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Down in the Valley
Frida 2022-03-22 09:03:02
The roles that Edward Norton chooses always have a kind of spiritual drift and rebellious factors in them. Probably his preference for such roles is inseparable from his outstanding acting skills. This is a semi-developed western town. He plays the modern cowboy Harang Farax who works at the gas station. He is over 30 and has an unrealistic romantic vision for love. He has a primitive passion in his heart. He and an 18-year-old girl go to the beach to play. Father's stubborn opposition. Unable to stand her father's threats, the girl refused to run away from home with him, and was shot in the stomach by the irrational Harang. He wounded himself in the leg with a gun and smuggled the boy out. The girl was rescued, and the girl's father joined the police to track him down. In the shootout, he hit the sheriff and walked on the road of no return, but the boy kept following his uncle who was a bit wandering spirit, and even protected him. The wounded Franc was killed by his father's gun. The last family of three scattered Franc's ashes on the hillside next to the town. Norton's subsequent performance is brilliant, making a person's journey from hesitant and cowardly to tamed by inner wildness to be convincing, and this unexpected and reasonable ending makes the contradiction tragic. The audience should still have a lot of sympathy for him. At the end, I felt a little sad. There are no absolute good or bad people in this movie. There is a father who loves his daughter, a cowboy with strong blood, and a 14-year-old man who has just started to know this society. The child, a simple 18-year-old girl, has a tragedy that happened between them, which makes people have to think about the extremely complicated topic of the relationship between people. They have done a little extreme things in a specific social and family environment, but the audience is completely understandable from their point of view, and who has no impulsiveness? It's just that tragedy is something people don't want to see. In the film, Halo Farax's shot in the mirror is clearly a tribute to Robert Deniro's 'Taxi driver'.
Extended Reading
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Harlan: I've tried living down in the valley again, really tried this time. Walked up and down it looking for one open face, but most people I've meet hardly seem like human beings to me anymore.