Larch's Philosophy

Jamir 2022-04-10 08:01:01

A relatively good gang crime film, it premiered in Berlin in 2008, and I don't know why it has only been released on the mainland after 3 years. Before watching it, I learned about the film team. This film was nominated for the 81st Best Foreign Language Film and was the third film of South African director Ralph Ziman.
Luckey grew up in Soweto, South Africa since he was a child. Soweto in 1994, and even the whole of South Africa, were waiting for a new dawn, a new page in history, a new beginning, and Luckey also had dreams at that time, At that time, he wanted to have a career. The train was the circulatory system of the urban economy. Larch and his friends depended on it to make a living by doing small business and sucking the blood in this circulatory system. Although it was not much, it was in the free economy. is not allowed, this is the beginning of the story.
Lacy felt that doing so would never achieve his dream. I got to know Nazareth in the dark, and I gradually felt that if I wanted to steal, I would steal the biggest thing, and I had to be able to escape punishment. So he followed Nazareth and started the "automobile industry" in Soweto, and also broke the name of the king of carjacking. They are getting bigger and bigger. For them, Russia taught them how to use weapons and explosives. The United States taught them how to complete this task by correspondence. They did everything in banks and cash trucks. Later, most of them were robbed in a shopping mall. People were planted, and Lacy also decided not to play and ran to Fort Nathan. But things are often not as perfect as expected. In a city where gold is the father and money is the mother, in the crime-ridden Hillbrow neighborhood of Johannesburg, if you don't eat people, people will eat you. Lucki obviously understood this truth, and in constant practice, he wanted to change some facts and some destiny, including his own, in his own way and through his own means. On the way, he encountered many difficulties and obstacles, which prevented him from completing his career, but none of them stumped him. He solved them one by one, doing what he wanted to do step by step and down-to-earth.
The ending of the story is very special, and what the director wants to express is obvious. Through Lacy's life, his history of making a fortune, his charisma, his courage to challenge his fate, he didn't sit around a table like everyone else did, holding hands in prayer and thanking others for giving them food; he used his own hands, his own way to fill yourself and those within your means. He believes that behind every wealth lies a crime, no matter how big or small, so no one has the right to say who is guilty. The important thing is to identify the target and then follow the target. That white cop's role is to ensure that the existing system is maintained and run as a watchdog, and for Luckey he can never beat himself.
At the end of the film, Lacy says: "After every revolution a new order is established, and before a new order is established, we see opportunity" and at the beginning of the film, "a new beginning, Lacy's dream, sucks the circulatory system. the blood in it” is the same.
The black policeman in the infirmary at the back changed his attitude after seeing the white man, and told another part of the life of the black man. And the way Betty, a servant at the white wife's house, looked at Lacy, all of which were bright spots.
Luckey's line in the film is very interesting "Al Capone said a smile can take you far, a smile and a gun can take you far, but if I want to get out of this hell and live in a seaside villa , that would require a pistol, a briefcase in one hand and the most flattering smile on your face."

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