The power of the giant lacks the foundation, the outside is strong and the middle is strong - "The Brooklyn Mystery"
Today, let's talk about the movie "Brooklyn Mystery".
The film's title Motherless Brooklyn (2019), alias Motherless City (Hong Kong) / Brooklyn Orphans (Taiwan) / Brooklyn's homeless.
The film is Edward Norton's second work as director.
The film is adapted from the 1999 novel of the same name published by American author Jonathan Lethem.
After the novel "Brooklyn Secret" was published, it won the American Book Critics Association Award and the British Golden Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel. The preparations for film and television began the second year after its publication, and it was not until 20 years later that it finally reached the big screen and audience. see you.
Edward Norton stars as Lionel Essrog.
During a case investigation, Lenore's master Frank was killed, and Lenore embarked on the road to find the real murderer. In the process of getting closer to the truth, he met Laura Rose, who was fighting on the front line of civil rights, and bumped into the real estate tycoon Moses Randolph. A conspiracy involving multiple interests gradually surfaced.
The time background is the 1950s. At this time, after World War II, everything was left to be rebuilt, and the United States was no exception. City builders carried out drastic infrastructure construction and wanted to change the face of the city.
In this construction process, there is no corresponding supervision. Instead, it is full of various black-box operations. Businessmen, brokers, and politicians collude with each other to carry out intricate transfer of interests. Here, money and power have become good brothers.
When Frank was entrusting the investigation, he tracked down the real estate tycoon Moses Randolph by mistake. He held key evidence and mastered the old and new corruption of these bigwigs. At the same time, he also found a murder for himself. .
Lenore saw his master being killed with his own eyes, and was in pain. In the few words left by Frank, he tried his best to search for all possible clues to find out the truth. Fortunately, Frank is a good master, and Lenore is also a good apprentice. According to some trivial clues, Lenore slowly followed the clues, and really found the truth of the whole thing.
Lenore's orphan status allowed him to meet Frank. Frank saw that the child had great potential, so he recruited Lenore under his command, provided food and drink, and taught him the skills of being a detective.
Lenore's housekeeping skills are super memory and super hearing. He can remember everything, he doesn't need to bring pen and paper when talking, and he only needs to listen to it once to write down everything others say. He can also hear very small voices and easily become a master eavesdropper.
Obviously, Frank recruited Lenore because of these two points, and let him be his right-hand man in handling the case. The detective's observation ability and reasoning ability need to be accumulated over time. Lenore has been by Frank's side for many years and has also refined a lot. These are the keys to driving the film.
And Lenore's Tourette's is more of a tweaking point for the film.
Symptoms of Tourette syndrome are involuntary movements and sounds, such as twitching, blinking, grimacing, shrugging, head shaking, and making strange noises. Lenore, like Mr. Hiccup, would twitch his head involuntarily from time to time, while uttering some filthy words that he couldn't control. He was able to relieve some of his symptoms only by chewing gum and flying leaves.
One of the biggest problems of Lenore's illness is that when something unpleasant happens, Tourette's syndrome will flare up, and he will utter a loud curse that expresses his innermost feelings. He is embarrassed himself, and the other party will be extremely angry. It's useless for you to explain that this is Tourette's syndrome, after all, what you scold is the real thoughts in your heart.
Lenore's Tourette Syndrome adjusted the atmosphere of the film and gave Edward Nord a chance to show off his skills. In addition, this Tourette Syndrome had no effect.
Oh, it is excellent to have a giant 's strength; but it is tyrannous touse it like a giant.
--Shakespeare, "Tit for Tit"
It is a pleasure to have the power of a giant in hand, but to abuse the power of a giant is no different from a tyrant. The film uses this sentence as an eye-catcher, and the meaning could not be more obvious.
Those in power who have mastered all kinds of people, property, and property are like mastering the power of giants, and they can do things very easily. If these people can use their power to seek development for the city, it is a good thing, but if those in power use their power to seek personal gain and incite conflict and hatred, that is a pest that will bring disaster to the country and the people.
Moses Randolph and other big real estate businessmen, and those in power represented by the mayor, have made some contributions to the development of the city, but it is difficult to talk about it. Human rights social movements and many other issues.
With so many characters, it's not easy to bring into the perspective of the male protagonist what is right and what is wrong. The mouth follows the butt, and different groups of people will naturally only strive for their own interests. The rulers here are only thinking about using power to eliminate those who discovered the problem, not using power to solve the discovered problem. If the rulers who master the power of giants do not have the perspective of commanding the overall situation and transcend the core viewpoints of the interests of various factions, they will only cause the society to become more and more fragmented in the end.
In the end, when the society is divided beyond repair, it only takes a small report to make those who possess the power of giants lose their power.
The power of the giant lacks the foundation, the outside is strong, the middle is strong,
The unknown detective kicked the disguise to pieces.
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