This is a film that uses calmness and subtlety to subtly transform the sadness.
A gangster who is close to spirits, a woman who can’t give up, a period of grievances that can’t be stopped, some brotherhood who has no choice but to betray, a cunning and sinister lawyer friend, a trap, a road, A sum of money, a seldom-used pistol, an irreversible life, a fate of powerlessness, and a reasonable story are told in a bloody melody of the age.
El Pacino, who was released early with the help of his lawyer friends, was once a notorious drug hero. After going through ups and downs, I am discouraged and am determined to retire. The only ideal is to start a taxi business with friends after saving up to 80,000 US dollars. He no longer got involved in the underworld, but instead made money by helping his friends manage nightclubs. His ups and downs of life experience made him want nothing
. He only enjoys his old age but accidentally he inquires about the whereabouts of his former lover. He will be there for decades. A woman who is still unable to extricate herself in love afterwards. He waited for her on the street on a rainy night. After meeting, the two went to the coffee shop to sit down.
The expression on the face of the unforgettable lover gradually turned from surprise to pain, and five years of sorrow were secretly vicissitudes of life in just a few seconds. And he behaves like a child who has made a mistake. All the guilt and self-blame didn't turn into a smile of restrained joy until he realized that his lover had not changed his original intention since he was imprisoned. That is the smile that flashes after reuniting with the unchanging people in the volatile world. In that knowing pride and joy, the sweetness of nostalgia is revealed.
Her life is not bad, many people want to sign her to perform on Broadway. After that, the conversation between the two people was a bit difficult. After all, five years were not short. The injury of leaving without saying goodbye is not a rain that can be debrided and healed. How can a cup of coffee be warm by insisting on waiting for obstacles. It's just that hope has grown darkly in his heart. After bidding farewell, he worked harder to save money, but asked extra questions. He has an idea that no one can reverse.
The prosecutors who were chasing to the end still chased him openly and secretly. The brothers who had crossed the world together before were willing to be undercover and constantly tested after the fall. "Everyone is not talking about loyalty anymore." The fragility and unbearableness of her are lightly revealed, and behind the tired eyes are the helplessness and suffering of being alone in abiding by the morals.
The friend told him the shocking news again. His lover made a living by dancing. He found her performance place according to the diagram. The restless and flashy music, the animalistic and dull roar, the brief stares on and off the stage, his eyes Amazed and sad. The sudden tingling is beyond words, my mind is blank due to dizziness, the shame of lovers is swept away in the roar of the spectators, replaced by skilful flattery and seductive style, the drunk people waved the banknotes in their hands. Loud, sultry lights fueled the indulgence. Desire is brought to the utmost with alcohol. Everyone here is so empty and boring. And he began to understand how his lover lived a life of hunger and thirst. The slutty laughter, the nasty whistle one after another. The long croaking needle pierced his eardrum with trembling,... In the boundless ugliness and drunkenness, he gave birth to endless confusion, it was he who made her so depressed. But he could only watch.
When they met again after the stage, the girlfriend endured the shameful bite and confided everything calmly. She only made a living by this and never betrayed her body. She just wanted to live.
She was not for the money, but even if it was, how could he accuse her. All the problems are no longer necessary, and the grumbling that arises from love makes his words haunted and redundant again. She didn't have to be so embarrassed.
His girlfriend left angrily, and he returned to his place in despair. The tired expression tolerated heavy self-blame, just for the lover to bear the bitter fruit of him alone, just because he didn't say what should be said.
After thinking deeply, he finally summoned the courage to settle in the goblet for too long, but the lover's door was deeply locked. He asked, "Will you still love me like you did in the past? Will you break in like then and want me on the floor?" He replied arduously, "I'm old, and such things have been done." It's not coming." The lover said contemptuously: "Forget it, don't come again."
Unwillingly, he peeped from the gap in the door that the lover was gently taking off his nightgown, and the gentle gesture of his fingers seemed to be a little bit intensified. He took a few steps back and slammed open the door as hard as he did when he was young. The lover's arms were affectionately wrapped around his neck, and the sea of love that hadn't happened for many years finally evolved. It was not too late, and he was back home.
Life in the nightclub is quite smooth, and within two months, their vows to grow old together can be engraved forever in the history of life. At this time, his lawyer friend asked him for a favor: two people went to meet a mafia leader who had escaped from prison. At this time, he didn't know that the lawyer had ignored the party leader by one million, but he knew that he could not refuse. He only owed the lawyer a favor, and after paying it back, he was no longer bound. It's just that the timing of repaying made him uneasy, and he too cherished the bright future that was already visible. Sun, beach, a couple without a past. Faced with such a peaceful plan, there shouldn't be any accidents to freeze the hard-won warmth.
He said this to his lover, and the lover was annoyed. Her worry is not unreasonable: that lawyer is a standard litigator and money fan. The lover's bitter persuasion finally became hysterical after hitting a wall before his arrogance, and then burst into tears. "You know? We won't have a bright future. Our future is that you died in the emergency room of the hospital at three o'clock in the morning. Your shoes were full of blood. I was crying next to you."
He didn't have enough to make you. The lover's convincing explanation, but he didn't come to discuss with her, but to seek the honesty and forgiveness of the soul. "I owe him, I must pay it back." The blood dripping from the back of his hand wet the floor. Love and righteousness are entangled in the heart. The lover bandaged him with tears. His anger was nowhere to vent before he slammed into the mirror, and his hesitating heart was broken into a thousand pieces. How could he not know the danger of this trip, "Affection is sometimes faster than a bullet." No one would know how to cherish more than him, but how could he allow his principles to be ruined, even if it was a villain who asked him to respect himself.
"This is the last time I will bandage your wounds", the lover yelled at his back, his voice filled with despair and uncontrollable love. And he just walked into the darkness without looking back.
The escape from prison was quite successful, and the response in the water was not bad, except that the lawyer who had other plans killed the boss and his youngest son who were in the limelight on the road.
Seeing this kind of scene, he knew that things had developed to the bad side. At this time, he knew that the lawyer had embezzled one million. He was stunned, which meant that the future he had worked hard to figure out was about to fall apart overnight, and a crushing frustration almost made him crazy. He didn't do it right at the beginning, and now he can't turn around. He can only try to seize the fleeting opportunity and take another gamble.
The corpse of the deceased surfaced, and thunder was blown up again in black and white. The eldest son of the deceased retaliated. A new round of betrayal and tumultuous debut. The prosecutor coerced and lured him to be a witness, but he did not relax. Even if a tape with his conversation was in front of him, he did not move.
The prosecutor had no choice but to give him one day to think about it. After leaving the police station, he hurriedly found his girlfriend, who told him that he was pregnant. The intense joy temporarily dissipated the gloom in my heart. He recruited his most loyal entourage and asked him to send his girlfriend to the station. "We're leaving tonight. You go to the station first. I'll come with the money. You can almost ask a friend to book it when you get there." He took out the ticket to his girlfriend, and she looked at him, but he couldn't face it The sadness and horror. "I will definitely be there, waiting for me." He said solemnly to his lover.
He came to the murderous hospital single-handedly: the lawyer had been murdered and injured. He glanced at the policeman reading the newspaper on the corner of the corridor and knew that the lawyer's time was running out.
Knocking in, the undecided lawyer raised his gun and wanted to shoot. Seeing the lawyer's embarrassed appearance like a bereaved dog, there was a slight pity and contempt on his face. He asked about the recording while playing with the lawyer's gun. The lawyer confessed to this, "only benefits, fuck friends" the lawyer scolded angrily. He looked coldly at this friend who passed him but dragged him into the quagmire. Then said that the gun will be faster on the chest.
The policeman reading the newspaper dismissed his colleagues on duty and entered quietly. Although the lawyer's gun was fast, it failed to fire. Ireland Pacino in the palm calmly slipped out of bullets thrown into the roadside trash, ears heard the crisp sound of metal crash "Well I have to repay any grudges against revenge,"
he returned to the nightclub to get himself put Money in the safe. Several heavyweights in the underworld in the hall invited them to drink together, and their intentions are self-evident. He will go upstairs after a lot of dealings, he is already in a dangerous situation.
He twisted the code carefully, as if a miss, the future would fall to pieces. One digit, two digits. . . This kind of time for mistakes to bear the consequences will not last long. After tonight, the underworld admiral is missing a legend who once covered the sky with one hand, and he doesn't need to worry about many people wanting to use his head to make their own future icing on the cake. As long as tonight is passed, the door of happiness will be opened again, and souls who desire salvation will be reborn on the other side. His future will satisfy him like an elected president, and the beauty of his lover will rejuvenate his peace, rather than premature death due to fear.
When the lock was unlocked, he stretched out his hand and looked around. Suddenly his face was as pale as a dead person, the box was empty, and the money was gone.
His panic and anger were not concealed with any grace, and he was betrayed by a friend again.
He took out his gun that had been in the dust for many years. The lover is staring at the station, and he has nothing again. At such a critical juncture. Released intense and profound despair. God used the magic wand of fate to play him lightly in the palm of his hand, and all the regrets and endurances still cannot be forgiven for good luck. So far in the world, it has been a big joke. Pain, sorrow, hope, dream, humiliation, perseverance, helplessness, betrayal. . . The gushing complex emotions accumulated and formed, and disappeared in smoke with a soft sound of the bolt pulling. In the past, the anger of the two gangs of anger soared to the sky, happily enmity, and the cold step that looked down upon Qunlun did not call back. A fight is like a bullet in the chamber. Out of the black clothes and blood stains, there is no other way to the shaky beginning.
The friend who stole the money confided the hiding place to the gun. He walked into the bar in the lobby and bent down. Several elders on the road waited for the opportunity to move, but they were too late to see him stand up. When he got up, he had escaped from the tunnel.
After getting the money, he lost the spirit of drawing a gun again, and his meager hope easily softened him again. Uneasy, he stumbled towards the station. The lingering wolves followed.
After lightly receiving the fire, he saw his girlfriend standing next to the car that was about to start. Behind him is a stalker, vengeful gunfire, and in front of him is a lover who shares sorrow and love. Being in a dilemma, he is already exhausted, and he just moves forward blindly to get closer to his lover. There are countless prayers and fantasies flashed in my heart, happiness is only one step away.
The gunfire at the subway station attracted the police, and the killer was ordered to disarm. How can the underworld elites who have been burned out by the fire of vengeance willing to let their enemies close at hand pass this way. So the police shot, the executioners failed to take revenge and died, and the evil thoughts were not done, but people laughed behind them.
The tense and frantic thoughts of running to calm down after the smoke cleared.
As if he was pardoned, he looked excited, and walked towards the crying lover with the money he had saved. The nightmare is over. Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, we can... The
long-planned gunfire is calm and deadly, echoing on the crowded platform. This is in line with the traditional arrangement, and it is still impossible to turn a page of change. All expectations are bombarded into transparent gravel, faintly scattered in the dreamlike scenery, laying out a gorgeous sadness. The world is left with the cry of the lover, and the voice is the desolation from Cang Ran's tears. He was exhausted and leaned on the subway that carried his dreams, and gradually slipped and fell. His promise and desire were forced to abruptly ceased in grievances, and his morality and responsibility finally cast a bloody dawn. He tremblingly took out the bloody money, looked at his lover, and murmured to her to accept it. He saw his lover crying desperately for something, his expression was tired and relieved. Everything can finally come to an end like this.
He fell in front of a little bastard he had let go, and his entourage sold it cheaply. He was lying on a stretcher. "This time, the best surgeon can't suture me." He closed his eyes slightly, and it was unnecessary care not to stop the nurses. Hot blood gurgled out, leaving this once warm place. The sadness of the hero’s end left his heart as ash, but the regrets of the unfulfilled wish could not prevent the recurrence of the wounded memories: the half-dream and half-awake jokes, or the bullets shot out of right or wrong anger, always happy and sometimes worrying. The tears shed for love, the vows engraved on the heart in the dark, there are deep and shallow scars of surviving death, the thrill of self-reliance...Those things that can confirm the true existence of his life are repeated in order.
The figure on the sign painting in the distance moved and danced gracefully. The world of materialism turned as usual, but he could no longer accompany her with gray hair. The lover's day should be extended as he planned. His face is again. Write a smile. Unchanging love and endless remorse are like whirling steps, gently kicking his heart. And the comfort that the responsibility brings to him in the form of a lover's ultimate trust is like a gentle hand At the end of his life, he calmed him down. At the end of his life, he was accepted by the happy arrangement of his lover. The last Puerto Rican hero was finally calmly tamed. The
film has a cold style of color processing, and a nostalgic narrative atmosphere exudes Melancholy and sentimental. The film opens with the death of the protagonist, which sets the tone for the sorrowful aria. The bitter love, which is comparable to Jinshi, is touching and not lingering. Brothers willingly or helplessly betray the involuntary world-famous sayings. A clear and easy-to-understand footnote is made. The deep pain in the hearts of the characters in the play is diluted in soft sighs, and a few shallow smoke rings load the weight of their thoughts. Complex psychological transitions and historical origins are integrated into casual lines In, just a moment’s time to show the length of emotional experience. El Pacino’s acting is impeccable, and he has a thorough understanding of the characters’ hearts. The rich eyes and the freely retractable movements all express exactly what needs to be expressed. Things. Domineering but not arrogant, warmth but not ambiguous, lonely but not humiliating, panic but not cowardly, and the introverted expression implies a kind of pain and calmness after the weather-beaten and hesitating to talk. A sense of identity that seems familiar. His lonely monologue and helpless sigh evokes resonance. And the way of photographing human incompetence with the dilemma of eternal dilemma is also handy, and the classic lines are everywhere. "There is no such thing as a friend in the underworld."" Love is killing someone and sometimes it’s more than a bullet. "I vowed not to hurt her heart, but I can’t do it" and so on. Every sentence has a hint, and after every sentence there are unknown blood, tears and bitterness. The
film’s The story is more complicated and interlocking, but it is round and round in the connection. There are not many characters in the scene, and there are no big action scenes, but in simple confrontations and choices, the momentum and the sudden change of the situation are captured. The thrilling and tense. The final pursuit and escape were even more exciting and exciting.
The film’s sensational intentions are not great. It tells the ending of the story from the beginning, and then unfolds with memories. The director seems to have no intention of explaining anything, and does not want to draw conclusions. Just want to tell us through the film that there was such an era, such a principle, There is a kind of person who spends his life like that. No one knows what he thinks, whether he doesn't want to withdraw, or can't withdraw. As the protagonist falls, the last protective wall of love collapses, and there is you and me in front of you. The rivers and lakes that are no longer adaptable. Countless latecomers are following hard, but I have to be alone in the classic gunshots.
This is the choice we have to choose.
He fell with a ridiculous past and broken dreams. Where he should have fallen.
In order to leave without leaving, in the eyes of the lover, I saw the tears of two people.
---2003.9.27
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