Sonny unpacked the box and took out the shotgun, clumsy, laborious, and somewhat comical, the bandage on the box wrapped around the barrel and he couldn't get it off.
This segment is like a metaphor that runs through the entire film: a burlesque that can't be escaped.
Such a hilarious, absurd, dark comedy that culminates when the hostage bank teller picks up the gun and dances. All that sort of, sonny neurotic gay guy (his passion for sonny avoids), hysterical and unreasonable wife (that made me laugh outright - married life), out of touch, outrageous, ridiculous.
As a viewer, I was offended because when I was confronted with a ridiculous detail in a violent crime film, I deliberately didn't laugh, and I thought I should be serious and feel sympathy for the victims of the robbery, for the robber's Violence creates reflection. But it was all just bravado, guns, crying, cold-blooded gangsters, and it wasn't until the moment when the teller danced with a gun that I completely understood that it was just an absurd farce and completely let down my guard. I even started to eat bread, watching with great interest, looking forward to how the farce would end. But another climax, sal was offended for smoking, he straightened the gun and asked sonny where the bullet was (I didn't realize this detail - there was no ammo in the gun!) I was getting nervous again for fear that the gloomy sal would Execute any woman who does not yet know the catastrophe is coming. Lumet, he is very cunning, but at this time he used this cunning to tease the audience, which made people feel helpless and angry, and couldn't help but want to laugh.
If Marquez wanted to make a movie, he would definitely make a hot afternoon, and it could only be a hot afternoon, and he would not use special effects and props to create an old man with wings, which would attract people's attention (such The image can only exist in the text, without the text, it is worthless), he will make those absurd and natural things exist in the plot, dialogue, conflict, and make people feel in the story that is out of touch with reality Reality: Absurd, sometimes more plausible than reality.
I've seen Al Pacino movies, only The Godfather and Hot Day Afternoon. But I seem to know him, and he's a natural fit for this role: a man whose life is not going well, but he's not disappointed, and despite his extreme things like armed robbery, he still keeps the things of daily life. Habits, style, still thinking and talking as usual, not hysterical into madness, (though he tried to be). He is a misfit in the crowd. Although he is ordinary, he does not allow himself to be arbitrarily changed by the outside world, and loses some of the pure and essential things in his heart. Lived by his Trojan horse, he is still kind and considerate of others.
However, he robbed the bank, which made countless people who brought their identity as ordinary people into his role, the bomb in their hearts exploded, and the audience became playful, their mouths rose, and they said: Yes, yes, This is me. Seems like I can understand everything he does, even though I didn't, I didn't go crazy enough to break into banks, take hostages, negotiate with the police, just because I didn't have his share of the depression from life, but I still can. Understand him, look, he didn't shoot, he argued, he trampled the hypocrisy of others - just as I will.
He was so excited, so passionate, but his passion was thrown into the dustbin, covered with the lid, and his passion turned to ashes, rising up in wisps of grey, choking smoke. what is that? Not anger, not disappointment, maybe indifference.
This is resonance. Many movies are completely out of life and out of logic, but let us involuntarily substitute ourselves into them. The characters do things that we will never do in our life, but we know that we are the characters, and we will too. Doing the same thing in the same situation, our hearts respond, we are understood by the characters, we do the same resistance, so we are also in the role play, like taxi drivers, hot afternoon, what a Crazy, absurd, and so realistic.
sonny and sal, they both wear masks, pretending to be vicious and cruel villains, especially sal, his mask lasts the longest, until he dies, and I also realize at that time that he is forever It is impossible to shoot and kill, he is such a sensitive and gentle person, maybe such praise is too much for a gangster, but he can afford these words, because he is the only child in the movie, he can only see the two in front of him On the road of three meters, he did not reflect on his current thoughts, no life plans, no special pursuits, and no extravagant hopes for the future. He was just content with the status quo. I can't help but imagine that even he was involved in the robbery just to do something for his friend sonny, who believed in sonny. Just like between a human and a mouse, this pair of partners may have different ideas, but they are always careful, for fear of stepping on a dead branch on the ground.
So tragedy also seems unacceptable.
Sal died, he was the only one who died, the second victim was sonny, who was beaten to the head by xx's boyfriend.
I was silent, the comedy did not make people laugh at the end, but made people feel stuck in their throats and be at a loss, just like sonny was tortured at the airport, his mind was blank and asked: why, why. Surely the bad guys are punished and the hostages are safe, what could be more natural? I don't know, but the truth, to me, is this: the kind and clumsy man who did nothing but was killed and who would not be pitied; the naive and kind man thought he could fly away , but he suddenly saw his partner die. The culprit was himself. He didn't want anyone to die. He wanted a happy ending more than the police. Yeah, it shouldn't have been, but that's what happened, making a dreary movie.
He makes you laugh, the stupidity of the righteous, the truth of the so-called villains, the funny and even cuteness of everyone, the more you laugh, the deeper the loneliness.
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