Before the screening, I believe that many audiences have been attracted by its "super luxurious" lineup.
How luxurious is it? We don't give a shit, it's just that all kinds of popular actors let you watch it once and for all.
This film gathers two "Premier League" actors, Spider-Man "Dutch Brother" and "Winter Soldier" Sebastian Stan
And "Joker" star Bill Skarsgard;
And the recent hot Robert Pattinson .
It is-
God Forsaken
The Devil All the Time
ho! Spider-Man vs. Winter Soldier, Joker, Batman !
Isn't that what you see!
Without further ado, let's start talking about the plot.
"A Land Forsaken" is as its name suggests, this land is a sinful place abandoned by God .
The residents who live here devoutly believe in God, but gradually they discover that this land and the people who live here have long been abandoned by God.
The story takes place in a remote town in southern Ohio, Nokenstee .
In 1957, the town had about 400 residents.
However, beneath this seemingly peaceful appearance, there is an unimaginable tragedy.
Willard Russell (Bill Skarsgard), a soldier who has just returned from the battlefield, passes by the town of Mead near the town of Nokensted on his way home.
He fell in love at first sight with Charlotte , the waitress at the town's cafe , and he soon fell in love.
Willard couldn't wait to tell his mother, who had already found a blind date for him at home.
When he went out to fight, the mother had asked God that if her son could return safely from the battlefield, she would let her son marry Helen in exchange.
The girl's entire family was buried in the fire, leaving her alone.
If you marry her, maybe God can bless her son.
Sure enough, the mother's request came true. The son came back alive from the battlefield.
But it seemed that Willard was not very interested in this girl, or even the church he used to know.
In other words, for someone like him who can come back from the battlefield alive, belief is no longer important.
Looking at the devout prayers of the people in front of him, Willard felt himself out of place for the first time, as if he were a pagan.
At that time, he couldn't understand why people were so eager to pray, and even to worship God like crazy.
The first meeting was in vain, but fortunately Helen didn't care about his indifferent reaction, because she had already taken a fancy to the passionate pastor in the church.
Later, Willard got married to the girl he liked.
Helen is married to a favorite priest.
After Helen married the priest, they gave birth to a baby girl named Lenora .
It was a sweet little time, and Willard's mother would often come to help them take care of the children to make up for the "promise" to God that year.
One day, Helen handed over the baby to Willard's mother as usual, and she and her husband decided to go out to relax.
Before leaving, she kissed her daughter's face, but she didn't expect that this parting would be the last.
In the forest, in order to verify the "miracle of God" , the pastor picked up the screwdriver he had prepared and stabbed Helen hard.
He watched his wife cry for help in front of him and die, but he didn't care at all.
He just knelt on the ground and prayed to God, asking God to let this devout believer witness a miracle and bring his wife back to life.
But in fact, there is no "resurrection" at all. Helen never woke up again.
Poor Helen still called out her daughter's name at the last second of her life.
The crazy priest finally realized the seriousness of the situation, and he drove the car all the way and started to flee.
On the way, he abandoned the car again and took a ride with a husband and wife.
But he never imagined that the husband and wife were well-known highway killers nearby , specializing in killing men who hitchhiked.
They also have a perverted habit of forcing male passengers to take pictures with their wives before killing them.
The pastor refused to give in and was shot by a perverted couple.
At the same time, another tragedy is quietly happening.
After marriage, Willard moved to the town of Nokenstee, where he and his wife lived a plain and happy life.
But Willard always had a vague sense of guilt in his heart, especially after the birth of their son, Arvin.
At the beginning, in order to relieve his comrades who were tortured by the Japanese army, he had to shoot the soldier himself.
Since then, he has not dared to pray to God, dare not praise God,
For the sake of his family, he felt he should continue to pray and ask God for forgiveness.
But it backfired, his wife Charlotte unfortunately suffered from cancer, which is undoubtedly a fatal blow to Willard.
His wife's condition was getting worse day by day. Willard put his last hope in God, and he knelt before the cross day and night and begged.
Soon, he realized that God might want more than just people's prayers.
When you make a wish to God, there is often a corresponding sacrifice.
So he ignored his son's pleas and sacrificed his son's beloved dog to God.
But in the end, his wife Charlotte died.
The indifference of his son, the death of his wife, and the collapse of his faith were all torturing him repeatedly.
All his hopes were shattered, and the only courage in his life that could sustain him to live was also dissipated with the passing of his wife.
He collapsed. He lay on his wife's grave and took his own life in pain.
And poor Yawen, like Lenora, became an orphan of both parents and was raised by Yawen's grandmother.
Two families, the same tragic experience, two children who were not originally related by blood became brothers and sisters under the trick of fate.
Lenora inherited her mother's kindness and faith, which Arvin had no interest in.
Like his father, he firmly believes in "speaking with fists".
But Yawen takes good care of Lenora. When she is bullied, Yawen will always stand up and protect Lenora desperately.
One day, a young new priest (Robert Pattinson) arrives in the town.
He is handsome and can talk.
But he is extremely snobbish, disliking the poor and loving the rich.
He has a beautiful wife, but he keeps tricking other women into having sex with him.
The young Lenora was soon followed by him, and he used God as an excuse to trick Lenora into devoting himself to him.
It didn't take long for Lenora to find out she was pregnant, and she was so scared that she approached the pastor for help.
But the pastor categorically denied what happened that day, saying that those were all Lenora's own hallucinations, and used it to condemn Lenora at the church.
Lenora, who has experienced all this blow, is despairing and intends to hang herself.
She thought for a long time before she started, and she realized that her family would not blame herself for other people's mistakes at all.
She finally figured it out, and she decided to live a good life.
But just when she wanted to untie the rope, the iron bucket under her feet was accidentally knocked over by her.
Poor Lenora still couldn't wait for Yawen to save her, and she died tragically in the warehouse just like that.
Later, Yavin learned from the town police that the forensic doctor discovered that Lenora was pregnant during the autopsy.
The news completely angered Yavin, who decided to avenge Lenora.
Before leaving, he deliberately took the German pistol his father brought back from the battlefield.
He found the priest, pretended to be a confessor, and told the priest what happened to Lenora.
He pointed a gun at the pastor, but the pastor still refused to apologize to Lenora. In the end, he died under Yawen's gun.
Yawen knew that his murder of the priest would soon be revealed, and he could only flee.
But before escaping, he wanted to go back to his former home and settle some things .
On the way, his car broke down and couldn't start.
He had to wait for a ride on the road. This time, it was the road killer couple again.
But Yawen was not like those who were killed before. He noticed something wrong with the couple and the pistol around their waists early on.
Along the way, he stared at each other vigilantly, and took the first step.
The death of the road killer couple attracted a lot of police, because their younger brother was the town's Sheriff Li, the "Winter Soldier" who finally raised a small belly.
Sheriff Li knew the evil deeds of the couple for a long time, and he not only did not expose it, but also intended to cover it up.
Even, what he has done is no less than that of the road killer couple, black and white, lynching... desperate for elections.
Therefore, after the incident, he did not arrest the murderer for the first time, but destroyed the photos taken before the murder of the couple on the road.
He quickly set his sights on Yawen, and in revenge he drove alone to the old house where Yawen once lived.
In the forest, I found Yawen who was just about to bury the dog's bones.
The two faced off, and a gun battle was about to break out.
After two shots were fired, someone fell to the ground.
It's Sheriff Lee.
Watching the sheriff struggling to survive, he was more tormented than ever.
He stared at the pistol left by his father in a daze, and seemed to remember the four lives he shot and killed.
In the end, he chose to bury the pistol with his dog, and he continued to flee with it all on his back.
"Land Forsaken by God" was officially released on September 16, but the ratings so far have been extremely dismal!
Even IMDb , which has always been more accepting of similar topics, is only 7.1 .
With such a cast, all the actors' acting skills have ended up in such a field. Why?
flat! light! Lots of superfluous narration!
Arbitrarily cutting and splicing, the crucial turning points and foreshadowing in the original novel are discarded, so there is an abrupt plot connection in the film.
Too many things have not been made clear, and the deep digging has not been carried out.
It's a pity that such a good script has blinded the acting skills of the actors.
Land Forsaken is based on the original novel of the same name by American author Donald Ray Pollock.
In fact, the story of the land abandoned by "God" and the inhabitants of the land written by the original author is a combination of dark violence and extreme religious belief, which brings a strong sense of fate to the viewers. Unforgettable for a long time.
Under the arrangement of fate, several seemingly unrelated characters are linked together to create a picture of rural violence in the United States.
Ignorance and greed , violence and pornography , the kind Lenora and Yavin, who has been trying to maintain "justice", are particularly abrupt here.
Although they all made the most fierce resistance to break free from their fate, in the end, no one died well, and no one was able to be redeemed.
It begins with death and ends with death.
In the end, only Yawen was left, disappearing with all his sins.
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