The director and screenwriter have great ambitions, but it is just like the congenital malformation of the heart, and they have no choice but to prescribe emergency medicines like Suxiao Jiuxin Pills. I don't know if the screenwriters have mixed so many elements that can reflect social reality into a film, and the feeling of being at a loss is either intentional or unexpected, but what I want to say is this way of using macroscopic From the perspective of narrating the core of the story, is there any suspicion of putting the cart before the horse?
Years later, many years later as an adult, watching it again, after the climax of the opening minutes is dull.
The male protagonist William is a typical perfectionist, and it can also be seen in the profession he is engaged in. Studying missiles requires him to be rigorous and infallible. I'm not sure whether occupational disease is the main reason that ultimately affects his personality toward paranoia. Maybe it's just a quantitative accumulation at a node, but it can't become a qualitative leap. In the later stage, he has a development trend of obsessive-compulsive disorder and control madness. You can say it is morbid or an invisible sub-health symptom, but I don't want to kill him in one beat and directly conclude that the male protagonist is a sick lunatic. At the beginning of everything, there is a reason for it. The male protagonist obviously has a strong desire to control, which is reflected in the fact that if things do not go his way, he will vent his bad emotions, which will put his beloved wife under a lot of mental pressure. , After a long time, when the newlyweds suffered from the prophecy of the seven-year itch, the will of understanding gradually disappeared. Changes in the family are a mental and spiritual injury to a man. On the surface, he seems to be safe, but in fact, his inner twists and turns are like raging waves.
Aside from the male protagonist's personal life, the sudden change in his career is a fatal blow. Unemployment for a month actually made the handsome seven-footed man so embarrassed that he couldn't come up with a ticket to replace the pair of leather shoes with holes on his feet. In the social atmosphere of the pursuit of success, it is difficult for a loser to hold his head up. If he is not recognized, he will no longer be accepted. He is like a useless waste wandering on the edge of society, which makes a man who used to be proud of his high education. How can it be.
When a person's ideals are shattered, all imperfections in society will inadvertently magnify infinitely. Understanding and tolerance have long been replaced by anger in the heart. Complaining and anger are like molten lava that wants to be ejected to those who cannot escape. Stress provides endless energy that can't stop.
In the context of a highly developed and prosperous city, the screenwriter intentionally brought the "cats and dogs" in the dark corners into the audience's sight. Begging poor people, AIDS patients, struggling minority protests, homosexuality, disabled veterans, sympathy for the Nazi anti-Semitic culture, all these elements that go against harmony can only gain a sense of existence through the male protagonist’s resistance, violence at this time With a legal coat in personal consciousness, the respect gained during walking is beyond the imagination and expectation of the male protagonist. Here is another scene that I think is also interesting. In the police department that was originally intended to eliminate violence and peace, the outgoing old police detective was originally a compassionate, responsible and caring person, but was regarded as cowardly and timid by the strong leadership. The cowards, a dashing and comfortable Xishuai police officer of the new generation of the police force did not take the old detective in his eyes and made things difficult for him everywhere. To some extent, these unreasonable snobs seem to only recognize the size of a fist, and violence is limited to the wrapping of human skin. The legal application or not is not controlled by people's hearts, but a cold city code.
Here I want to insert a so-called symbolic representation of the picture (I don't know if the word "symbol" is appropriate). 1. Starting from the wooden bat in the hands of the Korean male shop owner in the canteen that the male protagonist first met, here I emphasize that the wooden bat of the shop owner is entirely out of self-defense considerations, rather than taking the initiative to hurt others. Is the screenwriter implying that in the United States? The reality in society is that the Asian ethnic group has the lowest violence index in the entire ecology. To put it bluntly, it means that the combat effectiveness is the weakest group of people. 2. When the male protagonist was wandering away from the city center in the remote suburbs, he met two Latino guys who wanted to rob with a knife. After the failure, a group of Latino stunned youths came back in a car with a submachine gun to take revenge and counterattack. 3. Obtain a bazooka launcher from a sociopathic white male boss at a military store. The screenwriter's intention is very obvious, using ethnic symbols to reflect the increasingly acute violent conflict in society, but unfortunately the lack of black characters makes the design of this classic scene a bit dumb. I think violence does not appear in the form of blood and cruelty from the beginning, but is subject to the influence of the surrounding environment. The escalation of violence is like the ups and downs of the male protagonist's emotions. When the external factors are not to restrain and alleviate but to stimulate noise, all the scenes in the film The implied meaning is self-explanatory.
Therefore, when the real contradiction of the gap between the rich and the poor in the city is transferred to the pressure of survival, the hustle and bustle everywhere is like a sharp knife mercilessly cutting open the glossy skin, exposing the cruelty and brutality of the essence of urban business. At the end, the old police officer tamed his noisy wife, taught his colleagues and bosses a lesson, and consoled the male protagonist's widow, leaving only the happy painting on the male protagonist's face in the home video. film.
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