I watched seven Uncle Tomu movies, namely Million Dollar Baby, The Perfect World, Captain Sully, The Mule, The Flag of the Fathers, Letter from Iwo Jima, and American Sniper. This one was especially heavy to watch.
After a little reasoning, I feel that the plot is complicated and the theme is dark. The complexity of the plot is not deliberately made like Mulholland Road and Memento, but the story itself is very complicated, but it can be understood after one review. Here I applaud the old man's storytelling skills. The dark theme is that every side story is inseparable from violent murder, gathering together to open a fruitful flower of evil, which makes the liver tremble.
The backbone of the story is the murder of Sanzhuang and a case of kidnapping and child molestation brought out by a murder of a girl. . . The order of narration is generally in chronological order. This form of narration allows the entire film to naturally form a relationship of cause and effect, which not only takes into account the rationality, but also has the function of creating suspense, and the characters also change or grow accordingly. The old man seems to like this method very much. The more typical one is the American sniper. He talks about it step by step, which is very arresting.
How to tell this complicated story? According to the sequence of the movie, it is roughly as follows: a child is kidnapped by traffickers while playing with two good friends, and is tortured and left behind, and the other two children grow up with pressure and guilt. The three of them are adults, and the two friends from that year, one policeman and one bandit, have gradually become estranged because of the kidnapping case of that year. The main story revolves around the murder of a young girl. The gangster's daughter was killed, and her boyfriend's younger brother went off with a gun. The police dug up an old case by analyzing the ballistics. The boyfriend's father was killed many years ago for betraying the bandit. Let him become the key suspect and be stared at. Also suspected is the child who behaved strangely because of the shadows of childhood. On the night of the crime, he was involved in another crime. When he witnessed a pervert committing evil, he became a killer in madness. The blood on his body made him a girl. Suspected object of homicide. After a police investigation, his wife suspected and betrayed him, he was mistakenly killed by his newly reconciled gangster partner as the murderer of his daughter. But at this time, the police also happened to find the real murderer at the house of the No. 1 suspect. When the truth came out, the gangster was in great pain. Not only did his daughter get killed easily, which was unacceptable, but he also felt remorse for killing a friend by mistake and deepened his feelings. Childhood guilt. But the most tragic is the family that has just lost her husband. During the festival, everyone is in pairs, but they have lost their husband and father because of the wife's suspicion and betrayal. She is like a wandering soul, calling for the same lost son in the procession.
Family is particularly prominent in Uncle's films. After finishing the plot, I once again realized the important position of family in the director's heart. The seeds of misfortune were sown in the crime of that year. Years later, he died of betrayal and massacre, and his family was torn apart, but the other two continued to live with hope because of their family's protection and watch. Compared with other movies, the uncle's score for this movie is low, and there are indeed some flaws. The entire movie is stuffed with intertwined stories one after another. The director is skilled enough, but the details and side stories are enough to support a drama, which is a bit bloated for the movie. In addition, for the first time, I felt that the uncle's movie text was not correct. Almost all the other movies I have seen are as standardized as propositional essays. The plot and core emotions of this one seem to have nothing to do with Mystic River. I don't know why it is named. The story is about arresting people as always, especially in the part about finding the murderer. The two suspects pushed forward in turn, which kept the audience's heart hanging, but it still felt too heavy.
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