A kind, wounded person who is preoccupied with being kind to other people.
Adapted from a real story, at that time a thief robbing a bank turned into a tug-of-war. The media broadcasted a reality show live, and the audience was lively. Coupled with the sluggish situation in the United States at that time, this matter was very noisy.
If I remember correctly, my colleague Bill recommended me the Al Pacino series two years ago. At that time, I watched "Scarface" but didn't watch "Hot Afternoon"...
Just because the beginning of this piece is not cool enough, like a sultry summer afternoon.
I don't know why, but I started watching it again yesterday. The robber was clumsy and funny at the beginning, but the more I watched, the more I couldn't laugh, and I was full of sympathy for the robber... (Definitely not because Al Pacino is handsome!)
Sam, an American veteran of Vietnam, is bisexual, has no work permit, and lives on subsistence allowances.
And he robbed the money also to collect money for sex reassignment surgery for his same-sex wife. After the wife got on the phone, she wanted him to prove that she was not involved in the robbery...
But sam's will states that he will take out $2,700 from his life insurance for him to have surgery...
He left $5,000 to his opposite-sex wife, who answered the phone and started blaming him for treating her so badly.
His mother never listened to him, his father didn't even show up... but his parents' rent was still paid by his subsistence allowance...
From farce to tragedy, how funny it is at the beginning, how sad it is at the end.
Until I saw his will, I really understood that he was just a kind person who was hurt by society. He never wanted to hurt anyone. Instead, he wanted to take care of everyone:
To my dear wife, Leon, I love you more than any man in the world loves another man, forever, and I left two thousand seven hundred dollars out of my life insurance payout, this is As the cost of your gender reassignment surgery, if you have any leftovers, I will give them all to you. I only ask that you don't forget to come to see me on my 1st anniversary.
To my dear wife, Angie, the five thousand in my claim is for you, you are the only woman I have ever loved, I am dying, I love you.
To Kimmy and Timmy: First of all, I hope you can remember me, Timmy, you are the man in this family now, and I hope you can take care of this family for me.
To my dear mother, forgive me, you can't understand, my words and actions, I am who I am. I am different.
This film is a bit like "Taxi Driver".
I always thought this was Alpano's work before "The Godfather"... After all, "The Godfather" 2, Al Pacino was already the boss in 1974, and in 1975, he played the role of a hair thief in "Afternoon on a Hot Day", stupid The cute feeling is like a black state insulator.
Al Pacino has mastered the color palette himself, arbitrarily increasing or decreasing his temperament dimension. In the two-hour movie, induced to laugh at him, pity him, feel sorry for him.
Reminds me of what Keanu Reeves said, "I don't want to live in a world where kindness is a flaw.
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