After watching this American drama for a long time, I always wanted to write something, but it seemed to be stuck in my throat. I didn’t know where to start, until I walked into The Ritz-Carlton again, wearing a black top hat, wearing a black custom striped wool suit, with a flower in my pocket The bright red carnation of Nucky Thompson came to mind immediately, and the memory flooded...
The play tells the story of the Prohibition Period in the early 1920s. Due to the soaring price of black market liquor, whiskey and other spirits became popular. Scotch whisky poured into the United States through Irish gangsters, and it also became a famous gangster in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. Guy, Mr. Thompson of Irish ancestry.
In the first two episodes of the first season, I was quite surprised that this man who loves money, works in calculations, and even cares about the small profit of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan can be the male protagonist at the beginning of the show. Sure enough, in the fifth season, Through the review of his childhood experience, all the contradictions seem to exist again.
Facing a poor, alcoholic, abusive father who favored his younger brother, and a kind but weak mother who was unable to protect herself and her children, what could young Thompson do? Apart from helping to earn money to support his family, everything else seemed superfluous. How difficult is it to be stuck in a quagmire but want to stand out?
The children of the poor are in charge early, and he realizes from an early age that in order to get ahead, he must follow and rely on the most powerful people. At this moment, the most powerful Commander in Atlantic City is enjoying the admiration of the citizens of the city he created. Naturally, he also deeply attracted the attention of little Thompson. So he worked hard and finally got a job cleaning the sand on the boards for Commander. He was diligent and took this most mundane job very seriously. Helpless, he was dismissed for missing a day of work to take care of his dying sister. But how could the stubbornness in his bones allow him to just give up? Finally, when Commander needed a cannon fodder deputy police chief to do the dirty work, Nucky accepted the job without hesitation or even cheerfully, because he knew that this was his only chance to get ahead, just like picking it up in the vast ocean. A life-saving plank must be firmly grasped with all the strength.
So he often went out to deal with one dirty thing after another, although he was still as insignificant as a house dog, until he met Gillian who turned his fate - an orphanage-raised but beautiful wanderer The girl, after some struggle, he still gave her to Commander. God knows how this perverted pedophile tortured Gillian, and let this innocent girl who was originally a free wanderer get pregnant and give birth to a child at the age of 13, and is Commander's only son - Although he doesn't pay attention to it and doesn't want to see it.
So Commander helped Thompson open a door, the door of power and wealth that he had been looking forward to for a long time. He gradually expanded his power, and even sent Commander to prison six years later. Since then, he has become the Atlantic Ocean. king of the city.
But somehow he was punished, his child died before he was born, and his beloved Maybo soon followed because of excessive sadness. He calls the wind and calls the rain, but is extremely lonely. I think that's why he's ruthless and murderous, but he's always had a lot of love for Margaret. Perhaps, seeing Magaret for the first time reminded him of his mother and his tragic childhood. So he helped her again and again, and even sent someone to kill her alcoholic and gambler husband. Even in the predicament of being hunted down, he insisted on giving Magaret money to support the family.
A lot of people call Magaret an ungrateful bitch, but I think she and Thompson are perfect for each other. When he was arrogant but lonely, she brought him the warmth of home; when he promoted women's voting rights, she persuaded those male politicians who said women were brainless with just a few words, and at the same time gained women The support of the compatriots; when his office was seized by the FBI, she helped him take away the bribe books and the cash in the shoe cabinet; when his family wealth was about to run out, she helped him invest in the stock market, short the Mayflower, and a violent vote Earning millions of dollars to turn over... This is not perfect, but it is enough to be called a woman worthy of the king of Atlantic City.
Winning or losing does not matter. Thompson, who succeeded by contributing Gillian to the top position, suffered a power struggle from Gillian's son Jimmy, who had been taking care of him, and even Commander, who was about to end, came out to his son's platform. Jimmy seemed to have reached the peak of power smoothly and quickly. However, the follower is still a follower. What kind of wisdom, black belly, leadership, and decisiveness does the master of a city need? After all, Jimmy is not his own father. He took the initiative to help Thompson get rid of those betrayal forces, and took the initiative to die, giving his life to Nucky. At the moment Thompson shot and killed Jimmy himself, his heart was full of turmoil, but he felt that this should be the King of Atlantic City.
However, in the end, it is the times that make heroes. With the rise of the Italian mafia, the power of the Irish gang is going from bad to worse. Thompson from the initial loss of a city and a pool, to the final empire of the entire wine supply chain.
It's just that in the last season of the show, it is far-fetched to use Nucky's nephew as a clue to attribute the loss of most of Nucky's power to the redemption of the nephew. I think it is far-fetched. Thompson, who is so shrewd, should not be so stupid even in order to save his nephew. The most far-fetched thing is to let Jimmy's son Tommy kill Thompson in the end. Although heaven is good for reincarnation, this arrangement seems very inappropriate to me.
However, when Thompson fell in a pool of his own blood on the street, he suddenly felt that God's belongs to God, and Caesar's belongs to Caesar, and a generation of heroes came to an end.
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