This film first introduces an incident that happened 25 years ago between the protagonists in these two days, let's see what they said when they brought it up again 25 years later
1. "Sean Penn: What if it wasn't Dave but me or you who got into that car that day? Kevin Bacon: What are you talking about, I have absolutely no idea. Sean Penn: If I got into that car that day and I was a wreck, I wouldn't give birth to Katie and she wouldn't be killed."
2. "Fishburn: What got in the car? Kevin Bacon: (Describes what happened.)"
3. "Tim Robbins (pressed): I've never had youth, if you were the one who got in that car, you'd know what I meant. Sean Penn: But I didn't get in that car, You got in that car."
4. "Kevin Bacon: When was the last time you saw Dave? Sean Penn: He got in that car and got off this street 25 years ago. Kevin Bacon: Sometimes I think, we all went there car, and it was all just a dream."
And in the middle of Dave's abnormal behavior in front of his wife and painfully speaking his memory "They are called Henry and George, they are wolves, Dave is a child who escaped from the wolf pack, no one came to save Dave, Dave had to pretend to be another person. "
It can be seen that Sean Penn's Jimmy has always understood what this means to Dave, but he also understands more that his wife said to him "everyone is weak except us", so he does not trust The police also don't trust Dave. When he believes that Dave is a murderer, he intimidates and lures him, and repeats his tricks. This also summarizes the reasons and grand appearances of those big ego/self-centered people doing their own thing.
Under the narration of Dongmu's classicism, after the shadow of the originally terrifying childhood faded away, the audience slowly realized the influence of this incident over the past 25 years from an omniscient perspective, showing how everyone present at the time forgot it, how Can't get rid of it, and how to use its several states (you can imagine that if Kazuo Ishiguro talks about this, he may describe Dave's psychological state from Dave's first person, and then put this childhood memory Pieces together), which is also the value of this film - it shows the most real world, rather than a monologue from a single perspective, in this world there are endless Henry and George/victim Dave and his Boy, one second people are pretending to be empathetic, the next there is trampling, and God just looks and shakes his head.
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