July 02, 2014 In
the 2000 Argentine crime film "Burnt Money", in the absence of narcotics, Angel was taken for bullets to distract him and relieve pain Feeling, while Naylor operated skillfully and calmly, he talked to Angel in a gentle tone about the two things he cared about most: they would go to New York together in the future, and they had always been close as twins.
The Japanese writer who I mentioned in my previous article "What Do You Want" thinks that "love is not a knowledge but an understanding", worked as a doctor for 10 years before he started writing. He said that in his career as a doctor, after seeing too many partings of life and death, he had a very clear feeling: in the face of the threat of death, the only thing that can save the wounded and sick is love. In short, the gentle voice of the loved one, warm hands and warm embrace are the greatest comfort for the dying.
In this sense, we can fully say that in "Burning Coins", the two young male protagonists Naylor and Angel, whose lives have long been out of control and eventually inevitably ended in a dead end, are rare happy people in the world. After all, just like this Japanese writers say that from the perspective of political science and economics, people are very small, so it is difficult for us to be alone with another without the common social ties of blood, family, money, career or faith. People develop and maintain the ties that are so profound that they never leave and never give up and go hand in hand with life and death.
However, it is clear that such a cognition cannot satisfy and comfort an audience who sincerely cares about their fate. Therefore, at the end of the film, Angel is seen hugging the dead Naylor tightly and being bombarded by the Uruguayan police into a hornet's nest. At the time, I couldn't help thinking of his dream of "going to New York together" that he had always forgotten and that was the only time Naylor could communicate with him when they were most unable to communicate. In Angel's mentally chaotic world (he apparently suffered from severe depression and even schizophrenia), he always felt that as long as they could go to New York, his auditory hallucinations would disappear, and he and Naylor, too. A new life can definitely be forged there.
However, we all know that this is a story based on a true crime case that happened in Argentina in 1965, and the ending has already appeared as early as thirty-five years ago, not to mention, even if it is fiction, even if the two male protagonists are handsome Prince, no matter how much the director wants to show that kind of "Blood Two Heroes"-style aesthetics of tenderness and violence, I don't think the screenwriter can completely abandon the three views and let the two people in the movie live on the edge of a dark and chaotic society and kill people. The violent robber without blinking left South America so easily and started a happy new life in New York, 12,000 kilometers away.
Besides, I always feel that over the past 100 years, there have been too many fictional characters in the literary and artistic works of too many countries in the world, and too many real people living in various parts of the world in real life, who pin their dreams of changing the status quo on New York is a city, but even if it is called the capital of the world, it may not be able to satisfy and carry the life-changing dreams of so many people. Therefore, Angel finally shattered the crystal ball that symbolized the dream of New York, and even more. Naylor, who is sober and realistic, has never learned a word of English from beginning to end... Some lives are destined to have no way out, just as some people are destined to have no future.
When I was watching the Japanese drama "BORDER" a few days ago, in an episode, the actor Ishikawa Ango who opened a plug-in once said righteously to a criminal suspect who finally chose happy revenge, "No one would be. There's nothing left to die for." In the next two days, I would occasionally think about this question: Is there really no one who is innocent? For example, those tyrants, dictators, corrupt officials and profiteers, terrorists, MLM or cult leaders, serial killers with anti-social personalities... Are they not enough to survive? However, I guess the subtext of Ango Ishikawa, who is a member of the police in the play, is: Even if someone is full of evil, they still have the heart to yearn for a better life, not to mention that no one has the right to bypass the law to decide the life and death of others.
Going back to the movie, on the question of whether Naylor and Angel are alive or not, my personal opinion is that even if Naylor and Angel have obvious self-destructive tendencies and thus ignore many social morals and norms, they end up committing heinous crimes. And the gun-wielding bandits who are desperate, they also have people they love deeply, and they have a new life they want to start somewhere... And as the Japanese writer I quoted earlier said, in a huge and chaotic society, Individuals are too small, and it is easy to go with the flow, or even break the pot, so Naylor and Angel, who are unable to save themselves, can only sink in their destructive fate (Angel knows that Naylor has no ability to love himself, so he gave up on himself, he thought He was able to save Naylor, but in fact, he couldn't take care of himself at all). I can't help but think, how wonderful it would be if someone would pull them before they go to the point of no return, and maybe they can become normal people and have a happy future. What's more, even if they are born evil people created by genes, before they become "dead and worthless", before they ruin their own and others' lives, are they eligible for a chance to be stopped?
Of course, I also know that I am too naive to think this way. After all, human nature is very complicated. Besides, in this world, it is very difficult for ordinary people to survive. People really don’t have much energy to pay attention to and pay attention to those who turn their life direction into Man with dirty sewers. But even if life was a dark, chaotic, noisy, and even a little funny, bloody, ugly tragedy, and it ended badly, Naylor and Angel did have someone they loved and wanted to start. The new life... This is beyond doubt.
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