The trouble is that the greedy capitalist sees that his land is profitable, he tries to make his farm run out of water, then lends him a sum of money that he can't pay back, and then forces him to sell his farm. He was reluctant to give up his home, the one he had built with his crippled leg and his hope for the future. What's more troublesome is that he is a good man, he knows his situation, he sticks to those family and moral values which can only make him compromise in the face of all means of greedy capitalists, he can only hope that the weather will improve and he will have income can end this trouble. But in a society without the rule of law and money, how can good wishes come true? The thugs set fire to his fodder, and will continue to prevent the cattle farmer from being able to settle his debts on his own. This trouble is very big, but what hurts him the most is his family's suspicion and indifference towards him! A man in this situation, he sticks to his own value but gives in under the oppression of the outside world everywhere, his son will look down on him, his wife will lose confidence in him, all this is the most torment for a good man heart thing. He couldn't give up his responsibility to the family, but he didn't realize that he could have any means to fight the injustice. He doesn't want his sick child to suffer from hunger without medicine, and his wife to live without a fixed place. In the face of injustice, he can only bow his head and pray for mercy!
Have you ever seen such a situation in our time? A good man, a man who insists on not doing evil, a man who loves his family, how will the people around him see him when he is in such trouble? idiot? laugh at? Perhaps in our society such a man has no place to stand, let alone a woman who would marry such a man. In fact, Dan's family did not look down on him, but they lacked some understanding, and how can those understandings be understood? Dan also knew that a compromise might even lose the bottom line value in the end, but what could he do? It is not something that those who have not experienced this kind of situation can comprehend to be pinned on that illusory hope! It was a desperate situation, especially when his son questioned his hopes with contempt! How can a man put up with all this? And a real man has to put up with it all! He wants to hope for all hope, and at this time he actually needs some changes in the outside world, and once there is, he will do everything possible to get his loved family out of this trouble and this is also a conscious struggle. Spiritual opportunity! Even if he fails, such a man is still a real man! ! !
Maybe sometimes, the one who opposes your enemy will be your hope of getting out of trouble! While herding cattle, he and his son witnessed the robbery of the money-carrying wagons by cowboy robbers so often in the arid, frenzied West. And the enemy who can help him out of the predicament has appeared, a famous thief: Ben Wade! He's quick and accurate with his marksmanship, he's suave, he's wise and capable, he's free to snatch the riches of the rich, and he's someone many in trouble would want to be and look up to, like Dan's son. This man became famous at a young age, and he began to kill and sell goods under the temptation of wealth and the desire to find a way out in a chaotic and unfair society! The value of him and his followers is that ill-gotten gains can be snatched away, even if they have the same understanding of human value as those greedy capitalists. In their eyes, it is better to steal the ill-gotten money directly than to obtain the ill-gotten wealth hypocritically. It is better to do it clearly than to do dirty things secretly. But you know that's not normal, Dan's value is the value of people, what those people really desire in their hearts. So I have always said that the greatness of man lies in the fact that man has been reflecting on and conscious of the great values in our hearts! Wade gradually became different from the young cowboys. He loved women, he longed for family, and he understood the importance of the value of human virtue. So it seems that he has a bit of humanity, and his hope is to leave Arizona and go to Mexico to start a new and more valuable life with the woman he loves, but he also needs some outside touch to identify his beliefs! It is also a process of conscious value! Dan is like the spirit and Wade is like the means, and the encounter between these two people who need each other is what the author who wrote the novel had hoped for.
China has always had legends of so-called thieves and villains. In fact, today's Chinese society is more like the wild west of the United States. Our people are so honest that few people rely on their own strength for any purpose to be free! When there are no such so-called enemies of the system and you can't expect them to be good people in the first place, it's hard for real good people to change their situation with mercy and their own efforts. Of course self-improvement is essential! This is a normal process, fighting and fighting, for oneself and for the spirit. And in China, strong public opinion and stigma deter institutional enemies of all purposes from the outset. But no one is born a saint, and no saint is stupid enough to think that those morals and ethics are hopeful under the premise of basic injustice! It's much easier to change your enemy's enemy than your enemy, so the stupid Chinese are always making society more and more under the terror of changers spread by the system under the self-righteous obscenity Bad!
Wade saw the father and son three, but did not kill them but took their horses. They went back to town, tricked the local sheriff into the scene of the accident with a clever trick for safety, and enjoyed themselves there! As a result, Dan's tip got Wade caught. And it is the railroad company boss who is trying to drive Dan away who wants to catch him and kill him. When Dan's hope is shattered again, when he is desperate to find the boss to settle accounts, he meets Wade and witnesses Wade. the process of being caught. Here he found an opportunity to change his own destiny: escort Wade to YUMA prison at 3:10 in the afternoon of the day the train arrived! Just for 200 yuan, this seemingly impossible task is about to start, because everyone knows that with Wade and his fans, he can be easily rescued, and all those who stand in the way will die. ! And even if he gets the 200 yuan, it can't stop the capitalists from continuing to plunder his land by various means, but this is an attitude, an attitude of resistance! There may be no results, but there is always hope in the right direction! And Wade, who doesn't care and laughs at their overreaching, also embarks on a journey with Dan about the value of men and the determination and realization of human values!
The thugs, escorts, Dan, and the law enforcement officers hired by the railway company all escorted Wade on the road. At the beginning, they encountered the easy blocking of Wade's younger version of William, and they began to die. Then, their group came to Dan's farm to rest. Here, Wade's free and strong charm made Dan's previous cowardice no doubt revealed! Dan complained to his wife, but he knew that this journey was not only a journey for the hope of his family, but also a journey to awaken his awareness of struggle, and a journey to change his cowardly image in the eyes of his family! This is what moved me the most and where I really felt the power of a man! And the behavior of a family and a man who is determined to maintain this family also touched Wade's long-standing sense of belonging in his heart. Then along the way, Wade's thoughts are still the same as before, but he does not kill good people, only those bad people who humiliate him and are accomplices of the evil system! His humanity and yearning faintly make Dan and his son feel that Wade is a good person at heart!
There are many images here, such as the thugs who work for the system who are worse than the bad guys, there are inhuman bodyguards who believe in God but kill innocent people indiscriminately, there are helpless law enforcement officers, and there are kind doctors. One of the paradoxes here is, are good people and bad people determined to be good people or bad people because of authority? Or are they good people as long as they do things for the system? A system that does evil, its helpers are either people who are worse than bad people or slaves who are deeply guilty and actually do bad things! Too many people may be dissatisfied with the system and rely on the superiority and vested interests it brings to their people, and think it would be better for them to change it. And one social evolution history after another tells us that without a thorough self-reflection of China's tragic cycle or the inner control of autocratic hierarchy in world history, it will not stop or disappear. Just like what this movie and novel tells us, all changes start from oneself and start from outward expansion. If you still think that you are good in a system that does evil and have the ability to achieve goodness, it is stupid and stupid. performance of institutional control. The way the magistrate looked at Dan's death at the end was a testament to it all!
There is also an adventure in Chinatown, the author of the novel wrote with guilt about the Chinese workers who laid the railway for the west. In his eyes, the capitalists and thugs in the United States treat the Chinese like cattle, and the Chinese endure all this while still insisting on what they understand as the value of people, especially the value of their families. The hatred revealed in the gaze between a young Chinese worker and Dan's son expresses the author's guilt towards the Chinese. I have always said that the Chinese people in the Middle Ages and even the Chinese in modern times still have a bottom line. For that bottom line, you can sacrifice yourself, which means that people respect it, although there are many things that can be discussed about this quality of forbearance and endurance. But in the past 30 or even 60 years, what we have seen is that the Chinese have no bottom line, a society that worships money completely, a country full of calculations and conspiracy theories, there is no thing that unites people's spirit, and Dan and China have lost In fact, the quality of our ancestors was not as good as that of the United States at that time. At least there was still room and basic system for people with quality and liberals to survive.
After only Dan, the magistrate and Dan's eldest son who stole away were left dead, they came to a small town near the station, and at this time Charlie and the others followed, and the climax of the story came. Two men who seem to know each other or even enemies will find the value of a man or a person in each other. When Wade used his eloquence to disintegrate Dan's will, in fact, he would keep his promises more than the sanctimonious gentlemen, give him $1,000, his farm will be bigger, and his children will accept more A good education and his wife would have a better life and all that life Dan longed for. Dan or anyone who yearns for beauty will have a shudder in his heart, but Dan understands that the significance of this adventure is not only for those family values, but also for the courage and the enthusiasm for the challenge that he has neglected in the past. He is a man of character and he will keep his promises, he refuses! And when everyone was scared away by death, even with the lure of money, and even the magistrates backed down, Dan insisted on fulfilling a promise that only meant him, but he understood another meaning of it: his family. He asked the magistrate to fulfill the promise of the money and the safety of his family, and let the magistrate take his eldest son home. At this time, he has already used his actions to tell his son that he is no longer a man who will compromise, he is not only a good husband and a good father, but also a good man and a good person. The dialogue between him and his eldest son infected Wade, "You have inherited all my good qualities, and that is what people are lacking now." When only the two of them were left, a mission to fulfill and prevent The shootout begins.
Wade could have killed Dan at this point with his ability and wisdom, but he seemed to be helping Dan. And when Wade was shaken again, when Dan told him what it meant to him and what it meant to his son, Wade decided to help him make that promise and it didn't matter to him because of Yuma prison and wanting to kill him The people who couldn't lock him up couldn't kill him at all. At this time, the two looked at each other and smiled. This smile was actually the satisfaction after the realization of each other's sense of belonging. For Dan, he used his actions to realize the qualities of resistance and courage, and he understood that resistance needed the help of the enemy's enemy. And Wade saw in Dan those beautiful qualities of family and people that he was looking for, and this assistance to those qualities also allowed him to find the meaning of his abilities to others. For Wade, Dan's success is the success he hoped for! 3:10 To Yuma, they did it, not only Dan, Wade, and Dan's stronger son, they did it together!
The relationship between Dan, Wade, and the capitalists who want to kill Wade is like the relationship between reformers within the system, reformers outside the system, and those with vested interests within the system. Without a movement outside the system, all the good wishes within the system will only be squeezed and nothing will remain. Only when people inside and outside the system unite to play against powerful vested interests can everyone live a happy life. And this story tells us that the biggest enemy is actually ourselves, whether it is for people outside the system or people inside the system! To find the correct value judgment outside, it cannot be the same as the enemy you oppose. It destroys human nature without breaking the means to achieve the goal. The people inside must have the courage, commitment, and perseverance! Maybe some people think I'm over-interpreting the message of this story to readers and moviegoers, maybe the writer and director just want to tell the story of one man and another about self-spiritual redemption, but I think their collection and expansion are great for my day The Chinese society that I think about at night will have such a meaning that I realize!
At the end of the story, the writer and director did not let it have a happy ending. Dan was killed by Charlie, the moment he put Wade on the train! I think this kind of treatment actually strengthens the appeal of all spiritual declarations or the reflection of certain realities, and the strength of his son seems to declare that the virtuous and daring spirit has been inherited and passed on to everyone. Wade killing Charlie who saved him and worshipped him also declared Wade and the past decision, of course Wade will not be killed. His future story, maybe he becomes a robber after escaping from YUMA prison or if he wants to go to Mexico to live the attitude he wants to see in Dan!
The above is my understanding of this "3:10 TO YUMA", this novel and the movie released in 2007 are very exciting! A great and meaningful story, an engaging setting, a statement about the value of men and people, a good cast, and great editing, cinematography, and music are all enough to make this movie a classic! The charm of Russell Crowe (as Ben Wade) is evident in this background and story! The narrative of this film is very smooth, the foreshadowing and metaphors are very clever, and the rhythm is grasped enough to make the audience both think and be firmly attracted by the plot! Dynamic and fast cinematography and editing make the western shootout there in no way inferior to any classic western shootout. And the music there, it controls the audience's emotions very well, and the soundtrack here plays a very good role in making people think!
I often watch movies and this movie is enough to make me remember forever, this is a great movie!
"3:10 TO YUMA" related information:
1. Director:
James Mangold
2. Screenwriter:
Michael Brandt Michael Brandt ....(screenplay) & Derek Haas Derek Haas....(screenplay)Elmore Leonard....(short story)Halsted Welles....(screenplay) and
3. Actor:
Gretchen Mol....Alice Evans
Kevin Durand....Tucker
Alan Tudyk....Doc Potter
Peter Fonda Peter Fonda ....Byron McElroy
Vanessa Shaw Vinessa Shaw ....Emma Nelson
Logan Lerman ....William Evans
Johnny Whitworth ....Darden
Dallas Roberts Dallas Roberts....GraysonGirard
Swan....DeputyChristian
Bale....Dan EvansBen
Foster....Charlie
PrinceRussell Crowe ....Ben Wade
Luke Wilson Luke Wilson ....Zeke
Arron Shiver ....Bill
4. Producer Produced by:
Stuart M. Besser....executive producer (as Stuart Besser) Ryan Kavanaugh....executive producer Cathy Konrad....producerLynwood Spinks....executive producerDixie J. Capp ....associate producerAaron Downing ....associate produce
5. Original Music:
Marco Beltrami
6. Cinematography:
Phedon Papamichael ....(director of photography)
7. Editing Film Editing:
Michael McCusker
8. Casting Director:
Lisa BeachSarah Katzman
9. Production Designer:
Andrew Menzies
10. Art Direction by:
Greg Berry ....(as Gregory A. Berry) Jay Hart
11. Sets Designer Set Decoration by:
Jay Hart ....(as Jay R. Hart)
12. Costume Design by:
Arianne Phillips
13, Visual Effects Visual Effects Supervisor:
Paul Graff....Digital BacklotMark Dornfeld....Custom Film EffectsRobert Stromberg....Digital Backlot
14, Assistant Director/Assistant Director :
Kate Marie Boyle ....second assistant director: second unit (as Kate M. Boyle)Trish 'The Dish' Stanard ....second second assistant director (as Trish Stanard)Maria Mantia ....second assistant directorNicholas Mastandrea ....first assistant directorTodd Amateau ....first assistant director: second unit (as Todd M. Amateau)Freddie Hice ....second unit directorAnastacia C. Nemec ....additional second assistant director (as Anastacia Nemec)
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