The last Puerto Rican hero fell. This line turned out to be very meaningful. The root cause of Carlito's crime in the ghetto is the racial discrimination in the United States. Puerto Ricans have a lower status than blacks in the United States. They don't even have their own country. In the beginning, Puerto Ricans were still fighting for independence, and then slowly became an autonomous region of the United States, and then it may become the 51st state of the United States, if the United States will. However, the director did not focus on digging deeply on this point, which led to the relatively thin theme of the film, and the sad life experience of the last Puerto Rican hero who fell has lost a lot.
After five years in prison, Carlito returned to the site and found that everything had changed, just like Chow Yun-fat's line in "The True Color of Heroes" "Jianghu is no longer our rivers and lakes", Carlito still insisted on the love in his heart, but he was around him. Every one of them has abandoned this love, abandoned him, love kills faster than bullets, this is the finishing touch.
The lighting and photography of this film are very superb, especially the long shot of the train station at the end of the film, which is more than two minutes, and the lens movement is superb. Al Pacino and Sean Penn's performances add a lot of color to the clichéd tale.
The biggest flaw of this film is that the heroine Jill is too symbolic. The main emotional knot of the film lies in love, but the love between the male and female protagonists is very weak. Jill basically loves this drug dealer unconditionally. Tuo is also blindly infatuated. Two simple people are submerged in this dirty world. It is too reluctant to explain the story in this way, too hypocritical, and the complex is not enough to move people. This film cannot deeply touch the audience. mood.
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