Duncan has been shot in the heel. The
troubled life is over. Now he
has succeeded in sleeping in Jiuquan and killing drugs. What kind of steel knife or poison pill,
what internal troubles, external disasters, no matter what, and then Nor can it cause disaster to him.
"Macbeth"
When I wrote this title with a flash in my head, I felt a little pretentious. 13. Achilles was a hero, a Greek god soaked in the water of the Styx and refined by fire. People, what is the Gulf War veteran played by Christian Bell? Vagrant in Los Angeles? Or a gangster in the Bay Area? Or a lunatic with a crippled personality?
By the way, it is Achilles' heel that is incomplete, so when we see Achilles being shot by Apollo in Homer's epic, we all regret it. An ancient Greek warrior who was brave in combat, cruel to the enemy and warm to his comrades, was finally defeated by the small weakness of his heel. The so-called dike of a thousand miles collapsed in the ant's nest so many times.
But what Christine Bell is missing is the soul lost in the war, the soldier with his hands dipped in blood, and the flashback in his memory is always slaughter, slaughter, and slaughter. After returning to China, the traumatized veteran was faced with a job hitting the wall and the lover could not immigrate. So catalyzed by violence and pressure, Achilles, who was shot in the heel, finally walked on the path of self-destruction.
What makes me feel boring in the film is the conversation between the two in the car. The two men mixed with Los Angeles South Coast slang encourage each other, but they fall together. Alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, everything that can numb yourself and make yourself forget your life The catalyst for trouble, they all use, all the compulsive dependence on these soft anesthetics really reflects their devastated heart. Robbing punks, drag racing, buying and selling guns, they walked on the edge of social order, but their long conversations with hope and despair attracted me again. I don’t want to talk about male hormones and other nonsense, but some Tacit understanding, after all, only men understand.
Freddie Rodriguez, who has a family, is a close friend of Christine Bell, who accompanied him to fall all day, pulling him when his mental breakdown was about to break, and finally killing his seriously injured close friend after he lost control Death, I want to support him, it should be the wife played by the "Desperate Housewife" Eva behind him. And just like the ending brought about by the director's inspiration-----how does it feel to kill one's own friend?
It is not madness to kill, but to have to kill, this is sadness. It seems that Christine Bell's death was doomed from the very beginning, because he has been embraced by the demons of the past, his madness, his incompatible with society, has pushed him to the brink of death.
When the pistol has been pointed at the one he loves, everything is over.
So when the old man shot through his lungs with a shotgun, he was probably a lucky death. He died next to his favorite friend. He would never have to be sent to the Shura Field in Colombia again and become a Shura that he hates. .
So Achilles fell, his heel was already scarred, but he had no regrets.
In the final picture, when I saw Freddie Rodriguez running wildly, running to my wife, my family, and the only thing I can rely on, hugging Eva, crying and crying, I couldn't help thinking. He may not be the lucky one.
At least, he has a warm embrace.
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