No-brainer and disappointment - after watching "88 Minutes"

Gerson 2022-03-23 09:01:59


Adhering to the film selection standard of "wasting your brain and hurting your feelings", today's movie time to watch this 2007 "88 Minutes" (also translated: 88 minutes to death) film is very pleasant, and the core plot is just right. is 88 minutes. The plot is also tense, and you basically don’t have much time to distract yourself. After all, in a situation where death is countdown, none of us have time to think about life, right?
Many people say that watching this movie is aimed at the male protagonist. The male protagonist is Italian, named Al Pacino, who has acted in "The Godfather". Fortunately, I haven't watched many foreign films, and even if I watched a lot, I couldn't remember the actors who looked the same (don't spit me, I really can't remember), so I don't have to take the actor's name. Be fair about personal feelings. The film is okay, and the storyline doesn't have too many bugs. Childhood shadows (it's not childhood, just youth), paranoid murderers, fanatical worship, psychopaths... In fact, these are all bad parts of movies related to psychology, but I really like those movies. Murderers with style (such as "Silence of the Lambs"), I also like those well-designed and even ritualistic murders (sorry, the little evil inside always pops out from time to time), but also very I like to play psychological warfare. Admittedly, there are a lot of things I like about this movie. However, the story is too simple, it is still the same sentence, I have watched a lot of such films, and basically I guess the ending after watching the beginning. So after watching it, I feel more nervous than mental exhaustion, plus the happy ending of justice defeating evil in the end, let alone hurt feelings. In fact, the plot I designed for this story is a bit more terrifying. I basically designed it as a story about a teacher in a class of students, plus a bit of a split personality. It turns out that I thought too much. But I really doubted the female student since she appeared on the stage, otherwise there is no suspense. To be honest, I am quite afraid of this kind of story of teachers and students. It may be related to one's own profession. Facing the situation that one's own profession is being more and more demonized by the outside world, and one's own professional living condition is getting worse and worse, many times, he will be too sensitive and delusional. I remember it was like this when I watched "Confession" at the beginning, I was crazy. After all, the motive for the murder of the female student is really strange. She was the defense lawyer of the murderer at first. In the contact with the prisoner, she worshipped and even fell in love with the murderer, so she killed the murderer in the same way to save the murderer. death penalty. N years ago, there was a Hong Kong horror film called "Magic Mirror". There was a plot in which a lawyer pretended to be a murderer and used the same method to kill in order to win the case, in order to get the defendant off the hook. picture. In addition, this film is a bit strange, the women in it are all invincible, all kinds of beauty, all kinds of coquettish, all kinds of IQ, it seems that the male protagonist is not very strong. I've been gossiping for a long time, let's talk about something profound, I really like the topic "free will" that they discussed in the class at the beginning, including the male protagonist and female students at the end The showdown is also emphasizing free will. In class, the hero asks his students, "What is the standard of soundness and insanity in the law?" The students answered in unison, "free will." This word touched me a lot. The movies I watched recently often made me have a lot of tangled thoughts about psychiatrists and mental patients. After hearing this word, I felt that I wanted to understand something. For example, a murderer is mentally distorted and his behavior is crazy and cruel, but as long as he has free will and he is not a physical disease, he should be responsible for his behavior. So, don't talk about mental illness for anything, even if 21 personalities are split, killing people should pay for their lives and they will pay for their lives!
But in the end, I have to rant about the person who recommended this film. I saw a movie recommendation on Weibo. At that time, the classification was "the most brain-intensive movie". In the same group, there are "Inception", "Shutter Island", "Mulholland Drive" and "Butterfly Effect" As a god-level movie, although this movie is not ugly, there are things worth thinking about, but it is a bit far-fetched to be juxtaposed with the above movies. Just watch it as an ordinary entertainment film. It is basically not thrilling, basically free of suspense, and the murder method is a little bloody, but it is definitely within the tolerance range of the general level. ~~~~~~~

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88 Minutes quotes

  • Kim Cummings: Just another day in the life of Jack Gramm.

  • Jack Gramm: [to Kim] You asked me about my kid sister. Okay, it was a long time ago. She was staying at my apartment in New York City. She was twelve, I was twenty-eight, and I was late for a meeting. A very important meeting. Meeting that was going to change my life, was gonna make me into somebody important, make all my dreams come true. So, I went to this meeting on this dissertation, and I left her there by herself. Now I could've taken her with me, I could've left her with friends, I could've post-poned the meeting... but I chose not to because I was in a hurry. Anyway, I left her there alone. At the time, I was working on a case. This guy had strangled six women. We were very close to nailing him. He was upset, and he wanted to get back at me, so he came to my apartment only I wasn't there. At that time, I wasn't as concerned for security. I was careless, so he broke the door down and he went in, and did things to my baby sister. Catherine was her name; Katie. He did things that you wouldn't do to an animal that was bred for slaughter. Anyway, when they caught him, he laughed and said it took him 88 minutes. It took him 88 minutes to hack my sister to bits.