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This film is not formatted according to the structure of an ordinary commercial film, the climax is not at the end, and the real redemption is not in the last fight.
It's strange, the one who truly understands you and redeems you is not the one who loves you the most, nor the one you love the most, but the one who squeezes you to nothing, deprives you of all your dignity as a human being, and turns you from a genius into a scumbag people?
King of spades, a loan shark in a casino, a villain who does all kinds of evil, I'm talking about it.
Why does the protagonist bet only $500 left in the casino, and the king of spades wants to bet $10,000 with him? Is it because you know you have to win? I don't think so. The 500 yuan is the final bottom line and dignity of the protagonist. He took it back and took it back. The king of spades is the last bottom line and dignity to buy the protagonist with 10,000 yuan. If the protagonist loses, there will be no money left; if the protagonist wins, he will continue to gamble, and there will be no money left in the end. Win or lose, the protagonist is the meat on the plate, ready to be slaughtered. This is the most brutal scene in the whole film. There is no one. It is so smooth, like the tip of a knife hidden in the mess, inadvertently ripping people open. Qian Qian said that he was not a man, and compared to him, he seemed warm.
However, the protagonist is willing to take the bait.
The director took great pains to introduce the background of the protagonist: after being rich (but with little money), (associate) professor, writer (but with no royalties), handsome (but with no friends), teaching English writing in a university (but since Recognize good students do not need to teach, poor students are not worth teaching). This is a young man with a bright future in the eyes of outsiders, but very few people understand his real pain: he touched the ceiling of life prematurely, everything is like a godsend, and everything is like fate, insurmountable . Well, since I can't break through the ceiling, I want to touch the floor! This is where the main character's heart lies.
The director did not follow the cliché of family and love calling the prodigal son back and washing his hands in a golden pot. On the contrary, the director made a bit of sarcasm: the mother who can afford the world champion to teach tennis knows whether the coach is letting water, but he does not know what happened to his own son, the son is dying, the old man The most tangled thing for my mother is that it is embarrassing and embarrassing to accompany my son to withdraw money. I gave birth to such a perfect and good son, how can you spoil yourself like this, and I can't help you any more. Does mother love her son? Love, but love is shallow and cheap. Can his girlfriend turn him back? At first, his girlfriend liked him a little bit bad, but she really saw him lose all the 260,000 yuan that his mother gave him to pay off the debt, she hesitated, she was silent, she was frightened, this is She couldn't understand the depths of darkness, she couldn't help him.
2b or not 2b is the question that the protagonist keeps asking, he asks loan sharks, he asks his mother, he asks his students, the students who play basketball, the students who play tennis, the student with his little girlfriend, the pawnbroker who collects the meter, he asks Everyone he met, the same questions, different ways of asking. Some people don't understand the question, such as the pawnbroker, yes or no, the watch is his, most people can't answer, only one person answered, and the answer is strong and hits the heart.
Loan usury is a very low occupation. Lending money to bad gamblers who can't repay the money, and then making a profit? It looks beautiful, yet hilarious. The profit model of usury is a paradox. Only human beings who are very despicable and low will be forced to borrow usury. After you lend it to him, you are worried that he is too despicable and too low to pay the money. You have to give him a hand. In the front, the king of spades drained his last 500 yuan and the various loan sharks in the later stage persuaded him with all kinds of good words. Therefore, the protagonist after the insight said, I am not a gambler, you are, you gamble is despicable of human nature, but not too despicable, like winning within 8 points...
When it comes to winning within 8 points, you make money After that, the King of Spades seems to be in a good mood, chatting with the protagonist, saying: You should go to the basketball student again (I can also go, but I don't force you); you should continue to teach, so there are more such student (but I don’t force you); I know you went to bet on football, and bet a lot of money (I won’t pursue it); all this is not because I am stupid, I can’t think of it, but I don’t wash my hands, I want to be a good person, people can be changed! (I can, you can too)
You can look back at the protagonist's expression. The king of spades said that he wanted to buy an avocado orchard or a winery. When he wanted to change, the protagonist looked confused and a little surprised. When it comes to the end, when people can change, that kind of The expression shots that collapsed because of ecstasy can no longer be obvious...
This is the protagonist's great enlightenment and great redemption. It is strange that such a simple answer takes so much trouble. However, the identity of the person who gave this answer Special, life experience is special, it is more convincing, and it opens up infinite possibilities.
As for the last bet, this is something that has already been arranged. From the beginning, let the students take 50,000, and after winning the bet, you can get 100,000 more. It can be seen that all this has been planned. The bet is lost, the protagonist is not ready to live, the bet is won, and the protagonist is not going to take the
ps: Tucao, the worst black site, even the Russians and Koreans dare not The place where it was made was actually very clean. In a casino, in order to protect the interests of small and medium gamblers, you can't take away the big gambler if you win, and you will keep your life. Hehe
ps2:2b The question is really yes or no? Really can't bargain like that watch dealer?
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