I finished watching the 140-minute "Murder at the Royal Hotel" during the overtime oversight on New Year's Day. The story is set in the United States in 1969, at the Royal Hotel on the border between Nevada and California. A hotel that no one cares about without a gaming license, hides too many secrets under the surface decadence. A federal agent on an investigative mission, a robber who pretended to be a priest who had just been released from prison and whose memory has been deteriorating, a down-and-out black female singer who has worked hard for many years to leave a humiliating memory, a fashionable girl with a strong personality who kidnapped her sister in order to save her, and strayed into a cult The little girl in a trance, the deity of the cult leader, and the hotel boy who used to be blood-stained in the Vietnam War. The seven people are burdened with different pasts, and their fates are intertwined in the rainy night of the Royal Hotel. They each have their own goals. In the interaction and conflict, they constantly examine their past selves, torture their present souls, and finally die, liberate or come to an epiphany. In a specific era, in a concentrated location, through different characters, it covers the problems and situations that we are easy to encounter in our life, the unworldliness of the little girl, the impulsiveness and stubbornness of the elder sister, the sin burden of the hotel boy, the frustration of the singer, The arrogance of the leader, the inability of the agents and the aging of the robbers. In the past, today, and the rest of our lives, everyone may encounter such problems, or many people have already been burdened with similar problems. Between the past and the future, between struggle and redemption, all we can do is to try to find Looking back on the balance of the current life, so that I can look back on yesterday with less guilt, and look forward to tomorrow with more magnanimity...
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