"Tender Killing": The mood of the film is anger and helplessness

Like director Andrew Dominic's last film "Death of a Sharpshooter", "Tender Killing" is also a very personal film. Even though it has big cards such as Brad Pitt joining it, it still reveals in its bones. Intense cynicism, which is clearly still very personal in American cinema today. Similar to last year's "Desperate Driving", "Tender Killing" also has a strong and unique style, but it is different from the dark cruel but romantic modern urban fairy tale tone of "Desperous Driving". Dominic gave "Tenderness" "The Killing" is a kind of extreme coldness and numbness in the face of the personal life caused by the economic and social recession of the great era, and the whole film is told casually from an indifferent bystander's perspective, without any trace of it. The deliberate expression of feelings also makes the whole film "Gentle Killing" feel looser, making it difficult to capture the main points of the film. The cruelest part of this film is that it uses the lives of a group of standard gangsters to show the various downturns in American society today. As we all know, the underworld is often the most profitable existence in sensitive times. It has been mentioned, but when we see that in "Gentle Killing", even the underworld is cunningly and helplessly bargaining and crying for the poor income, the sense of despair is the most empathetic to the audience. . The film uses a large number of metaphorical swear words and sudden violent scenes to accuse the inaction of the American political system to vent the long-held dissatisfaction and anger in the heart, but all of this seems so worthless, at most it can only be obtained. Just a momentary pleasure. Cogan, played by Pitt, symbolizes a small speculator who survives under the capitalist system. Although he has won a temporary survival, he still does not break away from the shackles of his constitution. He is still accompanied by the anger and resentment that he has long wanted to get rid of. It's just a matter of minor or serious; James Gandolfini and Reliotta completely represent the victims of capitalism, they have no way and cannot fundamentally seek a solution to the problem, they can only live in absurd humiliation or even Inexplicably removed, there are many similar phenomena in "Gentle Killing". All in all, "Gentle Killing" is a fiercely angry youth movie, but unfortunately, when venting his anger, he was too eager to find a reasonable and appropriate way of venting his anger. Very selfish movie.

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