I have seen "Bonnie and Clyde" earlier, and the male and female robbers are indeed legendary. And "THE HIGHWAYMEN" provides the other side of the story: that is the TEXAS RANGERS who finally brought the male and female robbers to justice.
First of all, express my appreciation for Woody Harrelson for many years! From the beginning of "Peachy Deal", I think this big brother is very hot. After that, he got older, and basically never played any protagonist other than "Born Murderer", but every time he is a supporting role, he can add a highlight to the film. Including "Three Billboards" not long ago, the old sheriff is really sympathetic. Now my brother is acting as an old mounted policeman with KEVIN COSTNER. He is very old, but occasionally a scene flashes with blue eyes, he is still so handsome:)
Okay, let’s talk about the film. The lines of this film are very good. The words are concise and concise, the subtext is rich, the humor is moderate, the meaning is deep and not showy. What impressed me the most was that when the police waited in the forest beside the highway to ambush Bonnie and Clyde, HAMER told everyone that he would go out first and let others wait for his signal before firing. Obviously, MANEY is very sad, he doesn't want to let his old partner take such a big risk alone, it's almost like sending him to death. At this time, HAMER said to MANEY: I went to see you but left again. I just don't want you to go through all this now. That being said, I'm really glad you're here now. By the way, this section of the ambush pays tribute to Kurosawa Akira's "Seven Samurai".
In the film, Bonnie almost never showed her face, she appeared in high heels or a petite skirt, while Clyde simply didn’t even have an image—until the last moment, when they found out that they were surrounded by police, we saw them. Faces and wide-eyed eyes, they went to take the gun but didn't take up the hand (it felt more like they gave up knowing that it didn't help), and then they were covered in bullet rain, full of bullet holes. I think this is first of all in line with the structure of telling stories from the perspective of the two mounted police, but more importantly, the author strongly resents the idolization of Bonnie and Clyde. This question is not something that can be explained in a few words. Just like the film also shows the reasons why people admire Bonnie and Clyde: the economy is dying, the banks are exploiting the laboring public, and the male and the male robbers rob the bank. In the eyes of the public, they are no different than Robin Hood. In addition, people who are deeply involved in ordinary life also naturally like rebellion and legend. These values cannot be simply denied. But at the same time, it also tells you: Bonnie and Clyde did not only rob the rich and help the poor (in fact, they only robbed the rich), but they also brutally killed a lot of policemen—these policemen are also ordinary people, and their families rely on them. They feed. And the public's worship of male and female thieves has also developed to a sickly level. Except for the girls imitating Bonnie's clothes, a particularly shocking scene appeared after their deaths-when the car carrying the bodies of two people was dragged back into the city. At that time, crazy fans, regardless of the obstacles, put their hands into the car window, what they can catch, whether he is Clyde’s watch, or Bonnie’s hair or even flesh and blood... It’s also dark here. The Associated Press ( AP) One hand, it bid 1,000 yuan for an interview with HAMER at the first time. HAMER saw the person who spread the word and left. His good buddy MANEY gave him a sentence: SHAME ON YOU :) This paragraph reminds me of this. A passage that Mu Xin said roughly means: the world likes to chase vulgar things, just like walking on the road, and there is a lively look on the other side of the road, he ran over and watched it lingering; then you don’t wait, he Won't come back.
The number of bullets Bonnie and Clyde fought was very impressive: the car hit 167 bullets, of which Bonnie was hit by 53 and Clyde was hit by 51. This number was used to mock the cowardice and madness of the police. Now it seems that this kind of ridicule seems more like an argument that the media who don't have to take risks in person stand and speak. "THE HIGHWAYMEN" effectively JUSTIFY the police's approach: first, take the opportunity of buying guns from Hamer to tell the audience how powerful Bonnie and Clyde's weapons and equipment are. When they killed the police, it was like rain. Strafing past. Later, I used the words of MANEY to tell a story: there was a group of robbers who burned, killed, and looted. The Texas Mounted Police went to exterminate them. Every time they went, they abide by the law and shouted "hands up!" and the robbers heard it. At this point, the police were shot directly as if they had received a signal. After several times, HAMER decided to go directly to destroy the group of bad guys. At that time, there were still a few policemen who were reluctant to do so. But MANEY was always with his good friend Hamer, so they raided the robber's den in the middle of the night and killed them all before saying the phrase "hand up". Yes, no matter whether it is a police or a bandit, a person is a life. When the police are faced with dangerous criminals, you can't ask them to always keep the political correctness the most-then they will die.
Good movies have their own opinions, but at the same time they also show the complexity and variety of reality. Just like this film opposes idolizing Bonnie and Clyde, but it does not hide their sympathetic side. Through the mouth of Clyde's father, it spoke out the injustice of this society: Clyde only stole a chicken at first, but was severely punished by the law ever since. From his obsession with being a police officer, HAMER thought that stealing this chicken meant that Clyde had evil seeds, and he asked: Then you don't want to think about why he steals the chicken? Clyde's father said: Because he was hungry. HAMER had to admit that he couldn't refute it. An even more moving treatment is that after Bonnie and Clyde died, a long screen time gave them the whole story: a young man who grew up together but became a policeman. The values of this young man made him choose a different path from the male and female robbers, but at the same time he always reminisces about the past of the boys. Before the ambush, MANEY once said to this little brother: You just need to be responsible for identifying them, and you don't need to shoot if you don't want to shoot. The younger brother was pale at the time, but insisted that he was okay. Then the ambush began, and he poured out the bullets in his gun without hesitation. But when he opened the car door and faced two childhood friends full of bullet holes, the sadness, shock, and helplessness were really beyond words. This is the first scene after the death of Bonnie and Clyde. The author chose to present it from the perspective of this small supporting role, which is far more pitiful than the perspective of the two protagonists.
Finally, I checked with the Texas Mounted Police. They recovered after being temporarily cancelled until now. Recently, it has been increasingly discovered that Texas is really a very HARD CORE state: at the time, it was originally investigating how SECOND DEGREE MURDER was convicted in Texas. I only found out after an investigation. According to Texas law, as long as you are a murder (MURDER), then It is a first-degree felony (FIRST DEGREE FELONY), so there is no such thing as a second-degree murder. Compared to states that abolished the death penalty, and states that have suspended executions even though they did not abolish the death penalty (such as California), Texas's approach has won my heart. It's not that I am bloodthirsty, but I believe that the death penalty is the basic justice to the dead. The United States has developed plea bargaining due to insufficient finances in the judicial system, and Obama even wrote papers trying to advocate a systematic reduction in prison terms-these are all aimed at reducing the expenditure of the judicial system. But at the same time, they also raise a large number of executed prisoners for the criminal’s "human rights". These prisoners do not have to work and rely on taxpayers' money to raise them. Although they are sentenced to death, they will have to wait for many years, and many people will eventually fail. He was not executed, and he was finally released on parole and went out to continue enjoying the sunshine and freedom.
I still believe in ancient justice.
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