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Don 2022-03-22 09:02:11

Some time ago, I watched 3 documentaries of Herzog in a row. When I came to his feature film, I didn't dare to watch it. I admit that I was timid.

After reading it, I think it's okay, and it's quite commercial~

If a person has been worried that he will be frightened, and finally finds a false alarm, he needs to slow down. Until today, when I was watching another film, I slowly realized what I liked about this film.

What do you like about it?

There is a tired middle-aged man in the film, ugly, rotten, and in a mess.

He's got a tough dad, an alcoholic stepmother, a drug addict lover, a dangerous job, he gambles, asks for bribes, embezzles, steals, blackmails, abuses violence, scheming, morally corrupt, but it's not over, His spine is broken again, the pain makes him dependent on drugs, and the drugs act as catalysts to accelerate his problems, he wants to get drugs at all costs, he wants to find money to pay off his gambling debts, he wants to help his boss gnaw the hard bones, He has to help his lover deal with difficult clients. He even has to help his father raise a dog and listen to his stepmother's nagging. With more and more balls, stealing stolen goods may be exposed at any time, coercing players to win money, offending senators in order to obtain witnesses, and provoking gangsters when dealing with clients.

It was a matter of time before he collapsed, one thing after another, getting faster and faster, holding down the gourd and scooping up, looking at the end, this unfortunate bastard, between the pain and the high energy of drug use, between reality and During the hallucinations, even walking is swaying, sitting down and grinning, why are you still holding on, why is it still not finished?

The film is designed with a clever structure to explain such magical events as "how a little bird crossed the tornado and brought food back to the nestlings safely and unscathed." At least temporarily away from the tornado, his paper world was temporarily maintained, or even advanced: he actually got a promotion, got a wife, and was going to be a father.

Really?

This is of course endless, all his problems are there and still need to be solved, his ruined health, his addiction to drugs, his bottom line that is gradually losing, his endless gangsters who need to keep getting caught... ..Reality

is like those cold-blooded animals that appear repeatedly in the film. It cannot be escaped, it is always there, and it must be faced.

There is a scene in the film, when Nicholas Cage walked into the monitoring room and found two lizards on the table in front of the camera, he stared at it for a long time, and then smiled. What I like about this film is that it truly reflects the situation of every person who has a wolf in front and a tiger in the back and is in a state of embarrassment, and through the tossing of Cage, a swaying and crazy person, shows a kind of face to this. The attitude of the situation, and at the end, I even had some confidence in him, because thinking about it carefully, the core thing that can support him and make him a point of force has never collapsed.

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  • Christiana 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    very good very dark very humorous

  • Dave 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    Halfway through, very disappointed. Crime movies play stream-of-consciousness and play nondescript. The image of Cage is not something that ordinary people can play, and I feel tired looking at him. Fang Kimmo has become fat!

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans quotes

  • Terence McDonagh: [to a man stuck in a cell as the water rises above his neck] You want me to get wet? On account of you?

  • Terence McDonagh: You don't have a lucky crack pipe?