Apocalyptic tenderness of little people

Cristobal 2021-11-30 08:01:29

Locke shouldn’t be the first choice for most people to walk into the movie theater. The trailer shows a middle-aged British man with a Welsh accent who is neither handsome nor shabby. He has a bitter and hatred expression on his face. The introduction also says that a contractor manager is in the car for more than 80 years. The life twists and turns experienced during the journey of driving and talking on the phone-this kind of movie, especially the low-cost movie, is no gimmick and no story. If it hadn’t happened yesterday and someone highly recommended it, probably Locke would still belong to me. The state of being shot.

This movie is good. For example, it's like watching Juicy Couture/Michael Kors all over Hollywood. It's monotonous, but when I look back, I see Jil Sander's minimalism and comfort. The whole story is really only Tom Hardy, a man who keeps making calls in the car, but this movie handles a very high level. It not only makes the protagonist’s character, the character formation, the family background, the computer processing method and the personality charm are all combined. As a contrast, several stories are interspersed with each other to catch people's appetite, and the rhythm is perfect, neither slow to boring nor fast and complicated to make you feel overstretched.

There are four main lines in the story:
1. Welsh buddy Ivan Locke, an original well-being man, at the end of a project, based on sympathy for an old woman who has not touched a man for many years, because the only one-night stand treats this woman His belly is getting bigger. This buddy drove to London to accompany this woman (Bethan) to give birth to the baby
. 2. The engineering project that Evan was responsible for had cement pouring on the second day, and the tens of millions of dollars of the project might be ruined because he could not be there to solve the problem in person. Even so, he still insisted on visiting Bethan to give birth
. 3. Evan exposed everything in the car to his wife who was expecting him to go home to watch the football game, and the family troubles brought about by this were full of wind and rain.
4. The last segment-the brilliance of the movie: Evan's dialogue with his imaginary biological father in the empty seat in the back without a phone call. It turns out that Evan was the illegitimate son of his mother and father after his father was addicted to alcohol and drugs. The biological father abandons his mother-from this hidden personality clue, his "responsibility" can also be traced to all corners of his personality: standing on the opposite point of the father, Xu Yidai has been flooded since childhood. Anger and dissatisfaction, his responsibility is to be scolded even if he is scarred and hated by others. If he makes a mistake, he will not find an excuse, and he will carry it to the end and even become stubborn. Therefore, even if he was expelled from the company, he would still take care of the engineering work to the end. Even in the face of family and career crisis, he still went to Bethan without hesitation - insisting on what he thought was right and should be done.

But this persistence is not without a bottom line, even if it is a tough guy, there is still a bottom line that makes him unable to hold it in the end. He said that he hoped there was still a glimmer of hope, hoping to drive towards destruction in the dark, and when the sun rose the next day, he knew that he still had a home to go back to; and in the last phone call from his wife, she said: No matter it is one time Still ten times, it was just the difference between cheating and not cheating. She said that she would clean everything in the house ten times until the traces of his existence were erased. She said he would never come back if he had no home. The sensible son was comforting his father and said, let’s pretend that today’s game will only happen tomorrow, pretending that we don’t know the score, and we will watch the game together tomorrow. Mom will grill us sausages on the side, just as usual, it will not change. . Even if adults understand that nothing will be the same, they are still moved to tears by the naive but hopeful and infinitely possible comfort in the young voice of inexperienced people. After his wife's last phone call, Evan's world clearly collapsed-maybe he could understand a little bit of his father's powerlessness? I have done everything but still can't ferry to shore.

And it is such a tough guy who has spent more than 80 minutes of driving in the infernal affairs of his life. He still beats the woman who has no love at all, and even a mischievous woman after 80 minutes when there is no longer a family, a wife and a job. A phone call: Even if I am not by your side now, I want you to know: Good luck, you deserve happiness-this is the gentleness of a little man in the last days.

When we heard the cry of the newborn before dawn, and looked through London without ever changing the flow of the road, Evan started the car again, and we couldn't help wondering, when the sun rises, will everything be okay?

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Locke quotes

  • Ivan Locke: I could have easily let the concrete go to hell, but I didn't. You know, dad, when you came creeping back saying you were sorry, it was even worse than staying away. Yes, I'm serious! I could have broken your fucking back for that, but I didn't, and the fact that I could have done it was worse than anything. Because you were so fucking weak! That was the first thing I noticed. So weak. All the things I fucking despise inside one fucking stupid green shirt. You look pathetic. My fucking dad. And what were they, they were trainers, some sort of fucking trainers that teenagers wear. Your hair was all over the place. You don't drink anymore, you don't fucking smoke dope. What, we're all supposed to celebrate, is that it? Celebrate what, exactly?

  • Ivan Locke: Good God, Caldwell's a donkey!

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