This is really a movie with no standpoint

Name 2022-01-21 08:01:52

Seeing that in the end, only love is the only thing that all the protagonists insist on, and the righteousness of national and national friendship has been abandoned, but who gets the true love in the end? Isn’t it the biggest irony that everyone does not get true love? ? Chow Yun-fat loves his wife, but his wife Gong Li falls in love with the American Soms; the American falls in love with Gong Li, but Gong Li finally leaves him midway; the Japanese Nakata falls in love with a marijuana woman, but does not know that she is actually the United States Human spy; Japanese spy fell in love with a Japanese woman, but didn't know that she was Nakata's spy and finally betrayed him. If you want to say that love is the only truth, but the movie tells the audience that love is the most abominable and unreliable falsehood.

The saddest thing is that the characters in this movie don't have any firm standpoints that can be praised. Soames has been investigating who killed his friend and wanted revenge, but in the end he let the Japanese make a living; Gong Li wanted to kill the Japanese, but he was let go of a living by the Japanese; the Japanese kept trying to capture Gong Li’s underground The party finally let her go. Could it be because of seeing the Americans and her sincere love? ? ? How did the ruthless executioner suddenly become warm and human? A wicked person who was still laughing at the Japanese spy being dazzled by love, how did he set a trap suddenly became the same victim? The shaping of the character is inconsistent, and the sudden change is blunt.
The movie has no standpoint, it is really puzzling to watch it.

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  • Paul Soames: The heart is never neutral.

  • Paul Soames: Conner and I had joined the Navy like our fathers and grandfathers before us. Our lives were set. Birth, school, Yale, war. The great American tradition.