What are you doing when you're laughing at stupidity?

Jaclyn 2022-03-29 09:01:06

From the perspective of genetic criminology, there is an insurmountable wall between criminals and ordinary people, which does not refer to the occurrence of behavior, but the psychological self-consistency of crime.

Animals are just following wild instincts, greed, predatory, and thrill-seeking, but humans are the evolutionary product of obedience to society, with moral domestication: refusing to hurt others, none of the four are willing to take charge of female administrators, and are forced to accept this task. Warren is repenting repeatedly, even crying; externally, he is bound by family responsibilities and social responsibilities: Spencer once quit because his family wanted to quit halfway, and Chas shot at members because of the destruction of his future and career.

Even if the protagonists make a lot of preliminary work and preparations, they only need to encounter a little unexpected factors and very small deviations, and they will achieve a chain reaction that seems to be foolish. Panic, evasive, cowardly, can never be simply concluded by "stupidity", just as the detailed memory retelling in the film is unreliable, this is the truth.

When Darwin was stolen, it foreshadowed that they could not betray the tragic evolution of evolution. After the impulse crossed the line, it was destined to be repatriated. The deeper and deeper the Kentucky cave was, there was no retrograde.

However, is this really a sin?

Eric was full of questions after the incident, "Did I do something terrible? Did I leave someone with permanent damage? Did I do something bad?"

After entering the criminal process of the four people, the most direct viewing experience is negative, resistant, and intolerable. The description of the crime of ordinary people makes us walk into life from the front of the screen, and experience the fear and self-judgment behind the bottom line. The irony is that the Eleven Arhats, very suspects and other fascination elements that appear in the film are often full of adrenaline and exciting experiences.

Just when we think that the protagonists of this film are just idoit, they are also falling into the trap of distortion. The disintegration and collapse of the authenticity of criminal art makes the boundary between reality and fiction extremely blurred. The world constructed by contemporary culture is full of disguises. As an ordinary person's natural criminal, he dispels the collective fear of sin, and makes every ordinary person delusion that he can also become an American animal on the other side of the wall.

This warning may be more cruel than the idea that evil does not prevail, and that there is no perfect crime.

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A little digression:

1. The two leading actors are among the young actors of this generation in the United States that I rarely like. They retain honesty and simplicity in their temperament, and they will only add color to any film. The images of the four prototypes are also unexpectedly excellent...

2. BJ's view of events retained at the end-they committed crimes because of their unwillingness to work hard, more like they deliberately left some kind of adult didactic misreading, and the breakdown of youth is often aimless and full of senseless , imagination and high song (the self-narrative of the prototype in the film further strengthens this point, not only wanting to get rid of the dull artistic style, but also to more accurately explain the mentality of the parties involved in the crime, there is really nothing better than this kind of cross-narrative method. For the sake of decency), but no one reminded them that the real world they live in is actually not fault-tolerant. The end is that ordinary people will always have ordinary people's lives. Fortunately, what is touching is that the four still find their way after paying the price. The ability to return to life.

3. The new director has three works in total including this one, and the top part has also won awards. Judging from the proficiency of this film, it really depends on talent...

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American Animals quotes

  • The Real Spencer Reinhard: Van Gogh ended up killing himself. Monet went blind. I felt like they understood something more about life that I wasn't getting to experience. Art has to be about more than just, "My life is great and I'm really good at drawing."

  • Warren Lipka: Seriously, man, fuck fraternities. The reason to be a part of that is so one day you can walk in the door of an office you never wanna go in to see a guy you never wanna meet, on the hopes that he might give you a job you never wanna fucking do.