The story takes place in the old industrial area of the United States, also known as the "Rust Belt", mainly located in the Midwestern states, especially the Great Lakes region, and was filmed in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Local steel companies are gradually being squeezed by China's cheap steel industry, unemployment and crime rates are rising, officials are corrupt, and underworld slag is emerging. The resulting deterioration of the investment environment has made the famous auto city Detroit closed by the federal government on December 4, 2013. A judge rules bankruptcy on the day Out of the Furnace opens in the United States.
In the main line of the story, the plot design of the brother who was imprisoned and led to the separation of his lover is rather abrupt, and the plot design of the younger brother’s aftermath of the Iraq War, which led to gambling, resulting in debt and leading to underground fighting, is not so unreasonable, but the connection with the old industrial base where the story takes place is somewhat loose. . Conscripts for the Iraq war came from more impoverished southern regions. The head of the villain gangster has been positioned as a mentally ill person from the very beginning of the drive-in movie theater. No matter what, the violent convulsions without oil heads are still without oil heads. Although it is cool, it is divorced from reality and the intensity is greatly reduced. The plot of the sister-in-law's remarriage is a lot more harmonious. The portrayal of the police gangland is very restrained. It is not stupid, but it is too conservative. It still retains the positive image of black people and SWAT. to take revenge. In the end, the gang leader died, and the horses under him did not explain it, and the radiation was greatly reduced. Due to the incomplete positioning of realism in the screenwriter, there are too many absurdities in the plot, the literature and art are not up to par, and the business is not well taken care of, and nothing can be achieved in the end. In Crazy Heart, there is an obvious "next generation" new hope concept, and Out of the Furnace is all about the heroine's clues (kindergarten and pregnancy), and the weight is too light. Overall, the film can only be described as another sincere but somewhat clumsy work by Scott Cooper.
Woody Harrelson, Christian Bale, Casey Affleck and Zoe Saldana have some interesting dramas. Personally, I feel that in the original male drama, the heroine Zoe Saldana is the highlight. It is really a screenwriter. The three gays can only helplessly spread their hands.
In comparison, the same old industrial base theme of "Fireworks in the Day" seems to be bizarre and fancy, but when you think about it, the foundation of reality is deeper than Out of the Furnace, so it can stand up to scrutiny. The same desire to take into account individuality, literature and business, the wrong, the slightest difference, a thousand miles away.
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