Frontier Killer: Wildfires are endless, spring breeze blows again

Elwyn 2021-10-18 09:30:40

The child who lost his father at last is playing his favorite football on this fucking land full of gunfire and gunfire, with a habit of dull expression, and is destined to be in a broken family and a dark country full of cruel violence and crisis all year round. For a long time in China, even if there is a trace of sincere hope in the heart, there will be more powerless despair. The simplicity of the heart will be washed away by the experience and in-depth understanding of the surroundings. There is no so-called distinction between good and evil, all rules The systems are all in vain, and the law to defend justice and fairness is useless. There is only a group of wolves and tigers who do not care about their personal interests and try their best to achieve their goals with their own principles. With a few jewels ahead, Villeneuve left a deep impression on the audience with his strong personal style and narrative techniques. This director from the Maple Leaf Kingdom is not very good at art and literature, and he will never sink into a commercial reputation. On the contrary, he is more adept at careful layout, leading the audience to reveal and explore the truth worthy of reflection step by step.

At the beginning of the film, a very shocking scene was given with great emphasis. Kate, played by Emily Blunt, and a group of FBI police officers rushed into the house and found many corpses hidden in the wall that were brutally killed and looked at the creepy. There was an accidental explosion, and the mystery of sounding the alarm began. Kate, who wanted to annihilate the culprit behind the scenes with the country’s righteousness, volunteered to join the seemingly dangling CIA detective Matt and the solemn scout expert Alessandro. The anti-narcotics team he led went deep into the border and uncovered the big boss behind the scenes of a series of terrorist incidents. Unexpectedly, as he understood step by step, the confused Kate began to realize that he had been involved in the process and was involved. The situation seemed not as pure as she thought. Her unshakable moral boundaries and sense of authority were constantly being challenged, and it turned out that they were just using illegal means to accomplish the task of eradicating the roots and the goal of revenge while fighting criminals.

Villeneuve handled the whole movie quite neatly, without a trace of excess fat. At the end, he will find that the clues and purpose are very clear. It means that he does not follow the common sense to play cards and relax. It is very interesting to gradually experience the message and core of the film conveyed by the change of the rhythm and the perspectives and positions of the characters in the film. The awesome photographer Diggins made a marvelous contribution to this piece. The Mexican border land filled with the smoke of war and the bloody smell of death reveals a kind of dead silence, coldness and desolation in his impeccable lens. The beauty of the sunset, the atmospheric overhead shots, I thought of my favorite Spanish film "Marshland" last year, which made the texture and atmosphere of the whole film more charming, and the thick fog reveals a heavy sense of murder and nothingness. Sensation, but the barren and barren scene is still helplessly intoxicated and appreciated. The integration of the soundtrack always teases the audience's psychological quality in a low-key and focused manner. It makes me feel uneasy and sweaty on my palms several times, which has contributed to the tension full of suspense and crisis. The basic equipment of this film can be said to be all. It was impeccable.

At the beginning, the group of them came to Mexico to capture the important informant, and the shot was very tense and powerful. The hanging branch of the dead body was used as a bedding and the instructions from the walkie-talkie made people more vigilant. Shooting guns, three hits five and two, quickly, simply and neatly. The killings were carried out on the congested roads full of ordinary people. In this way, the seemingly reasonable killing scenes in the chaotic local area gave the newly arrived Kate and the audience an impact. The same effect. Later, they went deep into the tunnel and sniped a section of the tunnel. From the dark night, they slowly penetrated into the tunnel carefully and nervously. Through several visual effects conversions, several fallen corpses, flashes of fire and continual gunfire, I can see my whole person. Tighten up, holding your breath, very sensational. Kate, who wanted to vent her lust, saw the rubber band that tied the money and realized that she had been tricked. After being rescued, she learned about Matt and their plan. In the end, Kate was threatened. Kate, who understood his position, was unable to pull the trigger to kill him, which left a deep impression on me, but Alessandro ran to the drug lord boss’s house alone to avenge his revenge. It was too easy to kill his family. The action is really a bit of a joke, and perhaps Villeneuve did not want to blur the focus and put too much plot on the slightly procrastinated shootout scene.

Kate intervened as an outsider in an attitude of punishing rapist and evil justice and intervening as an outsider. From fear→doubt→disagreement→utilization→truth→struggle, it is a very important key to reveal this puzzle. The first half of the audience is basically They all follow her change of mentality and standpoint to look at a group of beasts who are already familiar with the local laws of survival, where they hide conspiracies and brutal killings, and appreciate their illegal actions, straightforward killings, and abusive ones. Lynching, using Kate as bait and legal proof, whether it is right or wrong, as long as there is value in use, cooperation can be reached. But if Kate is portrayed as a subjective perspective, and their purpose is revealed with such an unanticipated narrative, then this film is bound to be unable to get rid of the label of mediocrity, and it is also contrary to Villeneuve’s usual unconventional style. , The wonderful place is in the second half of the film, the natural center of gravity shifted from Kate to Alessandro without any sense of disobedience. Matt revealed Alessandro’s true identity and reality. The goal and the reason for revenge for his wife and daughter, Villeneuve cleverly opened up another branch in the audience’s consciousness of watching the movie, and began to further understand Alejandro’s intentions and actions. The society is intertwined in a vicious circle of dark and brutality.

Because it is on the border between Mexico and the United States where the turmoil is restricted, coupled with the social pattern and situation there, Matt and his group can only use illegal means to set long lines to fish for big fish, not just like Kate who simply wants to kill the so-called The biggest behind-the-scenes criminals are brought to justice. That is completely useless and will only make people feel like a joke. Instead, relying on a larger drug dealer group to control the chaotic situation in this land with the momentum of totalitarianism, using a piece of weight The big stone suppresses the small stones that want to make troubles, but the premise is to get rid of the huge stone that was suppressed on this land. If you want to completely defeat it, you must draw chess pieces for the same purpose and use Kate’s Identity and hands with Alessandro, one to ensure the legitimacy of the action, and one to eradicate the big boss of drug lords, this is the way of dealing with things and survival that cannot be shaken by pure formalism and justice on the border. road. It is also worth mentioning that all three actors in the film performed very well, Emily Blunt’s ideological struggles and mood swings, Josh Brolin’s confidence, and Benicio del Toro’s calmness. Introverted, the overall sense of substitution is very strong.

In the beginning, the dozens of corpses in the wall could not bear to look directly at the bloody corpses, and they were shot and killed without any scruples on the road. The father, who was eating breakfast with his son and playing football before, became a smuggling drug dealer and died in Alexandria. Under Luo’s gun, Alessandro’s wife was beheaded and her daughter was soaked in sulfuric acid, and died tragically under the order of the drug lord boss. This was used as a reason for Alessandro to enter his house without changing his face and heartbeat. Killed the drug lord boss, his wife and two sons in one breath, and sent them to see God together. Wars are raging, gunshots are frequent, drug dealers are rampant, and the rule of law is invalid. Relatives have become bargaining chips for coercion and use. You don’t have to rack your brains to distinguish between right and wrong. Just like those numb people, everything becomes powerless, Kate wants The method of dealing with formal channels will only become ridiculous. Matt’s method of solving problems with unconventional means is effective. Living here, the only things that are in front of you are killing and trading, with hatred, resentment, and anger. The confrontation of rights and the scenes of fighting for power continue to cycle. In this turbulent and tragic land, it is regrettable that there will only be wildfires that will burn endlessly, and the spring breeze will blow again.

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Extended Reading
  • Coby 2022-03-26 09:01:02

    What is more shocking than the direct depiction of violence is the seemingly inadvertent blank, behind which is a huge chaos; Villanueva's level of acting at the climax has already entered the room.

  • Helen 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    [Beijing Film Festival Screening] The opening is high energy. There is a very tense atmosphere from the beginning to the end. The photography is not stunning but exquisite. The plot is weak. In the action event, the heroine is just a bystander pawn, a naive and naive Virgin. But the movie really needs such a character's perspective to observe this action and slap the face of political correctness. The visual and sound effects of the theater are very good, but there are too many places deliberately set to scare the audience...

Sicario quotes

  • Phil Coopers: [assuring Kate] Advisors like Matt come in, they stir the pot, they cause the criminals to react and make mistakes. That's how we build cases against the individuals that actually make a difference in this fight. It's when they're nervous, when they stop trusting their crews, when they move their money. These are all opportunities to strike. And that's the purpose of people like Matt.

    Dave Jennings: Kate, this isn't something that I dreamed up myself. I don't have the authority to hire advisors, or authorize joint agency missions, or fly agents from Air Force bases. Are you understanding me? These decisions are made far from here, by officials elected to office, not appointed to them. So, if your fear is operating out of bounds, I am telling you, you are not. The boundary's been moved.

  • Reggie Wayne: [sitting in a bar] Look at you. Your eyebrows are a mess.

    Kate Macer: [hiding her face] No, they're not!

    Reggie Wayne: They're like caterpillars, like wild beasts. You're losing weight.

    Kate Macer: I'm eating.

    Reggie Wayne: Look at you. What is it, one T-shirt a week? At least work on your personal hygiene, huh?

    Kate Macer: You sound like my mother.

    Reggie Wayne: Maybe I *am* your mother. First we work on personal hygiene, then we move on to the shopping.