Reading Tip: "Instant Destruction" is a "nonsensical" version of "No Country for Old Men". The trivialities of life are fully displayed, so people are full of beauty and ugliness. You can be angry and critical of their behavior, or you can ignore it and get used to it. Anyway, the Coen brothers only provide stories that allow the audience to finish the popcorn happily. After all, they should relax too.
After more than two hours of psychological torture in "No Country for Old Men", movie fans finally ushered in this relaxed "Instant Destruction" (translated into "Burning After Reading" in mainland China, the author adopts a better understanding of Hong Kong and Taiwan. Translation), the film centers on the life of CIA spy John after he was fired, and tells a series of bizarre stories that happened beside him. Brad Pitt and George Clooney appeared in succession, and finally the inflated desire made They are on the road to destruction.
Ridicule CIA: Stupid Gang, Harmful
The real CIA doesn’t know how to feel after seeing this film. The audience will only feel that this institution related to national security looks like a fool, wasting a worthless CD It took human and material resources to set up a sky net for a group of ordinary people who are indiscriminate and greedy.
At the beginning of the film, the huge state machine was exposed by John sharply: What did you say about firing me? Who's ass here I haven't filmed? Who doesn't drink too much? It's really different from before, maybe because of the end of the Cold War, when the CIA had things to do every day, now there's only bureaucracy left.
Unfortunately, the autobiography of John's idleness and boredom was regarded as a state secret by the gym employee Linda. While she was trying to make a fortune, the CIA gentlemen in suits also began to investigate, and they regarded him as a dangerous element. Come to monitor, in fact, it is just an ordinary woman troubled by lack of money for cosmetic surgery.
George Clooney, played by Haney, works for the Treasury Department and is a respectable figure. But no one could have imagined that he was a master of love hunters. In addition to fooling around with John's wife, he also had relationships with many women, including Linda. Perhaps knowing that he was guilty, Haney always felt that someone was following him. Out of professional instinct (and also for reasons of identity), he felt that it was most likely a CIA agent. It was not until the end of the film that the man in black in the car revealed his identity. The detective sent by his wife to collect evidence in the divorce proceedings (obviously had a good deal on him).
Haney's fear can be described as "CIA phobia", CIA seems to be a "killer". When he walked into John's residence, he found a strange man (Brad Pitt) hiding in the closet. His first reaction was - CIA. In fear, he touched the pistol in the closet, making Pitt an unjust death. Essentially it was just the fitness trainer Linda sent to steal more of John's "secrets".
John, who knew that his wife had "entered the field of strangers" early, exercised every day in addition to his resentment. Who knew that his leisure life was disturbed by Linda's "greed", and a former colleague came to him and asked for details of his autobiography. The bloody case caused by a CD didn't end here. It didn't take long for him to go home and meet the gym owner who was peeking at his computer (the boss who had always loved Linda had a hot head and agreed to a crazy plan), chasing him down the street with an axe. , slashed at the head of the intruder, and the CIA agent who was watching outside the house at this time shot and killed John in order to prevent the incident from escalating.
The agents who reported back to the CIA headquarters listed the above contents one by one, and the scene made people laugh, and they were still trying their best to deal with these "unintelligible" incidents. In the end, Linda and Haney became the survivors of a series of incidents triggered by the CD, and they were also lucky ones. Linda's surgery was reimbursed by the CIA. Haney couldn't stand this country. On the way to Venezuela, the CIA let him go.
Light comedy version "No Country for Old Men"
"No Country for Old Men" won the Oscar, indicating the arrival of the "cold movie" era. From "Titanic", it set off a wave of commercial films, and "big production" almost occupied the Oscar and became synonymous with American movies. However, all of this was rewritten at the 80th Academy Awards. No Country for Old Men's profound reflection on American society and its grim image style made American films "cool". The efforts of the Coen brothers not only further consolidated the status of independent and art films, It is also gradually changing the viewing habits of Americans. I believe that in the near future, there will be fewer and fewer sounds of snacking and whispering in movie theaters. Instead, there will be silence during the screening and thunderous applause after the curtain call.
Referring to the filming habits of the Coen brothers, you will find that there is bound to be a lighthearted and ironic film after a serious and solemn film. In essence, "Instant Destruction" is a "nonsensical" version of "No Country for Old Men". On the one hand, it inherits the latter's skills in creating suspense, and on the other hand, it fully displays the trivial things of life that serious movies have no time to show, so people's beauty. Ugly, you can be angry and critical of their behavior, or you can ignore it and get used to it, anyway, the Coen brothers only provide stories that make the audience happy to finish the popcorn, after all, they should relax too.
"Instant Destruction" not only has a richer plot, but also adds stories that are close to life and eye-catching, such as affairs and online one-night stands, making the characters and events in the film seem to be around us. In this cold and dry winter, it will be a relaxing and interesting thing to occasionally reminisce about "Love", Hani who suffers from "CIA phobia" and Linda who yearns for beauty, as well as a series of absurd things.
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