In the original Marvel comics, Wolverine's original name was James Logan Howlett, born in 1832, and when he died on a quiet afternoon in 2029, the illegitimate child of the 19th-century Canadian farm hostess , is 197 years old. It is hard to imagine that in these nearly two centuries, he experienced World War I, Prohibition, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Nazi concentration camp in Poland, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the Cold War and countless cruel scientific experiments. In two centuries, he has been suspected, used, transformed, hated, and hated by countless people. At the same time, he has also been pitied, cared for, protected, trusted, and loved by countless people. Two centuries have passed, and Logan's memory has become blurred in repeated forgetting and regaining, his body has become dull with slow aging, and he has spent almost his entire life asking about the killing. The meaning of it, about himself, he finally understood the value of existence in others.
The great legend will come to an end, and the touching story will always have an ending. This time, the time to say goodbye finally comes.
James Mangold took over the baton of the rumored series from Gavin Hood. Compared with the embarrassing plot of the second Tokyo battle, this time he really added a heart booster. If you are familiar with it, you should We know that the director born in the 1960s has a strong western complex, which is strongly reflected in his movie "Battle of Yuma". But in this Wolverine's curtain call, he did not adopt the traditional routines of the heyday of Hollywood Westerns (similar to the standardized definitions of galloping horse, wilderness, revolver, long distance in "The Good and the Bad" and "The Good and the Dead"). Competition and the hero representing justice at the climax of the film overcome the evil in a fierce duel; full of strong genre characteristics and male hormone-dominated discourse paradigm), but inherited the social civilization and barbarism of the late Western film The fading visual sense of the collision of the wild (reminiscent of the avant-garde of the early western frontier, the fascination with the passing time and the legend of the western hero), the character style is similar to the western series of the Coen brothers ("No Country for Old Men" and "Thunderbolt"), even in the To a certain extent, it also consciously combines relevant elements of early road films.
In "Wolf 3", the twilight Logan is like the old legendary cowboy in the Coen Brothers movie. For him, the meaning of life has long been dissolved into empty and empty repetitions. The glory of the past is gradually forgotten. Reality is no longer suitable for survival, so Uncle Wolf with a tired face and gray beard lame, drinking wine, and doing "Didi Taxi" in the drunken city, and the only yearning that can motivate him to continue living is to save enough Money to buy a ship (Sunday) and old Charles are adrift at sea to eat and wait to die. However, although the struggle between mutants and humans has already come to an end, the greed of human beings for alienated power will not be cut off. Among them The two contradictions can be seen as the forced domestication and vicious use of the barbarian groups by the social civilization in the western films. As the leaders of the mutant camp in the old era, Charles and Rogan had to face this conflict again and use their own strength to fight against it again, which is also a metaphor for dying on horseback in Western feelings And the years tell the heroic belief of righteousness and order. Somewhere in the world, Wolverine, with his powerful self-healing ability, is gradually getting old and weak, and Professor X, who has peerless brain power, has also suffered from brain degeneration, like two old cowboys who drink too much with their guns and tremble, and the dusty Mexican border looks like an extremely In the vast and vast western wilderness, and the lovely little girl beside her, isn't she the one who needs protection the most on this land.
A lot of the details in the movie are handled very well, and there are complex meanings and prints hidden in them. Uncle Wolf used his body to block bullets in the car, Caliban's line: "Be careful of the light." Burying old Charles by the water, "It's also close to the water," said Rogan, the Western movie "Being watching" in the hotel. "The Wild Man", the little girl put Logan's cross into an X. In the uncensored version released in North America, there are two details that are the most touching. First, the old Logan has not stretched out his steel claws for a long time, and the Edman alloy has rusted. He pulled it out abruptly and his hands were covered in blood. Another is that after the car accident, the horse raised by the black farmer suddenly lost control and ran wildly on the highway. Old Charles closed his eyes and controlled the runaway horse with his mind. The background music of this section is extremely soft and soothing, a kind and lovely The professor is presented in front of people. It is these details that make the originally moving characters more real and full, reminiscent of the impatient and unwilling Wolverine, the elegant and fraternal Professor X.
The rhythm of the film is neither fast nor slow, and although it still retains a lot of Marvel's usual laughter and humor, this time it can't make the audience laugh out loud. When old Charles dies alone in the car like an old dog, when Laura hugs Uncle Wolf with a pierced chest and cries and yells at Dad, we can't chew popcorn and watch the screen as easily as we used to. of superheroes are expected to survive the dead, because we realize that this kind of death represents the passing of an era, and even feel the weight of the hero's fall when he falls to the ground. It can be said that "Wolverine 3" started a post-superhero movie style, it sharply portrayed a sense of powerlessness and loss, and achieved what Mr. The tragic definition of things tearing apart in front of people's eyes and destroying them for people to see".
In the film, the classic western film "Wild Man", which repeatedly appears in tribute, tells the story of a western hero who is loyal to himself and leaves alone after trying to integrate into the farming and animal husbandry life. The lines said by the boy Joey just summed up Logan's exhausted and difficult life:
"One has to be true to oneself, Joey. You can't go against your own nature. It's hard to live with killing. There's no way out. Right or wrong, you have to bear it for the rest of your life. Now go back to your mother and tell her. All is well. No more gunshots in the valley."
Yeah, never again.
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