I have a habit of watching movies, and I must never miss a little bit of the screen and dialogue. It is often that my mind is lost in a moment and the insignificant dialogue of Passerby is not heard, so I have to rewind the film and watch it again. Of course, this generally applies to films with connotation. Therefore, for me, watching a movie often takes a little longer than the length of the movie. Watching it once is equivalent to watching it twice (I don't dare to say more). And write the so-called look and feel. It should be read a few more times to make a comment, but sometimes the first impression is the most accurate (especially for people).
In my opinion, movies can be divided into three types: 1. When I watched the beginning, I was thinking about when it would be finished. Generally speaking, it is a badly filmed film; 2. The more I go, the more I hope the movie will not end, it’s best. I have been acting like this, generally speaking, this kind of film must bring me a strong sense of pleasure; 3. It is not very sensational, but the film is well shot, like a beautiful woman who is not the type of you like sitting next to you , Even if you don’t have any unreasonable thoughts, but given your natural love for beauty, you will feel relaxed and happy.
The color of the film, the content of the murder, "Mystic River" at the beginning gave me the feeling that it was a suspense detective film. If so, it belongs to the third type mentioned above. But wait till the end. I have divided this movie into my favorite genres.
In view of my age, experience, and outlook on life, I like to discuss fatalism, as well as family, love, and mutual trust. Of course, the most important thing is loneliness. It's all said and done in this movie. It happens to be studying Freud recently. The beginning of this film just seems to be caused by a young boy who was sexually assaulted in his childhood and caused serious psychological problems in his adulthood. All I can say is that this film came too timely.
The following content is serious spoiler. If you have not watched this movie and plan to watch it, please think twice before reading.
Three children, playing in the street, encountered two perverts. The two perverts found one of the three children, took the car, and left. The boy who got in the car was named David, and the boy who got in the car was Jimmy and Sean.
David was ravaged for four days and fled home. Jimmy and Sean shook their hands at the dark shadow in front of the window downstairs at David's house, announcing the end of the friendship between the three children.
Thirty years later, Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter, Katie, was murdered. On the night of the incident, David returned home in a panic and blood, and his wife Celeste's anxiety began.
As a police detective, Sean took over the murder of his childhood playmate's daughter. David's wife Celeste was Katie's cousin and brought her husband to Jimmy's house to help with the funeral. Thirty years later, the three boys were once again pulled together by fate.
David's injured right hand attracted the attention of detective Sean, and it has been teasing Celeste's fragile heart. Sean still has no doubt about David, Celeste kills her relatives righteously.
Celeste found Jimmy, who was tormented by grief and anger, and told the imaginary that she had been worried about her. She had regarded her husband as a murderer in her heart. Jimmy put Celeste kisses on his shoulders, a murderous look in his eyes.
As a police detective, Sean finally identified and arrested the murderer after careful investigation. At the same time, Jimmy led David to the river outside the bar and told him that this was the place where he killed people and abandoned their bodies. David asked in horror, why tell me this? Jimmy said, I won't kill you if I admit you are the murderer, David admitted. Jimmy raised his gun.
Early in the morning, Jimmy was sitting on the street drunk with a wine bottle. Sean came over and told him that the case was solved and the murderer was brought to justice. Celeste was looking for David. Do you know where he is? Jimmy looked at Sean and said, you are a step late.
The two looked forward together. Thirty years ago, the car carrying David was slowly leaving.
There is nothing surprising in the first half of the film. A young girl is murdered. The person who looks most like the murderer is gradually suspected. A fool can guess that the most like is definitely not. Hollywood screenwriters are not only higher in IQ than Chinese “stylish”. Chinese screenwriters have only one turn in their brains, while American screenwriters have turned three. American screenwriters ultimately have only one purpose: to make you impossible to guess. After such a long time, just as you guessed how to write by domestic screenwriters, we are all immune. So even though thinking about the most unlikely person at the beginning, it often ends up not far.
But who is the murderer is far from the focus of this movie. In fact, the director obviously didn't put too much thought on it. That is to say, the director is not afraid that you can guess who is the murderer and who is not the murderer, because what he wants to express is not this. This can also be seen from the fact that the murderer is just a dumb who has not shown his face several times, and the motivation is quite simple and simple. , The murder case does not have much mystery and complexity. The focus of the film is to describe how things have become like this step by step.
David, this man who suffered misfortune in his childhood has obviously been immersed in the shadow of childhood and never trusts anyone. From the very beginning, when he went home in the middle of the night with blood covered in blood, he attracted all doubtful gazes (in the film and outside the film) to himself, but it made everyone wonder why he didn't justify? His sensitive and fragile wife Celeste's suspicion of his narrative was destined not to be eliminated from the beginning, and laid the groundwork for her informant in the end. Jimmy died of his daughter, and he paranoidly didn't trust the police. Instead, he gathered his fierce wife and brother to cross-examine the news, which also paved the way for him to lynch and kill David. Jimmy’s wife Annabeth, although she was dissatisfied with her husband’s preference for this daughter, Katie, who was not her own, but after Katie’s death she still showed her maternal instinct and lay on her husband and wailed loudly. A typical good helper, for the film At the end, he laid the groundwork for her husband's sensational confession. Detective Sean's wife, according to the story, told us that she ran away, but sometimes, she called Sean but didn't say anything, laying the groundwork for her future return.
In my opinion, the director is explaining a truth, fate determines character, and character ultimately determines fate. Dimon's death, on the surface, seemed to be a manslaughter by Jimmy, but in the final analysis, it was due to his autistic character, and his character was precisely because of that childhood experience. The audience must think, if it wasn't Dimon who got in the car back then... the director naturally thought of it.
When the film was in the middle, Sean interrogated Jimmy for the first time. Jimmy mentioned that if it was him who was taken into the car by the bad guy, maybe everything would not happen today. It is the first time that the director discusses fate with the audience grandly. At the end of the film, Sean said again: "Sometimes I feel that we are all in that car... In reality, we are still children in the cellar, imagining what would happen if we escape. ." In fact, Sean said this passage is suspected of standing up and speaking. But the person who should have said this is dead. The director used Sean's mouth to say what David wanted to say but did not say, showing his helplessness in fate.
Although David hasn't said those things, he has said something similar. In a scene with Celeste at home, David said, "It was not David who escaped the cellar." The implication was that he never escaped. He had come out, or it was not him that had escaped. He also said: Just like a vampire, once invaded, the shadow will always exist. This sentence can be considered as his description of the nightmare of his childhood, which also explains why he was covered with blood that night-killing a man who accepted the service of a boy prostitute. But I don’t think the director would be so superficial, making such a film just to promote the evil side of pedophilia to people. In the final analysis, the director wants to explain that once any form of injury is implemented, the trauma it causes is permanent and can never be changed.
Going back to the beginning of the film, the three boys wrote their names on a piece of wet cement. Jimmy and Sean had finished writing. When David had just written "DA", he ran into the two people driving. It was also David who was taken in the car. Thirty years later, it was David who paid the price of his life. This makes us lament the injustice of fate to David. Although both Jimmy and Sean had said "If it was me who got in the car", they seemed to be lamenting the impermanence of fate. But this is just a kind of human hypocrisy. In the dialogue between the two before Jimmy killed David, the audience can understand everything.
David: If it was you who got in the car, you would understand.
Jimmy: But it was not me who got in the car, it was you.
The director is telling you that this is fate. Accept your fate.
I like.
In addition, the words that Jimmy’s wife Annabeth said to Jimmy before the end of the film gave this character, which had always been less important in the film, immediately valuable, and it was also very useful for enhancing the ideological value of the film. necessary. When Jimmy confessed to the window and said, "I killed David, but I killed the wrong person", let's see what she said.
Annabeth said: Jimmy, when I coaxed my daughters to sleep last night, I told them that your heart is so big, I said you love Katie, because you created her, and sometimes your love for her is almost to the limit, love When the heart almost explodes (here Jimmy tries to stop her from speaking, but she continues to say), I said that Dad’s love for them is the same, because he has four hearts, all of which are overflowing with love, so we don’t have to Worried, dad dare to do everything for the one he loves, and do it bravely. He will never make a mistake. No matter what dad does, he will never make a mistake. As a result, they fall asleep peacefully... Going through fire and water is enough. Other people's families are very weak, except for our family. Our family will never be weak, and you are the ruler of this family.
With this remark, Jimmy no longer felt guilty for David, and even had the desire to be affectionate with his wife, and afterwards he calmly took his wife’s family to the streets to watch the parade. In fact, before Jimmy killed David that night, Annabeth had a foreboding that something would happen, because Celeste called her to tell her, but she didn't do anything. Compared to Jimmy and the murderer, this woman's fierceness did not prevail. In sharp contrast, Celeste was skeptical of what David said from the beginning, grabbing "why there is no news in the newspaper" and not letting it go, and eventually developed into "betraying" her husband to Jimmy. Of course, we can say that this is what Celais is kinder than Annabeth, but the director obviously doesn't want to praise Celais's kindness. At the end of the film, while Annabeth’s family was watching the parade, his wife Celeste was also walking around in the crowd with an uneasy expression. She saw Sean and the woman Laura who had returned to him, and she saw how much she was with her husband. It was Annabeth who was happy, with an uneasy look on her face in sharp contrast. Finally, she squeezed a little smile at the son Mike in the parade and beckoned to call his name, but her eyes were clearly full of tears. And Mike looked lonely among the cheerful children. And Annabeth also fell into trouble with Celais: "I suspected her husband, and came to sue?" The implication was that she deserved it. The film is a bit cruel here.
At the end of the movie, the band’s music was John Philip Sosha’s "Semper Fidelis", which means "forever sincere" in Latin. At the end of the movie, it seems to be discussing whether the wife should maintain eternal loyalty to her husband. The fate of the man in the film, in a sense, is also in the hands of his own woman. In fact, this is also the director telling you in a disguised form that what kind of wife you marry is also your life. This can also be found in the film. It was also what Sean said when he questioned Jimmy for the first time, to the effect that if it was him who got in the car, he would not have the guts to pursue his ex-wife. Without an ex-wife, there would be no current wife. Speaking of this, it feels like I'm talking about the butterfly effect.
Director Clint Eastwood, once an excellent actor, is now a good director. This "Mystic River", which is called one of his best works, is still in some of the information about the film. It was introduced like this: "A film reflecting the psychological trauma caused by a child's sexual assault." What I want to say is that the director will never be as superficial as the audience. Just like when I wrote this text, I still can only feel inferior in my heart that I only see the superficiality of the director's ideas.
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