The loneliness buried in the paint

Alisha 2022-01-25 08:04:46

The half-day ideological struggle was changed to five stars. At the end of the film, the unfinished thoughts and trembling all deserve a more perfect score. Memories from gangster movies, Pacino’s beating and deformed face in "The Godfather", the flames on the guncloth after Rodney's assassination, the slaughter under the scarlet midnight in "Good Guy", Kate in "The Back Streets" The roar after the car accident, and the silhouette of a group of people walking through the alleys of New York in "Once Upon a Time in America", the image carries too much shock, it keeps flowing, and gradually fades away from the past brilliance, leaving behind the old-fashioned casts, To commemorate their golden age together. Rodney also played his life as a painter in this movie.

Frank's loneliness stems from his character. Fucked by respect, friendship and authority, Frank can only seem to obey everything, under caution and peace. He is also a cowardly man. He met gangsters, allowing him to briefly establish authority at home, but he is overly assertive. At the same time, I lost the affinity with the one I loved. The cowardice in the dark kept him leaning at both ends, and the result of the lack of a big picture was the deadliest application of wall-painting skills. The moment he boarded the plane, the window became the power frame, Russell's car entered the mirror and slowly emerged, and the heart-wrenching assassination finally came. The contradiction that had been evaded and could not be resolved before finally became a sharp knife to defeat the empire and also defeat Frank.

The dramatic tension of "contradiction" in the movie makes people addicted, but in life, it can kill those who are confused and chaotic.

The shooting shots in the film are all in the middle of the frame, Rodney's huge and rickety figure and the fireworks from the "pocket" gun, the "paint" is splashing, the sudden shooting and the last second of greetings. Every time "washing the wall" is a betrayal of oneself, a denial of part of the past, and every past abandoned to preserve and cover up cowardice has become a loneliness that Frank cannot express. Even when all the people involved have long since passed away, all he protects is his eager to repent but cowardly heart that is too weak to express. When he asked the priest to leave a gap in the door, we understand that he lived as every guilty person in the past.

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The Irishman quotes

  • [first lines]

    Frank Sheeran: [narrating] When I was young, I thought house painters painted houses. What did I know? I was a working guy. A business agent for Teamster Local 107 out of South Philly.

    Frank Sheeran: One of a thousand working stiffs... until I wasn't no more. And then I started painting houses... myself.

  • Whispers DiTullio: To tell you the truth, I'm a little concerned.

    Frank Sheeran: [narrating] Whenever anybody says they're a little concerned, they're very concerned.

    Whispers DiTullio: As a matter of fact, I'm really more than a little concerned.

    Frank Sheeran: [narrating] And when they say they're more than a little concerned, they're desperate.