Youth builds a grave for itself

Frieda 2022-03-20 09:01:50

At the beginning, it was purified by the pure and gentle background music.
A female voice like an elves passing through the blades of grass. Clear guitar accompaniment.
The camera kept moving across the faces of the children. Various innocent expressions and actions.
Like a tender little hand, it easily touched the softness in the bottom of my heart.

So I look forward to finding warmth, innocence, beauty and flawlessness in the film "Alpha Dog".
But everything is just the opposite. What fills the eye is the brutal and rampant violence, crime, and dehumanization.
18 years old. Flowers are generally beautiful.
Johnny led his brother to ruin the so-called youth.
Gradually, the graves of despair are piled up with drugs and almost insane behavior.

Just because of a financial dispute over a drug deal.
Johnny and one of his partners turned against each other. And then kidnapped his younger brother Zack as a threat.
But things were getting less and less serious than Johnny had expected.
As a result, they killed the kidnapped 15-year-old boy in cold blood.
Simple and straightforward plot. But there is shocking blood.
Remember when Frankie was duct tape over Zack's mouth. talking. you're my boy.
you're my boy. With very kind and friendly words.
Zack trusts him so much, trusting Frankie still treats him as a so-called brother.
Zack just said ok while crying and shaking. He traded his pure trust for a dirty crime.
When Zack, who had his hands and feet tied, was shot without resistance. I could hardly bear to watch it any longer.
In such a silent black valley. Can no longer harvest a trace of rational pure white.
Near the end of the movie. Shots were given to Sharon Stone, who plays Zack's mother.
It was a bloated, sloppy, old, tearful image. She is the image of a mother whose remaining life is meaningless after losing her son.
She cried and laughed hysterically. Emotions that I thought I could control exploded uncontrollably.
That heavy dark wreath. In the end, she was put on the head of every audience with her acting skills.

The tragic atmosphere rendered in the film has always been a quiet intake.
As if in a sudden moment. Heart starts to hurt.
And they. Just some arrogant and naughty children. But staged a murderous game that couldn't be more brutal.
We cannot really seek a view of cause and effect and right and wrong.
Like the fear and madness that lurks in the body beyond reason. No one can control.
Just for such an unexpected but inevitable ending. Doing our own mourning.

then. All the beautiful flowers bloomed to the end, becoming a tragic withering in one place.
our youth. Die mercilessly in wanton profligacy and rebellion.
No one noticed.

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Alpha Dog quotes

  • Cosmo Gadabeeti: [grabs onto Johnny Truelove] Hey, look at this kid. How handsome he is. Look at this! You must be knocking them dead. You knocking them dead?

    Johnny Truelove: No. Let go of me.

    Cosmo Gadabeeti: So what are you doing tonight? You chasing tail?

  • [last lines]

    Cosmo Gadabeeti: I'm telling you, he's lost.

    Sonny Truelove: I think he's right. I mean, I ain't seen him. He ain't here. He must be lost. Now get the fuck out of my house.