After a two-year hiatus, director Oliver Stone made a comeback in 1997 with "No U-Turn" and "U-Turn," a film set in Superior, Arizona, based on John Ridley's short story "Stray Dogs" (stray dog), as powerful as a 168-page novel, the film was shot in 42 days.
The three main characters of the film all have very good performances, especially Sean Penn's portrayal of the ill-fated Bobby, when he travels to Las Vegas with huge sums of money to pay off his gambling debts and drives on the highway in the heart of the desert. , Unexpectedly, the radiator pipe of the convertible car broke, and he planned to repair the car in the nearby town and move on. He did not expect that the next 24 hours would make him unlucky. When Bobby met the charming Grace, he made a choice with the psychology of hunting, luck or greed. Unexpectedly, the negative results followed. Afterwards, it was proved that this was a wrong choice, but there was no way back. Bobby had no way out. In order to survive, I had to bite the bullet and go on, and finally dig my own grave... Those weird people in the town made the film full of depression, "Everyone has a past, everyone has pain, and everyone wants something", It's fair to say that every weird and self-serving person in town is testing Bobby's moral limits.
I have to say, this is a breathless movie. When you feel that the plot arrangement is cruel enough, it is too heavy for life to bear. It's like being chased by a lion in despair and running for his life, only to find that bears, leopards, and wolves are also surrounded by wolves in all directions, but you are unarmed, beleaguered on all sides and in a desperate situation... In the film, Bobby just wants to survive, but Discovered that even living is a luxury, and sometimes life is such a trick that you can't get what you want too much. When I first saw this movie, I shook my head again and again and thought it was incredible, maybe the plot of playing cards out of common sense is enough.
The film has received mixed reviews for its cruelty, pornography, greed, blood, incest, murder, betrayal, and absurd plots, and the ferocity and cruelty, shamelessness and depravity of people in survival are revealed in the film. When we create a special environment or set a rule of the game, when the good of people is wiped out, the evil of people will surface, just like "Battle Royale" is a nightmare.
At this point, I recall a dialogue in the film, which is quite evocative:
-- I've done a lot of things in my life, but I'm not a murderer.
-- How do you know if you haven't tried?
The ending of the film is also a little unexpected, but it is a classic, just like a person who has a strong desire to survive but accidentally falls into the abyss, maybe he can only hope that the branches of a big tree in the abyss can catch him, but this kind of The probability is only one in ten thousand. At this point, suppose that the man who "puts your lungs" in "Crazy Stone" meets Bobby, and he must be ashamed to be inferior. But the bad luck of "Top Lung" makes people laugh, but Bobby's is quite depressing. Maybe Bobby is lucky enough to survive, to comfort the audience with suicidal thoughts and say:
He is the unlucky person, who are you?
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