The film I'm watching today is called "The Everglades", and it tells the story of a period of great change in modern Spain in the 1980s. The story takes place in a remote town in the Guadalquivir Valley. In this small town , two little girls were mercilessly murdered.
The way they were killed was so cruel, that kind of cruelty was something that I felt very cruel just by relying on my creative imagination to imagine it.
Two police officers, Padro and his partner Juan, were ordered to investigate the matter.
Although the police officers have already come here, the police officers are only a group of people with very little power... Besides, being assigned to such a place where birds don't shit... It's quite desolate. Two police officers came here, recognized the characters here, recognized the girl's father and mother, and recognized what happened.
But even after the movie ended, I still felt a blockage deep inside.
(1) May the world be clear and peaceful
Although I clearly knew that this was an impossible wish, I dared to make this wish. It was a big and empty wish, and this wish was beyond reach.
In this film, the two police officers have very different personalities. In the beginning, the police officer Padro is a very decent character, as you can see from the details at the beginning of the film. For example, when the car of two people broke down, the police officer Padro stood on the side of the road to stop the car, while the police officer Juan was more relaxed... He sat in front of the broken car, raised his head and looked at the sky, as if I have seen clearly the sinister nature of this world, and it is still good to look up at the sky once in a while. But police officer Padro does not have such a laid-back state of mind.
Later, when the two were playing a shooting game, Officer Juan was shooting the wine, and Padro just started playing the keychain, and he was hit with one hit. The contrast in detail here also hints at the difference in values between Padro and Juan; Padro is serious, Juan is cynical. After that, it became more interesting. Juan missed a shot, so Padro changed his target and went to drink. What does this mean? Padro is already taking the initiative to compete with Juan. Both of them are going to have a drink. If you can't do it, I will do it. This action is actually showing this thing.
At this time, the relationship between the two is still in a state of confrontation.
Padro is actually a very decent person.
But when things developed later, subtle changes began to appear. Padro originally wanted to stick to his own decency. When Padro contradicted his superior for the first time, saying that he wanted to test the blood type of a rich man, the superior refused him because it was too late. for the reason.
Because the two people got evidence that it was this mysterious man, with soft palms, a strong perfume smell on his body, and a hat. After Juan got the news, he spread the news, but he did not directly contradict the superior; the upright Padro went to contradict the superior, and the superior said directly: "I heard that you are difficult, but you already have Now that you have a room, I hope you can restrain yourself a little bit."
In the end, Juan left the chief's office, and Padro followed him out of the office.
This matter is over.
In the process of solving the case, there was also a reporter who followed the photo. The reporter told Padro that Juan was a person with a very complicated past, and he took out the photos as evidence. Padro, who perfectly chose to trust Juan after Juan saved his life, ripped up the picture.
Here I feel that what he died was not a photo, but his belief in his past life... He is no longer as stubborn as he used to be, and he has become a little more tactful.
In the past, Padro felt that the world was black and white, but now Padro has changed a lot. Although Juan also did a lot of wrong things, but Juan saved him; in the end, Juan killed the man who was the gatekeeper, stabbed the other nineteen times, and stabbed the man to death. In the end, the credit goes to Padro, and Padro became a national hero, so not all the credit belongs to Padro. Juan also has a lot of credit, but the credit goes to Padro, because the two concealed it. The truth that Juan killed people, even if Juan killed the murderer.
After watching the whole movie, it's not really that bad. There are some regrets, such a good Padro was finally forced to compromise with the world, let go of his arrogance, and become a character like Juan. Although Juan is very slick, I just feel that my heart is blocked. If everyone is as slick as Juan, how can politics be clear? How does the world move forward? So although this is a serial girl disappearance case, it was not solved in the end.
(2) No one dares to stand up and tell the truth! ! !
What a sad time this is! In this world, no one dares to stand up and tell the truth. Officer Padro was originally a person who stood up and told the truth, but he perfectly changed his values in the process of working with Juan... Yes , Sometimes it is because of some small details that we make important decisions.
When Officer Juan saw the rich man, when he smelled the cologne on the rich man's palm, he knew it was a man behind the scenes. Poor people like Sebastian and the handsome guy are just some little scumbags.
The proprietress of the inn is like a prostitute in an ancient brothel. She clearly knows who abuses these girls again, but he dares not say it. She is very scared. I personally think she deserves to be beaten by two police officers, because she Really condone this sinful thing.
Although the young police officer Padro stood up briefly, he was finally beaten down by the torrent of the times and compromised. In the end, what a sad thing this is! Cases of missing girls continued to happen, and these girls were still dreaming of leaving the village. They thought that after putting the old man who smelled of cologne all over his body to sleep, they would be able to get money to leave this dilapidated village. It's just a dream; first the handsome guy will take part of their money, and Sebastian will take part of it, which is equivalent to saying that a woman is robbed by three men...
In the end, they have to bear the terrible consequences of losing their lives.
After reading it, I just feel that the whole story is really pitiful and pitiful, why should such cruel things happen in such a beautiful life? I saw the cruel endings of these teenage girls, and when I couldn't do anything, I sat in front of the computer and cried a lot. We were born to be human, why are we so sad.
(3) The pun semantics of "swampland"
The title of the movie is "The Swamp", but many people don't understand the meaning of the word. The background of the story is Spain in the 1980s, when Spain had just turned from Franco's dictatorship to the road of democracy. Along the way, it was bumpy and bumpy. Moreover, it is impossible to switch from dictatorship to democracy at once, which requires a long transition period.
If the Franco government of the past was a backwater, then Spain of the future will be a brand new continent, a place that needs to be admired and yearned for. , the waterway blends, everything is ambiguous.
But when the two people just arrived in this town, the people in the village took them to see the "witch" in the village. When they met for the first time, the goddess was surprised to see Hu An, and her eyes could not be calm for a long time. It seemed that It is the sequelae brought by the brutal law enforcement of the previous government's dictatorship; when the goddess met Juan for the second time, she said, "You will die soon." This means "your cruel era will soon be will die."
A pun, beautiful.
When Hu An arrived in this small town, he actually understood what the whole thing was about. Everything was just a trap. Hu An Xin knew all kinds of crimes. things, like many people, dressed in a bright and beautiful shell, doing cruel and painful things.
But even if he knows the whole thing, he can't do anything, he can't go deep into the whole thing, he knows that he can't bring down those high-ranking people, everything is the same, so what if he knows the truth, life should not be drunk ,muddle along.
In the end, when Juan met Sebastian, he directly stabbed him to death. Not only did he want to quickly end the whole case and leave the town, but also his anger at his inability to do anything, even seeing how absurd the whole thing was and knowing that Sebastian was just a fuse, he also There was no way, he couldn't do anything.
That's why he chose to be drunk and immersed in short-term happiness.
Because of an uneasy conscience, you will be condemned.
I can feel how helpless everyone is across time and space and across the TV screen. Why are they so helpless? How can such cruel things happen in this world? But what can I do, no one can answer me, no one can give me the answer, this is the world, the five thousand years of culture left by the ancestors, it is not born in vain, it exists bit by bit Yes, but I still hope "May the world be clear."
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