7.4
First of all, we should all agree that this is an educational film. Like "The Hijacking", "The Avenger", and "John Wick", it's best for gangsters not to bully people too much. Then I say this again, I don't want to read Horsing Amini's script anymore, at least I don't want to listen to the big truth of the fable of the scorpion and the frog, unless it's filmed by Refn. People praised the parking lot meeting line, the driver dodged explaining that my hands weren't clean, and Bernie conceded that I did too - I found the abrupt metaphor uninteresting. Some viewers said the driver was a scorpion, so he would hurt neighbors and family members as long as he existed; but a stronger reason was because the driver had a scorpion painted on his clothes. Some viewers say that the driver is a frog, he helps a real scorpion, but will be bitten by a scorpion; for this, a stronger reason is that a scorpion is painted on the back of the driver's clothes, which means that there will always be scorpions on his back to bite him , meaning he always had criminals in his car. Oh, yes, the story of the frog and the scorpion is like this, the scorpion begs the frog to carry it across the river, the frog asks what if you bite me, the scorpion says if I bite you I will die, so I will not bite you, so Frogs carry scorpions across the river. But in the middle of the river, the scorpion still bit the frog... Did it bite or was it stung by the stinger on its tail? Can not remember. In short, the frog asked the scorpion, why did you still bite me, and the scorpion said, because of my nature.
In this film, it is boring to discuss who is a frog and who is a scorpion. Most of the time, we rely on images to feel what kind of person the driver is, and feel the elements of him as a human being. This guy came from a Jean-Pierre Melville movie, from an Archie Kaurismaki movie, from a John Woo movie, and then he drove and turned into Blade Runner 2049 The replicator K. Past, no history, present, no emotion, future, no need; the music is intense, he is silent, and everything as a human is determined by his instant actions. The image itself can do everything, so he should be silent, the driver's reliance on family feeling, the driver's distrust of Bernie. At the end, I only strengthen it a little. These have nothing to do with money. They may have a little relationship with the wife and son, but it is not too big. More importantly, it is related to the level of emotions. In the beginning he appeared with nothing, in the end he left with nothing, the glorious legacy of Leone's "Red Dead Redemption", a man without a name. Adding to the genre tradition is the American comics tradition, his hood as an action double, the anonymity of the superhero. "Who am I? If I knew the answer, I wouldn't wear a mask." Those slow escalations are his magnification of time as a character. He was trapped in the car, trapped in the room, and I felt it too. to the moment of connection with him.
I've heard that every director has his own "Eight and a Half", maybe Refn's is this one. Guessing might be self-indulgent, or it might just be a random job Refn picked up as a style exercise. What I am more and more convinced of is that at present, I am more interested in the expressive ability of the creator than in the content expressed, in the image than in the story, and in the life than in the truth. It's certainly not an educational film, no doubt?
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