dressed in a western film about self-salvation and family concepts.
The director has directed [Identity],
which I think is the best thriller so far,
so I believe in the quality of this film,
plus the two likable characters Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, the
former need not be said, the latter It is possible to make yourself skinny for the movie. ([Machinist])
[3:10 to Yuma] is obviously a traditional Western movie, but it is not traditional.
The desolation of the west, the lawlessness of the west, the western lifestyle and the concept of survival are all very romantic, just like [Infernal Affairs], knowing that this can't be true, but this kind of sensibility that only exists in movies makes people feel very Comfortable, that is, exciting.
The bandit leader Ben, played by Russell Crowe, is a real villain.
He has a habit of drawing his mood on a piece of paper. The
first time his painting appeared in the film was the one hanging on a branch before the salary car was robbed. It
was a bird. He Think of yourself as a bird, with no fixed place, wandering, and lonely.
But no matter how lonely
he is , he still has to stick to his way of life.
So as he himself said: I must be more fierce than them in front of these villains in order to convince them.
And in his absent-minded career in the Green Forest, he has been extremely serious in searching for his own family from a disabled family.
He has been searching for the crippled memories of his family and himself.
Ben only likes girls with green eyes, such as the tavern proprietress, such as Dan's wife.
The painting he drew after going to bed with the proprietress of the tavern was the second one that appeared in the film.
He painted the naked back of a woman,
And that is obviously the image of a mother in his mind.
He has been looking for the girl with green eyes, this is the search for maternal love.
Later, in the escort process after Ben was caught,
he first killed the little cowboy who was disrespectful to him at night.
Ben thought that the little cowboy sang all night to keep him from sleeping as an insult to him.
In the west, where moral values are as desolate as the desert,
everyone has their own ideas, and there is no distinction between good people and bad people.
On the surface, the very righteous old escort teacher once slaughtered Indian women and children,
but said that they were all thugs and justified their actions.
When he couldn't say Ben,
and said that Ben's father was a drunkard grave robber and his mother was a bitch,
Ben was obviously angry.
He said that the bastard also loved his mother, and then threw the old man into the cliff.
This shows that the starting point of Ben's behavior is to protect his family.
Although his family is nothing,
he can do his best for this long-nonexistent family.
Ben's last painting appeared in the climax.
When Dan and the others worked so hard to send Ben to the hotel near the train station,
Ben's hands came down to rescue him. They mobilized the gunmen from the town and surrounded the hotel heavily.
As a result, the local police officers did not want to protect them, and they withdrew one after another.
Dan insisted on staying to complete the task,
because he needed water and a sum of money to make his family live better,
even if he sacrificed himself.
When he finally told the boss of the railway company to take his son home and restore the water source, he would give his wife 1,000 yuan, and then asked his son something.
At this time, Ben began to paint.
He painted Dan guarding the window, a little scared, but his eyes were firm.
And this image is exactly what Ben thinks his father should have.
For the family, he can sacrifice himself and bear all dangers alone, just to make his family live better.
And when he finally learned that Ben was not actually a war hero, he was
even more affirmed of this idea.
A cowardly person can become extremely brave for the family.
He has been trying to portray a heroic father in front of his son,
wanting to make his son. Grow upright and healthy, instead of becoming an involuntary villain like Ben because he felt inferior to his father since childhood.
So the hatred and regret for his parents in Ben’s memory was redeemed through the agency satisfaction of others. In
his mind, his father was no longer a bastard who died for a glass of whiskey,
but instead mustered courage for the life of his family. When all ran away, the hero who stayed alone to bear everything.
By this time Ben had already regarded Dan as his father.
He wanted his father to be a hero, so he took the initiative to help him to take the train.
Unexpectedly, he was about to help him fulfill his wish,
but his men beat Dan to death
and said, He's one tough son of a bitch.
At this time, Ben's eyes were full of hatred, and he
saw his father fall weakly and leave him. It's a little bit close to completing the task.
So he beat all his men to death in an instant.
When Dan’s son ran over and said to the dying Dan, “You sent him on the train.”
Ben thought, to accomplish this father’s heroic deeds,
he took the initiative to get on the train
in front of Dan’s son. In front of the weak law, he always All can escape, but not now.
So Dan died and became a myth in Dan's son's heart.
Ben hopes that he is him, not a bird that will drift forever.
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