At the end I realized that my brother was dead a long time ago, and he was unbearable to tease and hang himself. The two brothers in front were walking in the countryside together, asking and answering questions were all brothers’ fantasy, or one person and one ghost, like the plot of our Chinese ghost story, which made people’s heart beat faster.
My brother has a pair of very gentle and honest eyes, and when talking to those gangsters, his tone is flat and calm, even if it will be fatal in the next second. There is a kind of magnanimity that only intellectuals have. He is not rushed or impatient. Anyway, the plan has been arranged long ago, and it is just a step-by-step implementation. He wasn't a bloodthirsty madman, he was just venting his anger for his brother's grievances. People who shouldn't be killed, let him kill himself. Because he had lived enough himself, and was boring.
I don't know if you have experienced the kind of boring, beautiful but boring English country life deliberately expressed by the director. Absolutely moist green, abandoned churches, monotonous and backward material and spiritual life, that's why the gangsters are making trouble. Look at the age composition of those guys. Old, middle, and young are combined. Their drug trafficking is just a form, they earn a little money for themselves and live a bleak life. Playing tricks on mentally handicapped children is just to make their life more fun.
It’s not fun to be an older brother. It’s just an excuse to avenge his mortal brother. The excitement of killing makes it possible for his life to continue. It will last for a few days: four days? Five days?
I have never been to the UK, but I know some of their current scenes and conditions. The great past is gone forever. No one knows how to go forward, and no one is confident. People in the middle and lower classes just use various methods to fight against loneliness. Their ideas are simple and plain, not as chicken hearted as our Chinese. We have Mahjong. We still have the ability to make simple things complicated. We are most afraid of being quiet, right?
So in general, this is exactly what this film is about. If you are depressed as a Chinese, then you are right.
How boredom is generated, there are objective and subjective reasons, I am unable to explain clearly, but as the film said, it is there, in that green village.
In the end, the guy who was forced to kill his brother and survived, he has a reason to exist: he has a complete family and a stable income (look at his car), he will not be lonely and bored, and he will never come back. Go inside that kind of haunting game. So he has to live, for his children. Maybe he will educate them well, don't be a gangster in the future, and fight loneliness in a healthy way. I don't want to say that this is the highlight of the whole story, it's just a fact.
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