In the 1953 classic Western, "The Wilderness," desperate cowboy Sean stops by the farm of the little boy Joey's family and helps them defeat local bullies. In the end, Sean left and returned to his desperate life. For him, a stable life was still too far away from him. Like him, the Scorpio Lone Star, who can only bring disaster and death, left, but also for the little boy's family to live in a peaceful environment from generation to generation.
Thinking of the world in which the cowboy era in "Unforgiven" has entered the twilight, people are faced with the status quo of no cowboys and let the evil run rampant. When they couldn't bear it, people had to ask the old cowboy William to come out. At this time, William was already an ordinary farmer in Kansas, experiencing the pain of losing his wife and raising two young children. At the end of the story, many viewers wondered why the heroine would marry such a murderer as William without hesitation? I think maybe it's because he's the last cowboy.
The story of "Wolverine 3" is probably the fusion of the above two classic westerns.
As a western movie fan, I would like to thank director James Mangold for telling us a sincere western story in the shell of a superhero. Earlier I was thinking that I would never see a good Western on the big screen in my life, after all, these times are different from what they used to be. But I saw it today, and it bodes well that we may still see more in the future.
Speaking of which, Wolverine is probably one of my favorite superheroes, because in my opinion he fits the image of a cowboy best, although guns and horses have never been his standard. Many people may know that European knights, American cowboys, Japanese samurai and Chinese knights, stripped of their essence, are actually a kind of person. The kind of hero who walks in all directions to punish the evil and eliminate evil, and at the same time, he is alone with him, and the vicissitudes of life are often accompanied by tobacco and alcohol.
All cowboys have the same dream, that is, to have a woman who loves them, and a farm full of horses, and under the dark sky, there is a lucky and rocking chair in front of the porch of the wooden house. Isn't it the same dream for Rogan and the professor, to buy the Sundial and live a quiet life at sea, "fold your shorts leisurely and make delicious blueberry pudding."
In "Wolverine 1", little Logan killed his father by mistake, and was dismissed as a monster by his mother, so he left home angrily and lived a career of licking blood. After living in seclusion in the mountains, he thought he could live a stable life with his wife Kayla, but in the end, his wife died tragically, and he became a "person without a past" who lost his memory. In "Wolverine 2", Logan came to an old couple's farm because he was hunted down. The kindness and hospitality of the old couple made him feel a long-lost sense of stability, but the old couple died tragically the next day. under the muzzle of the enemy. So much so that in today's "Wolverine 3", the family of three cannot escape bad luck. Logan never intended to hurt, but it kept bringing disaster.
So he just wanted to stay away from the crowd, so he pretended to be indifferent, so he could only bear the loneliness and pain alone. Many people do not understand them, saying that they are cruel and evil "straight men cancer". If you know what happened to Keanu Reeves, you probably understand them. A true straight man never wants to hurt anyone. I said to myself a long time ago, if I don't have the ability to love someone, if I only bring her pain and disaster, then I'd rather not marry for the rest of my life.
Let's not talk about the experience of Logan having to kill the Phoenix Girl and later being deceived to kill his old X-Men friend. You know this vicissitudes of life, the lonely, scarred old man yelled at others: "You don't know me at all. !" how much pain he was suffering in his heart. Many times we say that we are lonely and miserable, or that we are too fussy about the problem. We still have tomorrow and hope, compared to people like Logan?
At the end of all Westerns, the wicked will always be brought to justice, the good will return to their normal lives, and the cowboys, as a kind of hero, continue to ride away and live their lonely, wandering lives. For a minute after Logan died, I wondered if he would have gone to the nearest bar for a few drinks if he hadn't died. Save the world once. But when he died, he would never feel the pain again. The so-called hero is nothing more than sacrificing himself to help others.
Fuck the cowboy, fuck the hero.
Next, let's talk about a few things outside of the movie. Presumably everyone has long been ingrained in various labels after the indiscriminate bombardment of major public accounts:
First of all, I hate fixed cognition. We can't treat it like a superhero popcorn flick just because it's called Wolverine 3. And the question of clichés, most people think they can use a noun to distinguish themselves, but this only makes their stupidity more vivid. Hemingway said: There are never stereotypes, only good stories and bad stories. The theme of the story was written as early as a hundred years ago. There is nothing new under the sun. We can't ask for every story to be new. What we should ask for is that every story is good. Yes, the stories of "Wolverine 3" and the earlier "La La Land" have been expressed in thousands of forms, but he can still tell the story well today, they are excellent.
Secondly, people who can say "this XX is only about XX" can be said to be inferior to even the most mediocre and stupid people. All attempts to generalize about living things are sinful. People still know to show awe and respect for the unknown. This principle was expounded in Zhuangzi's "Lunbian" thousands of years ago. Unexpectedly, today, people's thinking becomes more and more backward, which is also ironic.
In the end, the way a man expresses his grief is never tears, and the way a man is remembered is never tears. For Wolverine and Hugh Jackman, the respect and memory in my heart is enough. In another world, Uncle Wolf and the professor must have been drinking and chatting on the Daily, and Hugh Jackman can also eat sweets every day.
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