Shocking Flowers - Bloody Angels

Kirsten 2022-03-20 09:02:00

The first time I saw this film, it was one day at the end of the last century. I wanted to rent another film in the rental disc house, but I suddenly found this disc without any introduction, just based on the pictures printed on the disc. has attracted me. When I got home, it was really different.

20 years later, I found this film again in the classic film library of a certain website. Although the plot has long since been forgotten, the erotic scene between the lesbians has not faded.

The new discovery is that the director of this film is actually the brothers (sisters) of "The Matrix". And what attracted me was no longer the wild flowers in the film - Violet and Corky, but Caesar, who was outstanding in acting but had a tragic end. Joe Pantoliano was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for this film, which is well deserved. And in the Matrix, he also became the traitor that everyone hates.

When it comes to revisiting the film, it can be said that "men are savage, and women enjoy it." Caesar translates as "Caesar". Using such a name, the director mocked the position of men in this distorted world. He seemed to control everything, but he did not hesitate to destroy everything for the sake of money (power). In the end, it was nothing but a bamboo basket to draw water, allowing the seemingly weak women to steal everything, and finally take their lives.

Compared to the cold, hypocritical male world. At the beginning of the film, a sincere and secret world of women is created. Women's weapons not only have color, but also the sincerity and trust that men lack. It is with this trust that they met by chance, they became the final winners.

The creation of the atmosphere and the narrative aspects of the story are the success of this film. In two adjoining apartments in an empty apartment building, everything maintains tension and suspense amid dramatic conflict. The two million cash is constantly changing hands, testing people's ability to interpret the story. Inside the gang, in the transformation of various relationships between the gang and the police, men and women, and women, we can see the director's superb plot construction ability, and the whole film is compact and exciting.

Compared to the unscrupulous gangsters who are bent on getting rich. The women who meet by chance and build up their lives and keep their promises from sex become the final victors. This reversal of the ending, like the errant youths in "Two Smoking Guns", is astonishing and at the same time has some kind of thinking about the rationality behind it. In the face of violence and ill-gotten gains from crime, everyone seems to have a reason to covet. But playing the trick of confession in the false arena of love, in the sinister arena where life is fighting, is undoubtedly a fool's dream.

Therefore, betrayal has become reasonable, and survival has become the greatest law.

When the boss of the gang used the so-called "family" to influence Caesar, who was on a dead end, he was punished with a bullet. At the end, when Caesar used "love" to influence Violet, he also used the same old trick to influence Violet. Also got the so-called "betrayal" punishment.

In this film, betrayal has become the norm. In a desert world without a drop of emotional water, talking about feelings will undoubtedly bring about their own destruction. In such a violent animal world, the only true love between lesbians is so impressive that it makes sense.

Two million black gold, belongs to the only weak person in the animal world who still talks about feelings. The world law of survival of the fittest, in the depths of darkness, still has its flaws and pale loopholes. What these two bloody angels who broke out of the siege did was to turn the world that had already turned black and white upside down again.

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Bound quotes

  • Caesar: It's fuckin' dark in here!

  • Corky: So, Caesar works for the Mafia?

    Violet: It's funny. Nobody really calls it that anymore. Caesar just calls it "the Business."

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