Golden Gloves is a sensually disgusting, psychologically objectionable anti-genre film. You treat it as a crime or suspense film, but you don’t have to guess who the murderer is; if you regard it as a social and humanistic film, it still lacks. The analysis of criminals and the sympathy for victims; if it is seen as a horror film or an exploitative film, it would be a side effect, but the director seems not to be here. Let me put it in the cult movie.
The male protagonist in the film is sloppy and obscure, with a distorted psychology. He kills, mutilates, and throws the body at the beginning of the film, rudely setting the bloody tone of the whole film. It's a pity that we can only watch his shameful crime easily succeed. He killed one old lady after another, and hid her stumps in his own home to rot and stench, until a fire broke out and the firefighters stumbled upon this super disgusting corpse. So far, this pervert has been at large.
This pervert is called Hongka. He is a low-level blue-collar, living alone in a dilapidated attic, and the old ladies killed by him are even old and helpless women who have lost their feet. The director has no intention to describe the male protagonist too much. He is a deranged monster, and it is alcohol that causes him to be confused. In the middle of the film, Hongka was normal for a while, because he stopped drinking, but there was always someone urging him to regain his drinking glass, which caused him to abandon his previous work, and his spirit became even more confused.
The main thrust of the movie "Golden Gloves" is not crime, but the chaotic social order in Germany at that time. The bar of Golden Gloves gathers a bunch of low-level workers such as old drunks, old missed women and male protagonists. They have been abandoned by society for historical reasons and their own reasons. They can only use alcohol to paralyze themselves every day, which is tantamount to chronic suicide. Among the victims in the film, the fat old lady gave the most space. When she was young, she was sent to a concentration camp and became a Nazi comfort woman, and the male protagonist's parents had also stayed in the concentration camp. The source of evil is so dark, so their spirits are so twisted.
This fat old lady also yearns for a happy life. The male lead’s house is so dirty and messy, she also has to clean up. When the male lead abuses her and beats her, she mostly chooses to be forbearing. In order to stay in this "home", she still Lie that he has a beautiful daughter to introduce to the male protagonist. Perhaps being insulted and damaged has long been a commonplace meal. The old lady just wants a place to live, even if she is beaten with a bruised nose and swollen face.
The old lady was also rescued by "good-hearted people" and let her escape bad luck, but she returned to her old career and returned to the filthy bar. It seems that the power of "charity" is insignificant. The old lady was led home by the male lead, and was finally brutally beaten to death and dismembered by the male lead. It can be said that the last trace of her yearning for a better life led her to death.
The main spur of the film is a rebellious young girl who is also the protagonist's masturbation object. When the protagonist follows her to wait for an opportunity to invade, his house catches fire and the crime is revealed. This girl is like an incarnation, an illusion. She is a symbol of happiness. It seems to be close at hand, but in fact it is out of reach. People of all the "goldfinger" classes will never get it. You can only look at the illusion of Mei quenching thirst.
At the end of the film, the German version of the old English song "season in the sun" sounded, making people feel both familiar and unfamiliar. After watching this movie for several days, this old song still lingers in my ears for a long time. The film tells a real case, and at the end of the film there are real photos of the criminal, the victim, the attic, and the golden glove bar. In the melodious and sad music, some people are happy, some are sad, some are crazy, and some are cut into pieces and rot and become smelly. The sun has shone on everyone on this earth, but it can't save their sad destiny. What a pity!
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