"East City Nightmare" is a rare good drama in recent years, especially in today's literary and artistic environment in the United States. As a suspense film, it is the kind of film that knows all kinds of suspense techniques even if it has been read countless (this is the kind of mode where everyone participates a little, and it is not innocent, but everyone is not a murderer) , The climax that still makes people watch one after another is very enjoyable drama. Halfway through I saw it, I was able to guess (finally I guessed it was wrong, but everything I excluded was correct), and the details, the dialogue, and the wonderful performance of the actors are still attractive.
I have seen an interview with "Sixty Minutes" before. It seems to say that a region where doctors overwrite prescriptions and pharmacies oversell painkillers, forming a huge addicted population. Some people extract active ingredients from painkillers and make drugs to sell them. , So most of the young people in a small town became addicts, some died, and some went to drug rehabilitation centers or prisons. Most of the families in this small town were grandparents and children. Later, someone worked tirelessly to appeal. Both the doctor and the pharmacist were sentenced (I remember about 80 years in prison). At the end of the interview, a pair of grandparents and their children were playing in the park. The camera stopped here. The young man was killed and injured. In this small town, children are probably the only hope for the elderly to survive.
The "East City" of "East City Nightmare" is very similar to this report (it is a small town in Philadelphia): a small town, a terrifying society of acquaintances that everyone is very familiar with, every family is not happy, young people catch it early Addicted to drugs (from marijuana to painkillers to injecting drugs), unmarried and pregnant (about 17 years old), family and family are very familiar (I watched you grow up), and each family They all have their own secrets, and every family has their own hard-to-read scriptures. Human character is the character of a small town, are they bad? maybe. Adolescent girls bullied their peers. The video was taken and posted on the Internet. Parents who spoiled their children ran to smash the glass of the detective’s house. All kinds of cheating, cheating, irresponsible to the family, the whole community is filled with a kind of poor village, bad water, scumbag and spoiling the people. Atmosphere, Mare quarreled with her mother at home, and the two Fuck came to Fuck even if the child was next door. But at the same time, you can also see how they help each other, understand each other, and get through psychological difficulties together. The black guy Freddie is a poisonous bug. He cheated Katie’s mother Dawn to take drugs. He knew Katie’s whereabouts. He cost five thousand dollars. She went and didn’t bring the money. She saw him through, but she didn’t say anything. When she got home, Freddie’s sister was helping Dawn. Taking care of her grandson, she helped her brother cover up and did not call the police. Freddie's drug addiction has ruined her sister's marriage, but she didn't plan to leave him alone and let him fend for himself.
It is desperate to find a way out in the society of acquaintances. This small town is not materially poor, and most of their suffering comes from mental depression. Everyone is their own slave, hurting themselves and others. They can't go out. They can only get to know the people around them, break up with the neighbor on the left and socialize with the neighbor on the right or in the backyard, and so on. At the end of the play, people can see hope. In the child, even if he knows that DJ is not his own child, how ruthless and indifferent, Dylan, who stole Erin's money, gave it to Lor, who took care of the child. And he finally put down the pillow that was going to smother the child in the hospital. Impulsive and irritable, the father who smashed Mare's glass took the initiative to apologize to her sincerely after the truth became clear. The girlfriend of Mare's son who committed suicide tried to quit drugs and regarded the child as motivation and hope. This is the warmth of the acquaintance society in this small town. With this, people continue to bandage their wounds and live with hope. Finally, after the divorced parents Mare and Frank bid farewell, Xuefang drove from the east coast to the west coast of Berkeley, California to study her favorite college major.
I watched this play mainly because Kate Winslet felt that her choice of play would not be too bad. Sure enough, her performance here is a perfect match. I only learned from the New York Times interview that she also spent a lot of time practicing the Philadelphia accent. This film is in Philadelphia. In the local filming, passers-by said she was too strong. When chatting with us, she said the London accent, and the filming immediately turned around. (But I think it might not be difficult, it's roughly equivalent to the Northeast accent of a Beijing actor). Finally I think of a huge loophole I think (all movies and TV shows have huge loopholes) is the gun, although she finally tried to get it back, but I think she is such a careful and sensitive person, it is impossible to leave the source of the gun clues. (The firearms expert reported that it was used by the previous generation of police, her father's generation) and went to investigate other clues that had no clue.
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