Nicole Kidman's beauty is unquestionable, but her performance is so lacking in levels, lacking the emotional expressiveness and explosive power that gradually progresses to climax.
First spoiler: a woman fled to a small town because she was chased by a gang. People in this small town agreed to accept and hide her. One of the writers, Tom, even fell in love with her. Women gradually merged into this small town. She believed that as long as she had enough virtues, she could get virtues in return. She tried to use her virtues to infect this small town and make it a small garden of Eden---but, with the situation With the development of the city, the residents of the town gradually exposed their hypocrisy, blindness, greed, selfishness, coldness, evil... and so on. One of the residents raped her while the police came to search for her. She wanted to escape and gave the money Tom gave her to the truck driver, but after the truck driver raped her on the way, he took her back to Dogtown again. People chained her to prevent her from escaping again.
From then on, every woman, child, can come to humiliate her, and every man can come to her to vent his desires at night. Finally Tom came, and he wanted to take her too-----but she refused. At this time, Tom, who represents love and only hope, rebelled-he took out the phone number of the gang leader he secretly collected... The story suddenly turned here, it turned out that the gang leader is the woman's father . Because women have lived in violence and vendettas, struggles for interests and power since they were young, they are full of yearning and expectation for the truth, goodness, and beauty of human nature. She didn't want to get along with her father, so she chose to flee. When virtue began to wander, what happened to her?
Only insult, damage, and destruction.
At the end of the story, the woman asks her father for power: "I want it now!" Her father said: "Maybe we can kill a dog first and nail it to the wall, it will work!" "No!" The woman said, "This village can disappear. There is a family with children." She paused, and then said, "Kill the child first, tell his mother to watch, and tell her if she can bear not crying, stop? "
After all the people were slaughtered, only the frightened Tom, who had passed her back and tried to defend her, was left. She raised her gun and pointed it at him: "Goodbye, Tom!" In the
end, there was only one dog.
This brings me to a sentence: The more people I know, the more I like dogs.
I have watched Li Yinhe’s comment on this movie. I feel that Teacher Li's generalization is too one-sided. She thinks this film is depicting the poor, and she thinks that poverty is a sin-to the effect. This understanding may be too one-sided. This film is a fable. I think it is not a political fable or a class fable. It is a fable of human nature. It describes and attacks the entire human race, and it attacks viciously, viciously, accurately, and absolutely. Give no hope.
It is said that the director wanted to make "American Trilogy", but the film was not made because of depression. No wonder, I'm afraid of depression when I watch this film more than once.
He doesn't like people at all, and he doesn't like himself very much.
Maybe he is correct.
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