The film is still fast-paced, with very little foreshadowing, and it gets stuck in the beginning: the hijacking of the subway, the hostages, the ransom, the high-IQ crime, or these elements form the structure of the story.
At the beginning of the movie, what I could feel a little bit about was that Denzel Washington was really old, especially the other day I watched "The Gannet Assassination Order" again, how young and energetic the black actor at that time was. Look at the mottled beard and the bloated figure now. Old, old, the green mountains can't cover it, after all, it flows east. Not his time. John Travolta is also getting old, and he doesn't seem to have any decent roles in recent years, but it seems that the older he gets, the more evil he seems to exist. , and then kill the hostages without hesitation.
The great thing about the movie, I think, is after the negotiator and the mayor show up.
The negotiator was very professional in wasting precious time rescuing the hostages. Drive away Gable, find Gable again, don't trust Gable, investigate Gable, search Gable's home, and in the end have to rely on Gable.
The mayor is even more ridiculous. As soon as he appeared, he sighed that he was finally about to retire. When someone told him there was an emergency to deal with, he was at a loss and didn't know what to do. He doesn't even know the upper limit of the financial funds he can draw on. In an emergency, he still stops the car at every stop and uses small favors to establish his positive image.
But Rhett tore off his mask in public.
Use the mayor to exchange those dozen hostages? Even if the mayor wanted to, Rhett didn't want to. But the wicked Travolta still offered the terms of the deal. The mayor's heart at this time is not weighing the pros and cons, not judging the feasibility. At this time, the mayor was thinking about how to use high-sounding language to refuse, so as to make himself less embarrassed.
Reid already knew the result, and I had long known that the mayor would not agree to this request. This wicked administrative system, these rotten and incompetent bureaucrats. —FUCKING CITY.
The reporter's question is even more ironic. The lives of more than a dozen people are threatened, what is the reporter concerned about, and the reporter is concerned about the mayor's extramarital affairs. In this society, behind the dazzling achievements are cold emotions. —FUCKING CITY.
What about the police, what are the police doing? He was accidentally bitten by a mouse and went off on fire, which almost killed more than a dozen people; he forgot to have a helicopter and drove his car across the turbulent city, thus wasting precious time; in the end, the suspect was found, but only far away He shouted "raise your hand" and let a commoner, a person outside the system, solve the problem alone. —FUCKING CITY.
After watching this movie, I remembered my high school textbook from a very early time, which said: "Capital comes to the world, from head to toe, every pore is dripping with blood and dirty things". This seemingly powerful society, this system full of hypocrisy and lies, let us curse together. —FUCKING CITY.
Rhett was right, the hostages were not killed by him, but by the city.
The English title of this movie is The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3. I don't think the English title is good. I think there is a title that fits the theme better. It was the catchy phrase the driver said on the Brooklyn Bridge - FUCKING CITY.
BY ZJMR
2009.10.29
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