Life without choice (minor spoiler)

Zackary 2022-03-15 09:01:02

In a time and space where evil is rampant, how many can stand alone?

At the beginning of the movie, I couldn't agree with Coughlin's style, thinking that this is probably the kind of bad type, maybe to set off the hero. However, the plot develops and the past is calmly laid out. Coughlin's bad record may not only be caused by demons. What we see is the tragedy of a teenager who may only be slightly violent walking narrower and narrower on one of the few roads, hitting and dying at the wall at the end of a dead end.

The actions of the robbers are indeed violent and endangering the public. However, the curse of their parents, the pressure of their peers, and the threat of drugs and the underworld make it impossible not to feel compassion for them. The original intention of the director is not to subvert the audience's moral concepts and to defend the criminals. On the contrary, the movie shows more the helplessness of people living in the dark having to push themselves into desperation. In fact, both the robber and the police were ordinary people. The robber MacRay had the determination to go the right way for his love, and the astute detective had the unscrupulous side. Is the human soul superior or inferior? It's just that in most cases, the righteous party has a choice of justice, and the evil one has to make the wrong step.

When I watched the introduction, I felt that the heroine fell into the "Stockholm plot", a cliché plot that could not extricate herself from it. But after watching the dialogue between the male and female protagonist and Keesy's entanglement before and after knowing the truth in the film, I believe that the pure love between them is far greater than the pathological dependence. The portrayal of this love, in turn, enriches the image of the male protagonist. No one in the bad bones will give so much love, but he is dead but left a huge sum of money to allow other children to have more opportunities. If it were not for no choice, he would also engage in decent work and have normal love and marriage.

Sunny days will always be a pastime for people with infinite choices. For people who don't know when there is only one way to go, sunny days may hide more deaths, because the self-deception and inadvertent cruelty of justice people happen in their favorite sunny days. The significance of the movie may be to remind people who can do a lot of things to provide more opportunities for the invisible people, rather than just asking the sinner whether he is alive or dead in a humble way when it is irreversible.

There shouldn’t be too many spoilers...Every role of Jeremy is very brilliant, I really like it~

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The Town quotes

  • Doug MacRay: Alright. I'm in. But if anything happens to her, if I think anything might happen to her... I'm gonna come back here, and I'm gonna kill both of you in your own shop.

  • Fergus 'Fergie' Colm: Do I hear you got a sweet new girlfriend?