Jesse is a "Jiangyang Bandit" with a good marksmanship. It is obviously a "thief" not a "man", but in Ford's mind, he is a perfect "Robin Hood" reproduction. In Ford's 20 years of boring and boring youth growth stage, the story of robbing the rich and helping the poor is tantamount to a legend, which is extremely "lethal" in the market, attracting the envy and admiration of everyone. Coupled with the blind touts and fabrications of the local American newspapers, the Jesse brothers have become the "national idols" of that era. Such bravado made Ford gradually develop a sense of character identity, and he naturally began to worship this legendary thief who had never met.
A box of storybooks about "Idols".
A same-sex affection that has never been spoken before is smeared with the narration of the film for a long time.
When the inner anxiety builds up to a certain level, Ford is eager to continue writing a legend like Jesse. He couldn't wait to meet Brother Jesse. On the surface, he was careful with words, calm and euphemistic, but the rhetoric and childish boasting revealed his actual age. At 20, he was just learning to experience the warmth and coldness of human beings without hesitation. He longed to follow his "idol". "Being born and dying together, doing a great job.
He was so well-dressed that he gave a gushing speech to Brother Jesse, childish, arrogant, unbelievable. Fortunately, Jesse seemed to be in a good mood and took him down the door. He successfully took his first steps as a follower. So he lowered his visor like Jesse did, imitating his graceful demeanor when he walked, and observing his confidence and ease when talking about business. Ford was deeply infatuated with it and could not extricate himself. This stage can be described as the "honeymoon period" for the two of them.
Until Jesse gradually saw the forbearance, ambition and extraordinary restraint under Bob's young appearance, the sunny days came to an end. In the days that followed, Jesse's own violent personality began to attack, and he began to sneer and intimidate his former partners, intentionally or not. The purpose may simply be to satisfy an ego-inflated sense of self-esteem and authority. Jesse became more and more surly. On the one hand, he calmly killed his subordinates, just because of some "unwarranted" charges. On the other hand, his emotions were almost out of control, and he buried his face on the horse's back and cried. This intermittent disorganized personality made people around him start to fear him, including Robert Ford.
In another main story line, Jesse's subordinates are also unwilling to be lonely, tinkering with the bad things of stealing chickens and dogs, so that they fight with each other. Ford shot and killed Jesse's cousin to save his brother. As a result, the story began to go in a dramatic direction. Ford was worried about Jesse's questioning every day. He couldn't bear it. One day, the man he once admired avenged him.
He was cornered and had nowhere to go, so he thought of the gun on his waist.
Dogs will bite people when they are in a hurry. No one wants to live under the threat of death day after day.
He smelled Jesse's clothes and touched the pillowcase that Jesse had slept on, as if he was reluctantly saying goodbye to his "idol". Ford hardened his heart and ignored Jesse's seemingly innocent and innocent eyes.
With a shot roaring from the back, Ford personally killed his hero, the sharpshooter with a gun and horse who had truly leaped over the most youthful and idealistic canyon in Ford's heart. When waving away, leave Ford with a real and cruel world.
Ford began to walk on the stage again and again, repeating the last shot, his expression becoming more and more sinister, he used his innate talent for drama to show off, but the audience under the stage became more and more silent, until someone stood up and cursed. He was "a coward!" Only then did Ford understand what Jesse had said to himself: "It's all fake." The world was chaotic in Ford's eyes, and when he finally turned his head to face the jet-black barrel, the melancholy radiated from his face. And grievances are like sharpshooters - Jesse.
The story came to an end like this. Brad Pitt won the best actor in Venice with this film, and Affleck's performance was also extremely wonderful. The film itself is a successful fiction, in which the so-called legends and heroes are dissolved into a concentrated display of personality weaknesses. Just as living in this black society must require a set of wise survival philosophy, the rivers and lakes are sinister and people are frightened, and legends are just fairy tales for people to escape from the world.
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