The movie "Mystic River" was released in 2003 and received a lot of praise. It won many awards at the 76th Academy Awards, the 56th Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, the 61st Golden Globe Awards, and the 57th British Academy Film Awards. Awards and nominations, as a feature film about crime and suspense, the film can be said to have reached the essence. The film tells the story of the three protagonists of the traditional American community. They grow up in different directions. Finally, with a murder, the story begins to climax. Jamie, Dave and Sean were best childhood friends. On a calm and peaceful afternoon, three children were playing hockey. The ball fell into the sewer. The three children stepped into the restricted area in search of the ball. Dave was kidnapped by the clergy and taken away for sexual abuse. Although he was successfully rescued, he This humiliating experience left Dave with permanent damage. The humiliating experience made him unable to look directly at his two best partners. The three began to drift apart. Over time, all three had grown up and got married. Have a child, have a life of your own. But the sudden death of Jamie's daughter brought the three people who had no relationship back together. Sean became a police detective when he grew up, and he was in charge of the case of Jamie's daughter. Under Sean's investigation, the case was The suspects gradually point to Dave, their best friend when they were young, and the relationship between the three becomes serious, and the story continues. The film takes 138 minutes to explain a complete story. The story is compact, and the steps are tight and realistic, which makes the audience unexpectedly the truth of the story. There are many details in the film. The film is called Mystic River. It appears many times in the story. The first is the beginning of the story. The big vision is pulled over the river, showing a big environment where the three protagonists live. The riverside community in a big city, the river is a shipping channel and an important way for business and navigation. point. Then the three children dropped the ball into the sewer and flowed into the river. The river is unfathomable and represents a secret. Children like freedom and adventure, so chasing the lost ball indicates that a secret is about to happen. With the following occurrence of Dave being sexually abused. The appearance of the river again is when Jamie finds the wrong evidence and believes that Dave killed his daughter in order to get revenge on him, and shoots Dave to death, right by the dark river, which also proves the mystery of the river, any Everything with secrets takes place by the river, including death. The river symbolizes the meeting point of secrets. All secrets are in the river, and the sun will never be seen. Once again, the theme of the mysterious river is named. In addition to the detailed portrayal in the movie, the modeling and portrayal of the characters are also very deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Dave, who grew up, appeared for the first time. It was clearly a sunny day, but he had to walk in the shadows. He was unwilling to look directly or even actively avoided the sun. He wears a baseball cap to hide from the sun, and the trauma he left in his childhood has never recovered. He is afraid of real life and always has a knot in his heart. He also takes care of the second half of the film because he is not good at communicating with people and lacks effective social and living space. , mistook himself for killing Jamie's daughter. And Jamie's first appearance is an image of a doting daughter. He loves her daughter, but his love is somewhat inhumane. The daughter who is in love has her own boyfriend, and Jamie's attitude towards her daughter's boyfriend Brandon is very dignified. , or even hate it, all of them have the appearance of the daughter and her boyfriend eloping after the article, and even a little more, the death of the daughter, if it is not for Jamie's majesty at the beginning, the chance of such an outcome would be very small. The first time Sean appeared when he grew up, and a phone call with his wife made his current situation clear. He was very depressed, not good at sociability, and did not fit in well with his wife. Sean is passive in married life, and even the divorce is the party to be notified, so in later films, he hesitated between the other two good friends, which indirectly led to Dave's death. After the truth of the story was revealed, it seemed a little incredible. It turned out that it was Brandon's younger brother who killed his future sister-in-law because he knew that his brother was going to run away with his girlfriend, because he lost his father since childhood and did not want to lose his only brother again. Killed Jamie's daughter, so far the truth is revealed. At the end of the film, the film switched from cold to warm tones, the meeting on the street, the warm sunshine appeared, and the hearts of the characters in the film also recalled again, Sean hid the secret of killing Dave for Jamie, Sean made it up His family and his wife were reunited. Jamie brought his wife and young daughter to watch the rally, and Dave's wife and son, the wife is indirectly responsible for Dave's death because of her distrust of Dave, and Dave's son's cultivation since he was a child, his son also Becoming his epitome, timidity and lack of self-confidence are vividly reflected in him. The cage of life and emotional shackles, huge psychological pressure and environmental instability, these are the normal conditions that we do not want to face in life. These emotions will form a "mysterious river" after being squeezed for a long time, but life continues. As long as you live, you must continue to live with hope and enthusiasm, so that life will become better, the "Mystic River" will not appear, and the secret will not be hidden.
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