"Life is so hard, or is it only in childhood?" 12-year-old Matilda asked Leon with a blank expression. "That's how life is." Leon's eyes were covered by sunglasses, and he couldn't see the slightest emotion. When this Italian killer walked on the streets of New York, accompanied by a piece of traditional European instruments such as the organ, he played elf-like music, revealing a strong European atmosphere, New York was no longer the familiar New York. A felt hat, a pair of sunglasses, a killer wears dark clothes all day long. This combination produces a strong visual effect - a cold-blooded professional killer, carrying out a brutal mission, seems to be isolated and unapproachable. But that's not all of his life: he giggles like a child while watching a movie; he cultivates that pot of white palm with care every morning; he drinks two boxes of fresh milk every day. These all reflect the second side of Leon Killer - simplicity. It also reflects his loneliness. It was like this day in and day out, until a little girl broke into his world helplessly and saved the tender heart of a killer. For Matilda, Leon has love from the heart, and even sacrificed his own life to let Matilda live well. But as a killer, you are destined not to have feelings. If you have love, you will have weaknesses. The ending of the killer's fairy tale must be tragic. In the ghetto of New York lived an Italian named Leon, a professional killer. One day, Matilda, a little neighbor girl, knocked on his door and asked him to temporarily avoid the murder. It turned out that the owner of the neighbor's house was the eyeliner of the police, and the police wiped out the whole family just because he embezzled a small package of drugs. Matilda was rescued by Leon and began to help Leon's housekeeper and teach him to read, while Leon taught the girl how to use a gun, and the two got along well. The girl stalked the police and rushed to take revenge, but was caught instead. Leon arrived in time to save the girl. They moved again, but the girl still fell into the hands of the police. Leon threw down the police, rescued the girl again and let her escape through the ventilation duct, and told her to take out the money he had accumulated. Leon disguised himself as a policeman and tried to get out of the encirclement, but was spotted by the police. At the last moment, Leon detonated the bomb on his body... So Leon became a classic role in one fell swoop. You can refuse a killer, but you can't help but love Leon. He weaves a fairy tale of the purest, heroic and poignant. When dealing with the scene where he was shot, the director used slow-motion and sound-reduction methods. What people saw was the blood spots that slowly expanded between his eyebrows until he fell to the ground. . He wants to escape from the dark world , even if this thought was just a pale extravagance, he wanted to exchange his own death for Matilda's life. "The Killer Isn't Too Cold" is definitely a movie worth seeing, and it's the most unique of the films about characters on the fringe. In my eyes, New York has always been a city that drifts with time, and the people here also have uncertain characteristics, so I created the role of the killer Leon, maybe there are really many in this city. People are like Leon, living a life that is sometimes joyful, but most of the time is more lonely, I want to show these one by one. -- Director Luc Besson
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