Italian director Matteo Galloni, a two-time winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, has returned to his best suburban/country story for this year's new work, following an international take on the myth and fantasy theme. The background is the same as "Gomorrah" and "Reality Show", which takes place in a seaside town ravaged by poverty and violence. The dog and pet shops, etc., continue to highlight the living conditions of the people in this declining area, and the sharp contrast to the bureaucracy and rampant violence of the police even more implicitly criticize the corruption and incompetence of the Italian government. However, this is not a poignant work that exposes social problems. The biggest difference from the previous works is the characterization. The director focuses on the protagonist, and through a series of events between him and his friends, he constantly creates a turning point in the narrative. There is even a design that turns to a thriller type film in the second half. . The biggest question is the protagonist, is he stupid or cowardly? There are always ambiguous portrayals in the script, and no final answer is revealed. Why did he have such a loyal and solid friendship with his bad friend? Why is it that every time he is willing to help a bad friend to do bad things, he does not take the initiative to pull him back to the right path? Why do you not know how to ask your relatives and friends for help in the face of violence against your friends, but instead choose to blindly believe? Why do you want to go to jail for him when you know it was your friend who hurt him intentionally? Why did you kill your bad friend with all your heart, but at the end, when you were about to burn the corpse, you were soft-hearted and put out the fire? The contradictory character displays of these protagonists are quite puzzling, making it hard for me to believe that there are such people in real life. I am more inclined to understand that this is the so-called animal metaphor deliberately buried by the director (a tame dog is loyal to fickle masters) and political metaphors (the submission of the common people to violent authority). However, this approach of ignoring social environmental factors and subjectively over-strengthening the contradictory characters of the characters will invisibly reduce the credibility of the characters, which should be the most failure of the film.
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