Come home after dinner and watch this classic western wild bunch (almost as old as I am). A hail of bullets from the tough western guys, violent aesthetics, multi-camera switching and fast editing, desolate western scenery, strong Indian style,... Director Pekinfa can be said to be the grandfather of Quentin and John Woo. This classic film in the history of film, the beauty of the film will not be repeated, but after watching it, I am full of emotions, especially when I think of the debate with my classmates, and I have a little new understanding.
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The film is about a gang of rogues headed by Parker, who spend their days robbing houses on the border of the southern United States with Mexico. In the process of robbing a bank in a border town, he was ambushed by bounty hunters headed by his former partner Thornton and escaped in a hurry. In order to escape the pursuit of bounty hunters, he escaped into the town of Greenwater in Mexico, and took refuge in the local warlord Raccoon. Because of the high bounty offered by the raccoon, Pike, the Dutchman, the old coachman, the Gauche brothers and the Indian Angel, rode the US military train together to raise guns and ammunition for the brutal and shameless raccoon. Angel was persecuted by the raccoon because of his tribe, so he exchanged his share for a box of guns and gave it to the tribe. Pike and the other three finally found out in their conscience that, in the case that it was none of their business and left with the money, in order to rescue Angel, they started a big battle with the warlord troops...
From the beginning of the film, the Pike gang we saw undoubtedly believed in the supremacy of money and the law of the jungle: when robbing a bank, he gave a cold warning: whoever moves will be killed; in the shootout, he did not care about the lives of innocent passers-by; Pursue, you can take refuge in the shameless and brutal warlord; for gold, you can loot the government's arms. As the plot progresses, the cold blood of Pike and his accomplices is magnified again and again: in order to escape, the injured accomplices can be killed; because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, they can draw guns; in order to escape for their own lives, regardless of the life and death of their brothers, put them in jail; Lying on the top of the mountain, watching the old man who has been injured for many years, said that he would not help because there was no water; because there was a box of guns, he was indifferent as he watched Angell being captured by a raccoon...
Although it can be because of their anti-system behavior. Smeared with the tragic color of heroism, the institutional force represented by the railway company is nothing more than killing in the guise of the law (and the methods are still very bad, using death row prisoners as bounty hunters). But even so, they are nothing more than rogues wandering between civilization and barbarism. They use the loopholes in the system to make money, and there is not much justice. So in the first half of the film, I was very confused about the director's intention. Is it to expose the shamelessness of the system, or to praise the wit of the rogue? Is it to show that the friendship between cowboys can't stand the impact of the temptation of money, or to reflect the roaming class cruising between tyrants and submissive people? However, with the development of the plot, the temperament of these western tough guys gradually revealed, revealing their helplessness and inner suffering when they abandoned their brothers. In the last half hour, Parker is seen saying to the Gouch brothers who are haggling with the woman: Let's go! And these two villains who had just ruthlessly strangled a bird, responded: Why not? So, four people, four guns, walked side by side to the military camp, started killing for Angel, and finally perished with the warlord, I suddenly realized. It is the abandonment over and over again that hits the hearts of these rogues. The friendships established by men in battle can be temporarily abandoned because of life, but cannot be lost forever because of money. Pike and his companions finally completed their own redemption with their lives, and finally retained the bottom line of human nature.
It's not wrong to believe in money and power, as long as you can keep the trace of kindness in your heart, retain your dignity, and retain the bottom line of civilization. If there is no bottom line, that is the biggest tragedy.
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