As a person who has not completely gotten rid of the secondary thinking left over from adolescence, watching this film has a lot of feelings. I don't want to stand on the sidelines and judge how immature or even stupid the robbery planned by these four young people, because their psychology is understandable in my opinion, they are just not comfortable with the arranged life, do not want The bullshit who "can only get what you are busy with, others think you deserve it, and getting it means success" will not want to become one of the mediocre people, so they rack their brains and plan crimes in a similar way. Trying to hit a string of ripples on a calm lake.
This is a film that tells the story of a robbery, but compared to the crime that could be solved in two days, I touched a period of restlessness and confusion in the lives of several young people who were unwilling to be mediocre.
Everyone has a time when they are young, imagine that they can make a big thing, this thing can be kind or dangerous, in short, it can prove that they are different from others. In the minds of most people, this kind of thought is like a restless flame that disappears in a flash and is extinguished by reality. As for the four young people in the film, their confused planning and promotion turned the unwilling and mediocre declaration in their minds into reality, and thus pushed themselves into the abyss.
As the film says, your heart doesn't warn you when you cross the line, and American animals living in caves who haven't seen the outside won't realize they've crossed the line drawn by the outside. No one remembered who was behind it, nor how they got involved, but they acted like this, crossing the line and moving further and further toward the not-so-real delusions of youth, unaware of the gradually blurred vision. ethical bottom line. They are top students in college, they have great prospects, they don't want to hurt anyone, they're confused, they're restless, they just get carried away by the idea of not being mediocre.
The first act was an interesting point, when Spencer came out of the library with a sigh of relief, which could have stopped there and went on with his life, letting this crazy experience be classified as a wild one of adolescence A dream that can be talked about with friends a few years later, boasting that he almost succeeded that year, and then friends will laugh at him that he would never have the guts to steal an original art book worth 12 million. But this is not the case. The four still stick to the plan, but the unwillingness of mediocrity in their youth makes the four become four mediocre youth criminals.
How many of our rants when we were young turned into jokes between tea and rice after we got married and established a business, and how many of our youthful passions turned into bubbles over time, punctured by reason. You're not special. Tell this to a teenage boy and he'll probably be anxious or cry with you, but when we really realize this, we finally accept our mediocrity. The four people in the film all started a new life after seven years in prison, the kind of life that they once regarded as mediocre and disappointing. They practiced writing, instructed fitness, returned to college, and became painters. The restless youth became. Down to earth, the rough seas were once again calm. Everything is like waking up from a big dream, and then getting rid of the crazy thoughts on youth hormones and soberly embracing ordinary life.
ps To be honest, if I watched this film a few years ago, I would probably have admired the crime of the four who did what they said, even if they failed, they at least left their name. I originally watched this movie from the perspective of a lively bystander, but I saw a little shadow of myself when I was young and frivolous, and seeing the failure of their immature robbery plan was like waking up from my own youth again. wonderful.
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