JimmyMarkum/Jimmy(SEANPENN), DaveBoyle/Dave(TIMROBBINS) and SeanDevine/Sean(KEVINBACON) grew up in Boston together. Their childhood was like ordinary children, playing stickball on the street. There is very little big news happening around. Their friendship seems to last forever, until one day the life of one of them slips into another track. Young Dave was kidnapped, and this accident changed everything. In the process of growing up, their relationship disintegrated and became more and more alienated. Twenty-five years later, the three met again in Boston, but it was the beginning of another tragedy, caused by the death of Jimmy's 19-year-old eldest daughter in a murder. Jimmy's daughter Katie went to the bar to drink and dance the night before her sister's sacrament. On the way back, he was shot and thrown into the corpse park. It happened that Dave was drinking in the same bar that night. He didn't get home until three o'clock in the morning, and his body was covered with blood from others. He told his wife that he was robbed by gangsters, and he might have killed the gangster out of defense. His wife has been anxious and anxious all the time after learning about it; and Dave also seemed to be a different person. He was originally melancholy and miserable, and he looked even more helpless, confused, guilt and hatred. His wife intuitively judged that her husband killed Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter Katie, and finally decided to leave her husband and told Jimmy what her husband had done... Jimmy loved the daughter Katie left by his ex-wife, and the loss of his daughter made him lose his mind. The violent and impulsive nature was exposed, and he vowed to find the murderer before the police. The investigation of the case revolved around the three people and became more and more tense. When the "race" of chasing the murderer has become fierce, they also step into the abyss of their dark past step by step. They can no longer escape their true selves, nor can they escape their indelible stains of life. When I learned that Dave might be the murderer of his daughter, he desperately killed Dave and threw the body into a mysterious river. Although Dave repeatedly argued that he did not kill Katie, he admitted that he killed a pedophile, because this pedophile evokes the shadow of his childhood when he was kidnapped when he was a boy and was ravaged... He has told all the truth. , And vowed that there are no lies or secrets, but still can't extinguish the fire of Jimmy's strong desire for revenge. Sean is now a police detective. He and his partner are responsible for investigating the case. They must pay close attention to Jimmy, because Jimmy does not hesitate to use both hands to seek justice for his wife. When the police Seen informed Jimmy that the murderer of his daughter had surrendered at the desk and found a male body, Jimmy learned that he had killed Dave by mistake. It was painful and contradictory...
This movie is relatively long, but it allows you to watch it all at once, but it is definitely not easy and casual. The heavy story and the thoughts that the movie triggers, as well as the discussion of human nature, make you feel like a throat. Although we believe that the story in the film will not happen to ourselves, the cruelty of the human nature revealed by the story is enough to make us shudder, and even think of ourselves, that there is a shadow of each of us in the mysterious river.
Shadow One: With growth, how to maintain childhood friendship.
Three childhood friends play all day long, and their friendship seems to last forever, until one day slips into another track in one's life, and then gradually alienates, until they turn into enemies due to misunderstanding. The conflict in the film is dramatic, but in reality, do we have little contact with our childhood playmates? The friendship between children at that time gradually faded as they went to school and work. We met many people, I made a lot of friends, moved, and left my childhood city. Everyone is busy with their own affairs and running their own business. It seems that childhood friends have become memories just like their own age, and even think that they are naive things and do not want to recall and mention them. We have grown up and matured, our childhood playmates have gradually become estranged, and the innocence of childhood has gradually disappeared. We need to know each other again.
Shadow 2: The shadow of childhood is a lifelong injury.
One of the protagonists, Dave, was kidnapped and sexually assaulted when he was a teenager. His horrible experience completely changed his concept of life, but he has not tried to get rid of this shadow, but has lived in the original place for a long time. "Dave is a person who will not find a way to survive no matter how terrifying things he has encountered in the past. He could have left the place with terrible memories and live a new life elsewhere, but he did not. He buried the painful experience. From the bottom of my heart, I don’t want to solve it, just like a walking dead, so the problem is getting more and more serious..." The concrete pavement with the names of three teenagers is often inserted in the film. Dave’s unfinished name seems to indicate a A broken life and a life without a future. The assaulted youth made his life distorted ever since, and we always see his blank expressionless face as an adult. There was hardly a smile on his face, his eyebrows were always closed and full of autism, and he could not get rid of that childhood nightmare in his entire life. He can't even communicate with his wife, and his wife's fear and his panic has planted the bane of his life. The tragedy is caused by this deep root, and the story of this childhood shadow is also one of the main lines interspersed with the whole movie. In fact, each of us will never forget some of our childhood experiences. Some childhood blows will change our character and attitude towards life. Many tragedies in real life stem from childhood shadows.
The third shadow: creating things to make people, cause and effect are connected.
There seems to be another tragic reincarnation in the film. In the past, Jimmy once killed "Justice Thunder" and sent $500 a month to his family. But his daughter fell in love with Lei's son and died at the hands of Lei's other two sons. Dave was assaulted as a child, and his whole life was shrouded in the shadow of nightmares. One day, when he met a man who had sex with a boy in a car, he became vengeful and killed him. Wrong to die for another reason. In fact, Dave had been destroyed by that nightmare a long time ago and lived like a walking dead. He only learned about this nightmare again after a few years. Before Dave died, he got in a car again, as he did in his childhood, looking helplessly behind the window, wondering what would happen next.
Shadow Four: We bury our sins, and then clean them...
At the end of the film, in front of the parade in the sun, the Jimmys seemed to recover from their grief. Everything seemed to have begun to walk out of the darkness, but the dead Dave disappeared forever without knowing it, and Jimmy could be decisive for avenging his daughter. He’s made a decision to kill people who think it’s the murderer. Even if it’s a childhood friend, it’s painful, but just like killing the "Justice Thunder" in the past, he will soon be able to bury his sins in the mysterious river and use it. The river was cleaned, and under the sun, I only heard Dave’s wife looking for Dave among the parade and calling out to her son in a bleak voice. We have all done things that hurt others intentionally or unintentionally. When we realize that we will feel self-blame and guilt, but soon we will convince ourselves that there is always a reason for this, and then bury our own sins. Clean them...
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