Some people should not die but die, and some people should die but live more wonderfully than anyone else... "Mystic River" is a practice to live

Micaela 2022-04-20 09:01:08

Living is a practice, this is the experience of watching the movie an hour before watching "Mystic River"!

Sad for its misfortune, anger for its indisputable! That's what I want to say to "David" (Tim Robbins) an hour after watching the movie!

And what kind of wife you marry will determine what kind of fate, and it is more of a helpless and powerless preaching by the director and the original author of "Mystic River" on the uncertainty and fatalism of life!

Jimmy, Xien, David, three childhood playmates, this can have a happy and worry-free childhood, but David is cheated by two lovers and a man to imprison the abuse, although it ends, but this The damage of the body and mind is accompanied by his life until you die!

Jimmy and the ex-wife's big daughter were killed. David, who was imprisoned, was suspected of being suspected of being unlikely, this is a meaningful meaning of discrimination. During the survey of the case, it is the whole film. keynote!

It also reveals the influence of injustice of fate on people's character, and the formed character has influence and backlash on fate! Destiny determines character, and character ultimately determines destiny!

David's wife, Celes, is a sensitive and vulnerable woman. Because of her whistleblower, her husband David was innocently killed. This is a very hated or annoying character! But a wife who doesn't even trust her husband really doesn't deserve everyone's love and sympathy!

And Celes is a guide that triggeting the biggest drama conflict in the whole film!

An unjust, already pitiful David, because of Seles' "selfless" whistleblower, ended a painful and gloomy life, he should not have died but died, and someone should have died but lived more than anyone else. Wonderful…….

What kind of wife do you marry, what kind of fate decides? In a sense it does!

At the end of the film, Seles looked at his son in the parade with a wry smile, tears in his eyes. And the murderer Jimmy and his wife took their children and watched the parade happily as if they were nothing. At this time, the soundtrack of the film is "Always Sincere". Should a wife maintain trust and loyalty to her husband? The director gave a positive answer! The different endings of the last two families also confirmed this answer! There may be some sarcasm in speaking of this! But this is the most realistic world in which human beings live!

"Mystic River" is a film full of realism. It escapes the routine of conventional movies and finds a new way to present the real and cruel scenes in real life. Although heavy but true...

"There are good and bad people who die, but no one who survives is innocent." - Dennis Lehane. His works have a strong literary quality, and are known for their coldness and cruelty. He is one of the hottest writers in the United States today. The film is based on Dennis Lehane's novel of the same name, and Leonardo DiCaprio's "Shutter Island" is also based on Dennis Lehane's work!

No one really cares about the suffering of life and the injustice of fate. If you can do something, just live happily and bravely! Living is a practice! The mysterious river is so calm, we don't know what is hidden under this deep water? Or like the human heart, who can never see through the darkness in this dark corner.

The film brought two trophies for Sean Penn (Jimmy in the film) and Tim Robbins (David in the film), the Academy Award for Best Actor and the American Golden Globe Award for Best Actor ( Sean Penn), Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Globe Awards (Tim Robbins).

The whole film has a gloomy and depressing tone. If it is other films, it is really difficult for people to stick to watching it, but "Mystic River" is the outlier. In "Mystic River", you can see the naked human heart and human nature. , and living is a practice!

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Extended Reading
  • Liana 2022-03-24 09:01:12

    Long, procrastinating, for more than two hours, the film repeatedly emphasized that Dave was sexually assaulted when he was a child, but it seemed too deliberate to change people's fate. Shouldn't you look for the person who first discovered the crime scene during the investigation process? Why did you investigate so many people but missed them, just to delay Dave's death? And Dave’s murderous tactics and his clumsy corpse-hidden tactics were dragged until he was accidentally killed and not discovered by the police. Is this arrangement a bit too "dramatically necessary"?

  • Darien 2022-03-24 09:01:12

    Thanks to my own habit of not reading the synopsis, netizens' comments, etc. before watching the movie I am interested in, so that I can watch this movie without being spoiled. Although the crime suspense was directed at specific characters, the foreshadowing of the plot and subsequent development always make me feel that there will be a reversal? as predicted! However, the unfolding of the truth and the cause of the tragedy happened staggered, and there is no way to change what is already a foregone conclusion. In the end, the police just pointed the murderer across the street with a hand-to-hand gun, thinking that if it were a domestic movie, it would be the police to arrest the murderer and put him in jail, right? ——Poor Dave's role helped Tim Robbins win his only Oscar so far (best supporting actor); it turns out that Sean Penn has won the most Oscar for his "Mystic River" in "Milk" A good actor, he is the second person in history to gather the three major film festivals of Cannes, Berlin, and Venice and the second person for the best actor Oscar. The first is Jack Lemmon.

Mystic River quotes

  • Sean Devine: The reality is we're still 11 year old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we'd escaped.

  • Jimmy: [after Dave has told him a story about a boy being molested filled with inconsistency] One more time... about the boy, and I will cut you the fuck open!