don’t know if I fell in love with Gosling or the director’s film style in the previous step. I am obsessed with restrained shots and extremely cautious lines. The language of the lens is used to the extreme, and I feel sleepy after watching too many long shots. When I look at the poster, I like the name of the movie "Only God can forgive me". What kind of bad guys and plot are worthy of this term.
Let me talk about my feelings first:
1. The whole movie is full of red. It should be said that it is a red full of depression, sex, violence, and blood. The topic is just the beginning.
At the beginning, the huge red totem that appeared repeatedly in the boxing gym was really eye-catching, and even more eye-catching was the Thai sword in the lens. Depressed and bloody red, knives, totems, the director's careful thinking is really sharp, and it immediately explained that the story is indispensable for the plasma burst.
Red appeared in many places. At first, it was in the boxing gym, the room where Billy was murdered and killed, the ceremonial red lantern on the roof of Chang and the police karaoke, the private room where Julian was, the corridor, and so on.
2. Movie metaphors about hands
1) Julian was looking at his hands at the beginning, and then slowly clenched his fists (I don’t know if it was really out of disgust for himself or the inability of his current life)
2) Later it was sex In the room, MAI tied his hands to the chair and looked at himself. (I personally think that this passage is Julian’s sexual fantasy about MAI, rather than actually entering the room. In the continuing fantasy, Julian is going through the corridor to open a door in the dark, when his hand is about to When I hit the door, my hand was cut off. At this time, I think the director has made it clear
that Julian ’s awe of God and waiting for God’s guidance or salvation) 3) In the erotic room served by MAI, Julian stretched out in fantasy I touched MAI’s body. (At this time, the film explained clearly. Julian originally wore a black T-shirt, but in a sexual fantasy, it was a white T-shirt. MAI’s clothes have also changed. I can understand it as julian and MAI is in divine friendship, admiring each other only stops at fantasy.)
3. Regarding the CHANG
film when BILLY raped and killed a 16-year-old girl, it appeared. In the film, the metaphorical God CHANG is the incarnation of God and holds the law higher than the law, which is similar to the iron law of "killers die", but The father of Yu let his 16-year-old daughter publish it, the same applies; the law has been dealt with (cut off the right hand), which shows that the law controlled by their small group is strict and powerful. After the beheaded father was killed, CHANG met Gosling in the boxing gym and said that it was not him, but that he was upholding the law rather than being a devil above the law. Later, Gosling calmly challenged God and said softly: Want to fight? During the fight, the Muay Thai statue outside the boxing hall continued to appear. It is guessed that CHANG was a grandmaster when he was young. Otherwise, the police would not ask: "You know who he is." The existence of CHANG is to uphold the law and even go. The hotel killed my mother crystal, which was so salty and smelly, killing me with a single blow.
4. Julian loves MAI, but because of his powerlessness, he can’t give MAI love. He told me to buy a dress and let the girl pretend to be a couple to attend a small party. Oh, my director, you know women so much, what? Such a woman would go, the woman who loved him, MAI silently agreed and went, seeing Julian's weakness and cowardice in front of her mother. After the end, when MAI asked: Why did you let her treat you like that? His answer is: Cause she is my mother! Julian acted out of control and said Take it off!!!! But when MAI took off his clothes to return to Julian, he remained motionless in despair.
At the end of the film, Julian is sitting in MAI's shop. Maybe his world has already collapsed. The existence of MAI may be the meaning of his existence. Seeing Chang coming to him, his eyes were not murderous. (Maybe he let go of his daughter, indicating that Julian abide by the bottom line and did not cross. In fact, after the killer failed, in the old car shop, God also upheld the law and couldn't kill his relatives).
Talk about a few favorite scenes:
1. When CHANG and the police complete the law, they have to go to a place that looks like a tavern to karaoke. This scene is very black and humorous. This also further illustrates a religious ceremony and so on.
2. After Julian found the person who killed his brother, he silently handled it, which was great. At this time, it shows that Julian has completed the sentence in his own law, and his brother is guilty. The same concept explains "the murderer dies."
3. Finally, in the early morning, a montage shot, as if Julian had accepted God's revelation and guidance, and cut off his sinful hands. My personal understanding is that this is still Julian's own illusion, not a real scene. Perhaps this better shows that he needs self-salvation.
Finally, let’s talk about their mother in the movie:
Oh my God, this mother is almost at the level of a femme fatale. She really has a set of tricks to tempt Ma Tsai to do things. She always grasps the "universal truth" and makes her two sons surrender to her feet. , Obeying the needs of family interests or personal interests. Push Julian down the knife step by step.
The whole film carries a strong religious significance of Mahayana Buddhism. The music is used to set off the atmosphere, and it is only necessary to chant the sutras. Quite compensated for the director's strength, made an excellent film, cut the lines to the extreme, and used the shots to the extreme, no more than a second. Keeping the dark style, it takes light and night to set off the evil. Sunlight shooting seems to be 3-4 times.
Finally, I spit 2 sentences
1. The one who slapped the killer was a Thai boxing master in the Chiang Mai temple in "Thai 囧".
2. Ya Yaying is very beautiful.
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