After watching Border Slayer, I can only say that this is a crime gangster film that will not make you feel hearty after watching it. Just as the heroine Kate finally held a gun and confronted Alessandro with a strong sense of helplessness and frustration , but "the controllable order" in the mouths of these men who were more vicious than the smothered drug lords. Maybe this kind of victory and order is not in line with the moral values and bottom line that Kate and most of the audience uphold, and even Kate faced this bottom line and life choice when signing, but compared to those fierce people, she or the audience What you insist on is powerless against the chaos on the border and the purgatory-like tragedies in the small town, so all you can do is witness and accept it, and digest it is your own business.
The ending of the other line also deepened this feeling of discomfort. The little boy never had a chance to wake up his father who had finished the night shift to make up for sleep. While he was playing football, the sound of gunfights still rang out. They continued unsurprisingly, while his mother watched the direction of the gunfire for a long time, with a sad expression on her face but remained silent. What Kate may not have thought about is that all the illegal and non-compliant actions she has witnessed, and the crimes against which those actions are directed, keep a certain distance from her. She was a witness, but neither party killed her. These are distant cries for her survival. But for the child playing football and his mother, what they silently accepted was a sea change, their existence and future were unknown, and the sound of gunfire was not far from them.
Therefore, although Border Slayer has added a lot of stagnation because of the character of Kate, and even interrupted that smoothness in some plots, this kind of stagnation also prevents Border Slayer from becoming a gunfight action that just seeks revenge on drug dealers. piece. So the delicate balance formed by this three-person team is also where the film shines. With unscrupulous thugs and authority-guaranteed mascots, Matt uses violence to overcome violence and achieve his goals. Kate is like a VIP audience, the highlights of her resume are not reflected in the actions of the whole group, her justice and principles interfere with the action, her procedures become a useless weakness, this huge gap and The tragic fact made her retching again and again, and she soon needed to seek solace with the help of tobacco foreign objects. But this role is not indispensable. As far as I am concerned, the justice and principles she adheres to are indeed useless and powerless in the face of those bottomless sins, but she still insists. Not flinching is already a great courage, and to become the kind of wolf Sandro speaks, you have to go through many blood and fire, guns and bullets.
Complementing the story line is the exquisite photography of this film. It is not difficult to shoot good scenery, but it is difficult to use good scenery to serve the plot in a dark and sluggish crime film. The desolation and loneliness of the frontier further reflects the contrast of sin. The five black Chevys and the Mexican police vehicles carrying prisoners are even more unimaginable. In this sinful city, there are flat and low slum houses, corpses hanging from bridges, and missing persons posted on the walls. All the notices indicate the breakdown of law and order. And this train team, in this chaos, is as close as a chain, maintaining a distance and forming a queue, overtaking, changing lanes, and accelerating, it seems that the power they represent will bring order to the region again. The night-vision goggles battle scene in the tunnel, although a little eye-consuming, is really a show of skills. Alessandro is a knife, and he moves forward indifferently.
In the end, I don't bother to discuss the debate between Alessandro and the drug lord at the dinner table, personal grievances, blood for blood, and it's over. I thought it was even a bit procrastinating here. I was really afraid that Alejandro would also come to a tragic ending in which the winner died and was counter-killed.
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