With cigarettes and old wine, girls become stubborn men

Colten 2022-04-21 09:01:24

2010's annual hit movie, now ten years later, the aftertaste still lingers.

The movie tells a story of revenge in the West: because of the murder of his father, 14-year-old Marty arrives at the scene of the crime to handle the funeral on behalf of the family. The murderer had already absconded and did not care that he was arrested. The little girl decided to hire an old policeman to chase the murderer herself, and a Texas Ranger also got a bounty. So the three walked together and stepped into the reserved area where the outlaws were rampant.

The story begins with the dim light of a hut and a story about a young girl taking revenge on her father. The old movie has its own deep, light-heavy beginning, which is the sound of "boo" when the bottle is hidden in the old wine cellar, and it is also when the old pipe is loaded. The prosperous line of tobacco "呲" is an old story, and it is also the old look of the old west.

Oncoming is the young and solemn and determined girl Marty, who calmly collected the body for her father, watched the execution of criminals by the gallows on the opposite side, ran to the police station to learn about the details of the case, and then recovered the transaction money eloquently and forcefully. This is just the basic process of losing a father early to become a family.

But the reason for staying here after doing all this is that she stubbornly wants to kill the wrath of the criminal with her own hands. The sheriff and the detective looked at the well-dressed eldest lady and spoke wildly. One side was to stop and the other was to be curious. This is the world of men, the world of cowboys and gangsters, and it has nothing to do with her. With ridicule and ridicule, as a businessman, they do bounty transactions on an equal footing.

In the end, the drunk old detective and the smoker Texas Ranger accepted her deal, but refused to go on the road together. Wearing her father's clothes and hat, she came across the river soaked wet, and her indomitable courage conquered the old detective and accepted her as a partner on adventures.

The reservations in the movie are like rivers and lakes, forming a system of their own. There are traces of burning, killing, and looting everywhere. There are corpses everywhere. There are trades and doctors. Of course, there are more confrontations and killings by gangsters who meet in a narrow way.

The trio, the girl seemed to be smoking a cigarette, raised her head to drink, swayed in the moonlight like snow, and sang a sad song. Occasionally recalling past family affection, laughing at being lonely now, and being cheerful and unrestrained in the wild bonfire, it is a hundred times more intense than hunting with my father in the past.

But in the end, after Bai Bu Chuan Yang shot his enemy to death, he fell into a barren well and was bitten by a poisonous snake. This is the cruel fangs of the rivers and lakes, and no one can retire perfectly. At night, the old police detective took the girl all the way back to town on horseback. In the dark night, the horse was panting heavily, and the experience was like a dream.

When you wake up, the person is no longer there, and neither is the bitten arm. This is the emptiness after the big dream, but it can't hide the sturdy and stubborn life that is too bright for her.

This story is really like an old wine, too strong and too spicy, with a long aftertaste.


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True Grit quotes

  • Tom Chaney: [after being shot by Mattie] I didn't think you'd do it! One of my short ribs is broke!

  • Mattie Ross: [Discussing the price of cotton] We got most of our cotton in early. We got 12 and a half cents a pound in Little Rock.

    Col. Stonehill: Then I suggest you take the rest of your crop to Little Rock to sell.

    Mattie Ross: This being closer, I though I might check on the price in Ft. Smith while I was here.

    Col. Stonehill: Did you come all this way to inform me of the price of cotton in Little Rock?