In fact, Joe himself is a tragic character. When Cage plays this role, he always looks drunk, lacks energy, and always frowns.
Joe is capable and kind.
When the story first started, he took a group of workers to chop wood. When the boy asked Joe to work, Joe gave him a job in a very simple and straightforward way.
"How old are you?"
"You have 45 seconds to tell me why you are qualified for this job."
"You have a little job today. The pay is daily."
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Joe is like that, he doesn't seem to care about anything. , But for this boy, he is especially sympathetic.
Joe's biggest flaw is his anger. He has always been unable to control himself. This is also the source of the tragedy. But Joe's anger was for a reason. This marginalized living environment in the United States, simple and crude sex, revenge, these things that are not found in mainstream American movies, are found in such movies. Joe lived in such a marginalized environment. He yearned for change and the integrity he wanted, but he couldn't find it. Especially, when the boy finally told him about it, Joe was completely crazy. In the previous incident, Joe saw the woman he liked sitting in someone else's car, and the woman who liked him left him.
So Joe wiped out all the dregs in the boy's life. The price was Joe's death.
I have never seen such a "evil" character in a movie, and the boy's father counts as one. In the end, he jumped off the bridge and fell on the ground very close to the water source.
I vaguely remember that when Joe was evaluating the boy, he said that he was different from me.
Although the boy and Joe are equally smart and capable.
In the final analysis, the difference is that boys have hope, responsibility and sense of responsibility for life. Before Joe met the boy, he thought that life should have been like this, waiting for death.
Joe traded his life for the boy's rebirth.
Joe used his own life to drive away the darkness in the boy's life. In this marginalized world, Joe adhered to integrity, but retained his anger. This is the cause of Joe's tragedy and the source of heroism in this story.
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