It's a bit hard to understand for me

Dasia 2022-03-22 09:01:10

I haven’t read the original work. It’s not easy to understand the specific story of the original work. However, in the movie, the plot is a bit simple, and the connection of some events is far-fetched, or that is a perspective, but there is no necessary connection.

In the end, I didn't understand what the theme of this movie was.
The plot is completely divided into several parts. First, the childhood period of the three main characters only gave a scene about abduction, which is very detailed, but there is no substantive content. Regarding the child’s sexual abuse, there are only some symbolic shots. The most important part uses the simplest shots. In the plot behind the film, the flashes of childhood are actually very empty, to me. The feeling is that the protagonist’s adult life is not closely related to childhood in the movie. Moreover, the intermediate time span is too large, and the subsequent incidents are also too abrupt.

From childhood, there is no excessive, the three people have their own lives, have their own lives, but this part is too simple.
For example, I would be interested in knowing what happened to them in their lives that gave them their current living conditions, but the film did not involve these.
If a person has robbed, been in jail, or murdered, he must be reported, no more.
A man has a wife who is awkward, no more.
Another dull life, gone.

Human growth is a complicated process, let alone three men who are about to enter middle age. This is not a matter of a car.
Who the hell dare to say, I have only encountered one hurdle in my life in 30 years!
In the film, the child who intends to elope with the dead girl vowed to express his sincerity, but child, life has just begun, and it is not only about a woman.

There are countless accidents in the world, but who knows how to be accidental if it is not so unexpected, the cause is all clouds, and the final decision is the result.

So only from the results, the person who committed the crime for the woman killed the wrong person.
Then the story is gone.

For me, this is nothing more than that. I don't see more things. Don't make excuses. The incident is not necessarily connected. Don't fucking pull out Hitler's story, do you mean that your daughter died of Hitler's mother without an abortion? What shit logic!

I'm just curious that the police didn't investigate the murderer. This is really hard for me to understand. I don’t know if their leisurely state had any connection with Hitler’s mother in the end. I was really surprised by such an ending. It does not mean that I can accept such an ending.

Give a little bit of logic, and give a reason. Why is this?
Pursuing an unexpected ending, but ignoring the basic logic, at least for me, a reasonable explanation is more important than chaotic involvement. In short, it is not very satisfied.

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Extended Reading
  • Bette 2021-10-20 19:00:25

    This is the difference between meat eaters and vegetarians. Dave, who was taken away as a child, was a marginal man who lived far away, and the gangster did not, or did not dare to take away Sting’s head Jimmy and Sean on this street. Only the weak-character Dave was taken into the car. Everything seems to have been doomed. The murder case just lifted the long dusty veil. It’s a thorn or a thorn, a street man or a street man, Dave is still the Dave who can’t help himself in life, everything Both got worse. Jamie and Sean never sympathized with Dave. They just used this to celebrate their luck and pay attention to the misfortunes in their lives. It was only a high-key and a low-key. After Dave's death, the only thing that changed was that he no longer had to pretend to remember Dave as a child, leaving only Dave's stupid wife calling the child's name over and over again.

  • Gretchen 2022-03-23 09:01:12

    Eastwood at his best, as a director.

Mystic River quotes

  • [after the hockey ball rolls into the gutter]

    Young Dave: I guess I don't know my own strength.

    Young Jimmy: [Sarcastically] You know, Dave, that must be it.

  • [after Dave comes in with blood all over him]

    Dave: So, I'm walking to my car, and this guy comes up to me and he asks for a light. I say I don't smoke. He says neither does he. So, my heart starts clocking a buck fifty, 'cause there's no one around but me and him.

    Celeste Boyle: [Celeste sits to bandage his stomach] Oh, my God.

    Dave: So that's when I see the knife. He says, 'Your wallet or your life, bitch. I'm leaving with one of 'em.'

    Celeste Boyle: That's what he said?

    Dave: Yeah! So I try to brush past him, and that's when he slices me.

    Celeste Boyle: I thought you said that you swung on him first.

    Dave: Jesus, Celeste, can I tell the fuckin' story?

    [She realizes now that he's crying]

    Celeste Boyle: I'm sorry, babe. Ssshh.

    Dave: I went fuckin' nuts on him, baby. I went off! I bashed his head on the parking lot. There was blood everywhere, and I might 'a' killed him!

    Celeste Boyle: Killed him!

    [She sees that he's sobbing and stands up to hug him]

    Celeste Boyle: Ssshh.

    Dave: It makes you feel alone, you know, hurtin' somebody?