Overview: This film shows the rotation process of a killer through the execution of a killer's mission until he is killed.
So let's analyze it carefully:
(1) Does the male protagonist want to die or look away?
Oppose the view of previous movie reviews that the male protagonist wants to die.
Although the male protagonist couldn't let go of the mother who burned to death, he really didn't want to die. If the male protagonist wants to die, he doesn't have to go out all night on the winter night alone, killing so many people he feels threatened.
The male protagonist accidentally discovered the female protagonist's ID card after the female protagonist entered the bathroom. At that time, when he saw the name on the female protagonist's ID card, he realized that he had taken a wrong look. From this expression, you can clearly see the shock of the male protagonist at that time, so it was not his intention at all, he really missed the point. Those memories are the details that he only pays attention to now, and the heroine also said "you only see what you want to see". And he himself admitted it.
The following film dialogue can support
(2) Then why did the male protagonist not resist?
First of all, from the previous several kills, we can conclude that the killer's tactics are all seeking to kill with a pre-emptive strike, at least in the first round to give a heavy blow. And those who fall behind have no ability to resist . Then what about the situation of the male and female protagonists in the end?
Male protagonist:
(1) Because of the previous artillery shooting, he is now completely naked - disarmed by the heroine in a fair and fair manner, and there is no weapon at hand to counterattack or defend himself
(2) Stretch the whole body, lie on the bed on your back, and have a wide sheet on your body - Europe and the United States are all soft beds, and considering the supine position of the whole body stretched, there is still a sheet on the body, and the male protagonist can't do it quickly. get up
(3) The motel space is small and there is no shelter
Hostess:
(1) Because you have already got up before, and now you are standing - you can attack and retreat, and you can defend
(2) already holding a weapon
(3) Always keep a safe distance from the male protagonist
If the male protagonist wants to resist, he must grab the gun at close range, then he must complete the following steps:
a. From supine to sitting up
b. Lift the sheets
c. The legs are pulled out of the sheets and stand on the ground
d. get up
e. Jump forward to fight
Even if several of the actions can be performed at the same time, considering that European and American hotels generally have insufficient support for soft bed prayers, the entire action takes at least 2-3 seconds to complete, and the heroine only needs half a second to shoot. Even if the male protagonist can get up in 1 second, the female protagonist can easily kill the male protagonist by taking a step back and keeping a distance at the same time.
This is also the basis for the female protagonist's relaxed face and willingness to talk to the male protagonist.
Therefore, when the male protagonist is unable to get up quickly and get close, he has no chance of winning against his condescending professional peers holding firearms with a naked body without weapons.
In other words, in this situation, the male protagonist is already in a desperate situation. So the male protagonist hasn't made any major moves. Does it mean that he has simply given up his futile resistance...?
no!
He was waiting for a very slim chance!
(3) Questions about bullets
The hero is a cautious person. Before he went to bed, he quietly ejected the bullet in the chamber of the gun, considering that if the gun was seized, the empty chamber would give him a chance to turn around. Therefore, although the male protagonist was in a desperate situation during the period of confrontation, he still had the heart to resist. In fact, we take a serious look at the conversations between him and the heroine. Isn't it just that he is talking to the heroine?
I think his original plan was to get all the information he wanted and then suddenly riot and hit the heroine by surprise. Because the heroine fired - found empty - reloaded - aimed and fired, there will be a delay of 2-3 seconds in this set, he will take advantage of this opportunity to finish lifting the sheets - legs are pulled out of the sheets and stand on the ground -Get up-the action of grabbing the gun forward. As for whether it can be successful or not, it depends on how the heroine will respond. Considering that the female protagonist is also a professional killer, there is little chance of a comeback, but it is also a chance for survival, isn't it?
Therefore, the male protagonist has been lying flat without changing his face, pretending to calmly talk to the female protagonist, slowing the enemy's heart. But the truth he got was far more cruel than he thought. He always thought he was going to kill "White River", and even if he was pointed at the head by a gun, he was worried that "things were screwed up", but the heroine told him that this was a round to kill him, and the person who did the round was the old man who always regarded him as his son. . At this time, he suddenly realized, and then his mentality changed drastically. Note that it is also at this point that the background music changes, not only starting to rise but also adding a heartbeat. This directly supports my point - from this moment on, he gave up the initiative and completely handed over his fate to the heroine.
The following film dialogue can support
(4) Psychological problems of the male protagonist Why did the male protagonist give up the original plan after he got the truth? I think it starts with the male protagonist's own psychological problems. From the dialogue in the cemetery, we can get the following information: (1) The old man and his father are close friends. (2) The father has a high probability of suffering from PDST, or has a mental condition due to previous killings. (3) The father's tombstone does not have the mother's, and the dialogue does not mention the mother. It is speculated that the mother left their father and son very early. (4) His father died when he was young. Then, when he grows up, it should be the old man who fills the role of his "father". Although he was vigilant and resistant to the old man during the cemetery dialogue, it was because he was suffering from guilt at the time, and at the same time he knew that the old man was "very worried" about his situation, and he had to keep a distance in order to protect himself. Some analysts said that the old man was already motivated to kill at this time, but he saw that the male protagonist was very cautious and had to pause if he didn't succeed. Sure enough, the male protagonist was then set up. And because of the early death of his parents, he was withdrawn. In contrast, the role of father was filled, but the role of mother was not filled, resulting in the accidental assassination of a mother who burned to death + the loss of the child's mother, which triggered the psychological pain of his lack of a mother since childhood. , so that his spirit almost collapsed.
In addition, there are many descriptions in the movie that he practiced his expression in the mirror, but throughout the whole article, the male protagonist has always been a poker face with no expression, which shows that he practiced his expression not for the task, but to get rid of the habit of expressionless. Coupled with the fact that his expressions and movements were too stiff and unnatural from his conversation with the motel attendant, I highly suspect that he has social phobia, or at least a communication disorder.
In addition , the lack of a mother (female) makes him long for women and does not know how to deal with them . This can be seen from his attitude and behavior towards domestic violence women at the beginning of the film. Especially when the hostess came to his hotel room to seduce him, it was very obvious. He was completely at a loss. The female protagonist first seduced by words, then by sleeping naked, and finally seduced by sensuality. The male protagonist had no opinion at all. In the end, it was the female protagonist who took the initiative to put the male protagonist's hand on her body and finally got what she wanted. Combining the number of actions and time of the male protagonist's bedtime, and afterward, he patronized himself but did not know how to comfort the woman (again, on the initiative of the female protagonist, he took the initiative to take his arm out and put his arm under his head), and the female protagonist said that he promised the old man. The request to give the male protagonist "happiness" before his death, we can conclude that the male protagonist should still be a baby, this is his first night.
In short, the male protagonist is withdrawn and social phobia, and his psychological identification or dependence on the old man is actually much greater than what he thinks. The old man should be the closest person in the world to him, and he has always tried his best to complete the old man's task. Even if someone pointed a gun at his head, he would never forget to worry about "things messed up". At the same time, because of his longing for the role of mother (female), he subconsciously ignored the flaws of the heroine, misread the other party, and went to Wushan together under the temptation of her, and ended up in a desperate situation of being naked and letting her be slaughtered.
So when he understood the truth of the whole thing and learned that it was the old man who wanted him to die, he was quite shocked, and then he felt more sad than his heart died - this can be seen from his dialogue: He was also pointed at by a gun. The logic of his words was clear before, but after he got the truth, he couldn't make a sentence. What he originally wanted to say faltered and finally gave up suddenly. Coupled with the psychological guilt of the burned mother, the double whammy made him feel that life and death didn't matter. But because he took the initiative to love the woman, he finally gave the woman the right to choose between life and death, and let her decide his life and death.
So he gave up the final blow of the original plan. (5) The choice of the heroine
The female protagonist knew that the male protagonist was already in love with him, and she also took the initiative to love him under the sympathy of each other.
The male protagonist said to her that "the choice is yours", not to save humanity for the female protagonist. Please, everyone is a professional killer, so don't play philosophy. The meaning of the male protagonist's words is very simple and straightforward - "I took out the bullet to let you know that the empty chamber was arranged in advance by me, but I have chosen to give up and take the opportunity to fight back against you. Since we have mutual affection, you are the choice. Leave with me to see the snow in Rome or choose to kill me?"
Because both sides are professional killers, once there is deception, the chain of suspicion cannot be eliminated. If the male protagonist is not shot, the female protagonist will not only escape the pursuit of the old man, but more importantly, she cannot be sure that the male protagonist will not shoot her in revenge after getting out of trouble.
So the heroine replied with tears: "I know (your choice, although we have mutual affection, but I can't take risks)"
So the protagonist was killed.
(6) About the female protagonist taking the initiative to seduce the male protagonist to bed
The female protagonist is very shrewd, she knows that the male protagonist is cautious, so she did not bring any weapons when she came. She was going to kill him with the hero's weapon. So she must do the following two things:
(1) Let this cautious and calm male protagonist be willing to get rid of the weapon without any doubts
(2) She can naturally get the weapon without causing the male protagonist's suspicion
In order to achieve the second point, she not only used sensual seduction, but also played stupid all the time. For example, after the passion, she said that she wanted to go to Italy. The male protagonist asked her if she could use Italian, and she replied that she had only learned Spanish. The image of this ignorant village girl was established. The female protagonist couldn't help smiling when she saw the male protagonist listening to it, realizing that he was completely relieved, so she proposed to get out of bed and go to the bathroom, and sure enough, the male protagonist was not suspicious.
Therefore, it is necessary for the female lead to seduce the male lead to go to bed. The main reasons are:
(1) I want to use this method to let the male protagonist relax his vigilance and disarm him. It can be seen from the action and demeanor of the male protagonist before that he is a suspicious and vigilant person who never leaves his hands with guns and knives. But it is natural to disarm it by seducing him into bed, providing a prerequisite for subsequent actions.
(2) Entrusted by the old man. Although the old man gave the order to clean up the door, he was still sad about the death of his old friend's son, so he hoped that the male protagonist would be "happier" before his death. The heroine also explained this, so the heroine let the hero have a good time before he died.
(3) The female protagonist's own physical needs. The male protagonist has always been kind to her. And the winter night is bitter and cold, and the lonely heart of the killer also needs to be moisturised. Seeing that the male protagonist is good-looking, it is not an exaggeration to reward himself for the fake drama.
(7) That mountain, that house, that dog
The dog ran out of the woods, and the male protagonist could not be summoned when he finally set off, indicating that the male protagonist was not the dog owner. However, it is inferred that the dog is very familiar with the hut from the fact that the dog came to the hut for food. In conjunction with the ending of the heroine moving into the cabin, we can infer:
The previous owner of the hut was also a killer. He raised a dog, but was killed and replaced by the male owner. The dog ran away into the forest when he saw it. Later, the male protagonist gradually got closer to the dog, and the female protagonist was headshot in the end. The female protagonist moved into the hut in place of the male protagonist, becoming a new cycle.
From this point of view, the male protagonist didn't live long in the hut. Their replacement frequency is too high.
(8) Summary:
Looking back on the night of the male lead, he let the beautiful woman who took the initiative to throw his arms around in the room ignored him, committed the crime against the wind in the cold night, worked hard all night to eliminate all the people he suspected, and then returned to the house. He couldn't help but tempt to fuck the female lead immediately. The gun was shot in the head, and he died naked on a bed in a humble hotel in a remote town.
But after all, he had a good time before he died, and he was not in vain for his good skin.
Check out this schedule:
1:30:08 The male lead ejaculates, bid farewell to the virgin
1:30:20 The male protagonist lay back on the bed and reminisced, and the two talked
1:32:33 The female protagonist gets up and prepares to take a gun to kill the male protagonist, while the male protagonist is still looking forward to the future with the female protagonist
1:33:18 The male lead looks at the female lead's documents
1:33:51 The female host shoots out of the bathroom, the two talk, and the male host learns the truth
1:40:47 The male lead gets a headshot
The male protagonist hangs up after ten minutes, is it fortunate or sad? Is it the hero who is saddened by the beauty, or is it also romantic to die under a pomegranate skirt?
But the most innocent person in the whole movie is the motel's watchman. He is so diligent and loves to study. When the rent was collected the next day , he found out that two people died next to him in a dilapidated small hotel in one night. One of them was obvious. Murder, not to mention the psychological shadow, his hotel probably won't last.
Gan! Who provoked whom? !
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