Killer Hannah

Pearlie 2021-11-11 08:01:15

The beginning of the film was very beautiful: a girl holding a bow and drawing an arrow on the vast snowy field shot an elk. When she approached, she found that she missed the heart and shot it decisively. In the first twenty minutes or so, we learned that the girl Hannah is not only a master of archery, shooting, and fighting, she speaks multiple languages, can cook, and can also recite part of the encyclopedia fluently.

The girl told her father Eric that she was ready. What are you ready to do? A little suspense. Originally, the role of suspense in literary or film and television works is to arouse the curiosity of readers or audiences. The function of this movie is to lift people's appetite high enough and make the jaw drop low enough.

First, after hearing the girl say that she was ready, Eric dug out a machine several times the size of the old-fashioned radio from the snow and placed it on the table. "There is a button on this machine, you break it, and she (Marisa) will know your address immediately. Make sure you are ready, because when the button is pressed, either you will die or she will die." Is there a signal in this remote area where there is no electricity? Whose machine is this? If it's Dad's, it's ridiculous. Whose agents have you ever seen carry such a huge machine that can show where you are? After seeing it, I guessed it might be Hannah's mother. However, it seems that it cannot be explained based on the context.

Before we parted, Eric asked the girl to memorize the meeting address and the invented profile again. The child is so fluent in several languages, and the encyclopedia has been memorized. Are you still worried that she can't remember a simple address and profile? Later we discovered that this worry is really not superfluous, it's just a complete worry about the wrong place.

Since the girl wants to be taken to see Marisa, why kill the agents in front of her? Wouldn't it be enough to be taken away? Perhaps, when the CIA agents arrived, there was too much movement, making Hannah, a girl who is used to being quiet, upset? Of course, in this plot, I guess the purpose of the screenwriter or director is to let us know that a few CIA agents with machine guns are not a problem for the brave Hannah. Of course, it also laid a solid foundation for her to crawl out of the agent base with bare hands.

Since Hannah was brought to the foundation, the plot of the film has become more and more flawed:
First of all, since the father and daughter have disappeared for so many years, the girl is not too young, and so independent, the father can go out to find some pictures of his enemy Marisa to show the girl, right?
Secondly, Marisa knows Eric and knows how well he can train a child who is already different. Didn't drug the girl while observing? And let her escape from the base so easily?
Furthermore, although the girl doesn’t know what Marisa looks like and what her personality is, she knows the layout of the American secret service base in Morocco very well. When she escaped from the underground tunnel, she seemed to be in her own kitchen and was able to find the laboratory accurately. And it happened to be there when her test results came out.

Hannah walked a long, long time in the desert when a snake appeared. I was delighted, and guessed that maybe I would see a beautiful girl kill a snake empty-handed and drink snake blood to quench her thirst, but I didn't see it. When the girl and the little boy appeared later, they thought maybe Hannah would rescue them from Shekou, but of course she didn't see it. It turned out that the snake only appeared so bright in the lens, and then disappeared. Maybe the screenwriter and director want to tell us: How cool is the family that girl Hannah will meet? It's so cool to drive to take a walk in the sun in the big desert with snakes. With this explanation, of course, we can completely ignore why the girl doesn’t think that Hannah introduces herself like memorizing the text. The girl’s parents don’t think that this little girl who claims to be from the forest has no luggage, no passport, and her mother was killed by three bullets. It's strange.

Gradually, we were disappointed and even sad to discover that the so-called "cold-blooded killer" Hannah was only cold-blooded at the people who helped her:
First, the Moroccan who opened the guest shop allowed Hannah to live in his best room for free. Fang, was killed with a pen by the bad guy who
followed her; secondly, Hannah’s "friends" family, although we did not see them being killed, we were not less frightened during the whole process because of her, right? And when Hannah was chased by bad guys for the first time, why did she hide and not kill them? Of course it's not that you can't kill it. We've already seen her bravery before; that's just killing it without intending it. Why don't you kill it with the intention? Even ordinary people will kill when the lives of themselves and their friends are threatened. What happened to us cold-blooded killers and perfect soldiers?
Even if the grandmother doesn't count, then it's father's friend. This uncle, kindly played music and performed magic tricks to Hannah, and won the girl’s short innocent and cute smile. When the chasing bad guy came, she escaped faster than the arrogant rabbit, and ended up being hung upside down by the bad guy as a deer. The shooting ended tragically; of
course the other victim was Eric. The man who raised her up, educates her, trains her, lives in the wild forests to protect her and accompany her, just because it is not her own father, Hanna immediately fought with him, and when the chaser arrived Immediately ran away from him "obediently". Even after he was killed, he didn't even think of him.

Of course, Eric himself is also wrong. How did you educate this kid? Even three or two little thieves are unwilling to kill? Don't even kill your mother's enemy? Not even the most basic interpersonal communication? Don't even understand the most basic ethics? Could it be that when you were trained as an agent, you could memorize the encyclopedia, can learn to speak a few languages, and fight, even if you were ready? You didn't even tell her the address of the connector. You can't just tell others. Moreover, where did you go to kill more than a dozen spies with guns at the subway station? Why was it so easy to be shot by Marisa in the end?

The film is even more magical: this isolated Hannah who doesn't know anything about electricity, music, TV, phone, or music, went to an Internet cafe to search for information proficiently on the Internet? It's really weird. Eric is also an agent, so his information could be found so easily? If it's possible, why didn't Hanna go online to see what Marisa looked like before she came out into the world?

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Extended Reading

Hanna quotes

  • Rachel: I feel so grounded in the countryside. The city stifles me, emotionally, creatively, spiritually. Places like this bring us closer to God.

    Hanna: God?

    Rachel: Well, not in any monotheistic sense. Buddha, Krishna, the god within. Whatever you believe in.

    [pause]

    Rachel: What do you believe in, Hanna?

    [gets no response, laughs]

    Rachel: Nothing.

  • Hanna: Come and find me.

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