The storyline of the second episode continues to be mentally handicapped.
When commenting on the first episode, I once said that Hollywood movies like to target hotspots, one is Latin America, and the other is the former Soviet Union.
This series unfolds entirely according to this process.
The "Fast and Furious" series basically did not escape this rule. In the seventh episode of the series, the country of the former Soviet Union was finally incorporated into the film's fighting background. To ravage the former Soviet Union is the underlying impulse of Hollywood films. Before that, smearing and demonizing Latin America was also the most convenient thing to do, to unload a donkey and climb a snake along a pole.
In the first episode, the American special forces went to Latin America for a showdown. In this episode, they went to the surrounding areas of the former Soviet Union to show their might, and brought China along with them.
I really don't understand what the Chinese elements in the movie have to do with the Soviet Union.
But the theme of this film is still the same as Stallone's film heritage, that is, its ultimate opponent is still an American.
In this film, the American Vilaine, played by Jean-Claude Vincent, has become the leader of the hostile forces, but the film does not explain why he leads the local gangster forces, which is puzzling. In the first episode, the Americans can still know that he is behind the scenes to manipulate the drug process in Latin American countries. In this film, we can only compare, he bought the local nuclear weapons raw materials in order to obtain the former Soviet Union. Gangsters, let them work for themselves.
This plot is consistent with the content of the fifth part of "Die Hard" filmed in 2013. It is also about the villain, who came to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in today's Ukraine to take out the nuclear materials of the former Soviet Union.
Both films imply that the former Soviet Union was an important source of the proliferation of nuclear materials. The collapse of the former Soviet Union and the proliferation of nuclear materials are the source of today's world turmoil.
This accusation subtly used the habitual thinking of Hollywood during the Cold War. The
Soviet Union was destroyed, but its original sin was not destroyed. The former Soviet Union is the root of all evil in today's world.
This is the big frame of the movie. It's Hollywood's established thinking, and it's always the same.
But I don't understand how China would get involved.
The film is a typical Hollywood movie syllogism style. The first thrilling battle is a prelude, just like the appetizing prequel at the beginning of "The Storyteller". The first story of the film takes place in Nepal. Here, the local armed forces kidnapped the rich Chinese, and the Chinese government was powerless, and only appointed Jet Li to represent the Chinese face to help out in the death squad.
When I watched the first episode, I wondered why Jet Li was inserted.
In fact, I thought that the usefulness of Jet Li was foreshadowing the Chinese elements in the second episode.
The use of Jet Li in the first episode is to show that the Chinese are bitter and hated. The black brothers inside are full of jokes when they talk and talk, and they are heartlessly happy and optimistic, but it is Jet Li from China. The bitter mother has a twisted face and looks like she owes others 800 yuan. When you export it, it is money. Money, to feed a family or something. This kind of Chinese design still follows the traditional pattern of Chinese people who are poor and white in the American impression. Anyone in the Middle East must be a stupid rich man, and a Chinese person must be a poor and destitute boy. Back then, Jet Li had a very hard life in "The Bodyguard of Zhongnanhai". In fact, this is a common label for China in the world. Although in today's world, Chinese millionaires wander around the world, but the power of tradition is still strong, may wish to continue to linger in this film.
The Chinese government does not pay attention to the hijacking of the Chinese people in the countries around it, but the American soldiers act as the police of the world. They travel thousands of miles to the Chinese border and complete the mission of rescuing the rich Chinese that the Chinese have failed to accomplish. What kind of spirit? Compare it to "In Memory of Bethune", we know that this is called the spirit of internationalism.
That's how American movies go to great lengths to shape the country's pretentious spirit and dreams.
The U.S. special forces are killing people, and Nepal, a small land, has almost become a tropical jungle ravaged by the American special forces during the Vietnam War. All kinds of firearms appeared in turns, killing people like numbness, blood can be swept away, and then boarded the plane and flew away. The Americans were like no one, elusive, invincible, and their jaws would fall.
This is exactly what Lu Xun said when he criticized American films in those days, "It is probably nothing more than an Englishman who conquered India for the sake of his motherland, a cruel chieftain, or an American who went to Africa and made a fortune. Marry a peerless beauty, etc." This
film completely conforms to the logic revealed by Mr. Lu Xun, which shows that American films have remained unchanged for decades to an astonishing degree.
Then this Chinese rich man was carried by Jet Li in China's airspace with a parachute and sent back to China.
What I don't understand is, how did this American plane get to China? And the movie lines also said that they had reached Hebei. In Hollywood movies, no country has the concept of airspace and territorial waters. American aircraft can roam the sky and earth of various countries at will. In the first episode, the movie still knows what kind of visa to apply for that Latin American island. Now it's better to come to China, and the plane can fly unimpeded over the land of China.
Seeing this, I am really worried that Chinese missiles will shoot down the plane.
Fortunately, the movie also knows that such a plane that is probably not approved by China will not be allowed to land in China. Therefore, it can only hover in the sky and throw the rescued Chinese rich man from the sky. The Americans made one. It's a good thing, but I didn't expect that the hero did not leave his name, returned the hostages to China, and did not even land at the airport in China. This kind of spirit really shines on the spirit of internationalism.
All in all, the first action scene was puzzling.
The second part is that the players start a new journey. There is also a little relationship with China here, and it is this little connection that makes it impossible to think about it anyway.
The film is actually an attack on the former Soviet Union's failure to control nuclear proliferation. Its key point is that the former Soviet Union held 50 tons of weapons-grade plutonium in an abandoned mine. After the Cold War, the mines were abandoned, but the nuclear weapons are still there. Now, a Chinese plane with a map of this mine was shot down while passing through the Gazak region of Albania, and the map on the plane may have fallen into the wrong hands. The mission of the Suicide Squad is: "You have to get ahead of the others and bring me that map back." - The "Mr. Church" with a tone of voice once again came forward and told Stallone.
But what is puzzling is, how can the mine map of the former Soviet Union be in the Chinese plane? Where does the Chinese plane want to send this picture? Bring it back from abroad or send it out?
Before the faint, it seems that China is also involved in the pursuit of this nuclear secret map.
Could it be that China has become a transit point for the nuclear weapons of the former Soviet Union?
I don't understand this logic anyway.
"Mr. Church" justly sent a Chinese woman to Stallone's team. Only she can unlock the code of the nuclear map box. From this point of view, the Chinese government and the U.S. government are also cooperating. In our imagination, could it be the special relationship between the Chinese and Albania that allowed the Chinese to obtain the secrets of the former Soviet Union in Albania, and then prepare to send them to China, where they were attacked ?
But is this nuclear map really that important? In the next episode of the movie, it can be seen that the local armed forces have been digging the mine, and the nuclear weapons hidden in the mine are actually not so difficult to find, do you have to wait until after the picture to find it? ? And that's exactly how the movie is set up. After the local armed forces got the picture, they immediately found the nuclear target in the mine.
Stallone's team went to the mountains of Albania, and with the cooperation of the Chinese woman, they quickly got the box and the picture in the box. It stands to reason that the local armed forces should have obtained this box long ago, but why are they moving so slowly?
It was after Stallone's team arrived that the local armed forces appeared and stole the secret map.
In fact, at this time, Stallone has failed, and if he fails, he will fail, and he will come back. They don't have much need to go to work anymore. But the movie quietly set up a plot at this time, that is, a young boy in the team was killed by the local armed forces.
Is this still great? In the first episode, Stallone originally did not commit river water with the Latin American island country. It was because he had a woman in his heart that he went back to adventure again. The same is true this time. To take revenge.
The film's theme, at this point, has shifted to a revenge theme, rather than a so-called just struggle to control the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The film transforms a political issue into a moral issue, an emotional issue, and simplifies complex political issues. It uses the common concept of the world's universal emotional and moral systems to complete the rationality of the film's narrative logic.
In the movie, we saw that Stallone faced a group of underground armed forces called the San. These people speak between Ukrainian and Bulgarian. The movie was shot in Bulgaria, which was the sphere of influence of the former Soviet Union, and after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, it became a chaotic world dominated by local warlords. It can be seen from the film that the separatist forces arbitrarily arrested the young people in the village, and the women left behind had to defend themselves with guns. When the Americans descended from the sky, it was like a savior coming to kill the local people. In this way, Americans have skillfully portrayed themselves as the saviors of the world, saving people from fire and water and from hanging. It's just that the Americans forgot, it was they who laughed at the collapse of the huge former Soviet empire.
The mission of Stallone's team to kill the enemy was very clear. They drove the plane and crashed into the cave, and found that the enemy had taken away the nuclear materials, so they chased to the airport, and a fight ended step by step.
In the first battle at the airport, we also did not see the existence of the local government. This is the world imagined by the Americans.
Here, Schwarzenegger is as stiff as the return of a mummy with an old-fashioned body, still young and powerful, killing people like numbness. Mr. "Church" is even able to be extraordinary, turning a killing in a foreign country into a visual pleasure of cutting through the mess. It can be seen that the forces of the United States are active all over the world at any time. Once a major event occurs, they will join forces to attack. It is really annoying to think about.
The thrilling scenes in this film are: in the beginning part, the motorcycle quickly drives out, rushes into the sky, and hits the helicopter; in the final part, Stallone drives the plane and crashes into the mine, the wings fall apart, but the fuselage is still there , a successful forced landing. This is almost the common arrogance of Stallone's films. When it comes to hands-on, it is the overlord who forcibly goes into battle, and he is not afraid to hit the southern wall, but the movie always rewrites the bravery of the Americans mythically.
The existence of Chinese women is just a role playing soy sauce. It can be seen that Stallone wants to keep this woman for himself. According to the American film routine disclosed by Mr. Lu Xun, Americans not only gain victory, but also gain alien women. Yes, the Chinese woman once went to Stallone's solitary place at night, but Stallone missed her dead friend and drove her back. In the end, the woman hinted to Stallone: "If you want me to stay, I will stay, ... I will bring you good luck." However, Stallone was still civilized and did not collect Chinese women.
Compared with the previous film, the narrative on the lens is a little clearer. It may be that the first film is new to the scene, and people can see the clouds and mountains for a while. The second film has the previous foreshadowing, and the clues are much clearer, so the lens is clear and smooth. It's just that this still can't change the inexplicable narrative logic in the movie.
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