The same table B-
story takes place on a night in Los Angeles. The killer Vincent was commissioned by the gangster's employer to kill 5 related witnesses. He rents the taxi driver Max's car and embarks on his own murderous journey.
The killer Vincent portrayed by Tommy is very interesting. On the one hand, he is a professional murderer who kills without blinking an eye. He doesn't hesitate to shoot even irrelevant people whenever he needs to; on the other hand, he tells Max that he hates the sense of alienation in this city. Vicent and Max tell a story about a man who died on the Los Angeles subway and was found six hours later. During this time, people on the train went up and down, and no one noticed him. Vicent's words came true, and he died on the subway in the end.
Vincent and Max, in a sense, there are similarities between them. Vincent is a gold medal hitman who never misses and takes pride in his professionalism. And Max is a professional taxi driver, his car is very clean, he knows the time of traffic lights and road conditions very well. Maybe it is because of this similarity that Vincent has a little sympathy for Max. Vincent took flowers to see Max's sick mother, and stood up for Max when his boss was blackmailing him, a little bit of a knight.
However, killers are killers after all. When Max saw Vincent's unequivocal killing, he didn't think that he was involved in such a dangerous situation. After all, Max is just an ordinary taxi driver, and his dream is to be able to drive a Mercedes-Benz to pick up passengers. He tried to escape and failed. He loses the information in Vincent's briefcase, but Vincent takes Max's sick mother hostage and demands that Max reclaim the list from the gang. Max is out of anger after the agent who trusted and helped him is mercilessly beaten to death by Vincent. He chose to die with Vincent. After the car was hit, neither of them died. Max found out that the last person Vincent was going to kill was his last customer, Anne, and he decided to protect her. So he robbed the cop and dialed Anne's number
When I saw the last paragraph, I always remembered that Lin Chong was the head of the 800,000 Imperial Guards, but he offended Captain Gao and was designed to be framed step by step. Lin Chong was always patient at first, but in the end he found that even if he reached the ends of the earth, he was still being pursued by the thieves, and he had to die before giving up. In the end, on the snowy night, in the mountain temple, Lin Chongsha killed Marquis Lu Yu with a steel knife. I was deeply impressed by the description of this passage in Water Margin:
When Lin Chong listened to the three people, one was the messenger, the other was the Marquis of Lu Yu, and the other was Fu'an. Lin Chong said: "God is pitiful to see Lin Chong! If I hadn't collapsed the grass hall, I would have been burned to death by these fellows." He gently opened the stone, held a flower spear, pulled open the temple door with one hand, and shouted, "Shoot the thief. Go there!" When the three of them were about to leave, they were stunned and couldn't move. Lin Chong raised his hand and fired a shot. Lu Yuhou shouted: "Forgive your life!" He was so frightened that he couldn't walk. That Fu An couldn't walk more than ten steps, but was caught up by Lin Chong, only one shot in the back, and stabbed down again. Turning over, Hou Lu Yu could only take three or four steps, and Lin Chong shouted, "Traitor, stay there!" He only raised his chest and threw it on the snow. He slammed the gun on the ground, put his foot on his chest, took out the knife beside him, put it on Lu Qian's face, and shouted, "Spoof! Me? It is the murder that can be forgiven, but it is unreasonable." Lu Yuhou told: "If you don't do petty affairs, the captain will send you, and dare not not come." Lin Chong scolded: "Traitor, I have been friends with you since childhood, today Why don't you do anything to you? Take a knife from me!" He ripped off Lu Qian's upper body clothes, and stabbed the sharp knife into his heart, bleeding from the seven orifices, holding his heart and liver in his hand. When I looked back, I was about to get up and leave. Lin Chong held it down and shouted, "You are so wicked! Just take a knife from me." He cut off his head early and picked it up on the gun. When he came back, he cut off the heads of Fu An and Lu Qian. He inserted the sharp knife, tied the hair of the three people together, brought them into the temple, and placed them on the offering table in front of the mountain god. Then he put on a white shirt, tied his arms, put on a felt hat, and ate all the cold wine in the gourd. Don't want to throw away both the duvet and the gourd, so he picked up the gun and went out of the temple gate. In less than three or five miles, I saw that people in the nearby village were all holding bucket hooks to put out the fire. Lin Chong said: "You guys hurry up and help, I'm going to report to the officer." He just walked away with a gun in hand. The snow fell fiercely.
Lin Chong's murder at this time was ruthless and hot, completely inconsistent with his previous image. Of course, the story of Lin Chong's night run and borrowing a knife to kill is very different. Borrowing a knife to kill is a commercial film. In the end, the hero saves the beauty, and the bad guy is punished. The core is joy. The background of Lin Chong Yeben's story is more complex and profound, and the core is sadness. However, their similarity lies in the reversal of human nature in an instant. Suddenly, Max's image changed from a taxi driver to a hero; Lin Chong, also in that instant, became a wild man.
This momentary change is interesting to me, and it is precisely because of this that human nature is subtle and elusive. Many literary works and film and television works have such plots. For example, the general in Rashomon. " Walking
to the countryside all night, and earning one with my life. " The biggest contradiction in the whole film is between Max and Vincent, and it is not between them. In the end, Vincent's sentence "We are almost at the next stop" actually made the two feel like they were lip-syncing. If it weren't for such a killing mission, the two should be able to become soulmates. Before meeting Vincent, Max had low self-esteem, even though he was a veteran when it came to being a taxi driver, which was evident from his shyness to mention his dreams. After meeting Vincent, Vincent has been intentionally or unintentionally "forcing" Max to face himself, face up to his own strength, and "force" him to resist. He feels like a mentor in life. However, many different paths are difficult to return to. An important clue to Max's transformation movie is Max's psychological changes. From the initial fear to the final confrontation with Vincent, it only took less than one night, which in a sense reflects the value of this movie. A small detail is that when Max went to rescue Anne, he wanted to smash the glass with a gun, but he didn't know how to shoot.
I think Max is learning from Vincent, his decisiveness, ferocity, wit, and even eccentricity. And when he found that he was slowly adapting to such an environment, he began to resist (so I think his resistance was forced on the one hand, and active on the other, Vincent was teaching Max while subverting him ).
Believe that Max will realize his dream, and soon (not necessarily if he doesn't meet Vincent)
Vincent's "lie"
So Max starts to expose Vincent's lie, or the truth that Vincent accidentally revealed. Like Max, I tend to believe Vincent's story about killing his dad, even if he hides it later with a laugh. Many killers like to use their families to justify their violent behavior, and the tenderness they accidentally show moves the onlookers. Unfortunately, this may also become a handle for others to attack themselves. But I still like the character of Vincent, from the appearance to the core of the character, there are layers. The most important thing is that until he said the last sentence, he was not emotional, and he drew a clear line with the unfinished end all at once.
I saw the part you mentioned about Lin Chong's night run, it's really similar. The reversal of human nature in an instant is also a very dramatic setting, making the characters three-dimensional and no longer black and white. In addition, it is also very interesting to add philosophical (chicken soup) dialogues to the tense plot process. I feel that the time when returning to the taxi after killing people has become a "special time" for the two of them. is an important part of the sublimation theme. I love how Vincent cares about Max's dreams, family and love after killing people, charming.
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