When I watched the movie "Buffalo 66" for the first time in 2008, I thought it was a romantic comedy, and it feels different when I rewatch it today. It talks about love, not "love", but control. The difference with love. Maybe it’s when I’m past the age of “for love”, I can really think about what love is, and I can look back and think about the influence of parents and family on a person’s love, and what are the things that are imposed on me, which are good. What is bad? If people never face their own problems and always hope to be “understood by others”, it will be difficult for them to grow. "See through everything", in fact you can't see through everything, you can only see yourself clearly through continuous learning. If a person is still running away from himself in middle age and takes repeating his parents’ life as an excellent reason, then this person is no different from death, and will only pass on the problems that he cannot solve to the next generation, just like many The elders sighed: "People live to pass on the ancestry." To be honest, this kind of inheritance is quite terrible.
At the beginning of the movie, Billy, who was released after serving his sentence, held a pee at the door of the cell. He wanted to go back to the cell but was kicked out. Why doesn't he like freedom? Because he wants to go home to visit his parents, and there is more terrible than prison.
Billy robbed a girl on the road and asked her to pretend to be his wife to go home to visit relatives, because he dared not tell his parents that he was in jail and lied to them that he was working in the government and was traveling on a business trip. This girl could help him lie. .
The funniest story happened after Billy went home. The first sentence after his father opened the door was not a warm hug, but called his mother who was fascinated by watching the ball in the room to come out and yelled: "Your son is back. ", as if it wasn't his son. This mother seemed to be very caring. She asked Billy to eat chocolate desserts. She didn’t remember that Billy was allergic to chocolate during his childhood, and then forced Billy to drink beer. Even if Billy said he didn’t like beer, his mother still passed it. All kinds of "love" ways ignore any thoughts of Billy. In order to alleviate the embarrassing atmosphere of Billy's family, the girl began to brag that Billy worked for the FBI, and there were more than one hundred people under him, and many girls had a crush on him. Billy's mother didn't mean to be proud of this son at all. Instead of listening to their conversation, she watched the game and complained while watching the game: "Buffalo has never won a game since 66, and I have never missed anything. A game except for the one in '66 is because of the birth of Billy." Obviously, this mother equated the misfortune of her marriage with the ball game in 66 years, and equated Billy with the reason for her unhappy life, just like many Chinese parents would say to their children "all for you", in fact this It’s just that she can’t face herself, and she doesn’t have the courage to re-choose a way to transfer resentment to her children. It’s all “love”. In fact, the mother’s complaint is a deep desire to control her father and son because she is always in control. Not reminding them: "You owe me too much."
So what kind of person is Billy's father? In the film, the father takes his daughter-in-law to the room and sings an old-fashioned love song to her. It is very French style. It can be seen that this father had a suave golden voice when he was young. He sent his daughter-in-law affectionately to the daughter-in-law while immersed in it. In the imagination of being the "Prince of Love Songs", it seems that he is still attractive to women. When the girl asked him to sing another song, he seemed to be back to reality. He was very dissatisfied with reality, so he yelled with a violent temper. So why is he dissatisfied with reality? The camera turns to his mother who is cooking outside. He is cooking while watching the football game. He keeps shouting for the game. He wears a rugby uniform and all the photos of stars at home hang. It seems that his mother wants to marry one. The star, not the love song prince. And his father kept beating his daughter-in-law, as if his value all came from women's appreciation of him, but this was just his fantasy. For such a lecherous husband, his mother has to keep emphasizing her love for the star, as if I would live happily without Billy, in order to escape the reality that there was no love for a long time. Through this series of comparisons in the film, it can be seen that his parents have no common topics and hobbies, and are full of hatred for each other, but they have to pretend to be an enviable loving couple. In order to strengthen the irony of the parents’ marriage, the most exciting segment of the film is that they took a headshot. This fake girlfriend fell in love with Billy and couldn't help making faces and kissing when taking pictures. Billy was half angry and warned her: " This is a photo taken for my parents. We want to show that we are a happy couple. We love each other but don’t touch each other, so don’t touch me!” This is how he is imitating his parents. This is his parents. The understanding of "love" imposed on him makes him full of fear of love.
Let’s take a look at Billy’s psychological shadows. Of course, all come from his family, from the mother who "you shouldn’t have been born", but the theme of this movie is "rebirth." A person’s rebirth does not prove himself. Meet the expectations of the parents, but get independent from the parents' values and gain their own existence. Billy has been living in "66 years without winning." When he grew up, in order to prove his worth, he walked out of his mother's denial. He borrowed loan sharks to bet on the Buffaloes to win, but lost. In order to pay off his gambling debts, he goes to jail. In fact, his family is his real prison. After being released from prison, Billy still didn't want to understand this problem. He didn't know how to get rid of all these failures and become the proud person of his mother. In the end, he had to fight with his life. He intends to die with the star player who played match-fixing that year, and to be a tragic hero. He took the gun and walked into the porn bar opened by that player, fantasizing that he would shoot him and then kill himself. Only in this way can he be relieved! I owe you all I owe you back! After the scene shifted from Billy in a pool of blood to his burial, his parents did not apologize in front of his grave. Her mother was still listening to the live broadcast of the ball game. It was simply that the grave head was very ironic, SO. Can death solve the parents' marital problems? What can be exchanged for such "self-sacrifice and touch"? They have not solved their own problems, so they transfer the contradiction to their children. Does it make any sense to die for such "atonement"? After the director questioned this set of assumptions, the camera returned to Billy. He thought clearly and made another "cowardly" choice. He walked out of the bar and threw away the gun, looking for the horse who loved him and bravely expressed himself. Love, stop flinching, and live a life completely different from that of your parents, to get a new life. What this director really wants to express is to leave the "Buffalo 66" that traps you. It cannot define your life. Your value should be determined by yourself, not judged by others. The real resistance is not to self-destruct like Billy's first choice, but to leave the judgment system and choose a life they think is impossible.
The girl in the movie is a woman who silently loves Billy. Many people think that this girl saved Billy. This is only half of the reason. The theme of the movie is Billy's own choice. If he does not have the courage to step out of his parents and impose on him The view of marriage in your body means that no matter who he is with, he cannot experience true love. This is why a person must re-examine himself. What you examine is what is imposed on yourself, not your own. , But you think it comes from yourself.
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