On the street, I saw a woman being dragged by a man to a car. Pedestrians watched. The woman struggled and howled loudly. The man smiled apologetically and said, "This is my wife, who is mentally ill." The woman was then pulled into the car. Would you be afraid if you learned later that men and women didn't know each other?
Or in another identity, when you try to tell people the truth, but no one is willing to pay attention, and the people around you respond numbly and write eulogy for you with numbness, will you feel humiliated and hopeless?
This is the film. It's called "Invincible". In the past month, looking back on the plot, Yage still fell silent.
The film tells the story of a "neighbor" who has a very delicate relationship with us.
The protagonist Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) is a university professor who teaches terrorist attacks.
His wife was a member of the FBI and was killed in the line of duty.
One day he rescued a boy about his own son's age on the road. The boy's hands were blown with blood.
The couple who claimed the boy in the hospital were his neighbors.
Neighbors Oliver (played by Tim Robbins) and Cheryl (played by Joan Cusack) have legitimate and respectable occupations, having both children and being kind.
But not long after getting along, Michael became suspicious of his neighbors. Because the university that sent the invitation letter to the reunion was not the university he said personally. Through unannounced and unannounced visits, he discovered that his neighbors had been living under false identities.
Also, things are not that simple. The unexpected death of his wife, the terrorist attack committed by the lone wolf not long ago, and more hidden conspiracies buried in the ground, and even the truth of the boy's hand injury, all seem to have something to do with this "gentle" neighbor.
He told his girlfriend to be wary of them, he asked his son to stop getting too close to the neighbor's son, he told the students not to believe what people told you on the surface, but it didn't work, it happened anyway.
The ending may be more terrifying than you think.
Spoilers for the comments below.
In addition to following the line of Michael's unannounced visits to his neighbors, the film also intersperses scenes of him giving lectures to students and scenes of performing tasks on the day his wife died. The closer he got to the truth, the more nervous he became, and the plot accelerated. In the end, the film reversed once, but it hit the audience twice.
First hit. The film doesn't turn out as you would imagine, with the protagonist finally uncovering the truth and saving an impending disaster at a time of crisis. Disaster happened. Using a knife to kill, the villain succeeded without any effort, and even made people stunned and exclaimed: "Invulnerable!"
The second blow. If the film ends because of this, the director will probably end up with an evaluation that vents his dark psychology. He zooms far away at the end, strange and indifferent: Michael does not escape under the protection of the protagonist's halo, and he is buried in the ruins with friends who vaguely know the truth. Afterwards, there were distorted reports by the media and different interpretations by people around them such as classmates and colleagues. It's just that no one, no one, thought he was innocent, believing how hard he had tried to tell them the truth with the lessons of his blood:
"It was McFarraday, a professor of history at George Washington University who believed to be with his wife. He was a federal agent before his death (the bombed building was the headquarters of the FBI)."
"He was very serious, he knew all terrorists (Mike happened to be studying terrorism before)"
"We went out to investigate, he Crying about his wife ."
"McFaraday blamed the FBI for his wife's death, and he may have targeted Agent Werther, one of 180 dead, who was previously his wife's partner (facts) Mike and Werther are good friends)"...
that's the real reversal.
Michael once talked in class about an electronic technician who was reported to blow up the Roosevelt federal building where the tax office was located: "We have to blame him, nothing else, just to find the suspect as soon as possible, because this can restore the public's confidence, he Unlike all of us, finding out his name doesn't bother us, we don't know why, it's just for the $10,000 in taxes, but we don't know, we'll never know. And then , we also feel safe because we know his name." The
truth is often what we imagined, we need a murderer to restore the public's confidence, and Michael's appearance is exactly the same as the murderer.
From the nonchalant faces of these people, as a bystander, I can feel the despair, just like the scene mentioned at the beginning, in broad daylight, but in darkness. Nothing, nothing, everything buried, no matter what happens to the bad guys, the truth will never see the light of day for a moment. Those scattered puzzles that were picked up with difficulty, after a person who suffered a lot from it shook hands and dusted off the dust, no one wanted to take a look at it, and only regarded this "rubbish picker" as crazy.
This is an "invulnerable" human evil.
Numbness is the best cover-up, the secret and elusive characteristics of the truth fuel the flames, the human nature of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages adds a point, as well as the ulterior motives of decoration and design of the real mastermind, which makes the sound of the sinking sea more certain.
This is an "invulnerable" human evil.
You don't realize it's a sin that needs to be shouted at, and you don't even feel it exists. Like a fish can't feel the presence of water unless it has been slapped ashore. The truth never knows what form it will take, but it has a special smell, looming, and most people smell it, just as if they were in a trance.
But the truth is that all of humanity is related to me, and through the connection of six people, I am related to anyone in the world. Michael's impassioned speech in class turned into prophecy. It seems to be saying: "The next one is you."
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