"Hot Afternoon" is a non-absurd drama with the word "absurd" running through it from beginning to end. The three of Sani robbed the bank on a hot afternoon. Helper No. 1 escaped and ran away; the money in the bank was taken away in the afternoon, and there were only more than one thousand dollars left; 250 police surrounded them, so after a long police In the confrontation between the bandits, Sani's story emerges, and a twisted American society also emerges.
From the moment the story unfolded, I was intrigued by Sani's motives. He doesn't seem to be robbing just for the money, but it's really just for the money; he kidnaps a group of hostages at gunpoint, stops his accomplice Thrall from killing people, and is even very friendly to the hostages. As Sani's wife told police, "He never hurt anyone, he may have done that physically, but not in his heart".
Absurdity, manifested everywhere.
At the beginning, the robbery of the three of Sani was like a funny drama. Their robbery methods were unfamiliar. Although they were nervous, the atmosphere in the bank only made people feel funny, and they were not strong in the confrontation with the staff. It seems that although they are in the position of the stronger side, the actual inner world is indeed reversed.
Sani had military experience. According to his mother, he was a young man who loved the country and society and obeyed the law. Then, during the confrontation with the police, he showed a strong distrust and even contempt for the police. When he mentioned the prison riot in Attica, in which the police shot and killed 42 people, including innocent people, the onlookers boiled over and began to cheer and see Sani as a hero. It is absurd that a robber and kidnapper has such support from the masses. From this absurdity, a microcosm of American society is revealed. People are disappointed with the social system and the police, just like the city style shown in the opening three minutes of the film. In the same way, Brooklyn's prosperity and poverty are intertwined, with people sunbathing on the beach and laborers struggling to survive at the bottom of the city. Cheers thought Sani was a hero, as did he himself, and he wanted to have a soldier's funeral.
Sani's family life is also twisted. His mother cared about him but didn't understand him; his father was very indifferent; his sister watched his brother on TV like a play. He has a same-sex lover. He loves his lover very much and is willing to give him all the money to have him undergo sex-change surgery, but when the lover talks to him, he only hopes that he can explain to the police that he is innocent. He has a wife who is the only woman he has ever loved. The wife said she loves him, but when the robbery happened, she kept emphasizing that she was afraid and did not want to go to the scene to see him.
Sani is a man no one loves. No one really loves him. This may be another reason, besides lack of money, that tended him to rob a bank: he had no attachment to anything but his own life.
Baidu Encyclopedia said it was a crime comedy, a farce. I thought it was a farce, but it was a tragedy.
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