A middle-aged man with an ordinary income has to repay the mortgage and raise children.
If you lose your job, how will you face your future life?
When 100,000 dollars is in front of you, as long as you can complete a game, it will be yours. How will you choose?
——"Commuter Rescue" tells such a story.
1) The seemingly bland beginning, layer upon layer foreshadowing
Macaulay (played by Liam Neeson) lost his job to support his life. He was depressed, depressed, and confused. He talked to his friends in a bar, and also met his former colleague, Sheriff Hawthorne, who gave Macaulay a meal. run.
The general rhythm form of American movies is like this. The seemingly bland beginning and the unclear direction of the story lead the audience into an unfamiliar alley.
The audience doesn't know what the road ahead is, and the audience doesn't know what they can see. They must keep an eye on the progress of the storyline and wait for the gradual unfolding of the film to clear the clouds for you.
Macaulay boarded the commuter train as usual, a train he had been on for more than ten years, and the people and things on it were as familiar as home.
The development of the story here has actually laid a series of reasonable foreshadowings for Macaulay to receive a life-threatening mission.
He became poor and needed money more, so he took on this nonsensical task; he was familiar with the train environment and had a police background, so he was selected as the executor of the task.
Macaulay, of course, did not know that from the moment he stepped on the train, he began to "take a heavy responsibility". He was in a very heavy heart at this time, thinking only that he might face the censure and disappointment of his wife and son for his unemployment when he returned home.
At this time, a very attractive woman, Joanna, sat opposite him and chatted with him enthusiastically, interrupting his depressed mood. There is a small misunderstanding here. Macaulay thought that Joanna was going after him and explained that she had a wife. Joanna smiled and pointed to the ring on her finger, indicating that she was married. Macaulay’s worry was actually a misunderstanding.
She further talks about her profession, making it appear to the audience that she is just explaining the continuation of the misunderstanding just now.
Joanna, an anthropologist who specializes in the study of human psychology, is now playing a small game with Macaulay.
The story develops here, and the atmosphere becomes relaxed and happy. This is just an encounter between a beautiful woman and a middle-aged man to pass the boring time on the train, and it will not make you feel that there is any special deep meaning.
But the story unfolds at the most unintentional time, and people are caught off guard.
2) I heard that curiosity killed the cat. Curiosity is sometimes a dead end
A kind chat from a mysterious and beautiful woman, a seemingly harmless little game, relieved Macaulay's nervous mood, and he accepted the game.
The task of the game is: go to the third car first, get a bag, there will be 25,000 US dollars in cash and the content of the task. Macaulay didn't quite believe it, but driven by curiosity, he went to take a look.
When he opened the paper package, Macaulay was stunned. There was indeed $25,000 in it, and the tension started.
Immediately afterwards, a life-threatening phone call came, ordering him to find a passenger on the commuter train who had a pseudonym and a black leather bag. This passenger would get off at Cold Spring Station. If he found this passenger, he would Get the remaining $75,000 in rewards.
The pressure of life made Macaulay choose to give it a try, and he accepted the task, albeit passively.
Undoubtedly, this task is very difficult.
There are many people in the carriage, and screening the only person who fits the task from the hundreds of passengers once made Macaulay fall into a puzzle. The first solution he thought of was to ask the conductor who was more familiar with him for help. Because the conductor's job is to check tickets, it can help Macaulay narrow down his search.
In the face of Macaulay's request for help, the conductor did not agree, and every conductor has an obligation to keep passengers secret. The conductor was not wrong, but it increased the difficulty factor of Macaulay's problem solving .
When Macaulay decided to abandon the mission, a black kid hurried out of the car after giving him a ring. This ring is the ring of Macaulay's wife. Macaulay, who used to be a police officer, realized that the so-called mission is not a game, but a desperate contest, a dangerous puzzle.
Soon, the urgent call came again, and the mysterious woman threatened Macaulay with his wife's life to complete the mission. Macaulay was extremely nervous, and he turned to his friend, the police officer, Murph.
Murph agreed to help him, and Macaulay also performed synchronized self-rescue. He screened out an old man who got off the car right away to chat, and then secretly wrote the help message in the newspaper, and the uncle understood it. Macaulay has high hopes for the outcome of his help.
At this time, the deadly phone call came again. The mysterious woman seemed to know everything. She broke through Macaulay's request for help and asked him to look outside the train.
The old man was hit and killed by a roaring bus as he approached the police car across the road.
At this moment, Macaulay collapsed and was helpless. He knew that he was in a quagmire and it was difficult to escape.
3) The way to find someone under the bell
Macaulay turned to the conductor for help, and the conductor finally revealed a message that everyone who arrived at the station had a card behind them, and they would punch a hole in the place where they got off.
Under this prompt, Macaulay gradually narrowed the scope of suspects, combined with his more than ten years of experience in this commuter bus, and narrowed down the scope of personnel to the smallest scope by checking familiar people.
Macaulay eventually narrowed the suspects named Pullin down to six people.
The first, the redhead tattooed girl.
The second, a black guitarist.
The third, young woman in blue bottoming shirt and purple coat.
Fourth, Mr. Goldman Sachs, a middle-class businessman.
Fifth, a man in a plaid shirt playing cards.
The sixth, Sophia, the curly-haired girl in white listening to the song.
During the tense investigation process, the urging phone ringing kept ringing, making the atmosphere of the film even more tense.
The cold spring station, the terminal station, is getting closer and closer, and the Prin that the mysterious woman is looking for has not yet been finalized.
There are several small episodes in the middle. In the process of identifying the personnel, Macaulay found two wrong people, one is the FBI who connected with Pullin, and the other is the killer of the mysterious woman (black guitarist).
Among them, the FBI was killed by the guitarist, and it was also framed to Macaulay. The guitarist was killed by Macaulay during the desperate struggle with Macaulay.
The rhythm of this story has always made the audience's adrenalin soar, as if incarnated as Macaulay, there is a possibility of dying in the deadly train at any time.
4) The choice of life and death and social justice
Who is Prin?
What secrets does he have on his shoulders, so that the mysterious woman will be forced to find out with her life?
More than half the story, it's been a mystery.
Macaulay's police friend Murph gave him a useful clue that Pullin was related to a government employee jumping off a building, which may involve official corruption and so on.
In the end, McCollins confirmed that Pullin was the curly-haired girl in white, and knew that there was an extraordinary political conspiracy behind the Pullin incident.
When McCollins saw what was right and wrong, he decided to protect the girl, even in the face of the pressure of the deadly phone call from the mysterious girl Joanna.
Joanna was already furious, and she gave Macaulay an ultimatum - if "Pulin" is not killed, the train will become a death train. Macaulay decisively rejected Joanna's threat.
Since Macaulay officially entered the mission, the rhythm of the entire film has been advancing rapidly, and the audience's heart has been hanging in the throat and unable to fall, always worrying about the fate of the protagonist.
When Prin revealed his true face, the government's shady secrets also emerged. Macaulay knew that the train crisis had not yet been resolved, and that it would only usher in a bigger crisis.
Sure enough, the train did not stop at the terminal Cold Spring Station, but ran out of control all the way forward.
The conductor and Macaulay discovered that the engineer who braked the train had been killed and the train simply couldn't stop. At this time, Uncle Macaulay turned into "Superman". With the help of a very responsible conductor, he separated the locomotive and the train carriage, and everyone finally survived.
If Macaulay is the embodiment of wisdom when he is looking for Purin, then when he chooses to protect "Prin", he is the embodiment of justice and bravery.
A bottom-level uncle who lost his job and felt the pressure of life, chose justice in the face of money and death, which is very touching. It is the existence of such people that society can be illuminated by light.
In the final stage of the film, Murph entered the train to persuade him to surrender. Macaulay discovered that Murph had actually been bought by a mysterious woman and turned into a blackened policeman. Macaulay strengthened his determination to protect Prin.
When Murph pointed a gun at everyone on the train and asked "Who is Prin?", all the people on the train stood up and said that they were Prin and protected Prin with their lives. This is also a vivid manifestation of the power of justice.
Although the plot is a bit old-fashioned, the interpretation is also very touching.
In the end, Murph was killed, Pullin's secret was rediscovered, the government's shady secrets were revealed, and all the black hands behind the scenes were about to be dug up. Macaulay was also accepted by the police again, which not only solved the work problem, but also showed To the brilliance and success of justice.
The film is very positive .
5) Invisible black hand, seemingly manipulative, but out of control in fact
The film has always had a dark thread that affects the development of the entire plot. It seems to be the mysterious woman Joanna and her life-threatening phone call, but it is actually a government black force with a deep background.
This part of the force has been disguising its use of public power and privately occupying the interests of the people.
During most of the time the train was running, Macaulay was manipulated by these invisible hands to find Purlin, a witness to control them, and Macaulay slowly discovered the truth in the process of searching.
The underworld controlled the development of the event with a steady victory, and gradually became out of control, just like this orderly train, which finally passed the terminal like a runaway horse and got off the track.
Witness Purin was under control, and the shady secret that the underworld was trying to hide could no longer be covered up. The mysterious woman Joanna also disappeared, and the plot seemed to come to an abrupt end.
But as soon as the film turns, the mysterious woman Joanna, who is reading Dumas' novel, meets Macaulay, who has turned into the FBI, on the train again. Macaulay calls out Joanna's name.
This film is over, and another foreshadowing has also been laid. If there is a second film, how will Macaulay reveal the underworld behind Joanna?
Namo has something to say
As a suspenseful action movie, the most fascinating thing about "Commuter Rescue" is that the puzzles are gradually revealed with the development of the story. Many seemingly small talk are actually foreshadowing and hidden intentions.
When the puzzle is revealed step by step, the audience is suddenly enlightened, which is equivalent to the whole process of solving a case.
For example, at the beginning, Macaulay's wife mentioned the ring on her hand to him; Macaulay, who was complaining at the bar, was run by Sheriff Hawthorne, letting the audience know that Macaulay had been a police officer before.
Of course, there is also Macaulay's process of finding Purin, which is very brain-burning and very beautiful .
The audience is led away by the plot. The suspects who seem to be Purin are confirmed to be not Purin one by one, which makes the storyline ups and downs, unpredictable, and adds mystery and suspense.
Having said so much, children's shoes who like this film, it is best to go to the theater and experience the story firsthand.
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