The story is about a police officer investigating a chain of bizarre crimes when he discovers that the criminals are some extreme sports people, and their goal is to complete Ozaki's eight challenges. The Ozaki 8 items represent a tribute to the forces of nature, completing all 8 items, that is, completing the impossible. Ozaki believes that human beings have always demanded from nature and must be rewarded, otherwise nature will lose its balance and human beings will also be destroyed. Therefore, these people will rob the bank and distribute the money to the poor, and blow up the gold mines that have been mined for many years, so that the mountain will no longer be damaged.
One of the challenges they had to complete was "Water Creatures," which was two surfs in incredibly large waves. Those two surfings are the most thrilling scenes in the movie. Surfing for the first time was amazing. When the stormy waves, which are rare in many years, roll up, I see that the sea is not blue, but a dazzling green with translucent glass texture. They shuttled in the green waves, lyrical as poetic, although very dangerous, but so free. Only when people reach a state of extremes, get out of the shackles of routine and surpass themselves, can they experience the feeling of extreme freedom.
Watching them shuttle freely in the whirlpool, embraced by the sea, I was a little stunned, as if I had become one of them, reaching a state of ecstasy. I don't know if the waves were the wine rolling on the tip of my tongue, or if I was caught in the vortex of the wine, in any case, just so intoxicated. I just felt that it was really incomparable freedom at that time, and I remembered that I fell in love with poetry because of Pushkin in my youth. He said: Sea, you element of freedom. (It seems that he said "Farewell, you free element", but it is exactly that in my memory.) In fact, I didn't like his poems later, and this is the only thing I remember. I don't really appreciate that kind of passionate sentence. Although I like the feeling of excitement, I don't like expressing that feeling in a sentence that is too exciting. I feel that it is too straightforward and weakens the intensity of the excitement.
Later, they fought the police during the bank robbery, and Utah regained its identity in an attempt to convince them, but they didn't think they were guilty, they were just giving back to nature. Bodie said he knew from the start that he was a police officer, and he asked why they let him join their adventure without breaking him out. Bodie said because he wanted to see him save himself. They think the world has gone crazy and that to survive, you have to break the rules. Bodie says the difference between him and Utah is that Utah sees the rules and he sees the truth.
On the way to watch the movie, someone said that the movie is very exciting, but the policeman's position is not clear. In China, we must make a choice. The Chinese cannot accept this specious attitude. Black is black, white is white, and we cannot stand middle. I said that the difference between me and him is also the same. What he cares about is the position, and what I want to see is the truth, and I stand on the side of the truth. In fact, a certain country's concept of right and wrong is very stance. In this sense, a certain country's people actually have no concept of right and wrong, but only a position. What is good for oneself is right, and what is harmful to one's own interests is wrong.
Ozaki in the movie should be a fictional character. His eight challenges include "strength, sky, earth, water, wind, ice, life, and trust". He lost his life without success. But it's not that people died when they failed a certain challenge, but they died trying to save a girl. The girl said that what Ozaki admired her happened to be his only weakness - he really believed that one ideal could change the world. But she believed in her ideals and followed in his footsteps. These idealists ask the world: what is left of human beings without ideals? However, human beings only need boundless enjoyment, desire dissatisfaction, and do not need ideals.
I think their challenge is actually to discover the beauty of nature, and they have a reverence for nature, not just conquest. When Utah was surfing in the rough seas and nearly lost his life and was saved by Bodie, he said that Utah's courage trumped talent, but he lacked awe and lost beauty. But Utah then recklessly slid down the snowy mountains. I don't think he lacks awe, but he really loves nature and wants to express his love for it with that behavior, even if he loses his life. So when Bodie fell on his back from Angel Falls in Venezuela, he jumped with him. That is the challenge of trust in Ozaki's eight items. Only with absolute trust in nature can you completely give your life to it and fall from such a high place. So in the end, when Bodie roars at the black roaring ocean, he doesn't stop him, but helps him fulfill his wish.
The last scene was more shocking than the first surf. In the dark stormy sea at night, Bodie was about to jump into the waves. At that time Utah was ordered to arrest him, but he no longer cared about his duties. He told him that if you go, you will never come back. Bodie yelled at him over and over again: "Don't you think it's beautiful?" Yes, it's beautiful, and it has the power to destroy. Even the covenant of death is beautiful. He said: "This is my way, let me finish it." Facing nature, human beings are small, but in the kind of greatness that makes them feel extremely small, they can feel the inner yearning and use their own The insignificance is integrated into such a broadness and becomes powerful. To be swallowed by such a passionate sea is too charming to die.
Some people want to know if Bodie is alive or dead in the end, and that doesn't make sense. Some people think that their journey on such a beautiful and dangerous path is doomed to be lonely and a tragedy. In fact, it is not like that. They have a love and passion in their hearts that others do not understand. As long as they embrace that love, they will not feel lonely because there are few pedestrians on the road, and even death is not a tragedy. Not to mention whether their pursuit is correct, as long as they have that kind of persistence, it is enough to be admired. In fact, many things in this world are difficult to define by right and wrong. As long as someone is willing to put in enthusiasm, it is beyond reproach. Many things are not worth it or not, but whether you want it or not.
I really wanted to watch this movie again, and I kind of deserted and missed the moment Bodie disappeared at the end. No matter what the plot, no matter how disappointing Utah makes its choices, this is an exciting movie. Thrilling and very lyrical. But later, when I saw that the film was shot for three years, three staff members died, and the surfing stuntman was seriously injured by the waves, it was inevitably a little heavy. The part where Utah and the girl dive into the deep sea in the play is also very tempting and very sweet and lyrical. And they may also die from lung explosions caused by improper speed during diving. After filming, the director told the actress that there were shark waters. It's all just a fluke, what if a tragedy happens? Those who have lost their lives can't come back, and they lost their lives not because of their dreams, but because of their work.
Walking out of the theater, on the way home in the evening, I saw the lights in the smog, like countless demons lurking peeping. Humans really ask too much from nature, it's time to pay back, but it's too late. Late does not mean that there is no hope, it means that human beings must pay a heavy price to wash away their sins. Such disasters will continue, and more cities will fall into smog, and more people will pay the price with their lives, many of them, or more innocent lives. The world does need some idealists, but there are fewer and fewer of them, and they are going extinct.
After a few days, when I was about to finish writing these thoughts, I listened to the movie's ending song, Still Breathing: I may never find my way back to you, still I step into the flame, go on and take the wheel , turning back to the star, and let the fate collide. A little sadness, a little emotion. In fact, in some ways, I'm also an outlaw. I can only keep walking, and it doesn't matter what the way back is. I knew that maybe I would never come back and die on the way to my dream, but I couldn't stop. What if I can't get there in the end, but what if I come back?
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