The killer played by Joaquin Phoenix has a bad temper, is extremely cruel, and is full of flesh and uncut. We think of Leon, the killer played by Jean Reynolds, but he is less affectionate, or think of Javier Baden in "Old Nowhere", but not so perverted. He satisfies the popular romantic imagination of screen killers, fierce but still emotional, brutal but rich in justice. This kind of person setting determines that the film will not be too romantic, nor will it be extremely bloody and cold. In addition to the relatively common story of saving young girls and eliminating harm for the people, the obvious opposition between good and evil cannot be unearthed more. With its complexity and ambiguity, this script couldn't be more ordinary. However, this film obviously does not just want to refresh the audience psychologically. Behind the fact that justice will defeat evil is the choice and redemption of the abuser after facing violence. What is the meaning of being born as a human being? The moment Joaquin sinks into the water and sees the girl's vision is the beginning of his self-salvation. Before that, he was a hired killing machine, and saving a young girl was nothing more than a conspiracy arranged by power. The murder of his mother completely lost his reason to live. It is better for him to die as a numb life like a walking dead. When he surfaced, decided to find the truth and rescued again, he completed the transition from passive completion of the task to self-awakening, and once again stepped into the evil land of power struggles and conspiracies. The same music played again, equally unbearable. The attacking guards fell to the ground one after another, but they ended up in different ways. The wicked person is dead, and his self-salvation comes to an abrupt end. Because he is a step late, the girl's blood-stained hands will surely make her fall into the same situation as him. At the end of the film, they have to rely on each other to give each other a future. A little hope. To suffocate is to die, and to die is to live. Only the near-death experience after suffocation can make him feel alive and let him resist the numb body and the empty soul. He recalled the dark childhood trauma in the suffocation, felt the basic dignity as a person in the suffocation, and made the decision to save himself in the suffocation. In the face of an evil world, if you want to survive, you can only use violence to control violence. Even if the end of violence is still destruction, it can make the destruction a little meaningful. The sharp image style and soundtrack are the most successful aspects of this film. A film that is outstanding in audiovisual, its style uniformity and continuity can definitely conceal part of the fatigue caused by the mediocrity of the plot, as long as its logic is reasonable, There is no problem with more blank space for the audience, but it may add some interpretable space to the film. This film is compared with "The Wind and Waves" released a few days ago. The latter has obvious loopholes in the logic of the script and generally lacks motivation to explain. Although it is also a film that focuses on performance and audiovisual, the gap between the two is still quite obvious. .
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