The film also has another translation titled "Alternative Saints". It is true that the name itself is a gimmick, but compared with the point of view conveyed by the film, it is not worth mentioning. In fact, the plot of the story is very simple. The two gangster brothers, who are idle and spend their time, because of an accident, survived the bloody conflict with the Russian gangster, so they decided to rely on their own efforts to fight the wicked with violence. In the end, even the police authorities Acquiesced and even sided with them... Ignoring the logic and flaws in it, this kind of movie with violent aesthetics is actually worth watching. There are many "Kill Bill" or "Snatching" of the same type. The saving grace, but the incomprehensible thing about The Executioner, is that the director himself tries to make a personal point of view without distinguishing it from the film itself, which ends up being a joke.
The original intention of the film seems to be to criticize the inaction of the government authorities and the judicial system, because they make it difficult for justice to be done, and the wicked do evil without being punished, so there is a situation where the two brothers play Robin Hood and punish the wicked, but the same as the general " Different from "Knights", the protagonists of the film are not high-level figures. While implementing their so-called justice, they have not thought about how they define justice, and even their psychological activities during this transformation process are It was abrupt and unconvincing. Justice is more of a bullet to them than a reason to shoot. The prayers the brothers recited before killing the wicked, and the act of placing coins on the eyes of the corpse, are more like labeling the characters rather than deep shaping, so after watching the whole movie, it gives people the feeling Just empty. The first half of the film is still neat and rigorous, but in the second half, the police detective who had been observant and ambitious until now changed his stance so easily, broke free from the law, and helped the brothers to enter the court in a grand manner. Threatening judges and killing people in public is just to promote "justice". If the director is still trying to pretend to be a lady in the first half, then the second half is like he simply ripped off the decent dress and devoted himself to a person's carnival.
In the final analysis, the film's conception of "justice" is too vague. It not only negates the traditional laws and institutions, but also cannot find a suitable reason to replace it with the role of individuals. In this way, justice becomes nowhere to be placed. The castle in the air is just a false name. As for the protagonists of the film, I can only say that their marksmanship is accurate, their movements are cool and manly, but they cannot see the so-called justice.
The street interview at the end of the film is very intriguing. The reporter interviewed the public's views on the actions of the two brothers. Some people support it. I wish the brothers could stay at large until all the "bad guys" were killed; some people scoffed at this: "Who gives The power to take away their life and death?" Some people worry that ordinary people will also be implicated by innocent people; The people who gave these kinds of answers were of different skin tones and from different social classes, and they were either enthusiastic, disdainful or frightened when they answered, but they were more real than the original film.
Compared with such a swing, I prefer Nolan's "Batman", where the justice appears much purer. In the world of movies, sometimes, the more difficult it is to express, the less ambiguous it is to express, otherwise it is easy to lose interest.
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