Always enjoy watching Denzel Washington movies. But for him, the sequel seems to be the first time. The story and structure of "The Avengers 2" and "The Avengers 1" are similar, and some plots are similar. But still fascinating, love it.
The protagonist McCall, played by Denzel Washington, is a secret agent with a high level of thinking and martial arts. In an accident, his wife was killed. Frustrated after he got out, McCall quit his job and went into hiding. I found a career as a supermarket porter to make a living, and then changed my career to become an online car-hailing driver. But he is full of justice and blood, and he still stands up to see the injustice. This kind of shot is not the impulsive impulse of that kind of reckless man, but stems from his confidence in his own stunts and his full thinking and preparation in advance. So that every time an event occurs, he has to press the stopwatch to accurately count the time. In order to show the whole process of McCall's justice, the director often used a large number of shots to make detailed and even slightly lengthy foreshadowing. In the first episode, the main line is McCall rescuing a stray girl. In this episode, it is McCall avenging his former colleague and friend Susan, and by the way, he also accomplished a few good things that he did not give his name. In the end, of course, McCall won.
In the eyes of others, McCall's motive for doing these helpful deeds is, of course, the pursuit of justice. And McCall himself knows best that he has other motivations besides his sense of justice. He loves his wife, and when she dies, everything is lost and life becomes meaningless. Through his actions, he wants to miss the people he loves the most, punish those injustices, and make life more fulfilling. His only friend Susan said to him sharply: "You do these things, it's pretty good to help others in the face of injustice. But that can't fill the vacancy in your heart." "Maybe that's what it's about. We often encounter such times, when we are emotionally unstable because of this, we often force ourselves to do the other thing in order to transfer and calm down our emotions. But if this emotional shift is irrational, many extremely stupid things are often done. So here, we have to admire McCall's cool choice. All the actions he took were to uphold social justice, to help the good and punish the bad. For themselves and for society.
However, in this way, new problems will arise. Punishing crimes and safeguarding the dignity of the law should have been a matter of the state. But in real life, many injustices and many evils are everywhere. Sometimes the state can't handle it. So we have to have other options. The first is to always believe in the law and wait for the law to do justice for us. If we don’t do it today, we will wait for tomorrow. Sooner or later, we will wait for the day when Skynet is fully sparse and not leaking. Of course, we may not wait. Then, as Sun Yue sang in the song: "There are always some injustices in the road of life, please don't worry too much, and have a good life." However, if the daughter described in the film is abducted and the painting is stolen and sold , friends are killed, can we not care? I think that only those who are extremely cold-blooded can face it with indifference and ease. Therefore, the reality of this pervasive evil forces people to take action outside the law. As McCall put it: "Should do and be able to do it are two different things. Anyone can do it, but no one does it. In the end everyone is complaining because no one does what everyone can do, or should be do.” People have a beautiful ideal. And the environment we live in is still far from the ideal world. Extrajudicial actions are people's desire to pursue justice and fairness, but also a kind of helplessness. Extrajudicial action has become the only option for many. Because of this, people look forward to the emergence of heroes. So all kinds of "Xia", "Superman" and "Captain" on the screen came into being.
These "fighters" have been tossing around in the film for many years, and the society has not changed, so the audience hopes to have a more sense of justice, closer to life, and a more realistic image. So there was McCall. In "The Avenger," McCall is admired and even imitated. But we have to see that when people call for justice, it also brings another danger. For example, in the film, an organization like Dave who kills people regardless of whether it is good or bad. These chaos exist precisely because of the inaction of the American system. Therefore, when people condemn these extrajudicial actions, they should think about the responsibility of each citizen of each institution.
Several scenes in the film are interesting. McCall is a person who pays great attention to detail in life. Always pinch the stopwatch before taking action to calculate the efficiency of the action. When washing apples, place them neatly one by one. At the beginning of the film, the old Muslim man was slowly flattening the napkin on the train, and when he was about to read, even though he wore a white hat and a beard, I immediately guessed that it was McCall dressed up, only he could do this. of meticulousness. McCall was a man who loved to read. The book he read in the last episode was Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. In this episode, watch Thanasis Coates' "Between the World and Me," a correspondence between black fathers and sons, about the lives of black Americans. After reading it, I recommended this book to my neighbor, Myers. Then he ordered Proust's "Reminiscence of the Years of Life" from the bookstore lady. This book is about the daily life of the French middle class at the beginning of the last century, and it is very long. This book has been in my dust for a long time, and it takes a lot of patience and reading interest to read it. The youngest daughter of the bookstore owner was rescued by McCall during the Turkish operation. Judging from the actions between McCall and the little girl, they have agreed to keep this secret.
My rating: 7.0.
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