Eastwood plays a retired veteran, a white man, who lives in the glory of the past and likes to party with old guys from time to time. The legendary old white man is also a hard-core Trump voter. He was called the "old bastard" at the beginning. He doesn't know how to use mobile phones, resists online shopping, rejects new things, and is not used to the correct way of calling black people. He likes to be in the limelight and enjoy the feeling of being surrounded by people. By the way, he talks to the young drug dealer, and opens his mouth to give life advice. The most terrible thing is that his body and mind are all put in the pot of daylily that only lasts one day, and he doesn't care about the important days and major events of his family (wife, daughter, granddaughter). I don’t have money to raise flowers, but I have money to find a big girl (the theater version has been deleted). Such an old and hard guy would be cursed scumbag by just listening to the description.
However, Eastwood has a way to take the wrong things into simple and charming everyday life-he is like this, and he has lived like this for decades. A good director, of course, doesn't make the wrong shots right, and that becomes brainwashing. In any case, drug trafficking should always be a serious crime. The President of the Philippines also had iron hands and shot the drug dealers on the spot. War and aging cannot rationalize the job of poison mule. The real sense of guilt actually comes from the old man's indifference to the family. He really likes some things, more than his relatives and the family itself. For example, traveling through 41 states, such as dealing with party dances, talking and laughing with drug lords. It seems that he just likes to be his hero, but he doesn't want to be the leader of the family.
For some viewers, the topic of family is more than everything, safety and insurance are reliable, but it is also a bit old. For that generation of veterans, if you are a prodigal son, don't stay on the shore, but your home is always your home. After so many years of wandering, you should know that you will go home and have a look.
The story is such a story. As for what you have to see "American pills", "Federal police have a deterrent effect," "So different from state to state", that's another matter. The old man enjoys his risk-taking, no, almost no thrills happen on the road. Eastwood took pictures of the sparsely populated roadside scenery every time he ran for transportation. Listening to songs, eating sandwiches, drinking beer, helping others, chatting with the young drug dealers, and having a heart-to-heart battle, until he was arrested, there was no fierce gunfire.
Compared to the troubles of the federal police, the only thing he had to deal with was the police dog. Basically, every time he takes the initiative to open the trunk of the show, it makes people sweat for him. There is absolutely no such gameplay in ordinary movies. Not only did the federal police turn a blind eye to him, even the protagonist of the anti-narcotics police treated him as a senior mentor. Including the hotel interception for a period of time, ordinary viewers might wonder why they didn't check him. Don’t talk about people there, the cars are there. The reason is that such an old white man, with his aura wide open, wrote all over his body: I will not be investigated. Eastwood seemed to show off white superiority, but he revealed the discrimination, differential treatment and unreasonable handling of cases in the United States through these details. Recently I saw a sentence saying that a man has to bear heavy things in the world. Also before, I extracted a line from a Hong Kong movie, saying that the way out for young people is to go to jail. "Mule" has almost the same meaning, since you like to grow flowers, then find a place to grow them for you. Since you are always wandering, there is always a fixed address now-I just love the ending, the line my daughter said. The role of the old man in life, the old wife Mary has actually summed up for him. The love and pain brought are half and half. It can only be so, helpless. If he is content with his livelihood, then he is not him.
It’s not like that people sometimes suffer from relatives, but hope that their relatives are like that. Just like "Dahe Lian", Brad Pitt, as a younger brother, can be said to be corrupted and unable to make progress, and he cannot live as his father and brother hoped. , Doomed to disaster. But is there any way? The movie says that no matter how perfect the home and school education is, no one can make your loved one become as perfect as you imagined. So, how to accept this imperfection, accept the inability itself, accept that he is him-exactly what many movies are talking about.
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