The sad and desolate Sean Penn continues the tragic role in Mystic River. He is dying of heart failure and is waiting for a new heart. His wife hopes to have a test-tube baby with him. Their relationship is not harmonious.
Watts had been indulged in nightclubs, and when she was returning to a normal sweet life, her husband and two children were killed by a car (later her husband's heart was donated to Sean Penn). The miserable Watts has since become more and more sinking, and he has begun to immerse himself in nightclubs and take drugs.
The one who killed the Watts family was De Toro, a reformed gangster and burglar. He admired Jesus infinitely and devoutly, and even placed the statue and cross of Jesus in the car, and listened to the broadcast of the Bible. He works for the church, educates the delinquents in the community, takes his family to church every week, and teaches his children with the Bible...with a paranoid attitude, he does what he thinks God asks him to do, hoping to be redeemed . He went to work and was rejected because of his tattoos, while his elderly wife worked as a waitress in a small bar, and they had two children and lived in poverty.
De Toro fled the scene after hitting the Watts family, only to turn himself in when he learned they were all dead. While in prison, he was so guilty that he attempted suicide and later refused to see the sale of the car to pay the attorney's fees. He got his wife out of prison... After returning home, he quietly left home late one night, and later worked in a motel, living a life of self-imposed exile.
Sean Penn found out the owner of the heart through the relationship, and tried his best to communicate with Watts. Sean Penn wanted to repay Watts, and Watts felt that he had received a long-lost care... Two people who had lost their enthusiasm for life, walked together. They later found De Toro at the motel, and Sean Penn yelled at De Toro and told him to leave the motel - he forgave De Toro. De Toro went to Sean Penn and Watts's room at night and begged them to kill him... In the panic, Sean Penn committed suicide... At the end of his life, he said that human life is only 21 grams, The weight of a coin, the weight of a hummingbird...
The story begins with an accident, the fate of the three families begins to be sad, and the three characters also embark on their own different destiny paths. Sean Penn, who has changed his heart, is still lonely, Watts begins to fall again, and De Toro blames himself. into self-imposed exile. Everyone lives in grief and suffers from the misfortune that life has given, and the last three have a violent conflict, Sean Penn's life is over, and the rest, like the line that appeared several times in the movie: "Life has to go on", so De Toro cut off his long hair, shaved his beard, and appeared in front of his family with a radiant face...
Life has to go on, even if there are surprises in life, life is full of sadness and seriousness .
The director has injected too much life and humanistic thinking into this film, and carefully arranged the plot. Many flashing scenes have their own specific meanings, which makes the interpretation of this film complicated and diverse (we will discussion can continue). The film uses a lot of splicing techniques to break up the entire storyline, and then reassemble it to create a kind of suspense, which plays a good role in rendering emotions and improves the viewing experience of the film. This is a movie in which every character is heartbroken. The director has put a lot of effort into the character's image performance and inner portrayal, so that almost everyone's performance is wonderful (this is also due to the performance of the actors), even the Sean Penn's wife and De Toro's wife, who are not much in the camera, will be seen every time they appear, this is a woman with a sad heart. Especially Watts, her every action, expression and words vividly express the helplessness and hysteria of a sad and desperate woman. This can't help but remind me of Ingmar Bowman's Cries and Whispers, both of which are equally successful in deeply deconstructing the characters' hearts. And De Toro, who looks a bit like John Travolta, and even a bit like Brad Pitt, in the show's panic, calm, self-blame, paranoia, extreme inner contradiction, and a kind of The redemption of egoism is equally shocking and sad.
A good director, a group of good actors, a good script, a good movie.
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