Once again burst into tears on the high-speed rail. American Animals, adapted from real events, tells the story of four college students who stole a piece of art in the university library with more than 10 million pieces. Some people commented that it was the most stupid robbery in history. Let's talk about the title first, it's called American Animals. There may be two explanations for animals here, and they are all off topic. One is to explain it as intoxication/crazy, just like we say work animals/party animals, and the intoxication in the movie is the American dream, the dream of being uniquely born and striving for self-realization, the dream of striving to become rich and free, and the second is that the four protagonists are all like Animals are dazzled by desires, without morality, there is no bottom line, just like at the end of the movie, the administrator who was kidnapped while guarding the artwork said, "They are selfish and unwilling to make solid efforts to change their lives. Work hard, and don’t want to change your life by helping others.” The main visual of the narrative is that Spencer, a young man who loves painting, yearns for the extreme and peculiar experiences of Van Gogh’s suicide and Monet’s blindness, and in reality Trapped by meaning in life, and full of pessimism about the future, the two self-portraits at the beginning and end of the film are estimated to be completed before and after the action. They are all black and white sketches, and they are all expressionless. He was full of contradictions and hesitations about the act of stealing artworks. He repeatedly proposed to stop it, but he did not insist on his belief. Warren, the action mover; Bosak, who joined to maintain his friendship with Warren; Chas, the second-generation Shang who appeared to be successful, didn't even see a reason to participate. During the robbery operation, it was full of clumsiness. It was too difficult to bring down the administrator, and after getting the artwork, the escape route was not planned. After the operation, the four people fell into hesitation and fear until they were arrested. . Then came 7 years in prison and came out as a painter, director, writer and fitness trainer. The ending song is from Rodriguez, whose story was made into a documentary "Searching for Sugar Man," and there's a passage in it that would be appropriate here. "For him, nothing has changed. The life in the past, the life in the present... He took all the suffering and pain, all the troubles and doubts, and turned them into something beautiful."
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