This is a white American boy who was deceived by the government and went to the battlefield. After he hated the American government, he told the story of his unwillingness to be dominated by others. The film also discusses what love is, but love is sometimes just a Beautiful ideals have to come back to reality in the end. The reality is to get married and have children. As a soldier who participated in World War I, the protagonist who fought in the dirty trenches deeply realizes that he is just a cannon fodder in the hands of politicians. The serious thing to do every day is to live the days of sleeping during the day and robbing at night, and his father is a senior inspector of the police department and treats his son with gentleness. He fell in love and wanted to do a big robbery and then eloped with his mistress, but his mistress never loved him, and he was killed by the police dad when the gang boss wanted to kill him in the end. The structure of the story is also a three-stage structure. At the beginning, the male protagonist is tired of the world and lives a life with no tomorrow until he falls in love with the gangster's mistress, the middle mistress betrays him and goes to prison. This period is also a period of time when the United States has risen from a regional power to a world power. Since the prohibition of the United States in the 1920s, it has expressed the women and traditions of American society. After all, the United States was founded by white Christians. The country and alcohol are pure Christians who are strongly opposed to alcohol It is the white ideological elite who guarded the traditional American morality. In order to protect the better things in society, drinking and making trouble became the main reason for the high crime rate in American society. Therefore, the government issued a prohibition order from the perspective of protecting the common people and in order to stabilize the turbulent society. , but people are such strange animals, the more prohibited things you want to try, the most important thing is that alcohol is not like drugs. For an ordinary person, an occasional drink helps to pass the day-to-day life. It is also the best drink for friends gathering. Can you imagine what it would be like if alcohol was banned in China? The film tells that the gangs have been fighting for the bootleg business since the issuance of the Prohibition Order at all times, killing people, smuggling goods and smuggling illegally, and finally came to the United States to lift the Prohibition Order. During the period, the police department also turned a blind eye. The tragic police chief, and her daughter also completed self-redemption. Through various killings, the male protagonist also completed his personal transformation and redemption. In fact, the film also explores the ideology and morality of people of all classes in the United States in the face of foreigners and non-white people, just like the mentally retarded Ku Klux Klan bullying those immigrants and black people in the name of helping white people and Catholics. Interests are just to satisfy their own selfish desires, and it is even more for the upper-class white elites in the United States to eat all the benefits of this country and pretend to be good people, and these are all by deceiving those immigrants. Work for them A film that can achieve the American Dream is a great critic.
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