Killing for redemption

Micaela 2022-01-26 08:08:55

"It's fun, when you hear the phone ringing, it could be anybody, but you still have to answer it."

The distortion of the wide angle, the depression of the depression, the coldness of the colors, the sweat on the face of the hero Stu, was blocked. Dead streets, cold firearms in the hands of the police. Various elements in the film bring this pressing atmosphere to the extreme. And all we could hear was Stu's suppressed voice, the breath of death coming from a certain window through the telephone line. The sniper killer's voice was like a signal of dark death, beep, beep, beep. It was a trial of the soul.

The killer in the dark expounded his philosophy of killing with pride and self-righteousness. He seemed to be telling the world how wise and insightful he was in the world; he seemed to be doing the doomsday to Stu, who was shivering with sweat on the other end of the phone. trial. Dishonesty is the only way to die. Having said that, the ending may still be sacrificed with blood.

I have seen many types of killers, those who resolutely draw their swords for love, righteousness and affection, and those who are at a loss, those who fulfill their promises because of their promises, and those who continue to slaughter with blood and copper stench for the sake of money There are those who are loyal and good, and there are those who bleed because of national hatred and family hatred by Jianfeng. I still remember the tender moment of Leon with a big beard and a little girl in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", and I also remember the handsome face in "Daisy" who used silent love to eliminate the killing.

For such a killer of such a movie, I suddenly feel that I have some confusion in my outlook on life and values. I think most people, like me, will initially think the killer is right when they watch the movie, and think he is a hero who punishes the evil and eliminates evil. This is the value of the Chinese people all along. No matter whether this person is qualified or not, or that what he did is actually much greater than the sin of the person being punished, everyone still thinks that this way of doing things for heaven is very correct. But when I saw the second half of the film, when Stu followed the killer's instructions, sweat or tears, and when hesitant eyes spread firmness, I suddenly began to lose the yardstick of my judgment. I already don't want who wins and who loses, I just hope this "exciting" sniping and counter-sniping will end quickly.

It feels like reading a Nietzsche book, or the tangled Lelouch of the Rebellion. The comfort we can't get in the barren world, we can watch the scenery in the silent window, but we can also find the hole of the gun. The way we see the world, with eyes that may be bright and sometimes dull, with a kaleidoscope of eccentric colors and shapes, or with the handle in a movie that can be deprived invisibly The sniper scope of life trial human nature.

In that sniper scope, the killer saw the world we couldn't. He saw the inferiority in many people's hearts, and he could see everything he wanted from a situation that would never be discovered. He set up his gun on a tall building, but set his heart on the clouds in the sky. He sees himself as God, and sees as his own people those who may be aimless or cunning and flattering on the street, or whose eyes may be blurred and smug. He thought that the blessing in his hand and the glamorous look in his eyes could change this delicate world. Therefore, he despised those lives at will, precisely because he believed that those lives had lost the value of living because of their filth.
It was a gray sky that day, and the Manhattan neighborhood was full of people. Prostitutes, bosses, hammers, bullets. The gray and chilling air was tense and murderous. Everything from start to finish took less than an hour and a half. All thoughts and heaviness stayed at 10,000 feet in the sky, and everyone was waiting and mercilessly breaking into a cold sweat. And the killer's request seems simple, to be honest. Say what's on your mind.

As those of us who live in this secular world, we are actually very clear that the way of living like Stu's lies seems to be a skill that this society must have. We say different things on different occasions, we dare not touch topics that we shouldn't touch, we flatter authority and sometimes speak ill of people below. It seems that each of us is a woman in a traditional society. When you are a daughter-in-law, you will be humiliated and then become smooth. It will make you happy. When you are a mother-in-law, you start to flaunt your suffering as a natural price for growing up. younger generation.

I don't know how you feel when you watch this movie. If Stu should have been killed by snipers, we should all be spared. The killer lives in his own idealized world, and Stu tells the truth only to save his life. And such a truth, his wife is not angry with her, and the people are not too surprised.
Because this is the world.

When the minority and the majority are at odds, it is usually the minority who reflect on why they are not in sync with the majority. When the majority wins, they show off in front of the minority, and that's what happens when you don't follow everyone. And the majority did not care if they lost accidentally, because the minority must have paid an extraordinary price, and the wrong majority survived because the law does not blame the public. Stu is the epitome of each of us, and when he goes to trial, if the judge were us, and the law was made by us, he would be right, at least not guilty.

The killer hiding in the dark has done so much in vain, and even if it attracts the attention of the world, that kind of attention and reflection can last for a day, two days, or a week. The long river of people grows, the vast sea of ​​people, not every telephone line can lead to honesty. Not every phone line can change the past. The phone rang, we picked it up involuntarily, and started lying.

When the truth is only to save lives, it is difficult to calculate the weight of the soul that the bullet has passed through. The inquisitor with the sniper rifle pressed the trigger in vain, and then committed an even more unforgivable sin. Is it redemption or killing, perhaps in the face of such a world, only killing can be redeemed?

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Phone Booth quotes

  • The Caller: Stu, you just gave that man $10 to walk away and saved his life. You have human emotions after all.

  • The Caller: Looks like someone watches the news

    Stu: Who?

    The Caller: [laughs] The motel.