The theme is that Lin Chong is forced to go to Liangshan

Janick 2022-04-19 09:01:25

Life-and-death sniping and the battlefield of red flames all reflect the fact that in order to maintain the status and ambitions of the ruling class under the deep internal and external crises, the imperialists have intrigued, killed the donkeys, and cooked the cunning rabbits to death. Is it a movie in which the spy agency and the army personnel are desperate, forced to Liangshan, awakened from the silent enduring and rebelled?
Is there a more ideological film than this kind of pushing up to Liangshan, rising from personal misfortune to the universality of class struggle, revealing that the people all over the world can only seize the truth by uniting against imperialism?

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  • Joe Matheson: We're gettin' the band back together.

  • [Frank calls Cooper on the phone; Cooper is told to stall him while the call is traced]

    Frank Moses: Here's the thing, Cooper. With age... comes a certain perspective. I'd be a liar if I said there wasn't a time when I was exactly like you. Blind ambition. Misplaced trust.

    William Cooper: Why are you telling me this?

    Frank Moses: It may help me to decide what to do next.

    Interrogation Surveillance Tech: [technician tracing the call whispering to Cooper] Just keep it going.

    William Cooper: Why? What are you thinking about?

    Frank Moses: Our business is a very hard one. But it was never the, uh... the killing or the stress, the bad pay that bothered me.

    William Cooper: Well, what was it, Frank?

    Frank Moses: It's how anything that you love... can be taken away from you. It taught me never to care. Never to invest. Then I met this woman. Sarah. And now you have her. Now I can't think of anything more horrible than to know that your enemies can hurt someone you love. The feeling is almost indescribable.

    [the trace completes, and the technician hands Cooper a printout]

    Frank Moses: You still there, Cooper?

    William Cooper: [horrified] You're at my house

    [Frank looks out the window into the yard where Cooper's wife and two children, unaware, are playing]

    Frank Moses: Almost indescribable, isn't it?

    William Cooper: [whispering] Please... Please don't hurt my family.

    Frank Moses: If anything happens to Sarah, I will rip everything you love out of your life. And then I'll kill you.