Behind the contract murder story reveals the tragic life of the killer

Kiarra 2021-12-21 08:01:07

When the protagonist kills according to the contract, the film does not deliberately render the bloody forest scene of the murder, but uses black and white surveillance cameras to describe it; the purpose of this is that the director hints that the focus of the film is to show the unfortunate and tragic life of the protagonist... …

Joe, a New York veteran, had a childhood experience of domestic violence, and he experienced the baptism of brutal wars during his service. He was traumatized. He saw through the ugliness of the world and was taciturn. He was still unmarried and old in middle age. The mother lives together. The shadow of violence and the trauma of war caused Joe to suffocate and commit suicide.

After doing a ticket business, Joe got another business from the middle introducer John McClary.-Senator Albert Watt’s daughter Nina disappeared and was suspected of being forced into prostitution; because of a congressman. Worried that this matter would affect his campaign for the new governor with Governor Williams, the congressman did not call the police and chose to hire a killer to resolve the matter. Before leaving, the congressman told Joe that all the parties, including the clients, would not let it go...

After getting the business, Joe went to the store to buy related equipment, including the weapon that he had been accustomed to using. This was also the usual tool used by his brutal father to beat his mother...

Touching the local young prostitutes' den, Joe ruthlessly smashed the gangsters to death one by one with a hammer, and heartily rescued Nina...

Joe took Nina to the hotel where he had made appointments with the councillors in advance to wait for the councillors. However, to Joe’s surprise, he was entering a dangerous and vicious political murder whirlpool... Joe just learned from the TV news that Senator Albert was accidentally" Suicide by jumping from a building," and then two New York City police officers slammed into the room with silent pistols. After the black police shot the hotel attendant headshot, he carried Nina away; the other black police wanted to kill Joe, but was killed by Joe's counterattack...

Joe, who had escaped a disaster, tried to contact McCleary, but the other party did not answer any messages. Reluctantly, Joe ventured to McCleary’s residence and found that he had been killed...

Even more distressing is that when Joe returned home, he found that the elderly mother who was sleeping on the bed had been assassinated with a headshot... At this time, Joe found that the killer was still in the house... When Joe killed one killer, another shot fell to the ground and struggled. , Joe learned from his mouth that Nina is in the hands of Governor Williams, because she is the Governor’s favorite...

After water buried his mother, Joe's only psychological sustenance was to rescue the young Loli Nina...

Following the governor’s special car, Joe sneaked into his mansion villa and killed two bodyguards with a hammer... Entering the bedroom, Joe found that the governor had been cut to death, while Nina was eating food with blood on both hands in the kitchen...

At a street restaurant, Nina asked Joe where he was going. Joe was confused and didn't know the answer. Nina also frankly didn't know where to go. But Nina smiled and said, today is a beautiful day...

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Extended Reading
  • Gloria 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    The sudden impulse to watch this film came from wanting to hear the soundtrack made by Radiohead - Jonny Greenwood. ——So the director should like Hitchcock's "Psycho"? ——"You've Never Been Here" was still in the filming stage when the finalists for the main competition were announced at the Cannes Film Festival. According to a reporter from the front, when the adaptation was screened, the ending subtitles had not been made, which was higher than the official score of 95. The duration was less than ten minutes, and the director later said that there were still many scenes that had not been cut. ...

  • Bennett 2022-04-20 09:01:47

    How Bresson influenced female directors. Lynn Ramsey makes the film and the director's presence always so strong, so love her. The music clips are paired with tears. Women are so silent, silently make up the world.

You Were Never Really Here quotes

  • Joe: [to himself] Stand up straight... Stand up straight! Only little girls and fuckin' pussies slouch...

  • Joe: I don't even know what the fuck is going on anymore.