I haven't noticed which year the movie is set in, but after the 2008 financial crisis, there is no doubt about it. For American-style financial blockbusters like "The Wolf of Wall Street", it is no exaggeration to say that more than 99.9% of the human beings on the earth can only contemplate the scenes of their drunkenness and extravagance in their minds, which ignited their adrenaline. It doesn't matter what to do after that. On the other hand, the dimension of "Bombing the Bank Manager" is very low, and the real result is that it can resonate more with ordinary people.
Salaries in Spain, despite being the euro zone's fourth-largest economy, are lower than the overall European average. This is why the entire assets of a bank manager in a capitalist developed country are only €67,547 (less than 500,000 RMB), and he is thrown out several streets by senior code farmers in the imperial capital every minute. But that doesn't mean that bank managers (or the financial industry) are disadvantaged. In Spain, the financial industry is still one of the most developed industries. If it is only measured from the perspective of currency, the protagonist Carlos is far from a high fantasy. He is actually just an ordinary office worker, an existence closer to us.
The movie takes only 90+ minutes to exclude the beginning and end of the movie. If the entire incident of the bomb extortion is resolved in just 90+ minutes from the beginning to the end, then Carlos (the protagonist) is very old. The actual situation must be more complicated. The time for Carlos to escape from the dead is set within a few hours. For an ordinary person, this is already quite a huge test. In the end, he was able to escape successfully. In the words of the head office at the end of the movie, Carlos's artistic accomplishments in dealing with crisis and control are quite remarkable.
Some people can't stand the loud, nagging dialogue in the movie, or complain that the characters are too low-IQ and full of loopholes. Just imagine, if the real situation happened to you, how calm and successful would you be? All the tension, panic, whining, nagging, and loopholes in the movie are just for a normal, normal reaction. Camus wrote in The Myth of Sisyphus: "The judgment of the body is equal to the judgment of the mind, and the body shrinks in the face of destruction. We first develop the habit of living, and then we develop the thinking In the race that drives people to death every day, the body maintains an absolute lead.” When Carlos knew that there was a bomb hidden under the car seat, the suspect knew all about his property, and his colleague didn’t follow the rules of the game because he didn’t follow the rules of the game. He was killed in front of him, and his son was bleeding profusely after being hit by explosives in the leg. Disasters followed in an instant. As an ordinary person, Carlos, and even his daughter, could not show a trace of panic and bewilderment. There are a lot of shots in the movie aimed at the hysteria of the father and daughter in front of the god of death, and the fragility of human nature is nothing but this.
Before the crisis, Carlos' family was already in a state of disintegration. His wife was preparing for a divorce, and he neglected his concern for his son and daughter because of his busy work. The emergence of the crisis has peeled off the contradictions of the family layer by layer, but the pain is better than hiding in a dark corner and never seeing the light of day. In order to protect her father, the daughter sat in the passenger seat desperately. During this period, she grew into a little adult, trying to understand her father and share his pain. The director's arrangement must be said to be the foreshadowing of Carlos's thorough consciousness.
The ending must be good, Carlos told the client about the futures and escaped from the water, and then refused the olive branch extended by the bank. It has to be said that the film will definitely have a negative impact on the Spanish banking industry, which is not something we need to worry about. The financial field is full of crises and frauds, but it is not exposed to the sun, and everyone knows it but is greedy.
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