Russian roulette, used as a movie prop, most famously, of course, in The Deer Hunter, where a young Christopher Walken goes mad on the battlefield and ends up being the target of a gun. In 13, Russian Roulette is far more brutal.
The film tells a simple and dehumanizing story: rich people put other people's lives at stake and staged a roulette battle. The rules are very simple, a circle of sad people, load, break insurance, aim, light on, launch.
In the first round, one bullet, a bunch of people died; in
the second round, two bullets, another bunch of people died; in
the third round, three bullets, another bunch of people died.
Those who are lucky enough and have the highest stakes will have to face the ultimate roulette test, from three-ball sublimation to four-ball.
Just thinking about it is terrifying, whether it is terminal illness, or no life interest, survived the first two rounds, has the luck of not dying, knowing that if you can't die, there will be a lot of money waiting for you, that desire to survive. It will become extremely intense, and the sense of contradiction that is extremely fearful of death and has to face will rise to the extreme. God will not let the god of luck be around you forever, so you may die with hope, just like a terminally ill uncle, you can't escape when you come to the final round, and the most terrifying thing is that we know that he is not the first. Once in the game, he had dodged many, many bullets, but he was still wailing.
What's more, the director also deliberately extended the few seconds before each round of launch, and made a bunch of silent people wait for us to die with us in the audience's position. That kind of depression can be imagined.
Destiny and luck are linked, life is inexorable, and death is inexorable.
There is a black frenzy in the film, from the croak of the dealer, to the collapse of the contestants, to the dedication of the protagonist, to the red eyes of the famous Jason Statham, there is a kind of greed that glows in their faces. The protagonist's fear at the beginning to his eagerness to hold a pistol high, the kind of carelessness for human life, the kind of desire for money, is on the paper. On the contrary, the rich are calm enough to drink whiskey leisurely, calm enough to let people move stools to the contestants, and calm enough to denounce the game as a slaughterhouse; however, these seemingly charitable actions can only add to the truth. The irony of rich people who ignore human life. And indeed, in such a morbid game, everyone is like a black sun 731. They say that in the battlefield, there is no right or wrong, only killing. In "13", there is also money as a worship, the so-called ugliness of human nature, Natural nudity is more straightforward and thorough.
Personally, I really appreciate the description of Russian roulette as the main event of the whole movie, which saves the burden of forging. Plus how many similar soundtracks to "Instinct", it was really successful. Furthermore, the scene in the tiebreaker is the most creepy, because facing the loaded gun in front of you, you can't close your eyes while winding up the whole body, you have to look directly at the passing death , you have to force yourself to wait for a 50/50 headshot, God, I broke into a cold sweat when I entered the role. Another comforting thing is definitely the ending of the movie, where the sense of fate misses are arranged so cleverly and tragically that God is blind and won't let you win the lottery just because you have a sad background. The so-called God will make people, probably so.
Finally, I have to mention that Mickey Rourke, my favorite man in all Hollywood, has a very strong sense of soy sauce. I really don't give five stars because of him.
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