Before the exam week, I watched the first half, and felt that it was basically unbearable. After the exam week, in order to quickly read it and delete it to save memory, I forced myself to interrupt the second half of Game of Thrones.
But after reading it and listening to Ken Hirai's "Confession", I felt like I wanted to write something.
This is a film directed and acted by Ben Affleck. Affleck looks like a classmate. Although it is not the type I like, it can be called an idol. The film directed by the idol group is so restrained, literary, boring, and concerned about social issues, which is worthy of praise.
The story is based on a real background, a small town in Boston where people have been robbing banks for generations (…). That said, it's a gang gathering point. Many people, like the protagonists of the film, have almost no choice and are doomed from birth to grow up to be criminals.
Because the background is limited to a small town, the characters and the scope of activities are very limited, so although it involves elements such as bank robbing, gunfights, speeding cars, etc., it is obvious that the handling methods are all realistic, not dazzling at all, but depressing. Introverted.
But just because it is realism, we can get some different feelings from the blockbuster, for example, the way these people rob a bank. When watching a blockbuster, we will think, "Ah, this is all a movie, how can it be so magical", but When I see this, I feel like "Wow, that's how you rob a bank".
To quote a Douyou comment here, why can't you grab a bank in China?
"People in China who have the idea of robbing a bank generally don't know much about computers, but those with this technical ability are unlikely to rob a bank, so even if you want to rob a bank, even if you go to the monitoring room, you don't know how to get the monitoring screen of the day. Disappearing, most think of unplugging the power supply, but when you unplug it, you find that there is still a UPS."
"The monitoring equipment of ordinary banks in China will not be as advanced as those in the United States. The machine is in storage, you have to use a screwdriver to disassemble the case first, and generally the equipment is placed in the corner, and the surrounding network cables are a mess.
Then I will talk about a few characters. The protagonist is the kind of poor child with a family tragedy. His mother ran away when he was a child (later found out that he was actually framed and committed suicide), and his father went to jail. The protagonist is very kind, never killed anyone (but at the end), fell in love with a girl who was kidnapped during a robbery, but there is a grumpy brother beside him who always prevents him from falling in love, he wants to wash his hands and quit his brother No (because he owes his brother a favor).
The protagonist's brother is actually really annoying, but to be honest, the protagonist is sorry for him. He had eaten and drank his food and even had sex with his sister, because he had been in prison for nine years to protect the protagonist, and in the end the protagonist said he was going to leave. He is a person, alas, in fact, I am too lazy to say that his personality is flat and typical.
When I first came to see it, I also wanted to see my blonde beauty Blake. Blake's role can be summed up in four words, with big breasts and no brains. Originally, she played a few soy sauces and we can simply understand that she is a bad girl who is wandering around, but in the end she was stupid and asked the hero to take her away! So she is infatuated with the male protagonist? It shouldn't be, after all, she has given birth to someone else's child. Then I can only understand it simply because I heard that the hero gave the heroine a diamond necklace, which inspired jealousy and vanity as a woman.
As for the heroine, hehe really has nothing to say. There are no other characteristics other than being unattractive.
Then talk about the love line. In fact, after watching comics and movies for so many years, we all know that the love line is not something that must exist in the story. The existence I'm talking about doesn't mean "having" it objectively, because most commercial blockbusters have a love line, but there is no difference between having it and not having it. When I say "existence", I mean to describe it seriously.
The love line in this story is obviously a very important clue. The protagonist falls in love with the girl he kidnapped during the robbery. He originally wanted to follow her for fear of her being a whistleblower, but he couldn't help but fall in love with her contradictoryly.
They are close because of tracking, so their deepening of each other is not accidental but inevitable; but the role played by the heroine in the film still makes people feel that the arrangement of this relationship is very deliberate.
The love between the heroine and the hero adds to the contradiction and drama of the film, the hero's love for the heroine reflects the gentleness and kindness of the hero's nature (even if he is ruthless to the blonde beauty he has been playing with), and the hero wants for the heroine. The need to wash hands reflects the fate of the hero. The hero's relationship with his brother is reflected in the conflict between the heroine and his brother...
The heroine's younger brother died in a sunny day, so the heroine feels that someone will die in a sunny day. . In the end, the FBI people stayed at the heroine's house and asked the heroine to call the hero and let him come over.
Using his binoculars, he has seen the condition of her home.
But she said let him go.
There were complex dark colors between his brows and eyes, but he still said yes in the end.
Wait, she said, I want to see you, if you come, it's like another sunny day in my life.
He smiled, the meme of then I'll on the way
, although nothing new, but I was slightly touched.
I was very depressed at the end. If I remember correctly, there is a rule in many films that no matter how much we feel sorry for the protagonist, if the protagonist is a criminal, or the protagonist has killed someone, we cannot get good results.
For example, Leon, everyone was heartbroken by his death. I accepted his death at the time because I thought he was a killer after all, and no matter how kindhearted he was, he still had to pay for his life in the end.
But in this film, the protagonist killed two people at the end, but he didn't catch it in the end? Is it because he killed the bad guy? Then he also robbed the bank so many times! The money in the bank is the money of the common people!
Also, are the male and female protagonists separated like this? I'm going to give it a go, and "I believe I will see you again, whether it's life or death." I thought this was filming "Love in the Sky"! If it's not a tear-jerking pure love movie, don't make such a crooked ending!
If you don't believe in the hero, come out and let me ask you, your father said in prison that you will definitely see him again, whether it is life or death, did you see him later? Or did the director (that is, you) simply forget about it?
Tucao is my habit, in fact, this film is not too bad. Like an unremarkable sunny day.
View more about The Town reviews
