I've seen some gangster films, but I'm not too cold. The basic plot is that one or some gangsters become the gang boss through their own efforts, or how a gang boss maintains his power. Generally speaking, it is the grievances and grievances between the gangs, fighting and killing, which are mixed with various emotional lines. The Godfather series really sucks. I personally think Scarface is probably the epitome of gangster movies (although I don't really like it either). Following Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, the two black-haired male gods with Italian descent, you can basically watch all the classic gangster movies in the United States with Italian immigrants as the main characters.
"Dawn of Love Owl" is different, it can move me because it is a movie about personal redemption. The original name of the movie is Carlito's Way. The Chinese name of the movie can be literally translated, because the connotation of "Way" is already rich enough.
The protagonist, Carlito, is an outdated gangster. After spending five years in prison, he was rescued by a lawyer and decided to escape the gang conflict. The past that Carlito carried made him unable to leave openly. He wanted to break with the past, but he had to rely on the past to earn the capital to escape. This contradiction runs through the entire film.
He decided to make money in a relatively clean way. He made a fortune by watching a drug deal and invested it in a nightclub. He tried to manage the nightclub in a "normal" way, allowing poison and sex, but trying to keep his hands from getting blood again.
He finds his girlfriend and promises to fly away with her.
He wanted to go against the inertia of the past, but found that the morality he adhered to and the unbearable past had long been deeply connected. He is grateful to the lawyer for letting him eat less of 25 years in prison, and he owes the lawyer a favor. But what about a lawyer who can defend a mob boss? The lawyer, greedy for profit and fear of death, asks Carlito to help him kill another gang leader, and promises Carlito a large sum of money. Although his girlfriend tried to dissuade him, Carlito wanted to pay off the lawyer's favor on the one hand, and wanted to get the money on the other, so he still went.
His behavior naturally caused him more trouble. He had already booked a train ticket to leave, but he ended up dying on the train platform. He fell into his lover's arms and stuffed the money to his girlfriend: "Get out of here, you are with the baby".
This is tragedy. Once you choose that path, the soles of your feet are forever covered in mud. I want to escape, I want to run, I want to be redeemed, I want to start all over again, but I can't get out, and I end up lying in a pool of blood from the past.
Much of the beauty in this tragedy is represented by Carlito's girlfriend, Gail. There is an amazing beauty in every gangster movie, but they are either cold; or degenerate; or just a foil for men; some girls have a positive image, but they are too far away from the male protagonist in the gang, and they are just white in the male protagonist's heart. moonlight. Gail is close to the male protagonist's life and becomes the representative of the male protagonist's dream. She is impressive. Gail has a bright smile, innocent eyes, charming figure and dancing.
Her dialogues and disputes with the male protagonist show the contradictions in the male protagonist; the new life in the male protagonist's dream includes the intimate contact with her male protagonist and the baby in her womb. She is that "goal that can be reached with a reach and a reach". But the male protagonist is standing on the swamp and thirsting for flowers on the tree. His past is the farthest distance between him and Gail. At the end of the movie, the figure dancing in the sunset is the future that Carlito will never touch.
In the shooting method, more long shots are used. In the chase scenes, various editing are often used to mix close-ups, medium shots, panoramas, etc., giving people a sense of dizziness and tension. The long shots used in the chase scene in this film are not lacking in tension, but have a kind of smooth flow.
At the same time, the rotating shots at the beginning and the end integrate the lines into it, and the audience's line of sight can be transformed with the main line, creating a chaotic atmosphere without losing focus.
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