Aside from that bright tail, this movie can be considered a perfect noir movie. Now we know that the original ending of this movie is not like this, the original ending is: Molly, who was completely dead on Stanton, divorced Stanton and invested in Stanton came to a circus in the arms of the stupid big man in the circus, and had nowhere to go. The circus owner asked him if you would perform juggling. Stanton said: "Yes, I was born to do this." The boss hates this ending so much, it is said that he almost had a heart attack for it. Sadly, so strongly modified the ending, but sadly, even though the ending was modified, FOX Films still did not give it a chance to release, we are now seeing this The movie, decades after the movie was shot, (and still on DVD),
Stanton Carlisle is a natural ambition. When his colleagues were still thinking about making the circus business a little better and making more money, Stanton had already set his sights on distant cosmopolitan cities such as New York and Chicago. Thinking about getting ahead in this line of work. In fact, I personally saw a Shanghai magician perform this kind of magic performed by Stanton when I was a child. "It's called "psychosensation". Now thanks to this movie, I finally understand it. It turned out to be a technique like "language code". But in order to avoid trouble, the magician (playing "telepathy" could be put on the hat of idealism at that time) .First of all declaring that it's all fake. "Everything is fake", yes, that's one of our definitions of magic, although magic can always confuse you into thinking it's not a natural phenomenon that should happen, but We know it's fake, we're just fascinated by how magicians can fool our eyes, obsessed with their technique. But Stanton has clearly crossed the line, he has raised magic to the level of deception. Let's After characterizing his behavior, look back at this character, he is an orphan, (this creates his more distorted character), "as he himself said, "Everything I do is for myself" as As I said just now, he is a born careerist, and the character of the careerist has the opportunity to make you a politician, or even a president. But the guys who can become presidents in the United States often have good family backgrounds, (such as Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Clinton, Kennedy) and presidents from bad backgrounds (such as Lincoln, Nixon), but these are relatively rare. Yes. Specifically speaking of Stanton, a guy who is a magician by profession, at best he can only be a so-called "great magician", such as the guy who once changed the Statue of Liberty. Like many famous black Like the movie, the protagonist seems to be strangled by the hand of the devil, and he accidentally killed his colleague, which gave him a very bad psychological suggestion, "Since I have done such a bad thing, do something wrong. It shouldn't matter if it's bad." Just like Washington, if he didn't plant the cherry tree in front of his house, he wouldn't be the president of the United States, and Li Bai wouldn't be a great poet if he didn't meet the old woman who sharpened the iron rod.
Talking about the three women in the movie, Zeena, she is older than Stanton in terms of age and has far more life experience than Stanton. Her ambition, if any, is clearly hampered by love, He loves his old partner Pete deeply, and his love for Stanton is more like a big sister's love for a little brother, but the most important thing is that she doesn't have the same ambition as Stanton. Did Stanton love her? I don't think so, he Just use her as a straw to climb up.
It's really hard for me to tell who the psychiatrist Lilith and the magician Stanton took who broke. (laughs) I can only say that this is a fateful union of two ambitious guys, But Lilith is obviously stronger. Obviously they don't love each other, the purpose of their union is very clear, that is money. (By the way, Lilith and Stanton actually had sex in the movie, that is, in the hovercraft , only later deleted by FOX\)
Molly is the only person in the world Stanton has ever loved. (As he himself said) I think he loves her innocence, a quality that has long been lost in his own heart. (Think of how dark the ending of Molly's divorce with him was originally.) She followed him Everything comes from the same purpose, "Love!" In the end, he didn't want to follow him to deceive the capitalist because of her purity. For Stanton, it's really good to win, but also to lose.
After talking about women, let's talk about it again Man, that funny capitalist, he prays in a garden that looks quite holy, but doesn't want his servants to come to this place, his mouth is full of biblical words, but a man who sees no miracles, will never give you money guy. Totally forgot "Believe in God with all your heart, don't doubt." (Although Stanton is not worth believing, but this is just another side of the matter, I just want to make it clear that the director wants to tell us that this capitalist is a duplicitous guy who is not religious to God Let this "never be kind to anyone." guy kneel down and pray with tears on his face. I think it's the director's intention. I think the director's view of this capitalist is also how most Americans view the rich. "A rich man wants to go to heaven,
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