If someone gives you a key and tells you that there is 2 million US dollars in cash, it is locked in a safe somewhere thousands of miles away; if the key to open the safe is held in your hand Here, you have a chance and you have other competitors. Whoever gets the windfall will own it. What will you do? Treat it as a prank and laugh it off? Or is it a long-distance attack and a frantic competition for money and your opponents?
As you might expect, it's a typical Hollywood comedy model. The beginning of the story looks like this-a Las Vegas casino owner, in order to please those big gamblers who are addicted to gambling, carefully designed a gambling game: six "lucky audiences" were randomly selected by a lottery. , Gave everyone a key and told them that there is a safe with number 001 in a certain city and place in Mexico State, with a built-in cash of 2 million U.S. dollars. The first step is to have this wealth, and the chance of winning is 1/6.
In fact, this is a scam carefully planned by the casino owner: He manipulated six keys and installed a micro tracking device to monitor their every move. After the six people set off, they became six moving points on the radar coordinates. The gamblers guarding the screen began to place bets on the six people who would win the game.
The six people have become six racehorses, and their swelling desire for money spurs them all the way. They used various means and tools to compete on their invisible runways. At this point in the plot, six intertwined lines have developed, and they all point to a safe in Mexico State without hesitation.
Six unfamiliar people perform their own "skills" for wealth; the six keys to unlock the treasure, a dream of nothingness, can not help but remind people of the six "warriors" in Grimm's fairy tales that walked the world. However, it is not "all things go well". They are thrilled, suspenseful, and breaking news on the way to the treasure. There are many scenes that make people laugh: in order to save time, the father let his son stick his butt out of the car and poop; the thief In order to sabotage the airport radar, the brothers accidentally hung themselves upside down on the tower; "Mr. Bean" arrived first, but unexpectedly fell asleep with exhaustion when opening the safe...
A comedy with crazy effects, but there is no lack of cold and thought-provoking elements. Just as the casino owner said in the play: This is an extraordinary competition. I want you (gamblers) to see how they will bite each other unscrupulously for money and for their own selfish desires.
The ingenious idea of the film lies in the ending part-O. Henry's ending! After the six people arrived at their destinations, they found that the safe was empty, and 2 million cash was taken away by the casino people. They worked together and after another dim chase, they finally got the "bounty." Just when you were in a stalemate in the fight, a light suddenly turned on somewhere, and they found themselves holding a lot of banknotes, standing inexplicably on the outdoor stage, surrounded by rock bands and tens of thousands of people. Tens of thousands of eyes stared at the banknotes in their hands... After a long silence, the audience suddenly burst into thunderous applause, and the six people looked at each other and giggled helplessly.
At this time, a host came to the stage and said, thank these gentlemen and ladies. Although I don't know them, God will bless the kind people. The six people were completely shocked, it turned out that they accidentally hit the charity fundraising scene by mistake! Needless to say, the ending must have returned to the main theme-hesitated again and again, they still donated all the 2 million, in the warm applause and music of the audience, singing and dancing with the sponsored children and the people on the scene, and become one. .
It can be said that if the film does not have a wonderful finale, it can only be regarded as a farce with a slight irony and exaggeration effect. While pleasing the hearts of the people, the theme is nothing more than revealing the selfishness and greed of human nature. Any black humorous comedy can achieve it. This level. And because of the abrupt and magical pen at the end, the overall quality of this comedy has been improved. It is like a magic potion that turns mottled and decayed into magic, showing the brilliance of humanity.
The process of the six protagonists' hesitation is also a process of inner conflict and struggle. Finally, in the innocent and helpless eyes of the children on the stage, and the eager gaze of tens of thousands of eyes off the stage, the conscience of human nature defeated selfish greed and cunning. They ran out of money and became the richest in an instant. people.
I think what the film wants to show us is-hope. Yes, good hope, there is still no hope of death. In this world of swelling material desires, breeding of evil thoughts, and deceit, it is the last background color of human nature! When Pandora's black box was opened, it was also in it. Sleeping in our hearts.
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