move on?

Mireya 2022-04-21 09:01:12

Everyone's eyes in the ending are a bit interesting: Jimmy's wife watches Dave's wife as an outsider and a winner, and Jimmy and Jimmy regain their sights, leaving behind the guilt and guilt of killing an innocent person, As if for their own so-called love, they can stand on the moral high ground and become judges and executioners.

Sean reconciled with his wife, life returned to the so-called normal track, eyes full of calm and hope.

Dave's wife was full of panic and collapse. She had never understood Dave, walked into his heart, let alone trusted him and helped him. She also became one of the killers in the eyes of herself and her son.

Jimmy kept saying that Dave's experience was painful and changed the trajectory of their lives, but when he finally gave Dave an ultimatum, he never listened to Dave's words. He didn't understand this kind of pain, or rather, he really couldn't understand it.

In the end, everyone can still move on, with guilt or remorse, but Dave falls into the bottom of the sea forever. In fact, Dave stopped moving on when he was 11 years old. His pain did not receive any help from the outside world. He could only rely on himself to endure, change, and save the life that should not need to be saved. However, he still lost, lost to a life without resonance, lost to malice, lost to this garbage world.

Dennis Lehane sees the n-face of human nature very thoroughly. Everyone's inner world is actually a bottomless hole. Most people are intertwined because of the same basic lifestyle and psychological state, and their personality and experience lead to completely different trends. Sometimes, the parts that are not intertwined bring about a beautiful collision, and more often, the parts that are not intertwined bring sin, hatred, hostility, and war. Morality and law are the red lines that prevent humanity from entering a total war; the social nature of interests and mutual need allows people to have common goals and learn to cooperate temporarily. How should I put it, I feel that people are always breaking the balance in the balance. They need order and chaos, morality and fall, sympathy and contempt, sincerity and hypocrisy. Pretending to be happy is the most powerful instinct, and finding orgasm is a constant sadness. What does it mean. Repeated, repeated mistakes.

Ah, too much bullshit. I'm so bored.

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  • Jennyfer 2021-10-20 19:00:32

    Depressed, unforgettable

  • 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"?

Mystic River quotes

  • [last lines]

    Annabeth Markum: Their daddy's a king. And a king knows what to do and *does* it. Even when it's hard. And their daddy will do whatever he has to for those he loves. And that's all that matters. Because everyone is weak, Jimmy. Everyone but us. We will never be weak. And you, you could rule this town. And after Jimmy, let's take the girls down to the parade. Katie would like that.

  • [at the crime scene, Sean finds Jimmy screaming and being held by several police officers]

    Jimmy: Is my daughter in there? Is she in there? Is she in there?

    Sean Devine: [Officer Devine approaches the melee] Hey! Hey, take it easy! That's the father.

    Jimmy: Is my daughter in there?

    [fighting the officers]

    Jimmy: Motherfuckers! Is that my daughter in there? Is she in there?

    [Sean gives a small nod]

    Jimmy: Sean! Is that my daughter in there? Is that my daughter in there? No! No! No! No, aagggh, no! No! Oh, God! Oh, God! No!

    [as Jimmy looks up at the heavens, we get a bird's or helicopter's eye view of him raving among a dark blue sea of police officers struggling to hold him]