Moreover, this "black" movie" was properly introduced into the country. The fat brother said that it is rare to see the works of the Coen brothers on the big screen in the mainland, because the genre elements of the two brothers' preferred theme are really not domestic theaters. That 's what most movie fans can endure.
Sure enough,
after the release of "The Lost Town", the score on the Internet was only 6.2, which was lower than most of the films in which the Coen brothers participated, which also made George Clooney take the blame.
In fact, the quality of "Chasing the Murderer in Lost Town" is much higher than this score. The story of the film is rigorous, the image of the villain is full, and the protagonist of the child is quite relevant. It is
not accepted by Chinese fans, but it is still from The unfamiliarity of genre elements, the nostalgic scenes of the 50s/60s in the United States, racial conflicts, and the anxiety of white urban civilization have certain cultural barriers to interpretation, plus the anti-genre ending in the script design, it is indeed not the familiar "suspenseful" to mainland fans. "The film paradigm.
Therefore, the Chinese translation of the film is wrong, helpless, and a kind of guidance for forcing the theme. If the literal meaning of fans and chasing the murderer only stays on the surface, it is easy to cause misunderstanding
. It is human nature, and the murderer is not a simple murderer, a person, but the American social atmosphere at that time.
Once you understand "The Lost Town" as a simple murder case, detective, murderer type film, you will definitely be disappointed In recent years, looking at the social activities of the film's director George Clooney , we should guess that
his film must have certain political and social intentions. The dark story of the Gardner family, a white middle-class man. Gardner had an affair with his sister-in-law, and not only planned to ram and maim his own wife with Margaret, but also bought a murder, defrauded his wife's insurance money, and had an affair with Margaret. Grete flew on two wings and escaped from other countries. Unfortunately, on the night of the murder, son Nicky witnessed everything completely, and recognized the two murderers at the police station.
The murderer was afraid that the child would expose everything, and Gardner had been in arrears with the "case handling" fee, and the two finally decided to continue killing people.
In the face of rising pressure, Gardner, a timid and hesitant man swallowed by desire, can only hide in the office and escape from reality with two stress relief gadgets.
This hypocritical man kept dreaming about two family members, using deceit to protect himself and win over
others .
Margaret, the weak woman who participated in the murder, has always dreamed of occupying a magpie's nest, and went to that exotic island country with the man she loves to enjoy life, escape sin and unbearable memories, but eventually died of a clumsy and paranoid race. activists, but also accidentally poisoned Gardner, brewing a tragic ending that broke the family.
"The Lost Town" cleverly inserts another line into this murder story that has long lost its suspense burden. Black families come to the violent social conflict in a white town.
On the one hand, the white middle-class Gardner's home is gradually falling apart,
and on the other hand, the hatred of white people in society for this newly-arrived black family continues to expand, from indifference to isolation, and finally to the violent siege,
the racist rage here is raging. Burning, the darkness of humanity over there has gradually devoured the entire family.
The two storylines keep putting pressure on the audience, causing discomfort, adding tension, and advancing layer by layer, bringing the story to its climax.
Many viewers don't understand the meaning of this sideline to the whole story, and even think that the two lines are completely separated, unintelligible and disorganized.
In fact, in the opinion of Fat Brother, it is this sideline story that adds a strong sense to the original old-fashioned murder story. The sense of history allows the theme to be presented with full tension in the neat intertextual comparison.
The Coen Brothers movies all have distinct neo-noir themes,
passionate about the past and present, and fearful about the future!
Black families come to society like an unknown seed buried in this originally stable soil. The people here do not allow "out-of-control" unknown plants to break out of the ground, they must defend their spiritual home.
This seed symbolizes the plan in Gardner's mind, waiting with anticipation for the plan to take place step by step, take root, and blossom, the shape of his desire and the illusion it creates.
Both the large white family in this community and Gardner's small family have undergone structural transformations due to this "variable".
"The Lost Town" uses the child's vision of Gardner's son Nicky to show us his father's most terrifying human mind and distortion.
The three dialogues between the father and the son, repeated deceit, slowly escalated our anxiety and fear.
For the first time, the father persuaded his son in the bathroom not to tell anyone about the murderer he saw in the police station. The son directly asked the reason, and the father prevaricates.
The second time, after being threatened, the father tried to send his son to the military academy to isolate and protect him, so that the incident of buying and murdering a wife could be passed smoothly. The father was strong and the son compromised.
The third time, after a series of murder accidents, the father began to threaten and gave his son two ways to lie and deceive the police together, or he killed his son and lied himself.
From shame and consolation to murderous face, we see the complete collapse of the father's image, and through Gardner's gradually deformed face and frame due to the beating, we also see the process of this little man's demonization.
After killing his wife and wanting to kill his son, the explicit presentation of the darkest part of human nature is really terrifying.
We can see that the deterioration of Gardner's spirit and the behavior of white people towards black families are always synchronized in the development of the plot, and the climax of the serial killings and siege of black families pushed the contradiction to the highest peak.
This structural arrangement is clearly intentional.
Because the blackening of people's hearts is a manifestation of the insecurity of the drastic changes in the city and society.
Good movie themes are usually hidden in the style, and pseudo-themes are shown everywhere.
As a noir film, "The Lost Town" first shows an obvious nostalgic style, and the conflict in the film is also prominently based on visuals rather than themes.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the rapidly transforming urban landscape of the United States was reflected with anxiety in The Lost Town.
Nostalgic scenes, the charm of things themselves are gradually diluted in the development of the film's plot, and the force of various types of elements triggers anxiety about surveillance, human rights and social change.
The characters worry about the erosion of their stable identities, about the reliability and influence of society itself, and about being violated by invisible forces.
What they don't know is that the power of aggression actually comes from an irresistible society, and
the role that threatens the protagonist is the society itself—the society that is becoming increasingly corrupt.
And the protagonist cannot eliminate evil, and can only give up in the end, or selectively sink.
The film introduces the situation of the entire neighborhood at the beginning, interpreting a thriving stability, or a lack of progress, when the variable of the black family suddenly seeps into it, the entire street and society are turned upside down.
Human nature hates change, fears change, and covets stability.
It is a pity that the anti-urbanization imagination in the United States has begun, and cities have increasingly become places of crime, drugs, and uncontrollable.
The characters in the film gradually can't understand this place, and they are afraid of subversive things.
From Gardner's small family to the neighborhood to society, there has been some kind of change in the upheaval.
In the end, the whole story is actually a metaphor of human nature as the kid Nicky in the film, and the film has also become a myth about human and social growth.
Nicky witnessed what happened to the black family. At first, he tried to make friends with the children of the black family, but the adult world gave him a violent counterattack. Later, the black child gave him a small snake as a gift, the little snake. As a symbol of Pandora and the evil that seduces human beings, finally escaped the bottle at the murder scene, maliciously leaked out, and the bottle was empty, I don't know if there was any kindness left.
At the end of the film, director George Clooney completed the political correctness, the isolation barrier was demolished, the white thugs dispersed, the villains and killers of Nicky's family were killed one after another, and the
white and black children began a new life in the face of the sun.
The whole city has become more beautiful.
"Chasing the Murderer in Lost Town" presents us with a violent past with two "homes", one big and one small. Although it is the past, it actually refers to the present.
Facing society, facing evil, and facing ourselves, we will always be the scared child.
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