Gangs of New York: Partial darkness is just a dissatisfaction with reality

Pearlie 2022-04-19 09:01:13

After watching this film, I was a little sad. I didn't recognize Armstrong as the young Jack in "Titanic", but he said speechlessly that this is the protagonist of "Shutter Island". Cups! Nothing changed from 2002 to 2002. How could it have changed so much in such a short period of time from 1998 to 2002? I really don't understand. Pity that innocent face.

Fortunately, it's all right, the acting is very good, and the rivalry with Bill "The Butcher" is really exciting. You don't need to watch the scene at all, just look at the expressions of the two. This kind of role is generally impossible for actors to take, those in China? forget it.

"Gangs of New York", known as the classic epic masterpiece in gangster films, was a little surprising at the beginning. It was not about modern times, but about ten or twenty years after the Civil War. No wonder it was so messy. One is the "head" of the Irish Dead Rabbit Gang that rose later, and the other is the big devil of the local gang. The former suddenly made me feel a bit like Liu Bei, holding the sign of the descendants of Liu's family and mobilizing people to revive the river and mountains; Staff are supporting. This also seems to indicate that the later story will not be so simple, and the result of sublimation is acceptable.

Like the male protagonist in "Life and Death", Armstrong gradually found that it was not only the local gang that he couldn't stand, but also other things. It was the wicked rich class, so the focus was tilted towards the latter, even though on the surface he still turned towards Bill, the enemy who killed his father. His "lurking" was clearly a failure, but it wasn't until the end that he might find out just how small a duel between two gangsters in what was essentially a poor neighborhood was. Most of the military and police came from the wealthy area, which will be razed to the ground. All dissatisfaction with reality only relying on the competition for territory is of little historical significance, but unfortunately they are also helpless.

I've always thought that the biggest gangsters are on it, not the poor people who make a fuss. This is easy to understand. The local darkness is just a vent of dissatisfaction with reality and the transfer of desire for control, but the subconscious sympathy still exists because of the same poor status. You see Bill's unique admiration for Armstrong's father, and the last one who is willing to fight for votes, like a football player who swears after winning a card, but has to continue the game. And the rules of the game do not belong to them at all.

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Gangs of New York quotes

  • Bill: Pistols?

    Amsterdam Vallon: No pistols.

    Bill: Good boy.

  • Priest Vallon: Don't never look away.