didn't come to this town, according to Bobby's unscrupulous way of approaching each other, every night should be beautiful, drinking, drinking, chatting with girls, talking about life, talking about ideals, the worst is Fighting for the sake of women, not to commit murder and arson. Although Bobby is not a good person, he is not a complete jerk. In fact, Bobby is still a lively Lei Feng who helps others. He took the initiative to buy soft drinks for the disabled and give the little girl change to listen to songs, which many of us can't do. But he is not a good person either. He carries a gun with him. Even if he has never used the gun from the beginning to the end, carrying such a weapon of mass destruction and a huge amount of money from unknown sources should give the impression that he is not a good citizen. He doesn't seem to be very kind, so when he has no money to pay for the car repairs, his friends, ex-girlfriends, and even his mother treat him as a passerby.
Grace is a teenage girl who does not want to be bound. She lives in a promiscuous family. If all evils and promiscuity are the first, and filial piety is the first, then this family is at the lowest level of morality. Promiscuity is the main song of her life. I believe Give her a little time, and she can conquer the whole town. In fact, this is also her powerless resistance to good fortune. He is good at using the primitive animal nature of men to arouse your desires, but he is detached from you and makes you linger. She needs one. A man who can truly set her free. When you lose the innate freedom of human beings, you will understand Petofi's poem "Life is precious, love is more expensive; if it is freedom, both can be thrown away". So, what she did was actually not excessive.
Because of a fork in the road, dry wood encountered a fire, lucky day, which could have been a tear-jerking love film, but unfortunately the director did not follow this routine. After this beautiful encounter, Bobby started his bad luck marathon The story of people who want to laugh and cry without tears kicked off.
The first person Bobby met in this small town was Darrell, a mechanic. Darrell was a joyous man, full of false teeth, sparsely stubble, and his style of dressing and speaking, especially his sarcasm. The laughs are all comical, and Darrell's gangster logic makes Bobby helpless, even a little crazy. His open-ended offer, his ignorance of seeing gold watches as trash, and selling Bobby's guns on his own accord made Bobby very upset. Every time I meet Darrell, it's not going to be good. If it weren't for Darrell, Bobby wouldn't have exploded his little universe, hysterical madness in order to buy a ticket to Mexico. I haven't figured out what game the Left foot red that Darrell played at the end was.
The scene where Jake appeared for the first time was a bit embarrassing. It was originally a passionate scene with Grace's half-push and half-off. The soundtrack and atmosphere were just right. Unexpectedly, Jake suddenly appeared in the middle of the road, shattering their dream of being a mandarin duck and interrupting them. Bobby's nose bridge. Jake is a complete scumbag, murderous, violent, incestuous, sexually abused, and a miser. He can't stand his daughter fooling around with other men, and wants Bobby, an outsider, to help kill Grace, so he can take the opportunity to get a compensation. It's a pity that he never imagined that he would eventually die at the hands of his own daughter, which is quite ironic.
TNT and Jenny are another hilarious couple in the show. Jenny likes to hook up with other men, yearns for a wonderful life in the outside world, clings to Bobby a few times, and even has children for him. TNT can't stand that other men are too close to Jenny, and they will be singled out if they are indiscriminate. With developed limbs and a simple mind, he has only one way to solve problems. Strangely though, he wilted as soon as he saw Sheriff Potter. That is, because TNT ate Bobby's ticket to Mexico and shattered Bobby's only hope of leaving the town, Bobby decided to team up with Grace to kill Jake.
Sheriff Potter is a pure man. He only wants to grow old with Grace, but he is a little timid. He flinches when he meets Jake halfway, and he promises to take Grace away, but he has never written down, a typical ideological giant. , Action Elf.
The blind man is a man of caution, always full of great truths. Because he has always lived in the dark, the blind man understands the darkness and the dark side of the world. Many things cannot be seen clearly by a discerning person, but he can see clearly. In fact, the director also used the mouth of a blind man to show his attitude towards human nature. Every time he encounters a blind man, the blind man will warn Bobby, but he can't stop Bobby from going further and further on the evil road.
Looking back at Bobby, it's really bad, driving a car and encountering a breakdown, buying a drink and encountering a robber, drinking a saliva and encountering a scorpion, opening a bottle of beer and hurting your hand. The pie didn't fall from the sky, but I stepped on a lot of shit. He was originally just a passer-by in the town, but unexpectedly became the master of the story. Under the helplessness and all kinds of fooling, he became a murderer. The director gave him hope again and again, and it was shattered again and again. Every time a problem was solved, a new problem appeared. In order to survive, he finally had to kill Grace, and survived cruelly. When he naively thought he was still lucky, Darrell laughed again, this time his car broke down forever in this deep mountain.
The story begins with a breakdown and ends with a breakdown. Listening to the film's opening theme It's a Good Day, who would have expected such an ending.
(2) The loss of morality and the annihilation of human nature.
This is a magical town. Theft, robbery, adultery, incest, murder, usury, etc., all evils have appeared in this town. Everyone is doing shady things in the name of Jesus. There is no trust between people, morality has been lost, and human nature has also disappeared.
Everyone is painful and greedy, as Grace said, "every face tells the same story, everyone has a past, has pain, and wants something". Bobby is afraid of getting her fingers cut off by loan sharks, and covets beauty, Grace is tired of her life and wants to be free, Jake can't stand her daughter's adultery with other people, and is addicted to money, Potter wants to stay with Grace until old age of love. Everyone has what they want, and in order to achieve their goals, they will betray and kill others. Even the supporting role cannot escape the word greed. The owner of the auto repair shop is greedy, and everything is for more profit. The owner of the convenience store is greedy. Not calling the police is a price. Greedy, even disgusted Bobby giving too little.
There are too many coincidences in life, and too many forks to choose. If Bobby didn't choose to go to Superior Town at the three forks and turned back, if he didn't hook up with Grace because of the flood of hormones, if he didn't get robbed, if he didn't go because he was robbed. To kill Grace, if there is no TNT to grab the ticket, if there is no way to kill Jack, then we will not see the darkest side of human nature. In fact, these seemingly accidental things are the inevitability of human nature. It is because of people's pain and greed that they have this series of choices, and they will push themselves step by step into the dark abyss, and finally fall into it, unable to do so. extricate themselves.
Many times, people will make wrong choices. If everything can be done in accordance with "seeing is not necessarily true, ask yourself if it is worth it", then so many tragedies will not happen. In the film, the blind man said that "people are not just people, everyone has a beast hidden in their hearts", yes, when reality does not develop according to people's own hopes and reaches a certain limit, when the temptation is big enough, big enough At this level, man will explode and become a beast. When Bobby saw Darrell pried open the trunk of his car, when his ticket was eaten by TNT, when Jake found out that Grace was having an adulterous relationship with most of the town, when Potter found out that Grace and Bobby were going to elope, when Grace The animalistic side exploded like a flood when he found out that Bobby didn't want to fly away with her, and it got out of hand. As the blind man said, he has seen animals commit suicide, scorpions stab themselves to death, mountain dogs tear their legs, and white men kill themselves by making out with women. When people release the beast in their hearts, they lose their humanity, and they are no longer bound by any morality, and they are one step closer to the god of death.
There is a prominent slogan "Jesus is Lord" on the billboard outside the auto repair shop. People are doing it, and the sky is watching. Everything has a cause and effect. I will pounce on you, to figure out what you are, you are a human being, not a lonely soul in the wilderness", you have to pay for your own choices. Bread, love or freedom, no matter what the people in the film choose, in the end, they are all unknown.
But movies belong to movies, and reality is still reality. If there is no even the most basic trust between people, what about faith? Without faith, there is no restraint; without restraint, the world will eventually be full of sin.
(3) The director's skills
Director Oliver Stone likes to add Indian culture to his films. Whether it is "U Turn" or "Natural Born Killers", there are many Indian murals and totems at the beginning and end of the film, and the Indians in the film are also warnings. The role of trying to make people who have gone astray turn around. Because the Indians are primitive and innocent, and have not yet been contaminated with the vices of human nature, the director uses them to represent the most simple human nature. The blind man in the movie says he's only half Indian, and Grace's mother looks like she's Indian too.
The director is also very good at using animals. There are a lot of animal shots in the film. I don’t know if it is to reflect the animalistic and primitive side of human nature.
In addition, the director's use of episodes and soundtracks is also in place. It's ironic that the opening theme uses It's a Good Day, and the episodes Help Me Make It Through The Night, Speaking Of Happiness, etc. are all well-timed; every time in the film Bobby has nowhere to go. There are bursts of weird laughter, full of sarcasm; in addition, in different scenes, the use of the soundtrack is also very clever, frivolous, provocative, helpless, nervous, grotesque, etc. are very appropriate to the plot.
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