Aftermath of the night view of life

Issac 2021-12-28 08:01:37

The last Shanghai Film Festival movie

I heard that it was a bit bad before I saw it. Well, I think the script is a bit bad, and Daben’s performance is just like that, but the style is still very handsome. The theme of the film is not clear and the narrative lacks focus. Is it to talk about a person's legendary life, is it to talk about the cruelty of the rivers and lakes, talk about human nature, talk about betrayal, or love? It has everything and lacks focus. The character of Daben doesn't have any unique personality, and the description of the underworld makes people feel that it is not strong enough. Just like looking at the Langya List, many things are more like the obscenity of an outsider, without the accent of a storyteller.

The gangsters or rivers and lakes that I understand are very romantic and cruel, like two can only live one, like a city that never sleeps, like a star cowboy.

Two can only live in one, and the finger can be broken the first time it can be broken the second time, and it can be broken the third time.

Different gangs have different characteristics in the city that never sleeps, Cui Hu, Yuan Chenggui, Fuchun, and Liu Jianyi in the middle, Xia Mei's love and betrayal.

The ultimate romance of men in Star Cowboys.

The film festival is over...

It has been raining, but a very beautiful week~Although it is a short time, it is a memorable week~

I hope I can have such a good time in the future.

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Extended Reading
  • Lesley 2022-03-21 09:02:28

    The thought of being Casey's brother makes me travel back to Manchester by the sea for that depressing movie...

  • Orland 2022-03-23 09:02:30

    The composition is exquisite, the costumes are exquisite, and the lines are deep; the explosion of the speeding gunfight, the passion of love, the religion of criminal humanity, all elements should have all the elements of a well-made blockbuster, and then, inevitably, it smashed. Is it too hard? Is it overly coercive? Is the facebook stiff? Is it old-fashioned and verbose? Or is everything just untimely and can only be blamed on the curse of fate?

Live by Night quotes

  • Joe Coughlin: I don't wanna be a gangster. Stopped kissing rings a long time ago.

  • [from trailer]

    Loretta Figgis: My father says there once was a good man in you.

    Joe Coughlin: We all find ourselves in lives we didn't expect.

    Loretta Figgis: Repent. Repent. Repent.