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Bensa Verdi and Joshua Savedi's "Good Times" (also translated "Stall Night Run" 2017), the title of course is an antonym or derogatory meaning. What happened from this night to early morning, even if the person involved, Constantine Kone (Robert Pattinson), he may not be able to describe all the strangeness he encountered, like the domino effect, no matter how good the calculation is, a small individual He couldn't control this incredible reality at all, but in the end, it ended in a bleak ending.
In the noisy situation, the film creates a deep-seated reality. The blurred scenes in the night, and the sometimes exciting and sometimes roaring electronic rock music, set off the noisy and chaotic clouds of New York's alternative reality. It is hard to say whether such a film is good or not. It may still be far away from art, but its expression is sincere. It is even said that such an authentic film is indispensable. We have seen too many pieces together, but in "Good Times", we have seen a simple advance that is not based on human will, and we have also seen a shallow truth.
Could it be that the truth is also superficial? Of course there is. Kone knows that his brother Nick is mentally handicapped, and he wants to take him to rob the bank. Isn't this disguising his brother? Kone knows that Nick can't communicate with people normally, and it will be difficult to escape after the incident. He still wants to take him, which is similar to being his scapegoat. When his younger brother broke through the glass of the mall while he was running away and was arrested in prison, Kony has always tried to rescue him. He can see his extreme anxiety, which is family affection, combined, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is superficial truth.
Although this is an independently produced feature film, the film opens the curtain of reality, playing with the heartbeat, allowing the viewer to follow the parties in the film, rushing all the way to the right, and finally stop in front of the window, a The silhouette of the person trying to escape fell like a feather from the tall building. One of the witnesses was Kony, who was quickly taken into a police car by the police. But all of this is related to Constantine Nick, the mentally retarded man in his brother's mouth, and fortunately he escaped the catastrophe.
At the beginning of the film, Nick was ridiculed. The psychologist of the social service agency, the old man, asked Nick, who seemed stiff and almost expressionless. In fact, this is a psychological test. Cats and mice remind you of something. They don't like each other. The scissors and the pan. They will hurt me. Salt and water. On the beach. Then let me go back to the scissors and the pan, why do you say it will hurt you. Nick said tremblingly, my grandma said I was not good, and I threw the pan on the wall.
Obviously, the harshness of his grandmother at home made him uncomfortable. He wanted to talk with tears, but his brother Kony came in and asked the old man what you wanted to do. Nick said he recorded what I said, and I don't like it. Kony said then tear it off for me. It can be seen that Kone’s aura and strength. It makes people feel that his sharpness is definitely the backbone of the mentally retarded brother. This is the only relative Nick can rely on. His absolute obedience to Kony has become a matter of course, not to mention whether he has the ability to discern.
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What's funny is that Kony actually wants to take this mentally retarded brother to do a big thing. Covered with grimace shells pretending to be black thick plastic, they came to the bank counter and wrote to the black female salesperson "Don't trigger the alarm, rob, put 65,000 in the bag". The woman took the note, honestly took the bag and put in the money, and wrote "I only have this, I called the police". "We have weapons. Bring the rest of the money." The woman had no choice but to take the bag again, and went into the back room to get the money. It seems that everything is under Kone's control. Be aware that there are other customers in the business hall of the bank.
The female salesperson took the bag and carefully took out a wad of money from the mouth of the bag to show them, meaning that it was done according to theirs. Kony took the money and brought out his impatient brother to stop him from running. But Nick couldn't bear the grimace that made him breathless. Kony sternly told him to bear it. When Kony felt safe, he tore off the grimace shell, as if the newborn baby could finally take the first breath of the world. The appointment car also came, and they all got in the car together, and everyone seemed to be very happy.
But the women at the bank played tricks, and when Kony opened the bag, the "bang" of the red powder splashed on their faces, so that they had to stop and ran away in a panic. Nick followed Kone to the bathroom of a large shopping mall. People outside are yelling. They are cleaning. Nick leaned down to clean the toilet bowl. Kony said no, it was here to wash. Kony quickly hid the money on the ceiling of the bathroom. In this way, others will not find out.
Sure enough, as soon as they came out, they ran into the police. As a result, Kony ran away and Nick was arrested. The film does not hesitate to mirror the scenes of the prison like their predecessors. Nick was doomed to be beaten. Kony got the money, but there were only more than 16,000 in the bag. He is now asking someone to redeem his brother. The intermediary said that if the parole is passed by the judge, the 16,000 will not be enough, but 10,000 will be required. He had no choice but to find his lover Lauren. Lauren had a quarrel with her mother, but she wanted to hang out with Conney.
For Kone, the beauty of Costa Rica or Panama is less important than his brother. The problem is that Lauren promised to help him, but the credit card was eaten by the credit card machine. But the middleman said that the money will not be given to you if it enters my safe. Kony was dumbfounded. And his brother will not be released tonight, because the judge is not at work. And his brother was injured and was admitted to the hospital. Drinking cold water is really stuffy. The looted money was swallowed by the middleman. The younger brother is still unconscious in the hospital. He now either collects the 10,000 or saves his brother, he has no other choice.
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Kony is Kony, consciously an omnipotent person. He pretended to be a family member and avoided the police, pushed his bandaged brother out, with handcuffs on his hands, and sent him to the medical van. On the way down, but couldn't get into the house, I had to knock on the door of the next door. This is an old black lady. She promised to borrow him to call, and kindly arranged a room to settle her brother. The elderly female lives in an ordinary life, and she has to go to the night shift at night, leaving a 16-year-old granddaughter behind. The film brought us into the hard life of an ordinary family.
This granddaughter, Christo, is interested in the University of Nico, and she confessed to her boyfriend who had talked about drug trafficking, and she often smoked marijuana. An lone man and a widow, not to mention that news of the bank robbery was being broadcast on TV, and Kony immediately hugged her and kissed her. In fact, the little girl didn't care if he was a robber or not, she was lonely, she just wanted someone to hug. Just when they were in love, the younger brother downstairs was worried, and he woke up yelling. Kony quickly came down.
He looked up, not his brother, but another guy with a bruised face. It's over. Back to the original place, I have to save my brother again. But this guy is not worried, and is very noisy. It turned out that this kid had just been released from prison for two years. On the first day, he went to the amusement park to find drugs with a bunch of friends and friends. The result was not good. The police found that he was running away and crashed in a car, so he was taken to the hospital. But he didn't want to go back to the hospital. What Nico was thinking about was his drug in the amusement park. So came out with the black girl.
There are police officers everywhere. Came to the amusement park, found the drug, but was discovered by the night staff. After knocking him out, Nico pretended to be him and escaped the police. But the black girl waiting outside was taken away by the police. Nico took the key and brought his fake brother to the staff's residence. What Nico wanted was to turn this bag of drugs into money. The fake brother agreed to let his accomplice Kakov come over. But Kakov did not bring the money, just came to have a look.
Nico asked him to collect money to get the drug. Kakov could only get out. At this time, it was bright, and Nico felt that it was necessary to follow Kakov to get the money at ease. As a result, he went immediately and was arrested by the police. The fake brother can see clearly upstairs. He unexpectedly wanted to climb the window and run to the next door. As a result, he fell down. This kind of howling across the air was just a cry of life. Seemingly running wild overnight, in fact, the fate is already doomed.
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Could it be possible that Kony could really escape. What I was surprised was that both men and women in the film almost yelled when they opened their mouths. No one can speak well, and no one can listen to others at ease. The men yelled at each other, the mother yelled at the daughter, and the grandmother yelled at the granddaughter. Everything is roaring wildly, how is this world not mad. The only thing is the poor black girl Christo, who has a deep love for Nico, she has been following him, not caring that he is a man being hunted down. This may not be said to be love, but the emptiness and loneliness of her young and ignorant, or she admires such a "hero".
The funny thing is that in this world, it seems that only the mentally handicapped can survive. At the end of the film, Nick, who came out of jail, came to the social service agency again under the leadership of his grandmother. He is still the psychologist at the beginning of the film. When Nick came to the group of strange and mentally handicapped, they applauded his arrival and played a mental game of "crossing the room" together. The woman leading the team said that if you are new, you can cross the room, if you have done stupid things, you can cross the room, and if you haven't been to the Utopia, you can cross the room.
This means that people like Nick can pass this kind of training, say goodbye to the past, and welcome the new life. I really doubt it. This is just to say that Nick has a place to stay, so that he is no longer obsessed with his brother Kony, and no longer swayed or rushed with a shadow in the end. In this sense, the film finally gave a mentally handicapped light of spirituality and hope, of course, it is beyond reproach. What I am thinking is how Kony got on this end of life that was never undone.
Obviously, the New York night of the film actually brought us together the scene of his chaotic life for more than 20 years before, like the title, as if their good times were robbed by this doomsday reality. Think about where the parents of the brothers are, and how they have depended on their grandmother since they were young. Grandma's nagging, younger brother's mental retardation, and Kony's disposition grew barbarously in that noisy environment, and how did he cultivate into the omnipotent skill that night thought himself to be omnipotent. However, the rooted society, which is hard to return, needs to be undertaken by individuals. This is the mystery and intriguing hidden in the film.
2017, 11, 16
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