Continued panic: the growth of two generations of teenagers in the shadow of childhood

Eliezer 2021-12-14 08:01:10

As a teenager, the thing he faced most often at home was his father Haibian, and then the only thing he could do was to wait for the next Haibian meal, and repeat. Finally, one day when he was 14 years old, after being attacked by his father, the boy rushed into the room with a baseball bat and greeted his father who was eating. Since then, my father has become demented, and it has become difficult to even take a spoon. As he grows older, the teenager understands that not every time he is beaten is a punishment for himself, but his father never recovers. With a guilty heart, he went to be a policeman.

There is also a teenager, who is just 11 years old this year. His mother was originally a dancer and prostitute who worked under the banner of a Russian gang boss. One day, she unfortunately became pregnant, and the gang boss asked her to kill the child, but she refused, so the gang boss asked his nephew to kill the prostitute. However, his nephew is an admirer of John Wayne, a naive adult, who is in the gang but fantasizes about being a hero of salvation. When he faced the poor prostitute, it was John Wayne who possessed him. Not only did he not kill her, but he married her. The gang boss couldn't kill his nephew, so the prostitute survived and the child was born, and slowly grew to 11 years old. The admirer of John Wayne is certainly not the real John Wayne. He just likes to watch Westerns played by John Wayne. As a gangster, his temper is not good. He also beats his wife and children at home. Of goods. This time, when he sprinkled his anger on his wife and child again, the child who got a gun shot him. Then the child ran away.

Therefore, all the stories of the 14-year-old boy and the current 11-year-old boy are stuck together. Everything stems from the gun. The first time I watched "Continued Panic", I bought the disc by myself. The translated name on the disc is "Deadly Gunfire", which is more clear about the story line. However, "Continuing Panic" summarizes the atmosphere of the story well. In most of the previous plots, the plot is full of suspense and attracts people to follow along. Only afterwards, it turned abruptly, became a little sloppy, and ended in a sloppy way.

In fact, this story can go deeper. Just like the 14-year-old and the 11-year-old mentioned at the beginning, the relationship between the two people, from rejection to contact to sympathy, is worth talking about. "Paul Walker" is the former 14-year-old boy. In the film, he once again played his old job and acted as an undercover policeman. He sneaked into the gang for 12 years, just to connect the local gangster with the Russian gangster and the corrupt policeman. Bring to justice. However, the development of society is always full of dynamic balance. The balance between local gangs, Russian gangs, and corrupt police is almost a net that cannot be leveraged. The undercover policeman in it is a single horse, weak in strength, and there is almost no chance to complete his task through normal channels. Moreover, the undercover for 12 years, the concealment of his identity, even his wife did not know his identity as a policeman, the panic of the undercover, the distortion of identity, once again suppressed him like his childhood nightmare, and he was paralyzed. His father is constantly educating what to do and what not to do.

When he saw an 11-year-old child shot his adoptive father, and the gun was stolen from his home. Originally, what he wanted was to quickly bring the gun over and quell all the evils. But with the development of time, the police and the underworld both sides are tracking the child. At this time, it is not just as simple as recovering the gun. Protecting the child has become his new task. The impermanence of fate requires constant adaptation to accept possible changes at any time. In the end, when the two sides confronted the underworld, he cleverly instigated and finally triggered a confession of the underworld and finally took the pain of many years of heartache in one fell swoop.

As for the 11-year-old, because of the influence of his mother and adoptive father, the culture he had received from his childhood was deformed and incomplete. He liked things from Russia, even though he was born in the United States, he was an American. Therefore, "Paul Walker" taught him to throw away the influence of the past and accept his American reality instead of being buried in the past. In the camera action and rescue, the two teenagers who have both been hurt, begin to walk in their hearts, and can accept each other. In this regard, "Continued Fear" is telling the story of these two teenagers, and it tells it very well. It's just a sense of the lens, this is not deep, it's a pity.

The former 14-year-old was Paul Walker, who existed as an undercover agent in the first two films of "Fast and Furious". This work of the same period is still an undercover agent, with a narrow play path and not too many breakthroughs. , This is not a good thing either. Today, apart from the "Quick Exclamation" series, Paul Walker has not many other masterpieces that can be remembered. Even this "Continuous Panic" is already a high-scoring work, and it is truly sad.

The 11-year-old boy in the film is played by Cameron Bright. This kid has produced several works in succession in those years, which are quite eye-catching, such as "Butterfly Effect" and "Rebirth", but unfortunately in recent years Slowly, everyone was obscured, and he played a role in "Twilight" in which many pretty boys appeared. I am afraid that not many people can remember it. What a pity that was a former child star.

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  • Chris 2022-04-23 07:02:16

    So violent, so foul language, except the ending is so dark!

  • Tia 2022-04-21 09:02:14

    There are dazzling elements, but it is really enjoyable. At the end, there is a feeling of "To Qifeng's movie is in the heaven"...

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