If it weren't for the thesis on cinematic urbanism, I wouldn't know about the film falling down. This is the first time that I have posted a clear feeling of punishment after watching it. why? Undoubtedly, aside from all kinds of movie tricks, what impresses me is the shooting ending of this ordinary people who are dedicated to serving America.
why? Why was he killed? Is he the bad guy? If he's a bad guy, bad guy then what's wrong with him? If he isn't, then why does everyone think he is? And want to kill him? And if you go back to the title again, what is falling down? Is the Chinese translation of the city hero appropriate?
First of all, the storyline of the movie is not particularly complicated in a way. A white male missile researcher who was just fired, a dedicated American citizen who struggled to learn his skills and lost his job. The first thing is that this middle-aged white man, carrying a briefcase with only one apple and a few slices of bread, wearing shoes with a big hole, a tight white shirt and a blue tie, is facing a traffic jam in the city. The sultry summer when the air is deformed, sweat, flies, screaming children, constant whistle, scary Garfield ornaments, spooky children holding dolls, scolding... All this makes the male protagonist Unable to bear, she rushed out of the car door and decided to walk home—she wanted to celebrate her little daughter's birthday, even though her wife was divorced and her daughter didn't invite her.
He wanted to call home and found that there was no suitable change, so the second thing happened: He walked into a shop of a Korean owner and wanted to change the change, but the owner indifferently refused and had to let him buy something. The male protagonist bought a bottle of Coke, and the boss asked him for 85 cents, a slightly expensive answer. The male protagonist then quarreled with the boss, grabbed the boss's baseball cap, paid 50 cents for the coke, and left.
Next, he found a graffiti-covered stone with holes for shoes. The two Latino boys said it was their territory, and asked the male protagonist to call out a leather bag as a toll. The male protagonist refused and hit the two teenagers with baseball. As a result, the teenager took a bag of heavy guns from nowhere and drove the car to shoot the male lead, but he was not hit and died in a car accident. The male protagonist called the family, and the wife called the police to protect herself and her daughter.
The third thing, the male protagonist wanted to buy the breakfast supply of the fast food restaurant but there was none, but he clearly said that the customer is God! Always serve customers! I don't know since when, people have long since succumbed to ordering according to the specific offers and so-called order rank of fast food restaurants, and no longer order according to their hearts. And the gap between over-psd pictures and reality is so huge, is this what we call an ideal society? Is this the most powerful country America?
The homeless man in the park who directly begged for food, the black man who shouted for labor rights on the street but was arrested by the police, there is no problem but the road that insists on urban construction, even after World War II, it still hurts very homosexuality and rushes to fascist violence And the rightists of Nazism, the film industry is so rich that children who see people carrying cannons will think they are making a movie and watch it lively...
Another clue is about a policeman who will retire today. He is a good policeman, loves his wife, can't bear her paranoia and always restless, and decides to sacrifice himself to realize her utopia life: escape from the city and go to a beautiful so-called wetland pond (dysutopia). However, he was ridiculed by colleagues and bosses who were not doing their jobs properly as a coward who was afraid of his wife and would not scold others. Since when did you start swearing and gossip and become a representative of the police? ironic
So the whole story is that the male protagonist just wants to go home and enjoy the happiness in his life with his wife and children, but from the traffic jam to the final shooting by the police officer, it all shows the tragedy of this ordinary person in the city. why? Because the city is a dehumanized place. Postmodernist cities, cyborgs, fragmentation, decentralization, capital outsourcing, pop culture, military bases, the American dream, power centers, hypocritical humans, hybrid chaotic societies… etc. Dehumanized place of the city.
Social injustice: Plastic surgeons have the best lives and villas, while missile specialists are so poor that they can't even pay child support, and even think it's nice to have a subsidy when they die. Good people are not rewarded. Replicated popular culture and models, the American dream and girls with rich buttocks...
pa! falling down!
all the matters falling down, all my emotions falling down, this is what Hobbes said about the law of the jungle and the prisoner's dilemma. One against one, the world against the world!
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