Kids don't have choice

Jacinthe 2021-10-20 17:31:32

Ben's work was first seen in "The Thief in the City" half a year ago, but now that I feel that the taste is light and the impression is not deep, I don't know whether the cultural resonance is not strong or the mood of watching the film is not right. This time, I was really shocked after watching "The Missing Baby", and I was a little impulsive to watch "City" again. Amazing debut!

Back to the topic, at the beginning, the film thought it would be an obscure and personally strong literary sketch, melodious little soundtrack, husky narration (Ben’s sandy voice is exactly the same as his brother), and the camera keeps sweeping the ordinary streets and lanes. People, everywhere reveal the director's hypocrisy. As the plot slowly progresses, the director's ability to portray the details of the characters and control the ups and downs of the plot makes people feel tired in the slow pace of substitution. The style of the whole article is just as calm as the male protagonist’s green face, with very few ups and downs. However, large narrations or silent images are extremely powerful, depicting the personalities and values ​​of individual parties while slowly advancing the plot, paving the way for the end of the explosion with patience.

The end of the film is a set of twists and turns that are commonly used in suspense films. The pure pursuit of suspense may be interesting to the audience and will be overwhelming. But the director's ambitions are far more than that. The 15-minute plot after the suspense was revealed has thrown out the choice proposition mentioned many times in the Western world in recent years. Of course, this time the problem focuses on ethics, society, and family. More than 10 minutes of intense discussion allowed everyone to look back at everyone’s every move in the incident in the previous part. When all the possibilities and elements were in front of them, the male protagonist made a choice, and the detective made a choice. The boyfriend's girlfriend made a choice, they all paid the price for their choice, and worked hard to continue to live with that.

The camera once again scanned ordinary people, familiar or unfamiliar faces in the sad little soundtrack. The director has successfully thrown the proposition to the audience, asking them whether they have their own choice.

The result of the selection? When the protagonist sees that the girl’s mother is living in a sloppy life as always, the focus is not on her daughter, she does not know watch language at all, and 6 F-words are spewed out in a one-minute dialogue, and he will not kiss his daughter and say I love you before leaving. , The little girl could only sit on the broken sofa in the living room full of garbage and watch cartoons. When she was holding the only rag doll in her arms, the calm smile on the male protagonist's face also disappeared-he still dared Say he can live with his own choice?

Everybody looks out his own windows.

Maybe all he can do is to accompany the girl more, maybe there is no correct answer to these questions.



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Fan Wai: It’s always easy to be touched by foreigners who discuss human nature and social themes. In fact, many times in my heart, I don’t resonate with certain attitudes in the proposition, but look at it. At the same time that Western countries reflect on themselves under the perfect system, a miraculously deformed country is saddened by the status quo. When others reflect on the legal system, we have not even touched the borders of the legal system; when others are discussing moral restraint, our basic morality is exhausted; when others are discussing whether children’s education is important or respected for the future When the ethical protection of custody is the first, we are still thinking about how to put the leaders' thoughts into children's textbooks...

"Kids forgive
Kids don't judge,
Kids turn the other cheek" -------- Remy

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Gone Baby Gone quotes

  • [Atop the cliff where the exchange is supposed to take place]

    Patrick Kenzie: How's he going to get her up here?

    [gunshots erupt]

  • Interrogating Officer: Now, you're at the quarry the other night, right? And you have no idea that this is a setup? You're baffled. Right?

    Patrick Kenzie: [smiling] No, because, strange as it might seem, I believe the police when they tell me something!

    Interrogating Officer: You're a fresh prick, you know that?