Elena reads Benjamin's novel draft, and she is full of mixed feelings. Not in a hurry to communicate, she gestured with an empty coffee cup, and Benjamin hurried to cook. She stood up, looked around, and changed the subject to Benjamin's living room style. She stumbled across the "TEMO" (I'm afraid) on the note, which Benjamin hurriedly explained. But obviously, Elena's mind is not here. Rather than saying it was brewing before the storm, it was more restraint. Intellectual women, successful women, and professional women are mostly like this, not to mention Elena has both. Their self-esteem is above all else. They won't cry, make trouble, hang themselves, they may be sharp, they may be aggressive, that's because they have the ability to hit the nail on the head and seal the throat with a sword - perception and expression. "This is a novel, it's not necessarily true, or it's to be believed." Elena shrugged and started, but it was still a foreshadowing, and she still didn't want to rush to the pain in her heart. 25 years later, the pain has long since healed. If Benjamin doesn't come back, doesn't want to be a fulfilling retiree, and doesn't dig out an old case that is closely related to the two's old ambiguity as a material to write a novel, she'll probably be able to leave this scab and let it go. Weathered by time.
"Yeah...no, what? Unbelievable?" Benjamin was incoherent, apparently still focusing on his novel. In fact, when Elena's sword tip didn't push a millimeter in front of his Adam's apple, he still couldn't figure out the crux of the problem. Are all men like this? Playing stupid or really stupid? Play stupid! They always cover up their emotional greed and selfish nature with high-sounding reasons.
"Yes, Benjamin, this part, when this man goes to Jujuy..." She rummaged through this passage in Benjamin's novel, and then she simply threw away the manuscript and began to recite it, speaking faster and faster. , completely ignoring Benjamin's "What's the problem?" "How?" "What's the matter?", he went on his back: "She was heartbroken in pain, heartbroken in pain, running on the platform, chasing her dreams. The person. The hands of the two were attached to the window glass, as if they were one. She was crying, almost collapsed, just like she knew that she would live a life of mediocrity and never fall in love with others again. She almost fell on the rails, she gave away the love she didn't have the courage to admit..." Benjamin looked confused: "That's it! Isn't it?" Elena snorted hard and stared straight at it. This self-righteous old man, who thought he was getting older and more graceful, asked word by word, "If that's the case, why didn't you take me with you?" Benjamin was hit, his eyes slowly lowered, and his eyes were blinking, and it was painful. Kind of melancholy. The camera cuts back to Elena, who grimaces playfully and sticks out her tongue cutely, which means: I'm sorry, man, I'm embarrassing you. But she really loves him, because she sympathetically added two words: "fool".
In a short awkward moment, the two joked about how to write the novel next.
Love this scene to death.
Benjamin captures the murderer from old photos of the victim, simply by looking at the victim affectionately in photo after photo. After reading this paragraph, Elena said unfinishedly that she always felt that it was a bit crazy to confirm the murderer with photos. The proud Benjamin said confidently: "But his eyes tell everything, that's the key. He looks at her eyes full of admiration. Eyes, you can talk." Elena looked at Benjamin deeply. , Clearly said, you are so good at reading, why didn't you understand my eyes? No, it should be: Do you understand so well, do you know the way you look at me all the time? Benjamin really made her heart tremble when she saw, "Of course sometimes there is a lot of talk in the eyes, they should shut up," lowered his head and took a sip of coffee, "Sometimes it's better not to look into other people's eyes." came out.
In a 129-minute film, there are many such meaningful plots and performances, which are very worth pondering. The film's grasp and use of details, such as eyes, doors, typewriters, the letter "A", "He will live", etc., echoed over 25 years. The overturned photo frame was the heaviest load on Benjamin's heart, so it was saved for the last time to pry the boulder in Morales' heart. But the effect is clearly limited - Morales is only willing to make up a neat revenge story in return, hoping that Benjamin will be free. As for himself, "life will always stop on the day his wife was killed" - this is also an echo that spans 25 years.
Twenty-five years ago, Morales asked Benjamin what he would do with the killer if the case was solved. "Rape and murder, but he'll still be alive," Benjamin added. "We don't have the death penalty." "I don't approve of the death penalty either." Morales made a quick statement. He saw Benjamin's subtle confusion. "Will they rape him before killing him? No. They just gave him a shot and let him go like a nap. It's not fair. I want to change with him." Benjamin smacked the meaning in these words, and Morales said firmly: "Let him age slowly and let him live meaningless." It's like swearing.
Twenty-five years later, Benjamin stared blankly at the murderer in the cage and Morales outside the cage, "He will live." Morales reaffirmed the law, reaffirmed his attitude or oath. Benjamin knew that this is not another life, this is this one: the only, the only. Gomez, Morales, or Benjamin. Whose life is more meaningless than whose life?
"Please, tell him, at least tell him to talk to me..." The beautiful woman who had been infatuated with since childhood was tormented to death; the die-hard fan of the sports team was arrested on the green field in a panic; Betrayed by his eyes, he was defeated by Elena, a top student at Cornell University; the one who, thanks to the corrupt politics and dark justice, not only escaped sanctions, but also squeezed into the presidential guard; the one who loaded a magazine in a small elevator to intimidate Elena and Benjamin's rapist and murderer... was finally punished by a weak bank clerk and spent 25 years in private prison. Gomez murmured for a while before clarifying that plea to Benjamin. It was one of the few words he said in the past 25 years. If "speaking" is also a meaning of life.
Judicial inaction and misbehavior are always sacrificed to those lives or lives that should, can, and can be meaningful. If the evil is not punished and the good is not guaranteed, far more than the two extremes of evil and good will fall, and the vast middle area will be affected.
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