Black humor is to make you feel chills in your back after you laugh.
The bald-headed Byrne Cox is just a "Nobody" with only three security levels in the CIA. Recently, he encountered an unprecedented life change: his boss swept him out on the grounds of alcoholism, and his unfaithful wife occupied the house as a sympathy. The love nest of the husband who is doing the elusive affairs, originally wanted to write a memoir to make some living money, but the CD containing the memoir was handed over by the wife as the financial account. Not to mention that the CD was accidentally left in the gym by the wife’s lawyer’s assistant. Here, and then asked two idiots to be state secrets to shamelessly blackmail themselves. Who can stand it? The CIA Man, who was completely irritated and bald, wore a shorts and nightgown and carried an axe and arrogantly killed his wife's house. He didn't expect that his wife and lover were not there. The one who was at home was just a hapless person who broke into the house and didn't understand the situation. The CIA Man of CIA Man couldn't help but say that it was shot and axe, and the hapless head split into two pieces on the spot...
The shocking scene is more than one.
Chad Feldheimer, the fitness coach played by "Not Spicy Pete", is not a villain who deserves to die. He is just an ordinary man with no ambitions: he likes to listen to pop music and loves his own "cross star card." Cycling, always drink sports drinks to moisturize your delicate skin. He can even be regarded as a good person who is willing to help others, but this good person who is happy to help others died on his self-righteous cleverness: In order to help a paranoid female colleague make up enough cosmetic surgery fees, he volunteered to "break into Longtan alone", dreaming I didn’t expect that I would meet George Clooney’s somewhat neurotic "BIG GUN" head-on in the closet, and was headshot on the spot...
George Clooney's financial officer Harry Falrell is also not lucky. He likes to be troubled by flowers. He thinks that lies are weaving seamlessly, everything in life is under control, but he doesn't know it. Jin's wife has already dug up the divorce trap. He likes to show off his "BIG GUN" that he hasn't used in 20 years from time to time, and use it as a gimmick to seduce women (when he had a tryst with Francis McDomond for the first time, he pretended to be casual Revealing the holster he carried with him), but when he blew the brawny man's head inexplicably with his baby, he was frightened by his behavior. Even worse things followed: soon he realized that the girl he had recently had and the brawny headshot were in the same group, and it was most likely sent by the CIA. Harry Farrell looked around, like all of New York. The agents surrounded him, and his courage was almost burst in shock. After staggering to escape from the fictitious "encirclement circle", he booked a flight ticket to Venezuela that night.
Usually comedy films create a series of freaks that are more stupid than the stupid people in reality, and then let the audience get an inexplicable sense of superiority in the contrast, thereby obtaining short-term psychological satisfaction. But "Burn After Reading" is never so kind. None of the characters in the film are extraordinarily stupid. They just judge and think according to their own logic and come up with a way to deal with the problem. From everyone’s single point of view, they It did not go beyond the convention, and all behaviors can be reasonably explained in the usual sense: people of different identities and different professions do their own things, and the CIA is also sufficiently responsible. The two couples who have broken down in love are fighting each other just to ensure the maximization of their own interests. This motive is understandable and real enough. The superstition of the female gym employee played by Francis McDormand that plastic surgery can bring happiness is also well-documented in reality. People are always accustomed to starting from their own point of view, but as long as they try to put themselves in place for the characters in the play, they will find that in fact, these people do not have much behavior that is extremely unreasonable. Because of this, this cruel setting makes us unconsciously examine ourselves while feeling the absurd: in fact, many times, we are not smarter than the characters in the movie, just like Berne Cox and Chad Feldhay Mo and Harry Farrell failed to realize our own stupidity. We just turned a blind eye to our own stupidity. If God observes our lives like movie audiences, maybe he has already laughed so hard to control it. Don’t you think this is also a chilling joke?
The essence of this absurdity is the absurdity of life itself. Every single individual in this world is so "normal" and thinks that it is full of wisdom, but together it is so crazy! When we laugh at the characters in the movie, we are actually laughing at ourselves.
So when the head of the CIA put this "Top Secret" on the shelf at the end of the film, we had to ignore the biggest irony:
our existence is just a joke - or this sentence It is also a joke in itself, whether it is a cold joke or a hot joke, if you take the joke too seriously, life will be unsustainable.
So:
Burn after reading
Do what you have to do
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PS: I personally think that the most funny line in "Burn After Reading" is "What have we learned about this?"
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