"Hold Your Breath 1" was released in 2016, and this sequel, released in 21, is half as low as the previous one.
I don't know what the director thought, but as far as I read it, the central idea is very "positive": those who do bad things must die.
On the one hand, the whole film is busy whitewashing the old man, and on the other hand, it is busy outputting "thrilling and exciting action scenes" .
The little girl is called Phoenix, and her father is the blind veteran in the first part (hereinafter referred to as the male protagonist) .
There is a training scene at the beginning of the film. It can be seen that the male protagonist has been training his daughter to improve her self-protection ability, because the outside world is dangerous to him. He has a saying, don't take what you have for granted or God will take it away.
The whole person revealed a kind of "Buddha" meaning than before, and even mentioned God. Although he was "I don't commit crimes if I don't commit crimes" in the first part, but in the sequel, it is obviously more like "Older, tired of killing, and about to make amends" .
The male protagonist keeps his daughter at home all the time, and does not allow her to go to school or go out.
Even if it is rare to follow other people's progress, she just sits alone on the swing with the dog in the gap between the refueling of the car.
She fantasized about how she would "spark" in front of this group of unfamiliar children and become friends, but it was just a fantasy.
When night fell, the three came to the male protagonist's house first, and their goal was clear, the little girl.
Here, the plot almost overlaps with the previous one.
The same wicked people broke into the house, last time for money, this time for little girls. I have to say that being a blind person is really a disaster.
Compared to the previous batch of three gangsters with fairly average skills, this time, they are not good scumbags. They have guns, combat effectiveness, and cooperation, and their rank has risen by several levels.
Not to mention, they were smart enough to turn on the lights. For a blind man who has lost his sight, the night is his home field.
In the last movie, he was such a supernatural uniformed gangster, and he performed the exciting "you chase me and run away" in the dark, but this time, he really can't do it .
It is probably really to whitewash the male protagonist. First, let him have an object of protection, and then another act of exterminating evil for protection. In this way, the word redemption is directly displayed.
Alas, do foreign countries also pursue righteousness like this? Or do the three views follow the popularity of the characters?
He was still a bad person before, although he was the one who was murdered, but later he did things that he shouldn't have done, far exceeding the standard of self-protection.
But when it came to the sequel, he picked up the little girl and raised it by himself, without saying right or wrong, and later "restricted" the little girl, which means protection and a little bit of preventing being discovered.
With the little girl, there will be follow-up conflict and protection, and there will be redemption.
But this setting was wrong from the beginning.
A girl fainted not far from the burning house. When a normal person met her, they would call the police to deal with it, but the male protagonist was not. He picked it up and raised it directly, and deceived the little girl that he was her father.
If you don't say what kind of people the little girl's parents are, this behavior is wrong.
So isn't it another bad thing?
Even if he was given an emotional source of "love and protection", he was given an emotional source that was broken at the root.
Totally speechless...
In the action scenes in the film, although the male protagonist's movements are neat and tidy as always and full of momentum, he can't stand the crowd of opponents.
This also means that it is impossible to fight in a house, fight in the dark, and generate enough suspense and excitement like the previous one.
The male protagonist looks more like an ordinary retired veteran (in fact, he is an ordinary person, even a blind person), and his fighting power is stronger than that of ordinary people, but it is impossible to be stronger than a group of armed young adults.
Still the same sentence, in order to clean up, there must be a villain with a higher force value and a more cunning and sinister villain, in order to bring out the "weakness" of the protagonist and "love and justice will never be defeated". How old-fashioned, alas.
The ending can be regarded as giving the male protagonist a better home.
From another angle, a person who has done bad things clearly knows that he has done bad things, and the guilt in his heart will only increase day by day until one day it completely overwhelms him.
The ending given by the movie, whether it is washed or not, is a response to the male protagonist's sentence "God is fair".
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