The film "Cold Pursuit" tells the story of Liam Neeson, a snow plow driver who has won an honorary citizen, after his son's accidental death, determined to avenge his son, and accidentally got involved in the rivalry between two local drug dealer gangs.
Some viewers ridiculed that even the films that M Neeson made in recent years were too formalized, either to save his wife or his daughter, and this time he came to save his son. I didn't plan to watch this movie myself, because I thought it was very routine after reading the synopsis, but I ended up watching it by accident. Surprisingly, this movie is not that kind of stereotyped movie.
Death, pursuit, drug trafficking, gangsters, when these words come together, the audience's imagination is a rain of gunfire, but this film does not have too many violent scenes, everyone's death is an understatement, and even most of the hits are omitted. Kill the camera, just after the person is killed, come with a subtitle card. In the snow-capped town, this uncharacteristic shooting method made a movie that could have been a hit, unusually calm.
And behind this calm is the attitude the film wants to express.
Along with the witty and funny lines, the subtitle cards of the film appeared more and more frequently, until the final battle, the entire screen was covered with the names of dead people, looking at these names, one can't help but sigh, in the world of drug dealers, it is being fulfilled. There is an old Chinese saying - human life is like a mustard.
Human life is like a mustard, which is a satire on the extreme selfishness of drug dealers and a dissatisfaction with the ineffectiveness of the police.
The big drug lord treats his son with great care. He even stipulates the ingredient ratio of each meal, but he is such a person who cares deeply about his relatives. To shoot him in anger, this is a very selfish act, and this selfishness has brought the life of a mustard.
Recently, it is often said that the talents cultivated by institutions of higher learning are all refined egoists, and here, too, are those who hold financial power. In a scene in the film, this selfishness is accurately portrayed. Liam Neeson hired a killer to assassinate the big drug lord, but the killer sold Lim Neeson to the big drug lord. Of course, the killer himself did not fare well. In the end, when the big drug lord punished the killer, his evaluation of the killer was, "You are an extremely selfish person. You do not keep your word for money. The reason why we can stand is because we keep our word." Here, It can be said that a word becomes a prophecy.
In addition to satirizing the selfish nature of drug lords, the film also criticized the police: seeing people smoking marijuana on the road, the police officers did not ask, based on the unspoken rule of "wanting to hang around here"; One step slow, even the drug dealer said, "the police are always slow"; facing the cause of his son's death, the honorary citizen did not seek help from the police, but suppressed violence with violence, because he deeply knew that only blood for blood Compensation, in order to achieve their own justice...
It is surprising that the film breaks away from the routine of genre films, but the film's handling of multiple logical relationships is not very satisfactory.
The film depicts the images of three pairs of father and son, but the relationship between these three pairs of father and son failed to form enough contrast or related characterization, which makes people puzzling. It is unbelievable that a good father-son relationship turns into a father-in-law; and the film arranges the rivalry between the two drug dealer groups, which is more like an arranged fate. No matter what Lim Neeson does, the result will lead to this fact, and the degree of confidence is very low; The easy confession of drug dealers is a very idealized treatment.
Easter eggs
The film is released in the mainland, and it is customary to cut it. This time the cut will cause some misunderstandings in the interpretation of the film. The big drug lord angrily killed a joking subordinate A, and then the film gave another close-up shot of subordinate B, and the subsequent fight between the two parties was precisely because subordinate B informed the enemy, such an edit will make the audience think that It's "Subordinate B can't stand the big drug lord and doesn't treat his brother as a human being, so he tipped off the enemy." But if the audience knows that they are watching the abridged version in the theater, and the abridged part is the kiss between subordinate A and B. picture, then there will definitely be another interpretation.
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