It can be seen from the road of three generations that the methods of gangs are becoming more and more cruel, and more and more teenagers are involved in killing. What hope can such a place give people?
The respective destinations of the first generation of "three young men": one returned to the family, one found love, and the other converted to God. The first two failed to escape the dark ending of being shot. Only Ajia who converted to God saved his life. Ah Jia's awakening was overnight. When he discovered his heart's destination, even the police were not afraid of him. He walked so firmly on the road to find God, shining brightly, and exuding a sacred temperament. The slum is also known as the "City of God", but has God ever been there? Maybe God is in everyone's heart, and conversion is the right way to self-salvation.
Barney: As the heartiest and coolest brother in the gang, the crowd at the farewell party proved his popularity. He wants to quit the gang and retreat with his lover, but how easy is it? Just as Liu Zhengfeng wanted to "wash his hands in a golden basin" in "Swordsman", it was just wishful thinking. Gangs, as long as they fall into it, they are involuntary. Even if Benny was not killed by man, others will find him trouble.
Xiaobawang: Including the third generation of juvenile gangs later, I really want to know how these people can be so dismissive of life, killing a person is as simple as drinking saliva, what kind of environment caused such a deformed personality? The little bully is not good-looking, no woman looks at him, killing people like hemp, others are extremely jealous, except for Benny, probably no one can speak. At Benny’s farewell party, he saw so many people and was so happy that even Benny didn’t stand with him. He was out of gregariousness and panic, so he made such an outrageous action in order to intimidate others. , Attract attention? Including later, Shuai Naide appeared in the newspaper, but he did not appear, behaved so anxiously. He just wanted to attract the attention of others. I guess he was extremely inferior in his heart. Was it because he wanted to make the older children look upon him when he was a little beanie?
There is also Shuai Naide. It can be said that Xiaobawang and Hongmao's later anger and anger was largely due to him, from the beginning of simply avenging his relatives, to later the exception of murder became the rule and harmed the innocent. He made it at the beginning. Did you expect the outcome of such a decision? When Naide first set off to rob a bank, and he rescued a man from the muzzle of a red hair, I even imagined that Naide would become Schindler in the gang. This film slowly evolved into a warm story. But I was wrong and hypocritical, there is no warmth here. Later, he was shot and killed by the boy who avenged his father. While robbing the bank, Ned killed the boy's father. In the film, I occasionally meet Ned's humanity, including not letting the red hair snatch the boy, and try to save the boy's life when the boy is shot. But only in this way, does he think he can be the good guy on the bus? He didn't care about killing so many people, but was entangled in a boy, and he could only say that he was a good and hypocritical person. Thinking back, Shuai Naide certainly didn’t want this ending. Many people like Naide didn’t want to be murderers, but as Linda said when commenting on the American Civil War, once the switch of the war was activated, It is not controlled by others, and it is very difficult to repay injustices.
On the contrary, A Pao, in a chaotic environment, can always clean himself and protect himself. Later, he made a mistake and took up his favorite profession. What I want to ask is whether the last photos he took of Xiaobawang bribing the police have been published. If not, isn't it too hopeless?
Is there really no hope at all? When A Pao and his friends prepared to rob with guns, what did they encounter? They met handsome Ned who was kind and free, met the female shop assistant who flirted with him, met the driver who believed him, drove him, and chatted with him about marijuana. These ordinary people saved them and activated the goodness in their hearts. People see the world differently when they encounter different things, and what about the world of those youth gangs? When life presents only one state, you would think that that is all. In the eyes of slum gangs, besides crime, have they ever seen other possibilities in life?
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