Joe's sadness is that there is no hope

Ebba 2021-12-28 08:01:44

Nicholas Cage has handsome muscles and beard. He laughed at me when he taught the boy to be handsome.

The story is not complicated, and the taste in the ordinary is acceptable. If it weren't for the sadness of the background music, it might be more interesting to be less sensational.

1. The old drunkard G-dog

The old drunkard jumped off the bridge and fell to his death. Did he commit suicide or attempt to escape? I prefer the former. He whispered and asked Nicholas, are you my friend, without panic. Just like he slapped a mental patient to death, and then kissed him on the head, it was like a trivial matter for him to end his life.

The old drunkard did nothing good. He sells his daughter, steals his son's hard money, robs and kills the mentally ill, faces bad guys without fear but embarrassed him. He has no dignity, no bottom line, and lives like an animal.

It's like poisoning a useless tree. Such a person actually died well, but the director is concerned about him. In the camera, he and his son laughed, danced locks full of contemporary sense, and danced alone in the setting sun.

He said that he had also worked hard.

The sun shines down, and the woods that are about to be wiped out are beautiful. Who planted the tree back then? There is no way to blame.

Two, Joe

Joe feels powerless about the decline around him. He expressed justice in the most primitive way, suppressing the wicked by force, treating the poor generously, and teaching young people kindly.

He is cute but not happy.

Some commented that both the woman he loved and the woman who loved him left him, yes, it was miserable. In fact, he can be like a gentleman, go out to dinner with his female companion, and even start a family-if he can ignore the chaos around him, if he doesn't frown because of unrelated incidents, if he can be a little bit more selfish.

He was too pure, too sad, he couldn't walk the way of the old sheriff.

Three, boy

The boy’s life is extremely poor. The weak sister and mother, the bastard father, have nothing and no walls.

What he has is hardworking and kind. The source of this background color is also traceable in the movie. After being beaten up by his father, his mother taught him that his family is the most important thing, to understand his father's difficulties. Women are weak, women are also strong.

The most valuable thing is that boys always laugh. Whether it's joking with Dad, hanging out with Joe to find a dog, or after Joe's death, he walks with Joe's bulldog, his smile is refreshing and clean. Like a newly planted sapling, the boy is full of hope for the future.

If you can't live happily, what's the point of Joe and the villain's death? He was not dragged down by the past, not overthrown by the status quo. He smiled and walked forward step by step.

This is the greatest optimism.

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Extended Reading
  • Marcel 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    This may be the best film of cage in recent years, slightly monotonous and boring. It turned out to be made by the producer of mud, no wonder the style is so bad. I inexplicably like a Zheng wife, and the Zheng Tai's house is a muddy mess, and there is an oxazole father. Can the ending not die, lack of positive energy

  • Madelyn 2021-12-28 08:01:44

    Tye Sheridan, asked for a boat from Matthew McConaughey last time, this time for a car from Nicholas Cage, and next time for a plane from... Liam Neeson? !

Joe quotes

  • Connie: What are you thinking, Joe?

    Joe: Nothing. There's nothing I can do and I hate it.

    Connie: That's not true.

    Joe: Yeah, it is. You look at me like I can make a move. What are you thinking when you look at me like that? Don't you care? I don't know who I am, but I know what keeps me alive is restraint. Keeps me out of jail. Keeps me from hurting people. A mark of some fucked-up faith that there's a reason. A reason for all of this. A reason in most moments I shouldn't do what I wanna do. I do as I'm told. These men who bust their asses work like dogs - and I believe in them - but every day they hurt. They get old, they peel back... There's no frontier anymore. And I watch that boy, and I see someone who's... nothing like me, but... he's a child folks left behind. And he's on a fence, balanced right there.

    Connie: What do you want? What is it you want?

    Joe: Nothing.

    Connie: Just tell me what I can do. I like you.

    Joe: I like you, too, but what's the point in any of it? Fuck to this day. I mean, fuck to this day. It's all just gonna boil up and wash us away. Maybe you'll still be here. Maybe you won't.

  • [first lines]

    Gary: Hey, you old man, you look at me. I got som'in' to say to you. Every time we land someplace new, you say it's gonna be different, but it ain't. You mess up... a lot... then you leave a mess for me and Momma and Dorothy to clean up, and that ain't right. That's all I'm sayin'. Hell, I do what I gotta do. You do whatever the hell you want - whatever you can get away with. You're just a... selfish old drunk. Yeah, that's what you is. Yeah, this place is gonna be after us. Hell, they'll be on you, and they're gonna beat your ass. And I hate to see you go down. You know you're my daddy. You know what you are, ain't you? I'm talking at chu.

    [Wade gives a long silent stare]

    Gary: What'chu done this time? They'll beat your ass, shit. That's what they're gonna do. You can count on it.

    [Wade suddenly slaps Gary then walks away]