Floating like a dream

Christian 2022-03-20 09:01:03

Another collapse of the American Dream, the local sheriff’s office in Rosenstein’s office explained it, you never know how this country works.

Nicky’s words are all for money. Both Nicky and Rosenstein think so, so they will always be new money. What they don’t know is that in the face of power, money and everything can be achieved. It's floating clouds. Facing his wife who had just eloped back, Rosenstein’s focus was on the unreasonable amount of consumption. Nicky always felt that the gang boss had no ability to hold a meeting to get the money. This was not just about portraying their straight and arrogant personality. This is their cognitive limitation, they are more expensive than people, and they don't understand the power structure and rules.

Rosenstein’s inability to deal with women is the most uncomprehensive manifestation. He always tries to reach a consensus with women by means of faith and coercion. This is the way of the man’s world. On the part of men, he cannot resolve differences with his brothers. It is to show the contradiction between brothers in front of outsiders. He is a genius in gambling, and he is just an ordinary person in terms of human affection and sophistication.

In an interesting scene, Rosenstein said in the car that he was on the show to get attention, as a way to fight against officials, and said that officials violated the Constitution. In my opinion, Rosenstein is innocent and cute. This is not an advocacy for criminals. It’s a law-abiding irony, but to say that he even made the wrong way against officials. Can the law help him? It’s like "Burning", Liu Yaren sighed in the rich second-generation villa, why can he make so much money? The denominators don’t even know where the numerator is.

Rosenstein's ending is very symbolic. Selling expertise as a pawn is the best ending for those who have no power. The fatalism expressed in traditional noir films has always been abstract, and it is only embodied in the story shell of my final failure through my efforts. However, this film uses a nearly realist approach to deconstruct this fatalism. Martin Scorsese, I finally got you!

The latter part of the film is relatively clichéd, but the first half of the music is too expressive with the picture, and the muddywatters part is too amazing. The ending love poems are also great. My understanding is that human emotions are too complicated. Maybe there are not so many poems enough to express our various emotions. Replace them with love poems to express the unwillingness and unspeakable melancholy in the heart.

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Extended Reading
  • Mazie 2022-03-23 09:01:03

    The films of this kind of subject matter are still relatively classic Hong Kong films.

  • Donnell 2022-04-21 09:01:03

    Not bad~ There is a saying I like: You forgot, he is a Gemini, and all Geminis are poisonous snakes. . . Thanks, I'm a Gemini! Hahaha

Casino quotes

  • Ace Rothstein: [voice-over; notices a couple of card counters] Now here's this guy reading the dealer's hole card and signalling his buddy at this table.

    [the signaler, using a small telegraph, types a morse code to his friend at the other table]

    Ace Rothstein: And that's just what these hustlers look for. They cruise from casino to casino, looking for weak dealers the way lions look for weak antelope.

  • Ace Rothstein: [voice-over] They never know what hit them. And if, and when, they do find out that they just got zapped by a cattle prod, they wish they really did have a heart attack.