However, it does not seem to be accurate enough to summarize Dongmutou’s screen image in terms of “people don’t offend me, I don’t offend people”, whether it's the fistful of the early spaghetti westerns, or the recent "Millionaire Baby" and "Classic Car". "The lonely and stubborn old man in the middle, he has consistently played the perfect incarnation of American individualism (individualism), the difference is that he gets more and more internalized with age.
Higashi Muko’s movies are always reminiscent of oriental martial arts. Whether it is the lone hero in Jin Yong's pen or the wandering warrior in Kurosawa Akira's lens, they all seem to have a personality similar to that of independence and solitude, but sometimes they appear to be on the road. The courage to draw a sword and help each other is sometimes manifested in the irritability of being unable to live without Amakusa Kan's life. The difference is that oriental martial arts basically live in the magical yy, while American individualism still flourishes in the wilderness of the Great Plains.
Don't confuse individualism with egoism. The former is opposite to collectivism, while the latter is opposite to altruism. One value is the process and the other is the result. To put it simply, individualism is "I am in charge of my turf, and I can't control the king." Therefore, in the movie, whatever the old man is not pleasing to the eye, regardless of whether it is a child, a priest or a gang, let me cool off, and be careful with the double-barreled shotgun! By the way, American gun culture is inseparable from the prosperity of individualism. Every time the United States is involved in school shootings, some self-righteous people come out and point out that the reason why the gun ban cannot be passed is because the US government took money from the arms dealer. The U.S. government does not have the ability to be ignorant of ordinary people for centuries. Guns cannot be banned because they are the foundation of individualism. If the barrel of the gun is gone, individualism will die. If individualism is dead, the United States will no longer be the United States. NS. Turning history back to two hundred and twenty years ago, James Madison proposed a constitutional amendment to protect personal freedom in the United States Congress. Two years later, it was passed with the support of Jefferson, the famous Bill of Rights. Violating citizens’ right to possess weapons. The United States is a country without a monarch, so Americans do not have a tradition of trusting the government. Only the barrel of a gun in their waist is absolutely reliable.
Of course, it is impossible to build a "harmonious society" with unlimited personal freedom. Our political textbook is not wrong on this point. The wrong conclusion is the following conclusion: So dictatorship is necessary. This is a typical animal logic, because there is a default assumption hidden in the middle, that is, everyone is a selfish animal who eats the weak and feeds the weak. Yes, there are some beasts in this world, but there are also many "people" at the same time. Individualism or collectivism does not distinguish between animals and humans.
Dongmutou's role is always like this. On the one hand, it always looks cold and frosty and repels people thousands of miles away. On the other hand, it always pays attention to the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of the people around him. Usually cold and frosty is just because he has not touched the bottom of the social moral concept. Once this bottom is broken, he will draw his gun to help as if he was injured. call police? Does anyone in this world really trust the police?
If there was only one "Collint" in this world, individualism would have died out long ago; if there were tens of millions of "Collint" in this world, it would be an anarchist utopia.
View more about Gran Torino reviews
