"The Americans": Landscapes of an Italian Town

Mckenna 2022-03-23 09:02:03

I have to admit that you can't look at the posters when watching a movie, and The American proves it well. Looking at the poster, it seems to be an action blockbuster. In fact, except for the partially naked "action", the action scenes in the movie are really negligible.



Fortunately, I saw it as a landscape film; also fortunately, my heart was full of peace at that time. If I was in a state of irritability at the time, I think I might have turned off the video angrily, and then cursed: Rotten to the extreme. However, this movie is really good to enjoy quietly.



In the quiet winter at the beginning, the two walked in the long snow, wandering in peace and warmth, making people feel the slightest warmth, as if the snow was born for love. We can imagine the two of them whispering and laughing softly around the red-burning fireplace in the warm cabin. Just when we were walking in the feeling of love, a gunshot broke everything that was quiet, and also tore the disguise of love. When his own life was threatened, Jack shot at the woman. He chose to kill the woman from behind. Maybe he felt guilty, maybe he let the woman die without pain, or maybe he was too cold-blooded. that cold winter.



Killer Jack embarks on the road to escape, and we don't know how the scene will play out. All the acting that had been imagined were overturned one by one, because, in the end, we found out that this is not an action movie, like "Bourne Bourne"; nor a warm killer movie, such as "This Killer Isn't Too Cold" ”, it is just a landscape film, which makes people unable to extricate themselves in the harmonious and peaceful atmosphere of the Italian town, so that the killer Jack is weakened to an irrelevant character such as A, B, C, Ding. He, just an ordinary person, no matter whether he is an American or an Italian, will not affect any sensory and spiritual gains of watching the movie.



When Jack was driving on the bridge in the town, I was infected by the scenery; when he was driving in front of the public telephone booth, the leisurely people he saw were like sitting in front of their house reading newspapers The doll looked up at Jack, and then looked at him as if he didn't exist, which made people have an impulse, that is: this is where I want to live. As for what kind of killer, what kind of love-hate relationship, all of them stand aside.



However, Jack is still a killer, and I still can only sit in front of the screen and watch everything happen, and my heart is obsessed with life there. When the woman killer mathilde found Jack, I only remembered her beautiful face, curvy figure, and round buttocks. These are not the point. The point is that I remember the river and the riverside. The grass and the sparse trees, still everything is quiet and peaceful. When the sound of the bullet made the sound of "bobo", this tranquility expanded infinitely in my heart, until the whole person seemed to have traveled through time and space to the river and the grass.



There are a lot of naked scenes in the film, I didn't feel abrupt, and I didn't feel any discomfort, just like the most primitive life, should not cover up those primitive desires. Nudity and serenity are not insulators, but two manifestations of one life. When clara took off the only clothes on her body and walked into the river, my eyes did not stop on her, but on the scenery across the river; when she walked ashore and threw herself into Jack's arms, I I don't even have the slightest idea of ​​eroticism, I just think this is really a touching and warm picture, ordinary family life, ordinary love life, ordinary lover and lover relationship. However, this scenery seems ordinary in Italy, but in the eyes of an outsider, such as me, it seems extremely unusual. This incongruity between the ordinary and the extraordinary caused me to be in a trance for a while. At that time, I thought that the true meaning of life is nothing but this, and the life I long for is nothing more than that.



Even in the chasing scenes in the film, it still makes people feel that the scenery is special, and the killing intent is reduced. The winding road in the night, without any feasting and feasting, does not appear secluded and frightening. It would be a great thing to have a walk with someone who belongs to the same heart. But Killer and Killer Jack broke everything that should have been beautiful with gunshots and mechanical sounds, leaving it stained with dust. However, this still can't hide the power of the scenery, on the contrary, it makes the scenery more beautiful. The same is true for the chase scenes that follow, so I won't repeat them.



In the end, Jack drove and died by the river, where clara fell into his arms from the river, which was just right.

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Extended Reading

The American quotes

  • Clara: [speaking to Jack] You are a good man but, you have a secret.

  • Pavel: And above all... don't make any friends, Jack. You used to know that.