Flying Sand Wind Transit

Vern 2022-09-19 12:11:02

Two and a half stars, ★★☆. The label of the movie is "comedy", but after watching it is elusive. The most common way to express a comedy is to let the emotions overflow and amplify. Whether it is anger or sadness, as long as it is exaggerated to a certain extent, there will be an inexplicable sense of joy. In this film, the four common emotions of happiness, anger and sadness have been suppressed and presented with the slow plot, and there is no explosion point. The male protagonist is a former police officer who has been released from prison. He just wants to escape from the ordinary life in the past, but he is eventually re-involved in the old grudge. There is a sense of fate and sadness that "flying sand winds transfer, no one can help". The male protagonist tried his best to solve the situation, but his success failed. But fate always likes to make jokes. The damned died, and the undeserved was also dragged down and buried with him. It seems that everything has been settled. If it ends here, it is almost thought to be a black comedy. Unexpectedly, the knife that my father stabbed at the end made the whole movie style quickly detached from the joy and became bitter and heavy. This is not a story that belongs to the male protagonist alone. Behind the so-called "comedy", how many people's homes are destroyed, their wives and children are separated, and everyone is betrayed and separated. He didn't die, and nothing was at peace. This knife is full of despair, but without the slightest hesitation. In addition to being stunned, I gave it half a star, how can there be so many comedies in the world. We are all acting out tragedies, but we just don't admit it.

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Small Crimes quotes

  • [first lines]

    Chaplin: So what do you think, Joe?

    Joe Denton: [scoffs] I don't know. I dont think thats for me to say. A second chance? I mean, it's a nice idea, but...

    Chaplin: But? How do you feel?

    Joe Denton: Feel? I feel that I was a nightmare. I made terrible choices. I drove my family away. I... I hurt people. I didn't mean to, but there it is. And for all that... there's a hole inside me now. It hurts. I carry it.

  • Manny Vassey: [on his deathbed] You know, sometimes when I'm sleeping, I think I see what hell looks like... And it ain't fire, and it ain't devils. You know what it is? It's just me. And I ain't no goddamn stool pigeon!