A sexy and beautiful restaurant waitress and a lame thief who tried to steal their mother's car eloped. After a dangerous journey mixed with desire and frustration, romance and excitement, the two said goodbye to them forever in the shooting. tomorrow.
If I were to summarize "The Male and Female Thief" in one sentence, it would be the simple sentence above. However, what the film brings to me is very complicated. Through the surface of robbery and tragic death, the film shows us an aspect of American society during the Great Depression in the 1930s through the description of these two crappy bandits. The problems reflected in the film have been reflected in different eras and in all countries. All exist more or less.
Two metaphors. At the beginning of the film, Bonnie appeared in a close-up of her sexy red lips. The only panties and naked back made this woman look extremely sexy, and the mess and cramp of the room suggested that it would be sooner or later to escape. In fact, Bonnie has long been tired of the boring life of pestering truck drivers in restaurants. Bonnie accidentally discovered Clyde was stealing her mother's car from the window, and hurriedly went downstairs to stop it. Clyde had already ascertained Bonnie's details. After robbing the store as a small proof of bravery, Bonnie and her favorite Clyde took a stolen car and embarked on their way of no return. Bonnie and Clyde are asexual, which is a big blow to Bonnie. However, Clyde's love still kept her. Here, men’s sexual incompetence is a metaphor for the decline of the entire social economy and spiritual depression, and women’s strong need for sex is a metaphor for the normal spiritual and material needs of a natural person, and the contradiction between the two is precisely this morbid society. We must face up to the crux that cannot be solved. Although the two people who had survived the rest of their lives had a complete sex life, their dooms followed. Life always seems to linger between irreconcilable contradictions. Two very impressive plots. One was that Bonnie and Clyde secretly stayed overnight in someone else's empty house, and when they woke up they found someone outside staring at the house. Clyde thought that the owner of the house had returned and became very nervous. In fact, those who look at the house are the original owners of the house. They have come to say goodbye to the house and have to move out because they cannot pay the bank loan. Clyde was no longer nervous, he shot at the house and handed the pistol to the owner of the house. Accompanied by a sharp gunshot, the glass of the window shattered with the owner's heart. Then, several people looked at each other and smiled. During the Great Depression in the 1930s in the United States, many people would have such a heartbreaking experience! There is also a plot where Bonnie and Clyde were fully prepared to rob the bank, but when Clyde entered the bank aggressively with a gun, only one person in the huge bank was writing casually at the window. What's the matter? The bank has already gone bankrupt! In order to explain that Clyde was not incompetent, but that the bank went bankrupt, he solemnly said to the clerk, "Bankrupt? When? You go out and explain to my wife!" The clerk was forced to rush out. Before he drove away, Clyde shot the seal that he hadn't noticed at first. These painless shots did not shock the huge state machinery at all. On the contrary, it was very similar to the early workers. The "Ludd Movement" of smashing machines against the exploitation of the bourgeoisie. Just touch the inside and outside, or even the inside and outside All have little impact. Pirates are also right. Bonnie and Clyde, along with their older brother Buck, sister-in-law Blancher, and the young Moss Hu, robbed banks and looted shops, but they "raised their hands" on those who withdrew money from the bank, and they weren’t a last resort. Can kill people-Clyde was particularly guilty after he missed and killed someone. He kept chanting "I don't want to kill him" and couldn't let go of it in a relaxed environment like watching a movie. He kept complaining about Moshu Can't do anything. Naively, they even became friends with a rich man who was robbed of a car by them and his mistress. Several people were chatting and laughing. Clyde's brother Buck also considered adding them to the group. It can be seen that they are only dealing with money and wrong people, and their usual robberies have not made them rich. They still eat ordinary foods such as burgers and peach ice cream. In the film, robbery is just a means of survival, quite a bit of robbing the wealthy. When they fled, the poor treated them as heroes and gave them water instead of betraying them. When society is in turmoil, there will always be so-called green forest heroes. The only difference between ancient and modern China and foreign countries is the form, but the essence is nothing less than that. Mencius once said, "The people are the way, those who have permanent property have perseverance, those who do not have permanent property have no perseverance, and those who do not have perseverance, let go of evil and extravagant, all do nothing.” ("Mencius • Teng Wen Gong") When the individual’s basic right to survival cannot be guaranteed, the choice of “to ward off evil spirits and do nothing but do nothing” is understandable even if it cannot be fully approved by others. The tragic ending. A police chief once followed them secretly, not only failed, but was also mocked. The police's encirclement and suppression of them is also very crazy. The first encirclement and suppression was at night, when the cunning Blancher led the disaster to Bonnie and Clyde's room, but he did not get rid of the fate of the disaster. As a result, Clyde's brother Buck was shot and his sister-in-law Blancher was blinded and arrested. She was also the one who confessed the whereabouts of Bonnie and Clyde who had escaped under the bewilderment of words. The police's second encirclement and suppression was that the sheriff successfully ambushed Bonnie and Clyde through tactics: a flurry of pigeons flew from the bushes, and the father of Moshu who had betrayed Bonnie and Clyde hurried to the bottom of the truck; Bonnie and Clyde looked at each other and felt that things were not good, but it was too late; after a flurry of gunfire, two famous male and female thieves were beaten into the bottom of a sieve. Conclusion. Somehow, this film reminded me of Jia Zhangke's "Xiao Wu". Xiao Wu was also caught on the spot when he was stealing at the end of the film. The radio report was about "Strike Hard". The background music was Tu Honggang's "Farewell My Concubine", which was quite heroic. "The Seventh At the end of "Moon", the car-watcher played by Fan Wei changed his image as an "honest person" in the past. He just wanted to teach others a lesson, but he missed and killed someone. A hero is not easy to be a hero, and heroism is often very sad.
Lifestyle determines the fate of people, and society has an unavoidable responsibility for the choice of lifestyle. I have no intention of defending the thief and the thief, but the reasons for the "thief" and "thief" need to be reflected.
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