I like it so much that I can't give it five stars without being mixed with personal emotions. This is a film full of absurdity, irony, dark humor, but also very warm and healing. It discusses two issues: how life is conducted, and how people should face it.
At the very beginning of the film, the white-bearded grandpa tells the little girl who wants a blue bike: "Nothing is certain in life".
The narrative in the first 20 minutes of the film is very efficient, with several scenes quickly covering the cause of the event (daughter Matilda's bicycle was stolen), the relationship between the characters (father-daughter estrangement, lack of communication), and the theme discussed in the film- —The point of view expressed by the probability scientist Otto in pitch: There is no coincidence in the world, and the occurrence of any event has its predecessor events traceable, so everything is predictable.
Underpinned by such a probabilistic view, Otto made a serious mistake: to collect all relevant evidence to prove his opinion is correct, and automatically ignore the evidence that contradicts his opinion, even if they are true and strong . Perhaps out of self-blame for giving up his seat, Alto decided that the subway explosion was a conspiracy, and he happened to discover a series of seemingly related "suspicious" events, so he naturally connected them into a perfect "premeditated" event. bombing case". He also found hacker Lennart and facial recognition expert Fat E, and persuaded them to prove their point. Here, the mismatch of the people found by Fat E for the first time has shown that their direction may be wrong. However, at this time, Otto, who was convinced of his own inference, subconsciously did not want to believe this result, so that Fat E lowered the recognition threshold. until you find someone you "need".
At first I thought that Otto's causal point of view was due to his study of probability, but it was not until I saw the scene where Matilda deduced the cause of the accident on the cards that I realized that it was human instinct. When unfortunate things happen, we need to find someone or something to blame, so that the suppressed emotions in our hearts can be relieved. We can't accept that accidents are just accidents, coincidences are just coincidences, the gushing emotions seem to be condensed in the air, trapped in the body, sadness comes from nowhere, and anger goes to nowhere. So after listening to Otto's seemingly reasonable reasoning, a calm and rational person like Marcus also believed almost immediately, because he also needed an object to vent, an outlet for his emotions - in a violent way.
Thus, the revenge four-person team was established. The characters in this movie are all very well done. Each of the three geeks has a "weird" in the eyes of the secular, and also has a past and trauma that the public does not want to understand, conflicts that cannot be reconciled with themselves, and more human softness. There are a few scenes that particularly touched me: Leonard, who subconsciously pulled down his pants and begged for mercy when Marcus was about to beat him (he laughed and cried); Fat E of "I still can't do it"; a few people beat Otto out of the car and picked him up again; the night they slept together in the barn... including the little Ukrainian who never remembered his name but never resisted Gay, they are the weirdo in the eyes of the public, a minority, a marginal figure in society. Here we can see the fragility hidden under their strange appearance, and it is often the most moving that shows fragility. But there is also a man who never shows vulnerability, Marcus. In the first part of the film we hardly feel his emotional fluctuations - even at the moment of seeing his wife's body. He has the perseverance, hardness, stubbornness, and forbearance of a soldier, and at the same time, he does not express his emotions. As his daughter Matilda said, he was only used to expressing himself violently. So when Marcus knew that everything was just a coincidence and that he had killed the wrong person, he could no longer suppress himself and smashed the bathroom into pieces. That scene is especially heart-wrenching, and we finally see Marcus' vulnerability - albeit in a violent way.
The most ironic part of the whole film is the shootout at the end. The head of "Knight of Justice" asked Marcus innocently, "Where did I offend you?" He didn't find the reason until he died. Yes, there is no reason at all, it's just a coincidence!
In fact, this movie is more about the self-healing of these people and the mutual redemption of each other: after everything is over, the relationship between father and daughter eases, learn to face loss and let go of obsessions; everyone's heart is also opened, Reconcile with yourself.
The film's "laugh and cry" dark humor, "when do you feel the absurdity of life" style reversal, and its philosophical issues are all points that strike me. There is also the healing core under its revenge shell. It shows you how absurd and ridiculous life is, and it also shows you that life is sometimes quite human, telling you to put away your cynical indifference; it satirizes how chaotic and restless this society that doesn’t care about justice, but it doesn’t piss on from the perspective of God everything, but to cherish the blue bike you have. Life itself may be meaningless, it is our connection to others that gives it meaning.
I really love this hot and cold character.
The "Knights of Justice" is a criminal gang, and the protagonist group can't be regarded as doing any justice. The knight is not a heroic image with super powers to save the world, maybe it is just the men who ride the Ukrainian gays as shared bicycles. Of course, I prefer to see the rider as the girl who lost the bicycle and the girl who got the bicycle, that is, every ordinary ordinary person.
"Nothing in life is certain." Sometimes, we lose a beloved blue bike, and sometimes, we get a beloved blue bike. We don't know where the lost bike went, whether it's going to lead to a dramatic or inconsequential story, or the experience with which the bike we got came to meet us here. And we don't have to worry about it. Just accept that everything happens, whether it's good or bad, accidental or coincidental.
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