Life Will See You Now

Frederic 2022-03-29 09:01:02

3 outta 4.

I would say that Tom Hardy's performance is like the protagonist himself until the last second of the movie, even though in a film that relies on dialogue to drive the plot, the actors spit out lines that seem to struggle between everyday language and deliberately embellished sentences. , from which I can see some "want to be classic" ill will, but to say I didn't touch it at all would be a sheer lie. But it's the whole clueless rhythm that makes everything it wants to tell obscured and tedious - until the very last moment, when the car drives towards the baby and the night, and behind him is his whole world: a man he can say countless times to him that he can't What he said to that woman, he couldn't forgive his marriage, a family waiting for him to go back and watch the replay, a career that ended, and a rebellion of his own. It was this moment that finally made the whole film solemn - whether it was the mistake he made accidentally, or the nightmare that the original family could not get rid of, or the oppression of the patriarchy on his own ethnic group that made him in the headlights under the night. "Rebirth"? It's a pity that at the end of the movie, it failed to show Locke's fragility well. But when the camera turns to the still busy city, we realize the coldness of life. How much do we mean to the world? I will think of that sentence again, life will see you now.

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Locke quotes

  • Ivan Locke: You make one mistake, Donal, one little fucking mistake, and the whole world comes crashing down around you.

  • Ivan Locke: Do it for the piece of sky we are stealing with our building. You do it for the air that will be displaced, and most of all, you do it for the fucking concrete. Because it is delicate as blood.

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