Vincent Gallo's top-level performance is amazing. Like Holly Hunter in "Piano Farewell", he vividly interprets the fate of a fugitive in a desperate situation with body language without a single line. However, several episodes of the US military abuse of prisoners arranged by the director at the beginning did not bring a reasonable explanation to the protagonist's motive for shooting innocents later, making it difficult to sympathize with the protagonist's experience. The religious scenes flashed back in the dream are incomprehensible, and the metaphors related to animals are half-understood, but the Eastern European director's anti-American tendencies can be sniffed out from the above-mentioned details.
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