Women's revenge, double-edged!

Jessie is a CCTV monitor operator. Her daily job is to face dozens of non-dramatic screens. When she finds an abnormal situation, she will promptly call the police near the scene of the incident. In this silent world that belongs to her, various stories that are not very interesting are being staged every day: a middle-aged man lingers in the shop window with his bloated bulldog every day, a fat girl likes to stand by the window in a daze , two young people have sex frantically in the grass behind the wall, several middle school girls stab their mates with knives... After get off work, Jessie returns to her lifeless apartment, the only "fun" is to pick out the video of the day Watch a few of the discs again! She closed herself in a corner of the world that no one knew about, until one day, a criminal who had been released on early parole appeared on the monitor. She seemed to be full of curiosity about this man. approach him. She found out that the man had moved into the "Red Road" apartment, so she followed...

It was probably influenced by the Danish "Dogma 95", and the film footage was always in a strong turbulent mood. This zero-distance sense of presence also provides the audience with a subtle peeping and participation psychology. We follow Jessie's "tracking" step by step to get closer to Clyde (the criminal)'s embarrassing life - he and the same unemployed prisoner. He lives with his fellow prisoner's girlfriend from London. He hasn't found any job for three months. Jessie, who has come to the door on his own initiative and flinched over and over again, makes him very confused. Finally one night, Jessie entered his apartment, and the two had intense sex, but then she got up and left immediately, and then the police came to the door and put Clyde in jail again.

Apparently, Jessie orchestrated the rape, but why did she do it? It was not until Clyde's angry cellmates came to the door to question them that the mystery in their hearts was solved: it turned out that six years ago, it was Clyde's traffic accident that caused the accidental death of Jessie's husband and daughter. Completely destroyed Jessie's happy life, but her thrilling revenge did not completely calm her heart. When she found out that Clyde also had a daughter, she called to drop the charges. The two met again in the deserted street, and she realized that he was just a weak and ordinary man, and her hatred, resentment and depression were finally resolved.

In the last scene of the film, Jessie met the man with the dog on the road. After his beloved bulldog died, he changed to a young and robust new favorite. Jessie greeted them happily. In six years, this was her first time. Take the initiative to greet people.

In fact, this is not just a story about revenge and redemption. It is fundamentally different from the Korean movie "Kindly Gold" of the same theme. The core of "Gold" is a gorgeous legendary drama, and "Red Road" reveals But it is a ubiquitous communication barrier between people in modern life. As a strong symbol, "monitor" has a clear symbolic meaning of the communication barrier. Although film director Andrea Arnold has not made a feature film before this, her debut is a rare cold and slow, rendering a heartbreaking road to understanding, the film won the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in one fell swoop The film festival jury award is well deserved.

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