A film that I have been looking forward to since Sundance, and I realized it after the festival. When I found out that it had a screening, there were no tickets. I waited for an extra show to no avail, and I waited for a long time until the National Day before I finally had time to watch it!
A very interesting movie.
Athletics student Warren, after listening to art student Spencer talk about a huge and extremely precious book in the library of the University of Transylvania, intends to steal the book. On the way, he persuaded the scholar Eric and the rich second generation Chas to join, and after a series of planning preparations, the robbery was carried out. In the end, it was revealed that he was caught and imprisoned.
It looks like an exciting bandit movie, right? Actually...it's not at all! This may be the dumbest robbery ever!
A group of boring and ordinary college students, their plans and preparations for the robbery are all from Google and the robbery robbery movie. For the first time, they dressed up as old people to think that the library must be empty for the final exam. The result was that it was full of people. I couldn’t retreat anymore. The second time I couldn’t deal with the old lady librarian, I was scared to death when I got the book. During the escape, my hand slipped off the target book, so I didn’t dare to pick it up and ran away. I pressed the wrong elevator floor. Unable to find an exit, after escaping, he almost forgot that he had also picked up Darwin's book, left a phone number with a self-reported name to the buyer, and was finally arrested.
Going back to before the robbery, why did they go to the robbery?
As a sports student, Warren is about to be revoked from his sports scholarship, and his parents are suddenly getting divorced. Sounds like a criminal motive!
But on closer inspection, this all happened after the decision to rob, not the motive.
Is it because of money? This great book is worth a fortune.
But when they were asked what they wanted to do after they got the money, the answers were vague. They never thought about what they wanted to do after they got the money.
Their purpose, it seems, is not for money.
Can't find any other motivation...
The entire film does not give a seemingly "legitimate" motivation for action.
The hero, Warren, seems to have suddenly come up with this idea and is determined to do it.
The poster of "American Animals" gives a sentence: Nobody wants to be ordinary. No one wants to be ordinary (sorry I'm not really good at translation...)
They rob because they are unwilling to be mediocre, they are tired of their ordinary life.
In this boring town, they seem to be able to see their future at once. The bookshelves are full of classic gangster movies. Maybe it's because they watch too many movies. They long for an adventure, for an uncertainty, for being as cool as the people in the movies, and for robbery like the stories in the movies. , to do something "amazing".
One of my favorite episodes, Warren watched Kubrick's "The Killer" when he was watching the film, it was a black and white film, and then the next shot was a close-up of Warren, the whole picture turned black and white, and then The door to the library is cut, and it's still black and white, and it only goes back to color when the camera starts to move. It's almost entirely clear that Warren is completely immersed in the world of movies, imagining himself on a thrilling adventure.
But in fact, a movie is still a movie after all (it hurts my heart to write this sentence...), and they are just a group of ordinary college students. Of course, the robbery mission was embarrassed and failed.
When it was over and they returned to the dormitory, they were left with unease, emptiness, and even the fear of suddenly realizing what they had done. It was as if they suddenly woke up from the movie and realized that what just happened was not a movie, but the real truth.
There may be one word to describe them accurately, the second graders.
I love American Animals and it should be one of my favorite movies of the year.
It's like watching Journey to the West and imagining that you are Monkey King, watching the Avengers and imagining you are Iron Man and Captain America, and two-dimensional fans who hope that they can live in anime, hoping that they can have a real adventure, always I hope that my life will not be so bland, and I look forward to a little surprise in my life... Maybe everyone will have this idea, right?
Because we are all (used to be) these American animals!
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