First of all, this is the first time I write a film review, and the angle is also very unprofessional, I hope it will not cause controversy.
I think that this film does not have too many filmmaking methods, but is more like a documentary in rural Mexico. It gives a feeling of insecurity caused by insecurity (although the protagonist does not have the obvious unease on the surface). It makes it easy for people in developed or moderately developed regions to think of the past, a certain period before development - more about social issues. At some point, there is a look at the past (there are, of course, some societies that have never been so chaotic).
It may be that the post-90s have lived in an era of very good social security since birth, so it may be difficult to resonate with the insecurity of the protagonist of this film. I remember that in the 1980s, there was still a period when the law and order were not very good, and then it got better and better, until it became difficult to hear the occurrence of vicious criminal cases at a certain time in the 1990s. Before that, there were gangsters in the city. Those gangsters are not like the little gangsters or some bullying guys now, those are gangsters, they will do gang fights, kidnappings and even murders. Be careful when you go out at night. Some couples were killed and their bodies were dumped in the suburbs... So when the male pig's foot blew a tire and was walking on the country road, it gave me the feeling not of tranquility but of worry, don't let anything happen. Because the law and order in the place where the story takes place seems to be bad, as if there were hints ahead.
Back to insecurity. The more developed a society is, the more organized and disciplined it seems, and the fewer the blank corners of social security will be. And like in this film, the protagonist's home is a "blank spot for social security prevention and control" (it's too awkward to call it that, but it's good to understand). Bad guys can come at will, and after the father of the pig's feet was killed, if his wife returned late at night, no one in the neighbors would know. It's just such a corner where no one cares if something goes wrong. I don't know why (I just read it roughly, there must be some foreshadowing), but I felt it not long after the story started. I always feel that it is too unsafe to go back at night. Maybe it was not long after the beginning, the male pig's feet suggested that he would carry the bicycle into the house when he got home. At that time, I was still thinking that even if I had to carry a bicycle in, the security must be very bad. Then I heard the crisp sound of the door closing and realized that the door was too fragile and it was easy to break in. And sure enough, the part that kicked the door when Badran came in later was more terrifying, and the door was kicked out of shape. Another place is that when the male pig's feet confessed in the car of the female police officer (prosecutor?) at night, there was a faint light of a car in the distance, gradually approaching, which made people very worried. Because if it's those bad people, there's basically nothing that woman can do. This is also a point, that is, the two official figures of men and women can hardly play a role in stopping evil forces.
This film gives a real scene, a relatively loose and underdeveloped society. Their security forces (it can be said that they can be increased) still have many things they can't take into account, and they can't fully protect their people. Therefore, when burning drugs, officials have to speak to everyone, so that everyone can believe that the official can do things for everyone. Therefore, the male pig's feet presided over the justice by himself, not by the two official people.
In a society where evil people can run amok and no one dares to speak out, and good people do not fully control the situation, purely from the perspective of social security, people in developed or moderately developed economies have experienced it in the not too distant era. Perhaps that's why this film was submitted to the festival, reminding everyone of a time before, the feeling of insecurity we've all experienced (at least a partial coincidence). Of course, that feeling of insecurity is not particularly serious enough to affect daily life. It's just that in that era, there were a lot of helpless things. For example, you were very careful, but once you encountered a bad guy, you were finished. There are very few safety precautions for individuals, and with bad luck there is no way to avoid it.
In fact, another theme of the film is drugs. The author would like to say that it is because of the drugs that this family has suffered so much - and possibly further to the damage done to a region like Mexico. Furthermore, the seriousness of the danger of drugs expressed in this film lies in the fact that no one in the victim's family in this film sells or takes drugs at all, and is completely implicated by a seemingly small incident. It gives a sense of invincibility. This will make everyone think that one is to stay away from drugs as much as possible, and the other is that the harm caused by drug manufacturing or trafficking to people in certain areas is far from the trivial things we think about people taking drugs and causing the separation of wives and children, but the harm of innocent people. people were involved. I didn't think too much about this, so I won't say much.
The writing is too messy, because my views on this movie are still messed up and I haven't sorted it out clearly. In short, this film evoked some memories for me and evoked some sympathy for those people. If it resonates with you, read it and have fun. If you seriously disagree, you should not see it. thanks.
Oh, remembered again. Starvation, freezing and fear (life-threatening fear, not generalized fear) have all been close to us at one time. At least the post-80s generation knows a thing or two. Later, after the 1990s, with the great development, these feelings really disappeared. Just half a year ago, because I lived in a very simple place and it was very cold in winter, I still felt that I had not been frozen to sleep for many years. Hunger is also, in fact, if you are really hungry continuously, it is still very uncomfortable. The last paragraph was added, in fact, to say that we are no longer hungry, we are no longer afraid of cold, and we no longer worry about our own safety. Society has indeed progressed, but some of our senses have degenerated along with it, and some instinctive things (the desire to live and the fear of death) are dormant. But watching this film awakened some of my instinctive consciousness, at least I really realized that living in this world is indeed life-threatening, not just the way most people are now living and dying. From this point of view, the film is good enough.
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