The story is about a middle-aged man who was unemployed and divorced. He had nowhere to deal with the depression in his life. He finally broke out one day. From hitting people and not robbing things, to hurting people but not killing people, to killing people and putting them in a bag... It turns out that it is so easy for ordinary people to be criminals, but it is so terrible for ordinary people to be criminals.
The hapless Douglas played is forced to be a little abnormal, but what is even more abnormal is this society. Roads have been dug and repaired, prices have skyrocketed, businesses have cheated people, people around them are unreasonable, and the police have neglected to manage illegal acts... These phenomena, which have long been taken for granted by us, are reawakened by the protagonist's "awakening".
Duvall's cop is actually pretty much the hapless Douglas, who's about to lose his job, has lost a child, and his wife isn't normal. But he's not as sociopathic as Douglas, which shows that a repressed breakdown isn't the only way out. Of course, Duvall also made his own choice after solving the case. Since he loves this profession, he should continue to do it. After all, it is not a good thing to suppress himself too much.
The reasoning of the film is very good, but the plot is very general, and it all depends on the director's mastery of the rhythm and the camera. The most prominent is the traffic jam at the beginning. The things that everyone often encounters in their lives are told by the camera as a horror movie. Of course, the performance of the two Oscar-level actors is also very good, especially Douglas, whose resolute and hollow eyes make the film full of tension. The only thing I don't like is the ending of the film, which is a bit vulgar. If it can be improved a little more innovatively and profoundly, this is a real classic.
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