There is so-called human heart. Don't say "you don't have to", in many cases it is "you don't know how to", we don't know how to deal with what we are facing.
It might be more straightforward to think about it. Think about what we see, hear, and possibly experience. How much of it is uncontrollable? I used to think that everyone's destiny is like a dice in God's hand, and it's what you roll. The killer in the movie did just that, and the same principle was practiced, but with shiny, trance-stricken, falling coins. Americans are wise and good at using various metaphors, even in simple conversations. The old police officer said, you can't tell the outcome of the contest between humans and livestock, let alone humans? There is also the old police officer who talked about his old timers at the beginning and near the end of the movie. His predecessors and his father, they may have been yearning for the medal all their lives, but they never expected how to get it. Perhaps until the unconscious body is buried in the cold and stiff soil, the remaining wandering souls will look down and tell them: what you wanted and worked hard for before you can really hold on tightly, no matter how you do it, In the end, it leaves you helpless, all returned to nothingness. One's life will inevitably be shrouded in a dark nightmare. You cannot predict where the so-called evil will grow, and you cannot predict where the corresponding justice will take care of. Because of the unmanageable power in the dark, you are being led by an invisible trajectory, and you cannot be sure how to go; to borrow a sentence from the movie: "How can we defend against it?" Perhaps you should still live only by your own beliefs, and you can only keep telling yourself in your heart: justice defeats evil.
There are many unexpected moments in the film. At the beginning, the little police officer who thought that things had been "under control" had something to gain. He was killed by the assassin as soon as he reported his results. The fat woman who resolutely refused to expose the privacy of the residents, when the assassin wanted to show off, The flushing of the toilet saved her life; the retired soldier who could count the number of floors missing in the building and made me think he was violent, his head blossomed before he had time to react; in the eyes of his wife, he never needed help from others to let the audience. Seeing the little hunter hero who held his breath for him, in the battle of wits with the killer, you chased me, suddenly fell in a pool of blood; when the killer fulfilled his "promise" to the hunter, he drove brightly. Leaving, while trying to figure out how the child in the rear mirror of the car would become his "inconvenience", a car that sprang out from nowhere and hit him half to death. He escaped the scene again without dying, which made me a little bit Unexpectedly...
It's just that, putting aside the surface of these "randomness", is there really so much that we can't predict and control? A few details are worth remembering. The hunter left the hotel and got in a black driver's car. The driver said to him: "You shouldn't hitchhiking at will. It's too dangerous, even if you are young like you shouldn't." If it seems nervous, it is in essence. Stripped off the hunter's brave and wisdom coat, revealing the bane of his accidental death. At the beginning, it was his wit that made him discover the box with huge sums of money. The concept of “free-riding” in economics was also applicable to his behavior of carrying money to some extent. Picked up a bargain in the dead. It was the bargain he picked up that caused him to separate from his wife from now on, desperately. Perhaps it is really "the agency has counted the lives of Qingqing's lives." This large sum of money killed waves of Mexicans who had come to admire money, and also killed him. Also, when the killer had a car accident, he asked the child for a coat. When the child saw that he was injured, his eyes were indeed showing sincere concern. He also said that he was helping others without remuneration. When giving a big bill to the kid in the coat, the two kids quarreled, and both wanted the attractive banknote. The warm eyes were replaced by greedy shouts. This scene is arranged at the end of the film and has deep implications. Most of the time of the film is just narrating the course of an event, low and objective, without much evaluation, which makes people deeply confused about the cause and effect of the event, and there is no time to breathe. At this point, you can basically see some of the values of the film itself. Up. Damn money! It seems unpredictable, and many of them are foreshadowing. You may not know why you got to this step, but the behavior that led you to this step can be located. For example, due to the temptation of money, you make You made the wrong choice, and therefore lead you on a random and changing path of no return. How many people are repeating the same mistakes? ! Of course, this may just be a cliché against money worship. However, this is only an example of unpredictable consequences. Under the turbulent dark tide, there are too many dirty things hidden for us to see clearly.
In this society full of money, drugs, power, violence, fame, chaos and disorder, we will sigh, why good people do not necessarily get rewards, but bad people live freely. It seems that everything is not what we think. People are inherently small, and life is inherently full of uncertain numbers, and in such a social context, the randomness of our lives seems to be amplified even more. We are not sure what is right, but the choice must be done, even if it is wrong. Many people only thought of doing the other thing, going to extremes, or helplessly waiting. The old police officer said a lot of thought-provoking things. He looked at the news in the newspaper and said, “How could this happen? I don’t know what happened to them. They want to do something like this... It’s better to run out with a dog collar than in the backyard. Digging a grave here is much more eye-catching. "There are too many starting points for a person to do one thing, and the human heart is the most complicated. There have been many serial shootings in the United States, so many people have died casually, but now there is no motive for the criminals to commit the crime. This may not be surprising, perhaps just like the movie, there is no predictable ending. , There is no reason that makes sense at this time. The reason is there, but what needs to be traced back is that time, but things at that time cannot be changed at this time. We can only cherish every opportunity at this time, have a little more courage to face it, and a little more detached spirit before making a choice, and try our best to make each time less unpredictable.
Some time ago I read a few foreign astrology books, which talked about human fate. How can people live better? Everyone is born with a different fate, it seems to be random, some are born with this and that, and some are born with setbacks. But luck can indeed be controlled by yourself, depending on what kind of heart you use to look at the gifts and trials. For example: if you feel that your pain is "the sky will come down to the people", then you will feel happy and full of fighting spirit; if you feel that it is a burden for everyone to love you too much, then you will feel very painful and lose Chance. This is the organic amidst randomness. If you think about it this way, there is a lot of filth in life that comes from its source, and it doesn't have to exist. The killer in the movie is not born unsaved, and the old police officer doesn’t have to be powerless all the time. The fate of the characters in the movie is not destined to develop on an unpredictable road. It is only when you step into that road that you become Unpredictable.
This is a truly classic film. In my opinion, the most classic is its thinking on society and life. Its connotation extends to the level of ethics, philosophy, and even religious beliefs. It was shot so gloomy and desperate, but in the depths there is a disdain for the materialistic society and the materialistic worldview, just like the dream at the end of the film, reminding us that there is still fire in the dark, reminding us that we must find it. The torch that you can rely on, keep moving forward.
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