Summer has begun to heat up, and I often feel like I'm in the desert, often after a nap. Between this dream and the deep sleep, it was more like an illusion. I was in the small room where I was sleeping, and suddenly turned to the deserted desert. Maybe those cacti, those low desert shrubs, cast them on the brightest The shadow under the world is telling me how to return to the human world. It felt like something was falling from the sky, hitting the earth. "Kowalski, Kowalski." I seem to be calling his name again, maybe it's not me, but the blind black radio DJ, all the voices are from him, from his calling, From a strange interloper, a stranger, maybe a friend, maybe a hero.
When I thought about this again, I did sit up from the bed, and directly turned on the computer and woke it up from sleep, just like the vibration of the phone woke me up. How did I make a decision, how did I overcome the inertia in my life, and how did I open this document that had already written down its name, how did I knock on the first sentence - "Kowalski, Ke Waski." All I know is that what I'm doing now is exactly what I want to do, and what I've wanted to do. The title of this document is called "Vanishing Point", and it comes from a movie, which is itself the name of a movie, and I've thought about writing a review about that movie, but I've never been able to, because I don't know what to say and do about this movie, I don't want to simply repeat its story, or tell what he means, or whatever, so I put him aside and put that In the corner of the computer, near everything that has been discarded and forgotten, it makes people forget everything, but it is like the sweat evaporated from the body. where we live.
In fact, once in my life, I once asked this question: Why are there so many movies about highways in American horror movies? For example, in such a bridge, the protagonists drive to Accidentally interrupted or veering into a stranger, which kicks off a horror story that usually ends with being able to get back on the road. Therefore, whether it is the classic "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", or "Hitchhiker", "Deadly Bend", etc., most American horror movies have road elements in a certain sense, even in the "Ghost Man". In the beginning, it was also a group of people who drove to a certain place. How did the road element become popular in the world of horror movies, and it was shot repeatedly? Later, through other channels, I got a piece of valuable information, that is, in the United States, the driver's license held by them is almost equivalent to the status of an ID card. There is no household registration system in the United States, no matter whether you choose to be in this state or Going to live in other states is optional. Even for an object like a car, almost every American has it. Therefore, some people say that most of American life is on the road. Does a life on the road allow me to think that Americans may be a modern nomad? Regarding a free philosophy of life, when I go back to history and enter the long blurred river that flows from its origins, on the shadows of those vaguely recognizable but completely unfamiliar or another familiar light, perhaps say An image, one of the oldest, the megalithic human beings in the Land of Eternity, appeared in the depths of my consciousness. It is a solemn and quiet stone statue looking up at the starry sky or the end of the sea. It seems to be a kind of waiting or a spiritual projection to the far-off land. The so-called migration, perhaps human beings have never changed since ancient times.
Maybe I can still think in this frustrating summer to prove that I am alive and that the value of a person lies in his brain. Who is making people brain dead? "Kowalski, Kowalski." Why did I want to write a review about him in the first place? In fact, it is entirely a coincidence, or it can be said that it is driven by a desire. It can be said that many people have learned about this film in almost the same way as me. In a compilation film called "Grind House", the translation is called "The Mill", or it is also translated as "The Punishment Room". I went to see this type of film and the director. For a kind of Picture show about the Double feature, I found the excitement I expected in the second installment of Grind House called Death Proof. Regarding this film, the official translation is called "Death Proof", but I want to say that this is a very low-level translation error, at least I did not see the film at all and made the translation. This is the real meaning of what I intend to write. (I never intended to write a true film review, nor did I intend to do so). In any case, in this film, Death Proof also directly refers to the movie props that are specially used for car crash stunts. In this regard, the murder stunt actor Mike in the film also made a careful explanation. The cars used as props are professionally reinforced to prevent accidents during stunt shooting, so as to protect the personal safety of the driving actors or stand-ins, so it is also called "anti-death". That being the case, it is not a bad idea that this film is literally translated as "Death Prevention". Of course, as a free translation, another translation of the little-known "King Kong Immortal" can win the title (privately think that if it is translated as "King Kong Immortal", it may be It will be better), in short, it is better than the inappropriate "Death Evidence". It can be seen how little Chinese people know about Western films or modern film history, and this actually appeared in the official, open Chinese language In the translated name, it is conceivable that the anti-intellectual ideology and the current Chinese society's money-worshiping, hedonism, and blatant information blockade and solidified education have affected this country with the largest local area network and most of its citizens.
Speaking of this "Death Proof", the director said to the audience at the beginning: "I want to pull the longest urine in the world", the director even used the "longest urine" to describe his film. This shows that this film and his "Pulp Fiction" must be consistent in spirit, so this film will be more watchable and expected. Of course, for the audience who are exposed to such films for the first time, That really answers the phrase "the longest piss". An excellent director, his every shot, every arrangement of objects, every line, is by no means arbitrary, especially for a film made by director and screenwriter, this kind of The situation will be more obvious, more intriguing and more attractive to a special type of moviegoer, and the meaning hidden in the lens is usually completely hidden, and only "professional" moviegoers can read out most of the Secret content, so as to obtain a higher level of viewing enjoyment than ordinary audiences. This is like the appreciation of art. It is also a piece of work. An ordinary person will never experience the sensibility of a senior person to his work. Yes, even they would think it's totally unreasonable. Therefore, some things are destined to be only niche, because to enter that field, you must have a certain qualification, like a special skill, if taste is a skill, then it counts. And here, you may need a taste for bad taste.
Then, the director can freely mock the film as "urine", which of course also complies with the basic attributes of films like Grind House. In this work, which I think the director ranks only after Pulp Fiction, in one of the 7-minute long-shot scenes, the heroine Zoe's lines completely exposed that the film is ready to shake. The biggest burden is: "1970, 440-engined white 'Dodge Challenger'." And the most exciting scenes in the back also revolved around the white Dodge Challenger and stuntman Mike's Death Proof. . At the beginning of the film, the roar of the car engine suggested that this film is an unscrupulous road film, and in this final thrill and madness, chase and violent car chase drama, borrow Jin's sentence: "I'm the horniest prostitute on the road." G-spot orgasm to the fullest. And the clue I was looking for was in that white Dodge Challenger. In the film, through the mouth of the heroine, the director named the three road movies: "Vanishing Point" (1971), translated as "Vanishing Point"; "Dirty Mary Crazy Larry" (1974), translated as "Sprint Big" Dawn" and "Gone in 60 Seconds" (1974), translated as "60 Seconds". And the 1970 440-engine white Dodge Challenger came from this movie called "Vanishing Point", and the protagonist of this movie is called "Kowalski."
Anyway, I may have found it, The beginning, or one of the starting points, of American road movies, Vanishing Point. The official translation of this film is called "Bone Shattered". In 1997, according to the film's remake of the same name, it was also called "Vanishing Point", but the translation name was "Life Depends on the Sky". From the point of view of the storyline, "Break to Heart" is much more appropriate than "Life is at stake". Chinese translations are usually mostly made by translators who directly redefine it according to the story of the film, in order to achieve a certain "sound" purpose, ignoring the real meaning of the name of the film itself. When I finished watching this film, in order to make its name more in line with the theme to be explained in the film, I still called it "Vanishing Point", or this literal translation is its best interpretation, it is the director and All the screenwriter wants to tell us is the soul of it all.
In "King Kong Is Not Bad", director Quentin used the actor's mouth to say that "Vanishing Point" is the greatest movie in American history, and I might say one, but still affirm "the greatest", and even add The word "human". But for such a "greatest film in American history", it is so unpopular in China. I found out when I searched for the information and comments of this film, and in this process, I found a lot of The review of the film, for the understanding of the film, there has been a very large deviation, and even some logical errors, which is also one of the most important reasons for me to make up my mind to write a film review about this film, because The most precious thing I can't bear to see is left in the most desolate place. I think that for human beings, the distinction between nationality and ethnicity cannot cover up the essence of human beings, and we should not add the word United States in front of films that explore human themes.
warn! The following may contain serious spoilers.
The above paragraph is like a reminder to the audience at the beginning of the broadcast of a restricted movie, which is a kind reminder to warn friends who watch this article, but the following spoilers are not serious. Influence friends who haven't watched this movie yet, on the contrary, it will make you have a desire to watch it, want you to see for yourself what this is called the greatest movie, of course, this is never It will be a linear film review, I may break up its elements, or even mix in more things, so its story is still mysterious to you.
Vanishing Point, released in 1971. The UK version is 106 minutes and the Spanish version is 99 minutes. Director: Richard C. Sarafian, Screenwriter: Barry Hall/Guillermo Cain/Malcolm Hart. There are 3 screenwriters for this movie, which surprised me at first. Through some searching, I found that these 3 screenwriters are actually a little unknown. It can be said that "Vanishing Point" may be the best they have created. The script is up. The director can also say that this film is the best work he has ever shot in the history of film. In the 1960s and 1970s, he directed a lot of films that are very unfamiliar to the present. For Chinese audiences, it is almost impossible to find the information and images of these films. Even as an American, it is a Little is known. As far as Quentin himself is concerned, he said frankly through the mouth of the heroine in "King Kong Is Not Bad", that not many people have heard of the film "Vanishing Point" now, and the lost newcomers are overwhelmed by the trend of big commercialization. As a family, it can be said that this movie has really become a legend in the history of American cinema.
OK, how do we get into this film? Play the dice or play a game of Russian roulette to decide? If all the stories come from an inexplicable gamble, then Kowalski is one of them. Does this count as a good revelation? The reason for the motivation, or some people want to say, the universe was born only because God lost the dice and let it explode. The dice, this so-called random number generator, dare to say that everything we do is actually throwing the dice constantly, or putting the gun to the temple and pulling the trigger? Perhaps that's how miracles and what we call greatness come about. There's a little buzz in my head that there's a guy trying to break out of jail, and that's a red flag for me and what I'm writing.
The plot needs to jump, just like a movie cut, it needs something new to happen. When the robber pointed a gun at Kowalski's head, God was waiting to see if he could roll the dice again. When the robber said that you are really a silent person, you laughed and said that you have such a personality.
This silence is the tone of the film. There are very few lines. From the beginning, it is on the road until the end of the film. There is an endless desert on both sides of the road. It is always monotonous, barren, and the color of stone and dust. The world on this road is just like you. Kowalski, have you ever felt tired? As I wrote these words or recalled all kinds of things about the film, I remembered a similar feeling that I had read. In 1971, it has been more than 40 years since 2012. If 20 years old is a generation, it is almost two generations. I often wonder if I have lived a hundred years, maybe longer, when I read those The history that has long since passed, or the words that have already turned yellow, as if I was in that era, in that world. This situation is more obvious when I read some written works, and I often fantasize to the author rather than the story. Things in the world, when we spend real time to slowly finish, those all, about all the good, the pain, the sadness, the joy, the vicissitudes, and everything, they all come slowly, It's like a very slow fermentation, slowly getting more and more mellow, until the taste or smell can no longer be covered up, and it just comes to our lives. And when I read those stories, in those afternoons, or in the time when dusk came, I felt everything, the so-called life is alive, the gains and losses, all those kinds of things seem to converge in this very short time. In front of my eyes, it's like a slideshow, or it's so real that it feels like it's literally within my reach.
A voice said, let's roll out the map now. This is a map of the western United States magnified so many times that if it were to be laid on the ground, it would take up the entire living room. But what should be done next? The voice said, remember the song on the radio - "Where are we going from here?" "Yeah, where are you going from here? Kowalski said he would take the white Dodge Challenger from Denver, Colorado, to San Francisco, California (also known as "San Francisco" in the film). 16 hours (from 0:00 am Saturday to 3:00 pm Saturday), while in reality, the time limit employers require is to arrive on Monday. From the starting point to the end point, in addition to Colorado and California, there are also two large states, Utah and Nevada, which are equivalent to spanning the distance between the central and western parts of the United States. If the straight-line distance between these two places is replaced by two place names in mainland China, it will be roughly close to the straight-line distance from Chengdu to Shanghai (about 1,500 kilometers), but this is not very accurate, it is only a very rough Measurement. I wanted to use Google Earth to actually accurately measure the actual route distance on the interstate between these two cities in the United States, because the actual distance will be longer than the straight line distance, so as to calculate the actual average speed of Kowalski, (Because I think, even if the film is 40 years old, but for interstate highways, it is equivalent to China's national highways, generally speaking, it will not change much.) But I finally gave up, because It's also not accurate. (If you follow Google Earth's suggestion, in order to avoid the vast mountains west of Denver, you may have to detour from Wyoming in the north to Utah in the west, then the route will be longer.) In addition to the error of the route, the time also becomes A vague notion that in the movie, Kowalski is actually not far from San Francisco at 10 a.m. on Sunday, if nothing but lost time in the Nevada desert and other things, Kowalski The average speed on the base road is still difficult to calculate.
Stop! gentlemen. A movie review can't be written like that. The voice exclaimed, if you're going to write something out of the ordinary, that's not okay. It's so tedious that no one will remember it, not even you.
This rascal has finally done it, and he'll pop out of my head every now and then, and sometimes he'll just evade what I've written, and tear it to shreds or burn it, destroy, It's his usual tactic, malicious graffiti, and obviously he's started to do it. He's unruly, like a beast, and his terrifying thoughts and ideas often catch me off guard. I have to be protected and reserved, or I'll be ruined for nothing. Every time he shows up there is a kind of madness, a kind of hysteria, I should stop him, wait, it doesn't seem like I have time yet.
Thinking needs a little jump, or you'll lose your inspiration, a poem about bad taste. Trick or treat guy? Well, I don't like the title. Every movie has to have a traditional villain, right? Batman and Mr. Joker, of course I mean Mr. Jack Nicholson, Tim Burton must have fallen in love with him, you need a little "snap" and he'll teach you how to do it of. I think the deformed penguin in the sewer is not bad, so why bring an umbrella in such a cold and disgusting place? Cleanliness didn't come in handy at this time, and certainly not now.
The film you're talking about is so dull, sir, as dull as those bare background colors, lifeless, and your words are so affected by it that the reader will fall asleep. Why not talk about the obvious gay theme between the robbers? You are deliberately turning a blind eye. Many movies have exaggerated this theme. This is a subject that can be "exploited". Sometimes, we have to "exploit" it properly, so as to have better box office and attendance. "A lot of spectators queue up before buying tickets." "For them, life is a queue." And, of course, I could add another story about a series of bizarre bed murders solved by Sicilian men in New York Science fiction story, to explain it to you, but I don't want to expand this too wide just yet. Life always needs a little fun, as some people say, people live, is to wait for something to happen.
The point of talking about this movie is that it's so boring. Even the director himself said that in the end, the reason why Kowalski did this was entirely because he thought he would magically pass through the middle. I can only say that this is a typical state of excessive drug use. Before, didn't he ask the hippie for a little drug to boost his spirits? The deleted title "An Gongzi", in the last two minutes, he must have swallowed the rest. Some people actually say that this state is like Socrates? Historians must be mistaken, he must have been on something when he died, otherwise he would not have walked away with such a smile.
There are still many interesting things. The subtitles team has exhausted almost all the song titles and sources in the film, except for the song in the hippie section, which is called "Mississippi Queen", translated as "Mississippi Queen", the band Mountain, California, can be translated as "Big Mountain Band", and this is the first song from the album called "Climbing!" published in 1970. In 2005, Ozzy Osbourne sang it on an album called "Under Cover". Mountain is a hard rock band, and Kowalski has since entered the era of hard rock.
Yes, in the era of hard rocking, many people must have selectively forgotten this story, or have never heard of it at all. I said that the Chinese people need a revolution in the spirit of rock and roll, but now the best time has been missed. Now rock and roll is like a pile of Shit, and it is just a word for Shift. Shit. Now, the Renaissance is the journey China should really go through.
"Mississippi Queen" isn't the point itself, it's about the "naked knight" who devotes herself to the music, who doesn't wear sunscreen and who is warned by doctors that she must have skin cancer. This is one of the highlights of this film. The locomotive queen who appeared naked, the director carefully "photographed" her. It's not unartistic, and I'm more than sure she asked the director to do it, because she's a costume designer in addition to being an actress. The concept of the queen's new clothes is really advanced. In the concept of clothing design in the 1970s, this religious philosophy of "color is emptiness" was implanted. For her, it's a new practice that incorporates Carnegie's self-promotional business tactics, presumably with a deep understanding of her audience's weaknesses. In 1971, "Nude Rider" appeared in a total of three films, and "Vanishing Point" was one of them. This kind of dragon role as a passerby leading a lunch box can be said to grab the attention.
Someone seems to be about to ramble on this again. What does the simultaneous appearance of nudists and hard rockers and hippies indicate? This was Kowalski's penultimate realization before his death. Here, he has entered the era of hard rocking, which is the new era of the world at that time, brand new, defying all the rules and models of the old era, and even abandoning the old morality. I can also think that Kowalski at this time is the age of nakedness, the nakedness of consciousness and thought. You can say and do whatever your nature wants to do, just as the "naked knight" directly makes sexual demands to him. The unity of man and nature, for Kowalski, may evolve into a realm of unity between car and man.
I have reasons and a little ability to stop him, and it seems to have had a little effect. This effect must not be so good for him, but I have to put him to sleep. As I continue to return to this topic and this story, I would say that this might be a good start to a twist. When I think about it in my life, or at work, it becomes part of my body. My own job is very simple, just like being on an island. This restaurant has four floors. The top is a tea house, and the bottom is a restaurant and various private rooms. I am on the top, and that bar is where I move. center. I'm like a man exiled or drifted to that desert island, Robinson? Or the defeated M. Bonaparte? Here, I can still get fish food, and there is an artificial circular fish pond outside the rooftop, where I go to exile my soul every day. There is also such a small island at the bottom, and I occasionally wander to that island, but in short, they are the same. To me, there is no fundamental difference between these two small islands. They are both reefs and coasts. Like the set you see all the way from Colorado to California.
Sometimes we get lost on the road too, as I see on the faces of everyone I see on the street, maybe this is what we call the Nevada desert. In fact, the occasional loss is not something we actively ask for, but is forced by various external influences. Maybe I should change the word, is this a kind of spiritual resistance? We can get sick and inject antibodies before the threat, or "germinate". Take some pathogenic pustule fluid, use a lancet to make a small incision on the surface of the skin, insert an appropriate amount of pus, and then wait for mild onset and infection until the body's immunity fully recovers, we will treat this disease. Disease creates permanent immunity. That's what we did against the deadly smallpox before we got cowpox, and we're doing it because we don't know when and if cowpox will appear in the future. In the face of spiritual danger, we enter the lost world of that desert. The occasional painful experience is to create an experience against the coming of greater pain. Perhaps when I, too, enter the Nevada desert, I will resist those well-meaning counsel.
Our intestines are a connector used to connect the relationship between the entrance and the exit, and perhaps it can also be used to interpret the meaning between the beginning and the end of our life, which is a journey of absorbing and producing waste. But we don't realize anything in it until we sense something strange, when the desert dust rolls up, when the low bushes huddle up, when we find our footprints ahead, People can finally be aware of, lost, has come unknowingly.
"Release the snakes and scorpions." We don't need them anymore, God released the devils. The meditator said that music is everything for spiritual healing, and proper joy can make us rediscover ourselves, or get closer to the embrace of God. Maybe they should belong to this desert. This is their living space. When Kowalski met this group of people, they said they were "Pentecost". Of course, this is the most secret information. . A hypocrite who hangs a cross, he needs to give others a rebuilding of the faith. This is a kind of spiritual placebo, which is sometimes useful for ignorant patients, at least in pretense. Sometimes, people really need a fulcrum, whether it is true or false, the important thing is that it will not make us drain, and will not let us die prematurely. Being alive is more important than being dead. Who would take the initiative to choose to die? Maybe military service will force you. In order to weaken its horror, people invented the lottery system. But Kowalski says it's more than that.
He said he needed gasoline. And we, might say, let life go on. "Vanishing Point", it means, according to perspective, the farthest end of the road that can be seen when driving, and the farthest point is called "Vanishing Point", which is "vanishing point" . A driver can never get away from that point of view because it is right in front of you. Each of us is on the road, and the scenery outside the window is desert-like and monotonous. Like my own life, my commute to get off work seems to have become a typical road movie. Close the door, go down four floors, turn a corner, go down two flights of stairs, and reach the gate (the camera can follow my feet all the time), there is a sidewalk outside, next to a noodle shop (not many people), on the right It is a small shop (the owner's son is staring at the computer in it), directly opposite the two-lane road is a restaurant (used to be a hotel), surrounded by many trees, like a tropical rain forest, where you can eat, or use women, or A little more tropical twist dance, feet on the sand, surrounded by people with drums and beats, baskets overflowing with fruit, and some bugs throwing carnival parties on it. Every day I waited for the car on the sidewalk facing it, without having to take another step, the next actions were coherent: waving, getting in the car, and putting in coins. Continuous, exact, more accurate and faster than the conditioned reflex of a frog carcass. Then I just spend 30 minutes on the road, plus a few other bells and whistles, and that's enough for one road movie a day.
Kowalski was also a man who had a woman, and this was his third-to-last realization before his death. She died, at least, he allowed her to do so, she was going to challenge the giant waves, and then the giant waves took her away selfishly. This section of the image is too beautiful, morning or evening? No one knew that the shades of this hazy orange life, with a touch of fantasy, made death itself seem like a part of love. The process of passing away is romantic and impressionistic here, just like Monet's capture of light and shadow. Life, how often is free, perhaps stepping on a surfboard on the most dangerous edge, will have some slight feelings. Maybe the life that yearns for freedom is actually not happy. Kowalski used to be a racing driver, but he always failed, always fell on the track, more cruel than some people who fell after winning the championship, because He never got the glory he deserved. What can only be the end of the loser in the arena? Can only be abandoned, called up for military service, to experience life and death on the battlefield of Vietnam, to be injured, to kill, or to be killed, to become disabled or a murderer, or the sharpened teeth of a headless horseman, but he , survived, won the Warrior Medal, and entered the police station after retiring. He was excellent, and he was promoted to the first-level detective twice, but the final outcome was the arrival of Hugo's miserable world: because he prevented an old police officer from The sexual assault of underage girls finally brought it to an end, framed and slandered, made unwarranted charges in court, and finally expelled from the police force representing the guardians of justice and justice. Since then, Kowalski has entered the lowest point of his life, but he still remembers that in the deepest part of his soul, he said he was a driver.
Yes, I have gone around this world a long way, and let go of the false name that I once had on myself, no longer a soldier, no longer a policeman, no longer the name that is not his everything, he only needs him The only label of life - the driver. He thinks that's what it's all about, he can finally be a driver again, but it's not the race driver he used to be, he's a car stunt team, a part-time car delivery worker, and he spends all his time chasing life speed. He hits the road at midnight without even having to sleep. This is a high-intensity life-burning speed that gives him a sense of being alive. This reminds me of a new song "Born to Fail" by the heavy metal band "Motorhead" from the British New Wave era in the 1970s. I was thinking, how many people in this world are born losers, maybe I shouldn't Readers reveal the truth, but that's cruel. I remember the old days when I was in college, all the past, all the past, but this is the truth. But what's interesting is that the album of that song is called "The World Is Yours".
The world belongs to the born losers. Maybe some readers will be moved to tears here, because when I write here, I can't help but feel a heroic sadness. Freud said, this is called empathy, the projection of the mind, between the reader and the author, between the audience and the film, between Kowalski and the world, those huge stone statues on the seashore looking into the far land, slowly. Slowly, there is a feeling of slowly sinking, is that a dream again? Or that little tidal ripple under the night sky from an endless ocean of unconsciousness?
Another voice in my head told me not to be so sad. Would you like to play a little word puzzle? Or wait and play? He said I had forgotten an important story, and while I was lying on the map that took up the whole living room, he said there were still some secrets. I lay on the ground, like a corpse, opened my eyes, those yellow lines and paths, is it a yellow brick road? The road of gold and silver to the Emerald City, or the horrifying dark path of strangers? When my fingers rubbed the yellowed paper, those messages and symbols emerged between the fingers, between the dust, such as parchment scrolls. That place is called Cisco. San Francisco, alias San Francisco, transliterated San Francisco, the full name is San Francisco. And Cisco happens to be its San Francisco suffix.
A game for crossword lovers, will decryption become the process of opening the gates of hell? Mr. Cliff Barker once told us the answer to this question, of course, very covertly. Kowalski's English name is Kowalski, and the "Super Soul" channel hosted by the blind broadcaster is sent by the KOW wireless base where they are located. Regarding these two points, if you are careful and keen enough, you will find that KOW is actually the first three letters of Kowalski. Is this a special connection? Yes, Kowalski is a super soul, at least that's what the director really wanted to say. Black DJs called Kowalski the last hero of America, and compared the chasing police cars to Nazis, "they went to capture him without hesitation to destroy him, to rape the last beautiful spiritual fortress", he said. Kowalski's throwing off the police siege is likened to the Hobbit breaking through the specter of the Lord of the Rings.
When I think back to these, I remember that I still have this set of books in my bookcase. The translation of this book was done long before the filming began, and I don't know why I learned about such a book in the first place. I must say that I was attracted by his name, and the black cover and the engraved Cursed Ring. It's past midnight now and I want to finish this today, but I'm sleepy, I want to fall, I want to escape to sleep, but I want to hold on, at least for myself. "Kovaski, Kowalski." I called his name, there were still many words to say, many things to write, but another voice was slowly awakened at this time, he slowly Coming from the depths of the shadows, he looked at me completely different from before, at my soul, at a poor body lying in a pool of blood, with nothing around, not even a spotlight. , only the bleak, feeble breath of life.
He said to me, don't you want to write a novel? "Rock, Cannibal and Truth" or "Cholera, Rock, Cannibal and Truth"? Maybe I can help you, is this 3 stories or 4 stories? I said, that might be 4 stories, but maybe a little too long. You said it didn't matter, you'd help me get it done together, at least as expected. I said, I'm tired and want to end this review. You said yes, you will give me an ending, you ask me, do you remember that map? In my drowsiness, I touched the yellowed map with my hands again, I remember my fingers, those paths and lines, I followed that line, looking for it.
Cisco, this Kowalski's final destination, but it's not really the end, maybe it's not the so-called findable point at all. Cisco, on the last trip, is in California, a small town near San Francisco. The director said he died right there. But I don't know which one is the real one in California, there are too many places named Cisco. In the film, it exists as a small town in California, but in reality, it was actually filmed in Utah, near the border with Colorado.
This is an abandoned ghost town, belonging to an old western railway town, a barren and monotonous world, and the train in the film is the real scene of the local. Now, except for some local workers, no residents have settled here, and there are abandoned car wrecks everywhere. The name of the place is also called Cisco. Is this just a need for location selection? When I stared at this point carefully, it seemed to be disappearing, just like its own barren fate. The 40 years have not changed much here. I still seem to see the scene in the 1971 movie: two giant bulldozers crossed the road. next to. They were waiting as if something big was about to happen.
The last realization before death. When Kowalski sped to Cisco and saw that there was no way out, he turned the car around and fled. This may be the police decided to give him a final duel here, helicopters in the air chasing Kowalski, side-by-side police cars took the final retreat. With nowhere to go, the Dodge Challenger smashed through the roadside fence and, as was the case in Nevada, went into the desert. Is only the desert the destination of eternal escape? Perhaps desolation is the resting place of freedom? On the edge of a rubble of cars, Kowalski stopped. He opened the door and stepped out. He stood beside the abandoned patina and stroked its dead bones with his hands. It is the grave of life, the mass grave, and I don't know how many people have read this scene, this last comprehension. He has to choose a way to die, how he made this decision, how to overcome the fear in life. With a slight smile on his face, he went back to the car, back to the way he came, back to the point in front of him that was always waiting for him, at full speed.
At this moment, how much I hope that the final ending is just an illusion, perhaps an illusion of the audience, I hope he can go away forever, but the movie tells me that it is the real ending. "The Last Hero," "Beyond Myself," nothing stops when the black DJ senses something and spit out that "stop." Appeared in the middle of those two bulldozers, that was the light of dawn on the horizon? Or the hallucination that Kowalski saw? I think of "The End of the Wild Flower" and the cliff with no way out. A story in which the soul is sublimating and finally annihilated, perhaps it is not called annihilation, but should be called "final free flight".
Pulling the trigger to the temple, Kowalski did what he said. There was an explosion and all the music stopped abruptly. In slow motion, the hood of the car's engine is blown off and then falls to the ground. "Nobody understands", like many people.
everything is over. He said, he forgave me, he gave me this ending. Sometimes bad taste can be good taste. I compromised him, he arranged the end of this film review, and I had no choice.
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