intercept these diamonds. The male protagonist knows that there is only a dead end to deceive the gang, and he refuses to agree.
The male protagonist flies to Siberia, the main place of the story, looking for a seller. Looking for a drink in the evening, came to the hostess's bar. From the beginning of the film, the scenes often show that the male protagonist is not leaving his hand, fearing that family life is not going well.
Two bear-like Russian men make fun of the heroine, and the hero makes them go. The two didn't go crazy on the spot, but they ambushed at the door of the bar. Originally, I saw Keanura’s beard, half-length hair, dark shirt, and the style of cherishing the words like gold. I thought this film was another "Quick Hunting". Who knew the male protagonist of the bar? They fell down and fainted on the ground. The action scene has no expectations, but the main emotional line of the male and female that I thought was purely an episode is faintly overwhelming.
The hostess went to the outside world to see the world (Brisbane), and had to return to the frozen Siberia to take over the bar of her parents. Find a local man, have two children, and stick to this small bar until the end of life? She didn't want to live according to the route her brother drew for herself, but her life was not there, only old age.
This day, a mature and charming foreign man relieved herself. Although she was wearing a wedding ring on her hand, it was inevitable that she couldn't help but feel a little turmoil in her heart.
She picked the fainted male lead home. Woke up in the morning, took a shower and put on light makeup, and proposed to the male protagonist.
Regardless of feelings, feelings are too heavy for two strangers (one of whom is still married) who are never acquainted with each other and may be separated at any time. The hostess just wants something to happen.
This is Siberia, vast and deserted, and cold. There are only sparse coniferous forests, small villages, hotels with frequent power outages, smoky mining areas and gray-faced men. This American man in a suit and leather shoes does not belong here, he is destined to be a passerby.
Back at the hotel in the evening, his wife and his video call had a hassle. He lay on the bed for a while and said to himself: You are not a good person. Went to the hostess bar, what should have happened happened.
The next day the male lead followed the female lead’s brothers to hunt bears. This scene is very important. Later, when the male lead decided to sacrifice himself for the female lead, he remembered the scene of the bear hunt that day. It is as powerful as a bear, and still has no power to fight back under random guns. No bear can escape hunting.
Keanu played a demon who uprooted the entire Russian gang in "Quick Chase", and changed hands to play such an ordinary man who was forced to desperate by the Russian gang.
The hound was accidentally injured. The heroine's elder brother wanted to take a shot to end the pain of the hound.
Due to the weather, the male protagonist was trapped in the area, and the natural feelings of the male protagonist continued to heat up and ferment.
In the bathtub, the hostess mentioned that very important story, the story of his grandfather in the Gulag concentration camp. There are two types of prisoners. One kind uses the stove to keep warm in the wooden house every day, while the other burns the wooden house. Which one do you want to be?
When the male protagonist returned to St. Petersburg, he accidentally found the sample diamond hidden in the candle. Thinking of the same candle in the Siberian hotel, a phone call called the female protagonist to St. Petersburg.
The South African appeared again, and he reminded the hero that the National Security Bureau had been eyeing him. South Africans are absolutely true love to the male protagonist. The hero kept hanging up his phone. The boss of the Russian gang has the same tendency. He must be brothers with the male protagonist. At the final inspection, the male protagonist has a small face.
The male protagonist currently only has a real diamond, and first used it to appease the gang boss, so the scene mentioned at the beginning of the article happened. Assuming that the heroine does not follow, then no matter what happens afterwards, whether the hero can not provide the remaining diamonds or fool the boss with fake diamonds, the hero can get away. But now that the heroine has been exposed to the gang boss, the hero annoys the gang, and the heroine, as a moneyless and powerless bar lady, is basically a dead end.
It can only be said that the IQ of men and women in love is zero. The female protagonist knows that the male protagonist’s activities are full of risks (knowing that the male protagonist is carrying a gun), and she insists on following it.
The National Security Bureau inserted a tank horizontally and first used the female protagonist to blackmail the male protagonist. The male protagonist really fell in love. He should use fake diamonds to cheat the gang boss's money. These scumbags of the National Security Bureau are obviously not for the public, and 40 million into their own pockets. The male protagonist is also stupid, although he is under threat, but at least fight for a few commissions for himself, or leave it to the female protagonist.
After defrauding the money, the male protagonist came to the airport with the ticket provided by the National Security Bureau, and finally did not board the plane, but made the decision to sacrifice himself to rescue the female protagonist. When he died, the gang lost no reason to embarrass the heroine.
Gang killers are hunters, he is the bear who is under siege. Release the smart phone from the metal box and let the gang track it, relying on your good marksmanship to knock down a few enemies. But the ending is destined.
Burning the house, this is the choice he made.
I have said so much in the above, but it is not the focus of this film. In the final analysis, this is a romance film, dressed in crime and suspense.
The main focus of the film is the temptation, getting along with each other, touching, lingering, and struggling between the male and female protagonists.
I believe that the director has set up a short biography for each of the main characters, but the space is limited, and the suspense line cannot be explained too clearly. For example, the history of South Africans and the male protagonist, the friendship between the male protagonist and the hotel reception, and the past stories of the gang boss and the male protagonist.
This love story of true extramarital love is very clichéd, and the director has ingeniously packaged it into a suspense film, admiring his painstaking efforts, but the film is inevitably nondescript.
I flipped through the director’s resume and was nominated for the Palme d’Or for the Cannes short film. This explains why the film is so awkward, and at the same time proves that Keanu Reeves did not go to Russia to make money from an oligarch, and that he has an artistic pursuit.
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