The more biographies of such anti-social characters are read, the more difficult it is for them to be outstanding and breakthrough. Either he tried his best to render violent and provocative images of heavy taste, and completely reduced it to a cult work, such as this year's Berlin competition film "The Golden Gloves"; I guess the director felt the same way, so he did not hesitate to add the secondary line of homosexuality to enrich the protagonist's criminal motive and psychological display. However, the crime story of this gay couple is far less than that of the notorious "Honeymoon Killers" in the United States. Every time the angel-faced actor shoots and kills, the scene always has a cynical humorous atmosphere; Existence is even more dubious, and I feel like it's totally like the wishful thinking of the hero.
The restoration of the retro atmosphere is impressive, and the character costumes, home decorations and ubiquitous pop songs of the 1970s all provide quite credible background information for this controversial character. The use of color filters and a darkly humorous narrative tone barely bring some stylistic freshness to this loosely structured biography. In addition, the method of blurring moral concepts is not new. Comparing "This House Was Made by Me", also from Cannes last year, you can see at a glance which is better. In the words of the director of the film: "I don't think the film has the responsibility to tell everyone what is right and what is wrong, and it has no obligation to faithfully record historical facts." Therefore, the film has always avoided the analysis and criticism of the social environment, and it is not surprising that only one scene at the end of the depiction of the dictatorship of the Argentine military government is left.
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