But over time, I found that my beliefs were gradually being challenged. Because I found that often in the ending of this kind of superhero movie (not counting the heroes of Marvel), even if our big brother was generous because of the nonsense that the bullet jammed the bomb exploded early, he surrounded the police on the ground floor of the building. And the helicopters that cover in the sky can also beat the escaping bandits into hornet's nests. Even if we make a hypothesis, this is in reality, can the gangsters surrounded on the top of the building really hook the plane and fly like Batman. Others are also doing a blood-based business of robbing houses, not everyone is so rich.
What I want to say is that in a movie, in a specific environment, bad guys are always a minority. Even on a small level, an ordinary drunk policeman can destroy a large criminal gang. So we can always see a situation where a good person is surrounded by a group of bad people and then a group of bad people is surrounded by a group of good people. Of course, mobilizing so many extras also requires manpower and material resources. Do you think a few encirclement circles are so easy to do? Blockbuster movies have to have the momentum of blockbuster movies, and that's right.
Therefore, in many low-cost movies, sometimes the righteous side is relatively weak. When there is not a lot of police to call you, there are not so many justice judges to help you defend your rights, when you think you have brought light but find that you have just entered the dark, welcome to reality.
"8MM" is such a movie, real and cruel. This movie is so ordinary that it can't even be higher than the average movie on the IMDB rating list. The shots are plain and straightforward. But it can shock people's hearts. If you want to say that his script is excellent, it is not always true. The cruelty of LA is well known, and pedestrians on a street often have different destinies. People who come to the City of Angels for pilgrimages with the American dream often have to commit themselves to various bars and amusement parks, relying on their decent faces and figures to live their lives, looking forward to the day they will rise to the top.
It's just the most extreme case described in the movie. Violent and pornographic underground movies, please forgive me for the cumbersome use of words, but I think only such words can describe its characteristics. The girl with the star dream was abducted to LA and filmed the last movie of her life without money. Cruel? When I was in the United States, I had talked with some local residents. They felt that this kind of thing had become accustomed to Stone. They also told me that this kind of thing often happens not only in LA, but also in Las Vegas, NYC, Everywhere, It Happens All The Time. It seems that in their eyes, it is normal to see the slums where drug dealers are rampant after walking one block from the central trade area of a city. Sunset Boulevard, a totem of Hollywood, a symbol of shining luxury. And the other unnamed street is full of dirt, desolate and dilapidated. It turns out that there are not only pure (perhaps not so pure) holy angels in the City of Angels, but also countless fallen angels struggling in hell.
In "8MM", Nicholas Cage's young assistant once said: "Look, this street goes east, it's Sunset Boulevard, go west, then, welcome to hell." At the
end of the movie, Nicholas Cage replied Go to his hut, hug his wife and children and fall asleep. He knew that the nightmare would never end, and neither finding out the truth nor killing the murderer could heal his mind. He just accepted such a reality peacefully. He fell asleep, leaving the audience with an indelible nightmare.
Sad, but true.
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