Of course, this is an irony. However, the Coen brothers' "Miller's Crossroads" is quite a samadhi. Tell us what kind of realm the real Pirate Saint is.
In the 1920s and 1930s, a certain city in the United States under the Great Depression. The Italian gangster, Kesper, tried to impress the boss Leo with such beautiful words as friendship, personality, and even morality. The Irishman Leo is the real master of the city, and he can call the mayor and the police chief. Because Bernie, the Jew, broke the rules of boxing and gambling, which caused Casper to suffer heavy losses, Casper came to ask for Bernie to be killed. Leo is pursuing Bernie's younger sister, Vina, and is determined to put Bernie under his wings.
Our protagonist, Leo’s best friend and right-hand man, Tommy, advises the boss that it is better to pass the boat along the river and send personal affection. However, this Tommy had just made suggestions for the boss, but turned around and slept with the prospective sister-in-law Vina.
Therefore, the boss Leo and the nouveau riche Kasper fought for Bernie's life, and the two of them competed for the most valuable talent, Tommy.
Tommy dissuaded Leo from failing, so he sacrificed his hand, and told Leo that he was suspicious of Vena who had an affair with him. Leo became so angry that he beat Tommy in public. This is a good match for the best buddies.
So Tommy turned to Caseper to show his loyalty. Not only did he get out of Bernie's hiding place, but he also personally wanted to bear Bernie in the suburban grove at the crossroads known as Miller. Perhaps it was because of Vena's suspected affection that Tommy let Bernie go.
Leo, who had lost Tommy, was fading, but Caseper, who had acquired Tommy, was even more powerful and quickly took the seat of the eldest brother.
Gu Long once taught us that loyalty is used to betray. Or, your enemy is your closest friend. Or, as the old saying goes, guard against the gentleman but not against the villain. For the rest of his life, Bernie didn't want to hide, but instead threatened Tommy to kill Caseper, otherwise he would show up.
After more than half of the story, Tommy's army-like brain moved at high speed to play the classic example of the mantis catching the cicada and the oriole.
It's Casper's deputy Eddie Dan step by step to find out the truth that Bernie is not dead. It's a bunch of little guys who didn't succeed or failed, and it's that Tommy's temple eyes were put on the gun to watch the show. Not going to die, but some people have the ability to let Kesper, who had been suspicious, shoot his deputy headshot first.
The pretentious unlucky Bernie eventually died, and was disguised by Tommy as a rivalry with Kesper, killing two birds with one stone. Sitting in the middle of the spiderweb, Tommy, Zhuge Wolong and Zhao Zilong, was the boss who personally tried his best to protect him and put an end to those fights.
What is the perfect thief? It is Tommy who insists that Qingshan is not relaxed, "I can hold it."
At the beginning of the story, Leo was full of confidence: "I am strong enough to fight against anyone in this city, except you, Tommy." Tommy vowed: "You trusted me and never lost anything. You have to do it this time. Just trust me...trust me, or you will lose what you deserve." What a...arrogant indulgence. Ever since, one single-handedly, does not abandon and does not give up; the other is calm, "I believe it!" The key to Tommy's victory is Leo's belief: no matter how outrageous Tommy's methods are, Leo will finally follow him anyway. Thinking of so many dead souls who have slept with his sister-in-law, Leo and Tommy are really worthy of their wives, like brothers in clothes, siblings. Moreover, Tommy finally gave Jiangshan and beautiful women as gifts to Leo, but he did not share the fruits of victory. What kind of realm is this!
Compared with the victorious faction's Shan Wuling Tiandi He is daring to be with Junjue, the unlucky faction is a completely negative teaching material.
Eddie Dan also has the same status as Tommy and is equally loyal, but his boss, Kesper, covets others. Can’t stick to "I Believe", so Tommy three provokes two provokes, full of friendship and morality, Kesper not only shakes his loyalty to his old family, but is also anxious to express his attitude to his new favorite. Look, Eddie Dan said he wanted to kill you. , I think this is unkind.
So some people say that they almost don’t know why they are fighting, just a little bit of suspicion, "He may be betraying me", "He seems to be provoking me", and they can immediately kill the killer and beat each other to the teeth. , And another shot in the head.
Many introductions to "Miller's Crossroads" say that this is a story of a pair of friends who turned their backs on a woman. On the contrary, this is a deconstructed version of Juul and Jim.
Tommy is just infatuated or some kind of affair with Vina, the quasi-"boss woman". Tommy warned Leo sincerely: "If Vina is so good, you won't look for her everywhere at four o'clock in the morning." He wanted to use this peachy incident to stimulate his boss, and then achieve the motive of being expelled from the gang Pipa. .
There is an ethereal long shot in the film. Tommy tells Vina about a dream that he had a hat blown away. Vina hopes that the hat can become something beautiful-in the eyes of fantasy women, that beautiful Maybe it's love. But Tommy completely squeezed out Vina's pink soap bubbles, and said with a straight face that there was nothing more ridiculous than chasing a hat blown away by the wind, and that the hat was just a hat.
When all the dust settled and the three attended Bernie's funeral, Leo was moved by Tommy's reorganization and said that he could give up Vina. The previous insincere lines about the hat just hinted at Tommy's position: he desperately eliminated dissidents for Leo, but refused to return to Leo. The hat that he attaches great importance to but stops following, seems to symbolize the contradiction of being benevolent to friends but deliberately keeping a distance. The hat is just a hat, and the "second person" is just the "second person". Some thunder pools can jump, and some thunder pools can't jump. This also heralded Tommy's final choice. Therefore, Vina left the two of them and drove away alone, tentatively counted as her involuntary revenge.
Throughout the story, Tommy cleans up the mess alone according to the plan and welcomes Leo back to the post. Of course, we can still think that Tommy has betrayed Leo physically, but has been emotionally loyal. It's not a pity that this kind of secretly killing a friend has a long history in Zhang Che's martial arts movies and Wu Yusen's gangster movies.
The Coen brothers always tell stories, and they are good at creating exaggerated but actual gimmicks in common genres. This story is like a turbulent flow under thin ice, in a dialogue that seems to be plain but dangerous in reality. Compared with the beautiful song "Hi! Where are you going, buddy? "" and "Burn after Reading" which killed a bunch of big stars, and other films that clearly have the Cohen Brothers label. Although "Miller's Crossroads" is full of characters that are common in Cohen's movies-incredible Is stupid, cowardly, greedy, and cruel, but this relatively early work still presents an unusual...sullen temperament.
This is probably due to the fact that Gabriel Byrne, who plays the calm and thoughtful Tommy, has a face that resembles Al Pacino, and Vina is like the queen of film noir Lauren Bacall. Gangster movies either focus on brotherhood or become popular undercover. In short, there are ways to steal. In "Miller's Crossroads", these elements are all eliminated and reconstructed by Cohen.
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