I watched it once in the early years, and I was not very impressed. I watched it again recently and refreshed my memory. I think it should be regarded as a film that can get 8 points.
But I saw a lot of film critics saying "I don't understand", including the storyline and the psychology of the characters, and I tried to explain it a little. The names appearing below are all represented by the actor's last name.
Gosling, who first appeared on the stage, was a gangster, the protagonist of a motorcycle acrobatic show. He had a large audience in the lower class, and his income was only enough to maintain a casual life. However, many fans screamed around, and there were also many opportunities to score, so the second Ms. Mendes, who appeared in the show, was recruited, became pregnant and gave birth to a child, but was hurt by Gosling's prodigal attitude, and she had to think about the child and life, so she lived with Ali, who appeared in the third place. A few hours before Gosling was about to leave town, he accidentally learned that he had a son. His immature fatherly love overflowed, and he made several decisions one after another. First, he quit his job immediately because he didn't want to run with the acrobatic show, which directly resulted in no income. , the second is to make friends with Mendelsohn, the fourth player who claimed to be a master bank robber, and began his career as a bank robber. The purpose is very simple. In order to "do his father's duty", he used the money he robbed to buy a crib or something. He was carried to Ali's house, and there was a dispute. In addition to hurting Ali, he was also distressed and angry because his "enthusiasm" and "responsibility" were not accepted by Mendes, so he had the idea of "doing a big job" and was horrified. Mendelsohn, the latter said he quit and broke up. Gosling went on his own, but was caught up by the police because there was no support from Mendelsohn. After cornered, the fifth character who was rushed into the room was also the second male protagonist, the police Cooper shot. , fell out of the window and landed on the back of his head and died on the spot.
There's about a few seconds of the process here, and it's the center of the entire film. Gosling had a premonition that he could not escape, locked himself in the door, and called Mendes with a gun in one hand and the other. The last request was "don't tell him (son) about me." Cooper outside the door is not much experience. The little policeman shouted "Police! Put down the gun! Get on the ground!" Then he kicked the door in, and immediately shot Gosling, who was sitting by the window with his back to the outside, who fell out of the window and died.
The problem here is that, as a police officer, when contacting a suspect, you must confirm that the other party has received your signal, and you can shoot only when the suspect refuses to disarm and threatens the police. In other words, if the suspect did not see the police and did not hear the police's warning, the police would not have the right to shoot the suspect even with a weapon. This can also be reflected in the interview of the district attorney who came to "visit" when he was shot in the thigh by Gosling at the last moment, either reactively or accidentally. Point: 1. Have you shouted? Did you confirm that the other party heard you calling? 2. Why did you kick the door directly? Did you twist the door handle? If not, how do you know if the suspect locked the door or not? 3. Who shot first? Did he shoot you first and then you shoot?
Cooper's shooting at the moment may have several factors. One is nervousness. For example, his colleague later said, "I have been in the police force for 22 years, and I have only fired about 3/4 times." So for Cooper, who has just joined the police force for half a year , this scene of high-speed pursuit and confrontation with the suspect alone with guns is too tense; second, as he reflected in the question and answer between the hospital and the prosecutor, he walked through the police force's regulations, including several shouts, but He didn't get a response from the other party, so he thought that further measures should be taken instead of continuing to fight in the confrontation and dialogue stage; third, maybe the moment he entered the door, he saw that the suspect facing him was still holding a weapon, so he shot.
It can be seen from the film that although Cooper is stunned on the surface, he has a certain desire to "enterprise", so he did not wait for backup when he was chasing Gosling alone, but got on it himself, and was in the third prosecutor's office. He lied about the question, saying it was the suspect who shot first, and he responded. His aggressiveness is understandable because his father is a judge and has long known prosecutors.
Cooper began to advance at this stage. First, he was surrounded by colleagues, sipping "Hero" one at a time, and then he was briefly swept away by black-handed colleagues and threatened. After listening to his father's advice, outsmarting his colleagues, recording and handing it over to the local prosecutor The officer, not only did he escape successfully without becoming a black police officer, but he also made a contribution to eliminating the black police officer for the local police station and continued to advance. At the funeral of his father's death 15 years later we learned that the campaign for attorney general had begun. It took him half a year to join the police force, just before and after 16 years. From a rookie police officer to being able to run for justice minister, this is an achievement and speed that 90% of ordinary police officers can't match.
At the same time, it can be seen that the risks planted by the combination of his "aggressiveness" and the result of the shot 15 years ago are beginning to emerge. First of all, he got divorced. The son lived with his mother in the early days, but he has become a troubled teenager. He is eager to make up for his father's love, so he asked to move in with his father, but neither the father nor the son knew how to reach out to each other to hold each other; Secondly, there is a huge hidden danger in his success, which is his answer to the third question of the prosecutor. I think the good thing about this movie is that, unlike most movies, this hidden danger did not eventually become the reason for the collapse of his life. In most of these films, the role of burying the root of the disaster is to pull it up from the back, but Pine Forest Outside tells everyone a very plain fact, "Justice may be late, but it will never be absent", which is a belief.
For Cooper, the hidden dangers of his life did not explode, but led to another incident. The shooting that year was reported in the news that Gosling's son was the same age as Cooper's son. Fifteen years later, Cooper's son AJ moved in with his father, so he changed schools, and the first "friend" he met at the new school was Gosling's son Dahaan.
By the way, Dana Dahaan has the charm of a brother too. .
As soon as the two troubled children got together, the drug addiction was immediately put on the agenda, and then they were quickly arrested. Cooper has connections and saves his son, but at the same time when his campaign tells him the name of another child, he finds that his most guilty history has re-interacted with his own life. So he grabbed his son's collar according to international practice and warned, "Don't play with him!" His son also ignored this warning according to international practice. But in court, when AJ saw that his partner's "father" was a black man, he laughed a few words, but hit the question that had been lingering in Dahaan's heart: "Who is my father?"
Dahaan found Mendelsohn who had inspired Gosling to rob a bank through the Internet, and was told the truth about his father's death, and also learned that Cooper was the one who killed his father. So I went to the dealer to buy a gun, sneaked into Cooper's house, subdued AJ, waited for Cooper to get home from get off work, escorted him into the car and drove outside the pine forest, and had a fierce ideological struggle whether to shoot, so he continued the international practice and asked Cooper to hand over his wallet. Facing the muzzle of his most guilty history, Cooper struggled for a few seconds before collapsing and burst into tears: "I'm sorry...". Dahaan did not go wrong in the end. He runs away, only to find a photo of his father in Cooper's purse, with Gosling holding Mendes in one arm and Dahaan, a baby, in the other, looking happily at the camera. Perhaps it was because of the fading sense of belonging to the so-called "home", or because he was afraid that he would end up in a cell, he did not go home, but went away and sent this photo home in the future.
At this time, Cooper, who had successfully run for the Attorney General, smiled confidently in the applause of the crowd and the flash of the media. On the other side, Mendes sat on the doorstep, staring at the three-folded photo in a daze. The envelope simply said "Mom". In another city, Dahaan seemed more sedate, knocking politely on a gentleman's door and buying a motorcycle for $500.
In this film, the formation of the central black hole where so many people meet and thus distort their lives occurs in the seconds Cooper kicks the door until he shoots, and the seconds he answers the prosecutor's question. But in that situation, it is difficult for ordinary people to avoid this black hole: on the one hand, they lie and start a successful life, on the other hand, they are suspended for investigation or even sentenced to prison for telling the truth. After a few seconds of thinking, no one should choose the latter, especially When everything but itself seems to support the previous option.
In this series of events, there are two kickstarts, one is Gosling's "One Shot" and the other is Cooper's "One Shot". These two hairs should be taken for granted by most people.
There are three broken families in the film: 1. Gosling, Mendes and Dahaan, because Mendes concealed the existence of the child and most of all Gosling's nature and stupidity led to the death of Gosling; 2. Ali, Mendes and Dahaan, because Gosling had The family's brief spoiler plus Mendes's pre-death pleas to hide about Gosling from his son led to the son's alienation from the family; 3. Cooper, Byrne and AJ, Cooper concealed from everyone that he was in the shooting The behavior on the spot, coupled with the pursuit of "success", naturally alienated his wife and children. "Success" used "I am an excellent law enforcement officer" to cover up his fear of the truth, but he separated himself from the truth. His wife divorced and his son grew up as a very unhealthy young man because of his father's estrangement.
In all three families, concealing one truth brought another, more serious real revenge.
But specific to the position of each character, they all, how to say, "the starting point is good."
All of Gosling's decisions, down to the last-minute phone call, were out of love for his son. Mendes and Ali's love for Dahaan is also obvious, and the concealment is also out of love. After all, no parent is willing to tell their son, what, your biological father was actually a bank robber, and was later killed by the police. Cooper too, can he say "Actually I just shouted a few words in a routine and then kicked the door and pulled the gun and shot"? In that way, his judge's father, his wife and children will all be labeled as "family members of black policemen".
The two boys are even more so. AJ is behind the seemingly glamorous family. He has experienced the divorce of his parents and is desperate for his father's love. Even if he moves to live with his father, he will not get his father's attention. , He saw his father's first sentence was an apology, but his father grabbed his clothes and threw it against the wall, strangled his neck and was ordered to break up with his friends. He usually seems to be a dick to death, and tears flowed down at that time. As for Dahaan, his mother is South American, his father is black, and he is white. It was nothing at all, but his parents resolutely concealed the truth. It is normal for a teenage boy to choose his own way to learn about his biological father. It's natural to be angry at the person who fired the gun when he found out that his biological father was shot dead by the police. And then finding out that the shooter was the father of a recent friend, naturally took a bigger hit. Then I was beaten up by this friend in front of a bunch of people... In a place where I could easily get a gun, he got a gun and successfully subdued two people, but a bullet was useless, in my opinion Already a child with strong self-control.
The above is only my understanding of the film.
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