A fifteen-year-old girl asked, "Aren't you alone?"
"Sometimes, sometimes," he said
Maybe this is not the classic dialogue of this movie, but it is a key to the heart of the mysterious and brave Jack! Loneliness is like a cage that shackles humanity while God endows human beings with wisdom. Jack, who is hidden in the world, is no exception, not to mention that he said "sometimes" more than once! I believe that in a good movie, there are always many clues that connect the fate of one character after another, and this film can break through its own shackles and win the favor of fans. It is a clue that cannot be ignored, not an exciting investigation. The plot is not a flashy fighting scene, nor an interlocking criminal mystery, but loneliness.
Everyone outside the movie, why not? Like dust, we are finally ground into a round grain of sand by the world, and we can't tell the difference between you and me. Can't tell the difference between you and me. On the surface, we are so similar to each other, drowning in the hustle and bustle of the city and disappearing into the winding streets, but in our bones there is a gap that is irrelevant, and even have different weaknesses and shortcomings, and have different regrets. There are failures and setbacks that are not necessary with distress. However, Jack is also like this, swimming in the crowd like a fish, passing by the enemy in an instant, and disappearing without a trace in an instant, you will never find him, just like the world can't find him You and I are the same. But when facing oneself, facing the illusion in the mirror that looks very similar to oneself, he, you and me, any ordinary person, have the same fate, and that is loneliness.
It is precisely because of loneliness that the film brings together three people who have no family and whose lives are fragmented. They look at each other's past and experiences, look for their own shadows in each other, and appreciate those somehow similar fates. One is a lonely hero who seems ordinary and low-key but full of narrow-mindedness, the other is a single female general who is innocently framed by a major in the official residence, and the other is a dissolute girl who was abandoned by her mother but bravely fought against life. The three of them have very different positions, experiences, and worldviews, but it is through such embarrassed escapes and counterattacks that they have obtained the most appropriate comfort from each other.
In fact, the only shortcoming of this film is the biggest frame and conception. The design of the middle game has been interpreted by many movies. The mastermind of the final story is always subordinate to the high-ranking officials in his own system, and the motive for the crime is nothing more than drug trafficking. , Reselling arms, for selfishness. Therefore, the conception and design of the entire framework are destined to have a tragic and thought-provoking ending. Such an ending will only make the audience, like the actors, foolishly wait for the murderer and the happy final moment. Therefore, the competition between Tom and the villain is not the biggest highlight. The highlight is the lonely plot of not being father and daughter but too much like father and daughter. Perhaps, when Jack people reached middle age, their father's love has begun to overflow, from a narrow sense of feelings for a weak person, to true love and care, from compassion to the world and innocent people, to sympathy and recognition. This is the return of human nature, and it is also the most selfish concern and reluctance in life when a person reaches the end.
What is admirable is that Jack's open-mindedness and relief of living in isolation, which is a great loneliness. You'll notice that on the side of the highway, along the winding streets, there's always a Jack in a jacket, squinting eyes and thumbs up, hoping you'll give him a ride on your trip. He is like the wind. Wherever he passes, he leaves no trace, and he can always escape smoothly from the net of heaven and earth. You don't want to follow him, because he can always detect anyone in the crowd trying to catch him. The villain in the movie has the same military experience and background as Jack, but the only difference is that after taking off the skin of the uniform, one is still used to hunting by nature, while the other uses his wisdom to hide in any corner of the city, obviously , Jack belongs to the latter.
The beginning of the story is a well-designed game, but the designer of this game is not the screenwriter and director, but the protagonist of the story - Jack Reacher! Friends who haven't watched the first part still think that this guy who can easily clean up the rogue has some function of foreseeing the future, as mysterious as Nicolas Cage's "Meet the Future", or as a weird person with extreme IQ like Sherlock. But this is just a revisit of the classic plot of the first step, telling the audience that Jack is back.
The gray line of grass and snake, and the writing skills of Fumai Qianli are not only the usual method of "Dream of Red Mansions", but also common in this film, and it has been tried and tested. This is the beginning of this story. A phone call between Jack and the major has become a Silk is a thread, followed by the appearance of other characters. Looking back, it seems that they were all set in advance, more or less hindering or helping Jack to detect the case. But the most classic, and the most deeply buried clue is that after Jack returned to the hotel, he disdained the three-legged cat kung fu that the major taught the girl. At the time, how could he, who was equipped with various killing skills, like that kind of game played by children? For example, in kung fu, Xing Ye's toe-stepping made Huoyun Cthulhu stunned. The success lies in whether the previous story is buried deep enough, whether it diverts the audience's attention while also impressing the audience subconsciously.
How to escape in the heavy round-up is the skeleton of this movie. For Jack, violence can be used to kill the opponent with violence. However, for the girl who is helpless, it is to hide the enemy's tracking skillfully. This plot runs through the beginning and end of the film. It is similar in other movies in the past, so I won't talk about it. Although many places have the same routine, there are still ingenious places. After all, the biggest attraction of this film is still the transcendence of Xia Detective's own emotions, the girl who has the same way of thinking as herself!
Facing the evil in the world, the girl told us that the rules of the game are not that the strong eat the weak, only the weak will bully the weak, and the strong will not bully the weak! This shows that Jack is a real strong man, not only physically strong, but also mentally tough and unyielding! So, never go back!
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