"Stickman", a film full of warmth

Julia 2022-03-21 09:01:44

In fact, I didn't plan to watch this movie. I was actually waiting for the Bundesliga to come. However, the Bundesliga has not yet started. I clicked and saw "Stickman". In fact, if it wasn't for Nicolas Cage, I would have Continue to switch stations.
"One, two, three, open the door." The habitually blinking left eye followed by a short cough, the maddening variety of cleanliness, heh, what an irritable man.
The story begins, and the fraud also begins. I have changed the channel to the sports channel several times in the middle. The story of Wen Tun, the fraudulent process with no new ideas, makes people have no desire. There is no such thing as a good-looking blockbuster. After several explosions, car chases, and beautiful women, the eyeballs have been firmly grasped. The situation changed when Roy went to see his daughter for the first time. An irritable Roy kept smoking a cigarette in the car, shaking hands with cigarettes in his hands, a car full of smoke, cigarette after cigarette. , erratic eyes can't find a foothold, seeing that her daughter is going to chase after her determinedly, she immediately fell in love with this hesitant man without hesitation. I thought to myself, this must be a movie full of warmth, it must be. His life is about to be disrupted because of his daughter, full of life? Or is it cluttered? Either way, it has to change.
There are unease in one way or another in life, so I always speculate on movies with the greatest goodwill. The plot is also going in the direction I want. The little girl asked her father to teach her to cheat, and she succeeded in cheating for the first time. The girl happily closed the door with the $300 cheated: We succeeded! After her father celebrated with her, she asked her to return the money: If I don't do this, am I a father? Oh, warm.
Then a bigger scam began, and my father decided to finish this last scam and start over. The plot development once again surprised me: this is too easy, although the fat men who were deceived did not find out that the money was transferred in the plane as they thought, but chased them all the way out, looking for change at the toll booth. It did make my heart a little excited, but the whole process was very smooth, and it made me feel dull. What a thrilling and exciting process this should be, gunfights, chases, flying cars, suspense in my heart, but unfortunately, no, no, still no, nothing. It should be such an intense process, followed by a happy ending: father and daughter are happy together, successfully retired, happy life, and then the final subtitles start. It should be like this!
The moment my daughter was shot, my heart skipped a beat: It's over, how should the director end it? I can no longer imagine a logical and psychological ending. tragedy? A touching tragedy? The tragedy of father-daughter love? Either way, I don't want to see it. Cut to Sports Channel: Stuttgart lead Bayern 3-0. Cut back, arrests, interrogations, doctors, passwords, connections... it all means that the father is doomed. As a father, that's all that can be done; however, as a movie, it can obviously be better - everything is bright at the moment when the door is opened, and the answer to the mystery pierces people's eyes like sand, which makes people feel distressed, the original Everything is fake, everything is a scam, they lied to Roy, the director lied to me. The empty heart has nowhere to go, like a swing with no one, empty rippling there, like a sudden person going to the building empty, only the empty heart is left. After a long time, I came back: Oh, this is a movie, and it is a Hollywood movie.
Goodbye after a year, the daughter left, turned around and said, "I'll see you, dad". Yes, that's it, over.
But still warm. I prefer to believe that the plot of the original story goes something like this: father cheats, daughter arrives, initial chaos, family affection, fusion, change, life together. But, but, how to deal with the past of this father, the past that cannot be erased, and the most direct representative of this past is the money he obtained through fraud. donate? Isn't that funny? Turn yourself in? Do you think it is a Chinese movie? So the director used a bigger scam to easily erase the money from his father's past. It turned out to be so. It is so! A daughter is still a daughter, and a father is still a father. "I'll see you, dad." Yes, no revenge, no resentment.
I haven't seen such a warm movie in a long time. To add: I like Roy's eyes very much, very much, anxiety, care, hesitation, hesitation, despair, warmth.

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Extended Reading
  • Paxton 2021-11-17 08:01:28

    No one's life can be avoided without falling into a scam, because no one can avoid love. All life has a false lie side, the difference is whether we actively expose, passively expose, or never expose, and we are in peace; but even if the falsehood is like the serial scam in this film, there is still a real part, that part is love, this All falsehoods are based on at least the love of the protagonist Roy must be true. So, in the final analysis, deception is essentially the use of truth, and truth is the real body of this world, and falsehood is the parasite of this body. The biggest failure for a liar is to fall into a calculated scam without knowing it or even being cheated away. But this design is where the story lies, and this ending is the ultimate irony. At the same time, it is also the rigid requirement of mainstream values ​​for a person with moral taint. Of course, out of the need of education and catering, this bad person, Roy, can get a real family love as compensation-after all, in a god-worn person In the Puritan country, God needs to love everyone and let them be loved.

  • Sven 2021-11-17 08:01:28

    The so-called unexpected endings of many movies are the "fuck you" in the routine, but this one is really unexpected. (Many movie endings known as unexpected endings can be regarded as unexpected endings to me if they are not for the protagonist's split personality.)

Matchstick Men quotes

  • Roy: I'm surprised to see you here. I figured you would have moved out to, I don't know, Hawaii.

    Angela: I kind of got screwed on my cut. You know Frank.

    Roy: [using her own words on her] You're gonna go swimming, you're gonna get wet, right?

  • Angela: You mad at me?

    Roy: You didn't take it. I gave it to you.

    Angela: It's a funny way of looking at it.

    Roy: Well, I see things differently now.