A clichéd police film, a history of gangsters and police entanglements, but because of James Gray's dispatch, it has become so fascinating that it gives the audience a completely different experience of police and criminals in the deviant.
The black temperament created by "We Own the Night" is absolutely strong. The title We Own The Night was the motto of the New York Police Street Crime Task Force in the 1980s.
James Gray didn't have a completely clear concept of the story at the beginning, until he saw a news picture of a police funeral, his huge emotional impulse suddenly touched the nerve of the story.
He patiently spent a lot of time modifying the script, and the shooting time exceeded that of ordinary films. After watching the full movie, Fat Brother's first feeling is real.
The emotions of the characters in the film are extremely delicate, and there are absolutely no illogical changes. Every turn, every choice, and every reaction is produced under the control of rationality.
Although "We Have the Night" is a cop-type film, it does not rely on fierce drag racing and gunfights to attract people's eyes. Threats, questioning of family, torture of conscience, and suffering in the choice of love.
Under the escalating pressure beyond the ability of ordinary people, we saw the most real character's reaction, and saw a character with empathy ability, he was enough to give the audience empathy and emotional feedback.
The protagonist of the film, Bobby, was born into a family of police officers. His father was a police chief and his younger brother had become a middle-level police officer. The people around him have been police officers since he was a child.
But in this police family, he hid his name and followed his mother's last name, so he could eat in the gang.
The beginning of the film is a glamorous scene. Bobby has just taken some drugs and is excited. On the sofa is his glamorous girlfriend Amanda. He pounces on like a beast seeing food. He said that Amanda was bestowed on him by God. Gift, he is willing to die for her at this moment.
A simple description of the scene, we immediately understood Bobby's character traits, bohemian, self-seeking, a little arrogant, and deeply in love with this woman who is in charge of socializing in the bar.
In the next shot, Bobby left the house and came to the hall, below is the drunken gold fan dancing in a flurry of demons. The hottest bar in the whole district is thriving under his management.
Tonight he is going to meet his boss, a big boss like a father.
Later, he will go to see his family.
His younger brother, Joseph, has just been chosen to succeed his father. As the young sheriff, tonight is the most honorable moment in their family.
But Bobby didn't care at all. He and Amanda took some drugs in the car, excitedly walked into the dinner party full of police and family members.
Everyone felt a little embarrassed. This person who was wearing a high-end suit and showing a ruffian temperament all over his body was surrounded by a woman with a very exposed dress, which was indeed incompatible with all of this.
Father and younger brother wanted to talk to him alone.
On the one hand, the bar he runs may have hidden mysteries, and there may be people behind it who are doing a huge drug business.
On the other hand, his father was extremely dissatisfied with Bobby's status quo, and he hoped that he would change.
But Bobby refused very strongly. He wanted to live a life he could choose.
In this opening, a very clear relationship between the characters was established, and the protagonist was established, the opponent, and there were many second-level characters who either supported him or represented the power of confrontation.
On one side are his family, police father and brother.
On one side are his business partners, the gang boss, the younger brother, and the dangerous drug smuggler Vating.
The other is a love character, his girlfriend Amanda.
Family, career, black and white contests, family affection and betrayal soon established a confrontational camp, and the conflict ignited at a single moment!
When it comes to the story, "We Have the Night" is not a maverick.
Bobby's place was sealed, and the gangster Vatin was involved.
Watin decided to retaliate and immediately assassinated Bobby's brother, the new police chief Joseph. Joseph was seriously injured. But no one knows the identity of Bobby.
On the other hand, Watin valued Bobby's connections and thought he could help him sell drugs.
Bobby knows the murderer who assassinated his brother, and at the same time obtains information, Vartin will start a police massacre, and Bobby's father is the next target.
Under questioning by family, the cowardly Bobby took the risk and agreed to the undercover request made by his father's companion.
A melee. Bobby's efforts allowed the police to successfully capture Watin.
But his identity was completely exposed, which put him in a very dangerous situation. He lost his freedom and became a protected witness.
His girlfriend, Amanda, who loves him so much, spends every day in fear and fear, unable to see her family. Bobby also became impulsive and irritable, and his life was terrible.
He hopes to escape, hope for a new beginning.
When he was in a trough, Watin escaped and pursued him. In order to protect his father's death on the spot.
The constant downturn makes the story of the prodigal son turning back completely reasonable.
His girlfriend Amanda left him, killing his father's hatred, self-safety, suppressed by many contradictions, he chose to become a policeman!
This gangster who tried to be the godfather at the beginning has now become a policeman.
"The Night We Have" can be described as the opposite of the classic gangster film "The Godfather".
In "The Godfather", Mike was a soldier at first. He wanted to leave the family business and become a clean person. However, conflicts continued to occur, brothers were killed, his father was seriously injured, and the family suffered a crisis of destruction. He had to stand up and fate took him Pushed to that lonely position.
"The Night We Have" is just the opposite. Bobby doesn't want to be a policeman, he wants to have his own romantic life. He stays incognito and doesn't want people to know that he is a policeman, but his brother is seriously injured and his father is killed. After he is killed, his fate is the same. Pushed him toward the fate of becoming a policeman!
"The Night We Have" successfully shows Bobby's character loneliness. The whole story is that he becomes a policeman and completes this fateful turning point.
The story continues to create obstacles for Bobby. From the beginning of the disturbance event, Bobby made a decision and assumed the consequences that caused the character to change or grow.
We saw the rebellious Bobby, because he was afraid of assassination, he became conscientious. When family members are in danger, they can come forward again.
When the witness was protecting him, loneliness and anxiety swallowed him. He became elusive, complicated, like a sleepy beast!
Everyone is afraid of facing difficulties and is always worried about these difficulties, but more often we will become smarter and stronger after experiencing these.
Anything that makes permanent changes to your life is helping you become who you are now.
If you can overcome the threat of death, I believe you have grown to the point where you may be unbelievable.
"The Night We Have" designed multiple climax conflicts, dramatic actions, and arranged the psychological and behavioral sequences that led Bobby to make the final choice in the ever-increasing conflict and tension.
This plot sequence allows us to explore the halo of the character arc.
From a gangster with the dream of becoming a godfather, to a policeman against the forces of darkness.
At the climax of the film, the younger brother was afraid to take a gun because he had been assassinated.
The police besieged Wajin in the reeds, lit a fire, and prepared to let him out.
At this time, Bobby took the gun and walked into the reeds higher than the human.
In the sky filled with smoke, he and Watin chase me and hide. If you don't pay attention, you will pay the price of your life!
This scene is romantic, bloody, and ritual at the same time.
Bobby, who slashed his enemies, walked out of the smoke, and he completely grew into a policeman.
He made the boss kneel and handed his father's belongings and a pistol to his father's companion...
At the end of the film, he attended the graduation ceremony of the police school. In a blink of an eye, he saw Amanda underneath, and once again looked back, it turned out that it was an illusion caused by the obsession in his heart, and he saw the wrong person.
He smiled bitterly, eyes full of tears.
The complex and multi-faceted character of Bobby moved the audience.
He is definitely not a label-like hero or villain, he is just an ordinary person, it was fate and coincidence that pushed him to where he is now.
Accept fate, but don’t want fate to bow your head. At the same time, he expressed his inner anxiety and fragility, and mustered the courage to resist at the critical moment.
Rushing into the crown is not a confidant, not a hero, but just for revenge.
Bobby, an ordinary hero, an anti-hero character.
The creation of this character is the most successful aspect of "The Night We Have".
Why, most mainland movies, or ordinary popcorn movies, make us suspicious, and many Gao Daquan characters make people suspicious.
People who are anti-humanity, anti-logic, and anti-common sense can never resonate.
Only the characters we are familiar with can move people's hearts!
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