just justice (with spoilers)

Daniella 2022-09-08 15:15:27

Enough of fancy movie reviews, tell me how you feel.
I was moved by the last two scenes.
One is the injured rust saying "We didn't get them all"
and the second is the last part that rust said to the pony about his daughter and about the darkness.

Justice vs. Evil, the best thing ever. The sense of justice was especially obvious in children for a period of time. When they grew up, they sneered at it, and then slowly felt the nobility of justice.

It wasn't until the end that I understood what Pony's wife meant when she said Rust was the most righteous person she'd ever met.

I didn't quite understand why a neurotic and evil character like Rust was so obsessed with catching bad guys, and I wondered if there would be a shadow of childhood.

So the phrase "We didn't get them all" made me realize, maybe I was too slow. Catching bad people is because of a mission in the heart, a kind of justice that must be done, and extremely hates those cruel perpetrators and those filth that happen in dark corners. It's just disgust, it's just hatred, so to catch them, destroy them, investigate and track them completely, even if they're desperate, I think it's the explanation that Rust would rather go deep into the tiger's den than take drugs without letting go of a clue.

There is no reason to fight evil.

In the end, rust made a "confession". When I saw crying, I was deeply moved by a person's acting skills for the first time. The eyes, temperament, and voice should probably not be called "acting skills". I haven't fully figured out the lines behind the lines. When the deep meaning of the person was moved, he was moved by the feelings revealed by the flow of people. (And obviously, as a woman in her twenties, it is difficult to resonate with that feeling.)

Finally, after rust finished speaking, he looked up at the stars with the pony, and in an instant, "both good and evil" appeared in me again. In my mind, I can't remember which episode someone said that rust hides the devil in his eyes, and when combined with several episodes, when they pointed at rust, I also suspected that if it was really done by rust, then this drama is really nothing. I mean.

Fortunately not, after reading the ending, I understand the "devil" in this way, rust is vicious, withdrawn and arrogant, after four years of undercover life, he can understand the most vulnerable and worst side of human nature, how can this person not have a dark side, just like That disgusting genius is only one step away from a fool, and so is justice and evil, rust is not a superficial "both righteous and evil", "indiscreet", "dangling", but a place with absolute darkness in his heart, from a certain point of view He is an unforgivable bastard, but the power of inner justice can control the darkness. Rust seems to be walking on the edge of degeneration and corruption. He may have struggled, but the light still dominates, so the last sentence "light prevails" , is also an interpretation of Rust's heart.

If you add a little bit, maybe it is what the whole film wants to express. There are too many dark sides in the world, and the wicked will never be caught.

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True Detective quotes

  • Detective Rust Cohle: I can't say the job made me this way. More like me being this way made me right for the job. I used to think about it more, but you reach a certain age you know who you are. Now I live in a little room, out in the country behind a bar, work four nights a week, and in between I drink. And there ain't nobody there to stop me. I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

  • Detective Marty Hart: Do you wonder ever if you're a bad man?

    Detective Rust Cohle: No. I don't wonder, Marty. World needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door.