But once the director starts the second part, trouble will come. John Wick's car is destroyed, and the dog given by his girlfriend is also dead. He has no motivation to kill again. If it starts from the relationship between the characters, then this is the case. It is possible to become a pony brother and return to the arena, three aunts and six wives, brotherhood, and finally make up a new object, which is so vulgar.
How to do it? In fact, it showed some signs in the first part of the movie, pay attention to the few supporting characters it appears, the police who know the truth, the workers who clean up the corpse, the boss who handles the black car, the hotel for killers, and the bartender who seems to have a relationship with John Wick , These characters outline the outline of the underground world, not only giving the simple fighting and killing the temperament of Cult movies, but also finding a way out for the sequel - bypassing the growth of characters and expanding the world view.
The director's strong man broke the wrist and stopped the growth of the emotional arc of the character of John Wick, turning him into an invincible symbol like James Bond. The director threw the protagonist directly into the dead lake like a stone, and the Infinite waves, anyway, John Wick can't make it up, I will use you to hit the rules of the rivers and lakes in the underground world. The male protagonist is just an introduction, he string together all kinds of bizarre underground world.
Therefore, the second part directly inherited the ending of the first part, without leaving any time for the characters to settle and reflect. John Wick, if you kill someone, killing someone means you will be reborn, and now the rules of the rivers and lakes are valid for you again.
At this time, John Wick, a demon who avenged love, became a survivor who stood in my way. After completing this role change, the screenwriter could finally breathe a sigh of relief and have a routine to follow.
The routine based on it is actually very familiar to Chinese audiences. This movie is really similar to our martial arts novels. A supporting role, or a foreshadowing before the main character's appearance, mostly ends in tragedy. In short, there are his legends everywhere in the rivers and lakes, but the author just doesn't write them directly. Because, Dugu Qiufeng, who has never appeared before, is invincible, only revealing scales and half claws, and it all depends on the readers' brains.
But "Fast Attack" doesn't deal with it this way. Anyway, movies are visual art, and commercial movies don't care about the connotation. The director let him kill all the way to the end. The characters' hearts are not expressed at all. When it comes to the presentation of the world view, the emotional arc of the characters is strategically abandoned, such as cartographers, weapons dealers, body armor tailors, underground gold coin makers, killers' brokers, tattooed sisters in the reward center, and even beggar gangs!
Thinking about it this way, in fact, the protagonist of the movie is not John Wick, but this river and lake with its own rules. As long as you have an identity officially recognized by an underground organization, register for naturalization, and hold a common currency, a killer can enjoy all-round services when performing tasks. It really builds a perfect ecology around the core business of "killing". Economic means restrain a pack of beasts.
But the worldview in the movie seems to be more than that. We know from the villain of this movie that gangsters all over the world have also established a United Nations-like organization with 12 council seats. This is the setting so far But it triggered the setting of the core conflict. I believe that if the third part is made, it will definitely be useful.
So, I'm not really going to complain about the simplicity of this movie. Simple doesn't mean don't bother, complex never means good-looking, I really don't expect that John Wick will one day have short parents, brotherhood, and even a new wife.
Unlike watching the first one and not looking forward to the sequel, I am looking forward to the third one. At the end of the movie, John Wick is almost facing the whole world. How should the plot unfold? No matter how bad or bad, I really want to see it, and the director's purpose has been achieved.
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