The direction of the plot is a river, wherever it flows

Lucie 2022-04-24 07:01:02

The changes in emotions are very slender, and the shaping of the characters is also very three-dimensional. There are some details I like very much: even the girls are not spared by the crotch; the female protagonist, whose brows are locked all the way, even if she does not believe in reincarnation, she will cry and laugh when she sees the deer under the billboard; The ex-husband's domestic violence, on the other hand, is still haunted by his cheating, and he didn't let it go until the end. I hope that the ex-husband can cherish the people in front of him who are harmless to humans and animals. Including the final reversal, it also appears real because of its incompleteness, and it is also advanced because of its authenticity. The complexity of emotions makes the contradictions intensify, and then they will find balance in the detours and embrace each other. The whole movie doesn't exaggerate the emotions, it just unfolds slowly and leaves a lot of leeway. It's like taking an unusual section from the life of ordinary people and showing it to everyone. The screenwriter is not from God's perspective to determine the ending of the characters in the play. The direction of the characters is a river, and it flows wherever it goes , it's over. The movie that gave me the same feeling was "Love and Blind Date", nothing got better, but it wasn't bad either.

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  • Mildred Hayes: [Upon discovering Denise got arrested] Rat bastards.

    [Mildred then enters the police station house]

    Mildred Hayes: Hey fuckhead!

    Dixon: What?

    Desk Sergeant: Don't say "what", Dixon, when she comes in calling you a fuckhead, and don't you come in here...

    Mildred Hayes: Shut up!

    Mildred Hayes: [to Dixon] You, get over here.

    Dixon: No! You, get over here.

    Mildred Hayes: Alright.

    Desk Sergeant: What? Don't, Dixon!

    Dixon: What? I'm...

    Desk Sergeant: You do not allow a member of the public to call you a fuckhead in the station house!

    Dixon: That's what I'm doing, I'm taking care of it in my own way, actually. Now get out of my ass! Mrs. Hayes, have a seat! What is it I can do for you today?

    Mildred Hayes: Where's Denise Watson?

    Dixon: Denise Watson's in the clank.

    Mildred Hayes: On what charge?

    Dixon: Possession.

    Mildred Hayes: Of what?

    Dixon: Two marijuana cigarettes. Big ones.

    Mildred Hayes: When's the bail hearing?

    Dixon: I asked the judge not to give her bail on account of her previous marijuana violations and the judge said sure.

    Mildred Hayes: You fucking prick!

    Dixon: You do not call an officer of the law a fucking prick in his own station-house, Mrs. Hayes. Or anywhere, actually.

    Mildred Hayes: What's with the new attitude, Dixon? Your momma been coaching ya?

    Dixon: No. My momma didn't do that.

    Dixon: [as Mildred leaves the police station house] Take 'em down, you hear me?

    Desk Sergeant: You did good, Dixon.

    Dixon: Yeah, I know I did.

  • Dixon: What the hell is this?... Hey, you. What the fuck is this?

    Jerome: What the fuck is what?

    Dixon: This! This

    [pointing at the billboard]

    Dixon: .

    Jerome: Advertising, I guess.

    Dixon: Advertising what?

    Jerome: Something obscure?

    Dixon: I'll say. Yeah.

    Jerome: Don't I know your face from some place?

    Dixon: I don't know, do you?

    Jerome: Yeah. Yeah, I do

    [spits on the ground]

    Jerome: .

    Dixon: I could arrest you right now...

    Jerome: For what?

    Dixon: For emptying your bucket... That's being bad against the environment laws.

    Jerome: Well, before you do that, Officer Dixon, how about you have a look at that first billboard over there? And then we can have ourself a conversation about the motherfucking environment... How about that?