This is a movie released in 1999. De Niro plays a sick cop in it.
Police Swart lives in a civilian area. There are all kinds of people from the bottom living here. Thieves, underworld, gays and more. Walter couldn't help but endure it. One night, Walt heard gunshots in the community, he immediately got up and ran with the gun. Unexpectedly, he was paralyzed by a stroke at the entrance of the stairs. The next thing is therapy. Doctors suggested that he practice singing to regain his speaking ability. Walt initially contacted the class location too far, and he went out of the house on crutches and fell before getting into a taxi. So he had to choose in the building where he lived. In the same building, Qian Qusu, a gay woman who is a dressmaker, lives as a host and piano accompaniment in a nightclub. Walter has always looked down on these gays, but at this time, he had to ask Qu Su for help, and Qu Su was also happy to earn more money. So from the cold teaching, accompanied by occasional attacks, to the occasional chat, and then to talk about each other's emotional journey, until finally helping each other with death. The last shot: Walt was loaded into the ambulance, Qu Su wanted to follow, and the police next to him said, "Only relatives can follow the car." So Qu Su said, "I am his sister." The police looked at the obvious The woman who was a man couldn't help but smile bitterly. At this time, Walt on the stretcher glanced at Qu Su calmly and said to the police, "He is my sister."
Walt's stroke hit him so hard that at one point he even wanted to shoot himself. When he got sick, the doctor came to visit him and said, "You didn't go back to the hospital for physical therapy, you didn't answer any calls, and you didn't visit your friends or let them visit you." In fact, Walt's life It's always been that way. His wife took everything from him to run away with his boyfriend, and one of his best colleagues swindled him out of money. The person closest to him is still like this, who else can he trust? In the face of this cruel reality, he can only close himself. There is no desire to communicate with people. It was even more so with Qusu. They are an outlier in the society. Although they try to make their behaviors recognized by the society, they deliberately wear bright women's clothes to show off their individuality, but they are more often looked down upon by people. In the film, these two types of extreme people meet unexpectedly and gradually approach each other. The intention of the director is obviously to show that people are understandable and tolerant. However, in real life, how likely is this to happen? I am very skeptical.
Walt dated a girlfriend. Although he was also in the dust, Walter regarded her as the queen, but every time he went to bed, the purpose of his girlfriend was for money. After Walt fell ill, his girlfriend didn't come to visit. When she learned that Walt had run out of money, she shied away in every possible way. Another prostitute, Tianya, secretly admires Walt, recording music tapes for Walt, and taking good care of him when he is sick. So there is this scene behind. Walter recovered slightly, and he walked into the nightclub with a bouquet of flowers in his hand. When his girlfriend saw it, she stepped forward excitedly and asked, "Is this for me?" Walter replied, "No." Then he walked straight to Tianya. The audience is comfortable watching.
Looking at the whole film, the plot is very simple, the structure is not complicated, and it does not show any fancy photography skills. But very attractive. In addition to the superb acting skills of De Niro and Seymour Hoffman, it is more to ask people a question: Do people still need to communicate with each other in today's society?
Humans are social animals. This is the nature of human beings. People need to connect and communicate with each other to survive and develop. Both material and spiritual life require this connection. This would have been a self-evident thing in life. But I don't know since when, people began to alienate each other. There is more of an interest relationship between people. Even more so in the West. Their emphasis is on individual freedom. Although on the surface, he is still polite and courteous, but more of this is not to consider treating others kindly, but to expect others to recognize his attitude. Just a hypocritical posturing. This concept has also affected us in recent years. People gradually become refined or not refined egoists. It is this philosophy of life that makes people feel that instead of getting involved in the sinister rivers and lakes, it is better to be alone. In the film we can also see how much people want to know and communicate. For Walter's "graduation", Qu Su took great pains to gather a group of friends and held a unique party for Walter. But after people take the tea to cool off, what remains is still loneliness and loneliness. This is a difficult knot to untangle. This is true of the whole environment, and the good wishes of individuals seem so insignificant in the general trend of people's gradual alienation.
Regarding homosexuality, people have become more tolerant in recent years than when the film was shown. But I still don't agree with this way of life. Of course I can understand the existence of this phenomenon and don't blame these weirdos, as disgusting as it is. This is just an embellishment of a sick society.
My rating: 6.8.
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