won the awards: Oscar for Best Screenplay, nominated for Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Editing
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, nominated for Best Film (Drama), Best Actress ( Drama)
British Academy Award Nominated for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Music
French Caesar Award Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film
National Film Critics Association Award Best Supporting Actor
National Critics Association Award for Best Actress
IMDb: 7.3/10 (45,577votes)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103074/
IMDb called this film one of the ten must-see films for women in a lifetime One, but only women need to see it?
"The End of the Road" is indeed a movie that makes men uncomfortable. Are there any monsters who like to look in the mirror? But we have so many movies that make men comfortable, we even teach women to like movies, sports shows that only men like to watch, whether they like it or not, like a goddamn rapist.
Crazy flower, how did you come to the end of the road where there is no room for turning back?
At the beginning of the film, Susan. Sarandon is in charge, Gina. Davis is responsible for enjoying his freedom like a cute puppy. Then because of stopping Gina. Davis' rape, Susan. Sarandon shot and killed the bastard, Susan, who was never explained in the movie but was always shrouded in the shadow of some pain in Texas. Sarandon decides to flee without calling the police. So they went from killing in self-defense to first-degree murder fugitives.
Here we go, Gina. Davis was still a supporting character, and she fled with her overwhelmed, in fact, Susan. Sarandon was just trying to be brave and at a loss... At this time, they were just two little girls who did something wrong and ran away from home. They have been trying to find a way to survive, and they believed that the future was full of hopefully.
Until we just debuted the lovely and innocent Brad. Peter shows up and steals the money they've been relying on to save their lives. Here is a big twist in the story. Always causing trouble, innocent, lively and beautiful like a standard little woman Gina. Davis suddenly grew into a mad flower, picked up a gun, in Susan. Sarandon approached the convenience store with a question mark on his face: "Good morning, this is a robbery. Don't be impulsive, everyone. Simon said everyone is on the ground. You too, miss, get down; sir, you don't have to. Look. Who will win the cool prize. Sir, take the money out of the drawer and put it in the paper bag..."
Interestingly, teach Gina. How did Davis' obedient women rob, but it was Brad . peter. What's more interesting is that this robbery method only exists in Brad. In Peter's fantasy, it is used to fish for women. Maybe he really wanted to rob like this once, and be a "living gangster" that most men yearn for, but in reality, he is a scumbag who only steals women's money. And this fantasy was realized by the weak woman who was cornered by him.
But it is also certain that they will never be able to turn back. First-degree murder, which may have been controversial in the first place, and armed robbery, are completely inexplicable.
"But you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for when you eat, you shall die." Is this the price that must be paid for growth?
There are a total of five important men in the movie, roughly covering what all the goddamn men look like. The first is Gina. Davis' husband, a manly chauvinist pig of the highest standard, raised his wife as his personal property. The second one is trying to rape Gina outside the bar. Davis, but unfortunately by Susan. The guy Sarandon killed. To put it simply, he's a damned pervert with a brain full of sperm. The third is the little white-faced Brad. peter. The fourth one is the idiot truck driver who constantly used foul language and gestures to sexually harass the heroines and mistakenly think that the vulgar is the man. The last one is the state trooper who looks majestic and mighty. After being disarmed, he suddenly softened like a castrated guy, crying... Could this be the real face of a man?
Of course, the film has become a classic, and the performances of these men have contributed a lot.
A piece of Gina. Davis called home to check her husband's tone to see if the crime had happened. For the first time in his life, her husband responded in a good voice, and he was caught immediately, in fact, he was helping the police to set a trap. The other one is Brad. Pete's vulgar appearance when he was beaten by a detective with his hat. And when the state trooper is about to be locked up in the back of the car, he moves out of the house and his wife and children come to beg for mercy. It's really pitiful for a man to be weak.
Of course there are also good men, such as the detective who always wanted to save their lives, such as Susan. Sarandon's boyfriend. But what a good man has is just powerlessness. The whole story is like a road leading to a cliff. In the end, you have no choice but to rush off the cliff. No one can help them, and they don't need anyone's help.
Men with these despicable qualities...or, almost all men in the world, make women suffer, and what is left for women to fight back?
We see Susan. Sarandon took off all the accessories, the shiny things that men like for women to wear for them; and, when Susan. When Sarandon said to the state trooper, "Can I exchange glasses with you?", would we, as men, want a standing ovation? Or does it make you feel threatened? Makes you clench your fists into the air like the driver of a possibly tanker blown away and shout, "Damn woman, damn woman from hell!"
This movie is more of a comedy than a tragedy. End, Gina. Davis said, "Okay, listen, let's not get caught, go ahead, go!" They looked at each other and smiled, just like Paul Brown at the end of Tiger and Leopard. Newman and Robert. Ruifu can't see the guns that announce death, but only sees a brave new world that must be moved forward. Then the car rushed off the cliff... The classic stop-motion of "Tiger and Leopard". All this does not make people feel sentimental, but they are relieved and sighed that they have finally found happiness after all the hardships and found a paradise that could not be more ideal.
The end credits mirror several previous clips. You will find that the two heroines are constantly changing... The real beauty is not something that can be wiped off by lipstick, but only after the lipstick is discarded and freedom is obtained.
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I have to say that Director Lei is really strong, he can produce classics such as "Ghost Warrior" and "Black Hawk Project", and he can also produce subtle films like "Prometheus": P
But this "Flowers at the End of the Road" is really too good to say. I originally thought that this kind of relaxed road movie should bother action director Rayleigh Scott. After seeing it, I found out that it was an action movie, and director Ray was GJ! ! !
At the beginning of the film, two friends, Thelma (Gina Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon), make an appointment to travel abroad; Louise is a restaurant waitress with a strong and independent personality, whereas Thelma is a submissive family The housewife didn't dare to speak to the arrogant and domineering husband even after going out for two days on weekends. In the end, she simply left a note at home and walked away with the microwave food.
Originally, the two planned to go fishing at a friend's holiday cabin and enjoy the natural scenery in the mountains; however, in the first tavern where they were resting, Thelma met a man who frequently expressed his affection for her. , The man took Thelma to the outdoor parking lot when she said she wanted to breathe fresh air. When no one was around, the man started to slap her feet, and even tried to overlord her.
Seeing her friend missing, Louise ran into the parking lot and ran into this scene. Originally, she was just holding a gun to threaten the other party to let go of Thelma, but because the other party kept saying foul language, he accidentally killed the man.
"We're nothing, really, just having fun; we're having fun, right?"
"When a woman cries like that, it means she's not happy at all!!!"
So a simple outing became On the road escape, Thelma and Louise took turns driving the Thunderbird 66, all the way south, trying to escape to Mexico...
On the way, they met the handsome liar JD (Brad Pitt), who was unable to drive a fuel tanker. The driver who stopped sexually harassing the two didn't feel like a good state trooper (it turned out to be a coward XD); Louise's boyfriend Jimmy (Michael Madsen) helped in a timely manner and the only police officer who was chasing them was Hal who thought for them. The police officer (Harvey Keitel) is probably the only good male OTZZZ in the film
It's not without reason that this film is called a feminist classic (although I don't want to care so much XD), even if you have no concept of road movies, feminism, etc., as long as you watch this movie as a woman, you must not be pressured inner excitement. Obviously, it can be regarded as killing in self-defense.
Thelma: "Why didn't we call the police? Just told the police that he wanted to rape me."
Louise: "Do you think they would believe it? When so many people saw you dancing with him on the dance floor, face to face?! And without '' "Physical evidence that he touched you." Thelma
: "...this law is really weird."
When it arrived, some were beaten up; and the final outcome was not so much a handsome choice, but rather the most violent and silent protest against the domination of men by women.
During the trip (it only took three days in the film XD), it's obvious to see Thelma transform from a brainless nympho woman to a shrewd robber (hilarious), throwing the state trooper in the back luggage In the box! ! ! Louise
was originally the more independent and strong of the two, but the sudden arrival of her boyfriend Jimmy and the fragility he showed after his life savings was stolen by JD pushed this role to a richer level and brought him directly. Out of Thelma's unknown robbery trait XDDD
Originally, Louise just asked him to send money to himself (as the cost of escaping to Mexico), but Jimmy himself appeared directly.
From the beginning to the end, Louise never revealed to Jimmy that he had killed anyone. Even so, Jimmy took out the wedding ring and begged Louise to accept it. Facing Louise's indecision, after asking two questions, Jimmy chose to face it with silence and trust. . On the last night of their coexistence and the early morning of their breakup, the expressions of both parties were sweet and bitter, and the parting kiss was filled with strong reluctance. Louise's sentence: "I'll call you again." With a shred of hope....
As for this ruffian, I really can't bear to say that he (holding his forehead), pretending to be an innocent college student when he stops a car on the side of the road, he has to eat and take it. It's too much, Brad Pitt, you rascal! ! ! Clap and laugh Sherlock slaps
his teeth! very young! What a sinful body! ! !
Clap the table and laugh at the table and laugh at the table Doing super obscene provocative actions was so annoyed that Shidou didn't rush to beat him, although I think Thelma's husband is basically a mess and nothing to be sympathetic to. (Fat, selfish, manly, and irritable...how on earth would you marry such a person (
Hal, the only police officer on the side of the two in the crash film, got the bartender from the original murder scene" The two of them don't look like people who can kill... Even if they are, I'm surprised how the bastard died now" testimony, to installing a phone monitor at Thelma's house and talking directly to Louise on the phone. They confronted each other, and even grabbed JD and yelled at him, "If you hadn't stolen all their money...they would have had a chance", until finally they insisted on flying with a large number of police from Arkansas to the Grand Canyon to contain them. Thelma and Louise; during the process, he kept worrying that the two would embark on an irreversible road, and it seemed that he was the only person who knew that Louise had an embarrassing past in Texas (this encounter is one of the reasons why Louise did not dare to call the police), More than once, he yelled at his police colleagues, "Aren't women bullied enough?", but in the end, Hal was unable to turn the tide
by himself. It is the magnificent scenery in the middle of the American continent that makes people linger, and such scenery (without any special effects) also casts irreversible tragic and vicissitudes for the ending of the film. Any men who harassed and violently responded to them, the clothes on the two heroines became more and more dirty, and finally the lipstick was also thrown away, the jewelry was also thrown away, and the makeup was no longer needed, but it was covered with stains. The faces of sand and mud have become the most beautiful scenery of the whole trip.
At the end of the video, under the aim of a whole line of policemen with guns, Thelma said, "Keepgoing, Louise, GO!!!", the rolling yellow sand behind him obscured the figure of Officer Hal rushing to stop the two, and Louise kissed his friend And hugged Thelma tightly, the tears on his face were still dry, the boots had stepped on the accelerator, and the dark green Thunderbird 66 drew a beautiful arc in the air, condensing into a dazzling light over the canyon.
When running the subtitles at the end of the film, while playing the theme song and reviewing the moments of the two people's journey, it is like a colorful photo album, very beautiful, but also very painful. Seemingly simple film, no war, no national hatred, no super power, no surreal settings, only two (not even very honest XD) women who accidentally killed people are wandering and fleeing. Guns are just the last means for women to protect themselves; self-termination is just not wanting to let themselves fall into the hands of men again. Even if the last two stepped on the gas pedal and soared into the sky like the model Thunderbird refers to, they were two birds that were frightened and weak, and could not escape the male domination of the world with their wings attached.
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I like the movie Thelma & Louise very much (the Chinese translation is "The End of the Wild Flower"), and I came into contact with this movie when I was in Mr. Xu Rongzhe's class last year, and Mr. Xu Rongzhe introduced it. Let's talk about director Ridley Scott. I have seen several of his films before. I really like "Ghost Warrior" and "American Gangster". These two films are very masculine and masculine films, but they are the only ones that can What made me excited and amazed was the bold use of two women as the protagonists of a road movie in 1991's "Wild Flowers".
The story on the surface is very shallow, and the story unfolds from an unexpected event. Thelma & Louise made an appointment for a small trip, because Thelma met a man in the Bar who was good to him. Thelma also wanted to get rid of the boring housewife life and dance with him. They planned to rape her, Louise went to the toilet and found that Thelma could not be found, and found the situation and shot and killed the man, so the two began their desperate career. This is an atypical road movie. In particular, it breaks out of the old thinking mode. The protagonists are not tough men but two women, and they are less romantic and more thrilling. Because basically everyone must understand the backbone of the plot, I will discuss some details and highlights.
Detailed analysis:
1. If Thelma & Louise reported the crime at the beginning, the
film reminded the audience more than once that if they had chosen to report the crime, would the two women have different ways out. But after deliberation, the two women's choice was to try to drive to Mexico instead of reporting the crime. The reason is that they feel that the statement will not be accepted, because Thelma and the man who was shot and killed by Louise did dance happily, and many people were there to see, and except for Louise, no one saw that the man intended to rape Thelma, and Thelma There were no serious injuries. The two women did not say it. Another point strongly implied to the audience is that most of the police and the judiciary are dominated by men. When it is determined that Thelma used to dance happily, they will insist that the two are simply in love. , only to kill the man due to falling out with something else unknown. It is not so much that the two women resisted the law, but rather the men who oppressed them.
2. The men who appear in the film are almost either villains or idiots
Basically, this is a very feminist film. There are only two men who are more kind to the two women, an old police detective who wants to help them, and Louise's boyfriend who is gentle to his girlfriend. Let's take a look at the roles of men in this film. There are violent men who want to rape, hot-tempered men (Thelma husband), handsome liars (Brad Pitt), mindless truck drivers (gas tank!?) who sexually harass women with words, and crying policemen and performance thieves Police Chief. The men in it are almost all in the category of villains and idiots. From the beginning of the movie, the audience will know that Thelma's husband is easily impatient and irritable. In addition, he is also portrayed as a bit of a dazed joy. There was a scene where the police were watching a romantic movie. A loyal American football fan, he couldn’t help but turn around. The police turned to look at him, and when they turned back, they were still in a snickering mood (the wife was in trouble, and she was still in such a good mood!? ). The other is even funnier. The police are trying to find the location of the two women. When Thelma called home and said in a good voice that you should call your wife's name, Thelma thought he knew the situation and hung up the phone immediately, making him yell in embarrassment. Obviously he didn't say anything. Not to mention that the truck driver's words and responses are like a lack of intelligence and a good-looking policeman cry, and his whole face is twisted together to cry super ugly. Contrasted with Thelma & Louise, who broke the law, but had a strong & independent spirit (no wonder it is regarded as a classic of feminist movies).
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The audience may have noticed that the phallus car is also a useful metaphor under the easy-to-understand and clear information of the plot. The driver of the big truck (oil tank!?) who met several times on the road and sexually harassed the two women with words, the silver metal of the loading (oil!?) looks like a male, very similar to the genitals, while the huge phallus shape and silver reflection can be Interpreted as masculine self-righteousness. In the movie, the camera is zoomed out, allowing the audience to see Thelma & Louise overtaking the car and the phallus car closely following the scene. In fact, in my opinion, it is a bit ambiguous and pun. The actions of the two women imply that women are stronger than men, but when overtaking , the phallus car is close to the buttocks of the two women's cars, like a sexual position from behind, depending on what angle you want to interpret it, you can actually see it.
4. Thelma & Louise personality reversal
In fact, this technique is not only used in "Crazy Flowers", it may be seen in other movies or novels, but it is difficult to use it as naturally and powerfully as "Crazy Flowers". At the beginning of the film, the director and screenwriter showed me how Louise even when she was a waitress would let young girls smoke, and Thelma, a housewife, was obedient to her husband and dared not tell her husband to go out again. Let’s talk about Louise first. Her part is not that complicated in comparison. She is a strong and independent woman who looks strong and independent in appearance and character at first glance. She also has her own vulnerable side, and the dark secret she has in her heart can explain her impulse to shoot. reason. Louise is much more complicated by comparison. Although it was Louise who accidentally shot at the beginning, the root cause was Thelma's defenseless heart. Until the development of the movie and because Thelma is so stupid and naive, let the liar and handsome guy take all the money from the two, only to see Thelma pulling his legs, plus the appearance of the two people is hard and soft, the audience will inevitably think that Louise is The type of man woman with strong independent personality, Louise is the type of weak and innocent little woman. But I admire the skill of screenwriter Kelly Curry very much, because the personality reversal actually left a foreshadowing of the two women as soon as they hit the road. Where is it? Just when Louise asked Thelma if she had obtained her husband's consent, Thelma, who seemed cowardly in front of her husband, didn't tell her husband, only posted a note and microwaved food and slipped out. This means that it is not only superficial, but also that even though she knows that she will be madly electrocuted by her husband when she goes home, she still has the courage to give up. That is to say, It is true that Thelma entered marriage at the age of 18 and became a housewife, lacking social experience, being too simple and too easy to trust others, but she is definitely not a good person without personality. In the latter part of the film, she robbed the supermarket again, and even finally was willing to drive to the Grand Canyon rather than get caught, which gave it rationality. Looking back, I will find that the conversation in the car when I first hit the road was such an important part. If people didn't pay special attention or discovered the mystery, they might feel that Thelma's big explosion was a bit abrupt and far-fetched.
Highlights:
1. The performance of the main actors is brilliant. Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis were both nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress. The acting skills of the two are really indistinguishable, but they don't have the ingenuity of competing in a show. Why do you say that? Because the two are both inside and out. Fully integrated into the character of the character, it is the natural and vivid acting that really impresses me the most. In addition, Brad Pitt was too handsome back then (the voice was still childish), if he played such a ruffian, if he was not handsome to the top, he would become very funny. It can only be said that playing a playboy who steals a woman's heart is really It suits him so well.
2. In the latter part, the dialogue and interaction between the two were very touching, especially the silly eldest sister Thelma comforted Louise with sincerity: "I'm never sad about that bastard's death, I'm just sorry that it was you who did the trick, not me." I I feel that the emotional level of the plot is well arranged. The first and middle sections are Thelma in the bucket, Louise is half-hearted, and there are very few warm interactions (after all, it is not so moody when running away), it is more obvious that only when Thelma is still in the mood to say She slept with the handsome guy, Louise was lukewarm, couldn't tell whether she was really happy for her (or jealous?), congratulations on her finally being able to experience the joy of sex (Thelma got married at the age of 18, and has only emotional experience husband alone). It is a very clever design to not disperse all the tear gas force and concentrate it all in the second half.
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