To be honest, it took me a long time to watch "Once Upon a Time in America", and on top of that, it took me about two months to watch the first and second episodes of "Atlantic Empire". This type of gangster At the beginning of the film, who is who and who is related to whom, plus the face blindness to foreigners, at the end, I can only ask a question that adults often ask adults when watching TV dramas when I was a child: Who is the good guy and who is the bad guy?
No no no, maybe you can ask this question for other movies, but if you ask this question for a gangster movie, you can’t go down. According to our common sense, none of these gangsters who kill and steal money are good people, but they are the protagonists in them. You must enter their worldview and appreciate their behavior patterns in order to see "good". Here, the standard of "righteousness" is not quite the same as that of our Chinese people - in a word, you must have great patience to see it. Hot blood is hot blood, it may not be loyalty and righteousness, there is not so much bitterness and hatred, and it may not be "brothers are like siblings, and wives are like clothes".
The classic line from "Hotel California": you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. What it means is that life has gone astray, and you can't return to this ordinary and vulgar world that you and I know - not necessarily what they want, but they will never come back.
This is the price of being a gangster, and more deeply, the price of killing people.
Frank is a little different. He kills people first, and he won't be able to return to a normal life anyway, so he can just be a gangster. Going back to the question we said above, no one can answer, is Frank, one of the protagonists, a good guy, too, what about Jimmy?
The standard of good and bad is blurred here, only having to, or in other words, there is only survival. Whether it is the honor of accepting the vote or the loyalty of brothers, whether it is the friendship of eating hot dogs together or sleeping to leave a gap for you, in the face of survival, all the good things are gone. So, at least from the perspective of my audience, I can't blame the "boom" two shots for the past. Without hesitation, Jimmy couldn't react. There are not as many movies and TV dramas as we used to watch since childhood. The murderer's eyes widened in horror - you, you, you, betrayed me and so on, no! After the killing, Frank dragged the corpse like the tenderloin he used to be, without any hesitation, put the gun away and left the scene quickly, wow, he is a good killer, in terms of professionalism and dedication, he did not Wrong, he gave Jimmy the greatest respect, so that Jimmy would not suffer betrayal when he was alive, and died quickly and directly without suffering at all, so he could be regarded as a good friend. After all, if he doesn't die, he has to die. If he hadn't been killed by Frank himself, he would have died painfully. He would still die. , Frank is nothing more than giving him a ride, and he can't say anything, not to mention that his family's life is in the hands of others, and it is not worthwhile to have his whole family buried for a dead person. Therefore, watching the officials is nothing but sadness, nothing more than getting used to our kind of gangster films, brothers sticking swords in both sides, not asking to be born in the same year and the same month, but to die in the same day-in this kind of gangster mixed with politics, trading, etc. In the world, that is childish.
Most of the protagonists I read when I was a child were not wealthy. When I grew up, I realized that the underworld like them are actually gangsters. The real boss is like this. Even killing people will be very polite and say, can you do me a little favor? Sending someone to Australia - it can be seen that it also requires wisdom to be a gangster, and rushing out with a machete can only be a hack.
"The Irishman" is sad to watch, in addition to the scene of having to "paint the house", there is also the aging that each of us must face. "Old Cannon" is sad, isn't it? The bastards are old, they are not young, they are eliminated, and no one urinates on them, but they are not so old. Several of the old men are in their 80s. The wealth they have saved by killing people is not allowed to enjoy a small piece of bread in prison. I believe you understand, because whether it is them who have gone astray, or we who have followed the rules all our lives and can only learn about the other world in this world through movies, we will all grow old. The end of the legend, the new rosy mouth, they don't know who was the leader of the trade union back then, and the hatred must be eliminated. What does it matter? It's the same if the world lacks anyone, but that person let him exist later. So, what's the point of this life? Maybe Russell had this kind of awareness when he went to church. He said, Jimmy is a good man...
But Frank doesn't regret it, maybe since he killed the first person, he has been absent. Of course he wasn't a good guy, but to be honest, it took us over three hours to realize it all, and it wasn't that bad. That is, the world of grandpas, we don't understand it.
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