So, as an audience, what is our attitude towards professional killers? We affirm their humanity and lament the frustration of life, but we will also reject their careers internally. Just like the end of "Killer Leon", Leon fell at the junction of light and darkness. According to the logic of life experience, isn’t it the best and only acceptable result?
This film is also a story of a killer, young Ray and steady Ken, both of whom are employed by Harry. The film unfolds in a deep sound accompanied by the thick morning fog of Bruges, which is doomed to the gloomy tone of the film. In the development of the story, we learned that Lei accidentally killed a child in an action, causing him to fall into hardship. The child is an important part of this film, and its identity is the principle that the killers in this film uphold, a principle created by one person.
Bruges is the mausoleum chosen by the employer Harry for Ray. Because there are fairy tales, medieval legends, and various buildings. Obviously Harry's original intention was not suitable for Ray. Because time seems to be frozen here. Freeze frame, this setting prevents Lei from escaping from his wrong behavior, making himself often stay in the link of manslaughter. The surrounding images are not enough to compare with a dwarf. The dwarf not only attracted Ray's attention, but also brought a love. The setting of the dwarf is the highlight of the film. The dwarf has the sophistication and stupid thoughts of adults, but the image is no different from children. Finally, we also learned that the dwarf was accidentally wounded to the head, so Harry mistakenly thought that he had killed a child and killed himself with a bomb.
Not killing children is the principle of the killers in the story. If, as Ken said, Ray is still a child, then this principle does not hold. But Harry doesn't think so, I don't think almost everyone thinks so. This brings another kind of thinking, what is the definition of a child? Is it the image? Is it inside? Or blood relationship? These seem to be obscure things. He is just a principle, a rigid method for a killer to maintain his humanity. Harry loves all children, but children have to be adults after all. Is it just 18 years old? Yesterday, he was tolerant, and tomorrow he will kill? Ray also loves all children, his love is more real and emotional than Harry. In his long career, Harry has lost the meaning of love. He simply defines love above age, ignoring almost all true emotions. Above the church, he knew he could not chase Lei, but he still wanted to shoot Ken.
Ken is a middleman. He implicated Harry and Ray in performance, and played a helpless role in killing Ray. Internally, he is the judge of the story. He let Lei go, not simply because Lei was a manslaughter, nor was it because of their friendship, but in his heart that he thought Lei was still a child, and this was clearly reflected in his subsequent conversation with Harry. As a judge, he is reflected in every aspect of the story. He loves Bruges with a strong medieval atmosphere and is intoxicated by various religious buildings all day long, telling Ray about religious knowledge like a missionary. He likes the feeling of climbing to the top of the church, where he can overlook the entire city. In the day without fog, he saw the lonely figure of Lei wandering, and in the night with thick fog, he chose to die in a way similar to the son of God, thus reminding Lei. He dropped all the coins on the city under his feet. At the same time, Ken is a symbol of life-giving, just like the image of a father. With the knowledge he imparted to Lei, he can end Lei's life, he can awaken Lei's life, and he can let Lei go away. However, the best thing about the film is that although Ken was given a color of connection and religion, the two killers who came together eventually died.
The film does not have the killing scenes of the usual killer movies, and the number of shots is very few. In the slightly dull development, the three killers died almost at the same time. The killer has no holidays, only a self-determined principle, a principle with a large extension. Holiday, in Harry's view, is just an ordinary task, in Ken's view, it is a perfect enjoyment, and Ray is an absurd behavior. The final result of the three people was that Harry showed up because of the failure of the mission, died for the sake of principle, and was willing to get the comfort of the soul. He died without regrets. Lei Ben and life are meaningless. Although they are all death, the meaning is so different. The first protagonist of the film is Ray, so the story presented in the film tends to be absurd. Let's start with Lei's perspective, starting with Lei's self-report, and in the middle are Lei's repeated but absurd behaviors, including love, suicide, and escaping from Bruges and finally being sent back. Ken? All day long like a pious missionary, doing the act of detaching from the world, he finally arranged his clothes on the top of the building to prepare for a solemn and sacred death, but found that he did not die immediately after falling, and the final image in front of the camera was even more horrible. Where's Harry? It's even more absurd. I can't tell the difference between a dwarf and a child. For the sake of a principle, I hate to leave, and I will not hesitate. The principle is nothing more than a scam. This scam is an external manifestation of the killer's reservation of human nature, and there is no deep connotation of human nature. The killer just obeyed to obey. Holidays are also a scam. The content of this scam unfortunately includes the principle of a small scam. The final result can only be that the small is submerged in the big, and there is no prefix for the holiday. Natural death is the only result.
The script tension of the story is very good, the environment and character settings are very good, but the performance of the actors in this film is destined to not get a higher evaluation. Ray, this actor did not grasp the inner and outer performance of the character very well. Ken, the situation is less due to lens limitations, while Harry is too general.
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