To be honest, I don't like the gimmicky free translation of the title of "The Male and Female Thief", it is far less straightforward than "Bonnie and Clyde", they have no deep meaning, just two ordinary names, but it is The independent and strong sense of existence it has, should be in line with the temperament of the film itself. This kind of temperament has made the film "Bonnie and Clyde" handed down and has become an evergreen tree in film history. "This is a movie about people" and "Watershed" are probably not worth the practical and concise commentary of "This is a movie about people." Compared with the stereotypes about the history of film that he broke and rebelled, the two characters of Bonnie and Clyde created by Arthur Payne are more alive, even today, we are completely stripped of the background of the Great Depression , you can still see something without a sense of estrangement from the words and deeds of the characters themselves, which is passed down across generations.
At the beginning of the film, we see Bonnie looking lazy and bored in front of the mirror in the room, but her eyes are so sharp and rebellious, life can't give her too many opportunities to break the dullness, but obviously she is not willing to give in. So when she saw Clyde trying to steal her mother's car, facing the thief, she immediately showed not panic and unease, but went up to chat with curiosity full of curiosity. I think Chinese parents will clench their hearts when they see a passage like this, because such contact means danger is coming. Naturally, this must be an encounter that will cause trouble. This is the most basic rule of telling a story. However, just like most parents worry about their children, they only see the temporary situation and ignore the deeper reality.
Clyde looks quite mature in the movie. He has unique insights and knowledge of the world, which makes Bonnie full of fascination, and his series of conjectures about Bonnie's boring life completely conquered her, but In fact, Clyde's maturity is just an illusion, he doesn't have the wisdom to see everything, he is just good at discovering and expressing, and then pushing himself to others, saying that all the boring life about Bonnie that he guessed is actually his own life , is also the general living condition of young people of that era.
When most people have lost their sense of participation in life, then there must be something wrong with society, and someone must stand up first to signal their existence to people. In the modern history of the world, students have always been the most active The attitude has become the vanguard and vanguard of various sports, and the mentality is not the same. All those splendid righteousnesses are nothing more than the pursuit of history, and the young people at that moment are far away from politics, conspiracy, destruction, subversion and even justice. They just hope to speak out and perceive their own existence.
Although Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway's appearances in the film are a little mature, it can be seen from their words and deeds how immature they are, which is inevitably reminiscent of today, these big bubbles in the Internet age. Children, who gain some kind of indirect experience with an astonishing amount of information, appear to be mature and precocious, but the publicity of this "maturity" quickly reveals their true colors. For example, Clyde's stern argument about the world is actually just a bluff of self-protection. During the process of escape, he easily revealed his anxiety and his emphasis on family love and dependence.
They are all children who were ripened by the times, and then turned and abandoned by the times. They were left out in the cold. They originally had the same pursuit of worldly happiness as ordinary people, but society has deprived them of the possibility of realizing this ideal, so they have to find another way. Find a way out. Bonnie and Clyde's actions are far from motivated crime, at best what we call "nonsensical participation in society" today, so they robbed along the way, in fact neither getting nor caring about money In themselves, the newspapers were more excited about their coverage, and they even naively humbled each other about who should be more famous. This reminds me inevitably of the Truman in Peter Weir's "The Truman World". Although the two are different in form, they are both isolated individuals in terms of spirit. , and compared with Truman's manipulation, Bonnie and Clyde's self-satisfied earnest performance is more tragic.
They are fighting against the inclination of the entire social system by themselves, so their tragic fate is doomed from the beginning, but at the same time, such a "Don Quixote"-style battle is not meaningless, they eventually Will awaken those sleeping consciousnesses, even the smallest part, will open a gap in the complete dullness, until one day, as Yates said: everything falls apart/the centre cannot hold).
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