Life needs some self-deprecation.

Geovanny 2021-10-20 17:26:25



If you have watched the Coen Brothers movie, you will find a common phenomenon that several people are constantly arguing. Keep talking, keep defending, keep talking. In Beijing dialect, a group of "broken mouths".

Whether it’s last year’s hot "Burn after Reading", or the earlier "Murder of Green Toe", or this long-lived "Three Kings of Prison", you can see these protagonists chatter and talk endlessly. Talking rhetorically, on every topic of hypocrisy, every object of comment, every sentence spoken.

There is no doubt that this is the consistent style of the Coen Brothers movies, the weird plot and clues of clever arrangement, as well as the line performance of a bunch of broken mouths, the fun is formed.

This movie is actually more like a road movie. It takes the prisoner Everett, played by George Clooney, and leads two followers, Bandelma and Pete, to escape the boring work of building roads on gravel. The distant dream of an extraordinarily fortune entices the three to escape from prison together to save his dying married life.

On the way, I met all kinds of people and strange things. All because of the encounter with these three people, unpredictable changes have taken place in their original life trajectories.

In fact, these are not the main points of the statement, but they are indeed the source of our views. In the face of a heavy life, each of us who lives in it needs some self-deprecation to cope with ordinary life. But the ingenuity of the matter lies in the fact that when the parallel people are related at a certain point, the ending of the matter is no longer a familiar trajectory, but a new beginning.

Tommy, the black guitarist, was originally a musician who thought he had exchanged souls with the devil, and went to the radio show. Because of a chance encounter with the three kings who escaped from prison, he recorded a very widely circulated song, and the hillbilly orchestra became famous all over the world. The moment he was put to death in a memorial ceremony, another scene in his new life opened.

The "Bible" salesman Dadan, the one-eyed dragon, snatched the money from the three kings who escaped from prison. At the memorial ceremony of Tommy, the black man defended the flagpole that fell from the sky, but was smashed into heaven by the cross. . What a mockery this is.

The robber "Babyface Nelson" who declared that he was an adult, kept burning and looting along the road in order to prove that he was an adult. What an amazing image marketing this looks like.

The campaigning official Paibi also changed the pattern of the campaign because of the intertwining with the three kings who escaped from prison. Even the three kings themselves, on their way home after being pardoned, were arranged for an earth-shattering ending, that is, they were caught by the law enforcement officer Cooley. We thought that the film would end in such a tragedy, and then the Coen brothers mocked us with this. The moment the flash flood broke out, once again saved the gang of broken mouths.

Everyone's every attitude towards everything, in our opinion, is the most necessary self-deprecating in life. Whether it is happiness or sadness, whether it is hope or despair, we should always nag, express our views on everything, and communicate.

Because, only in this way can we have a breathing relationship with this world, and because only in this way, while facing so many hardships, self-deprecating becomes the most courageous.

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Extended Reading
  • Jermain 2022-03-23 09:01:19

    It’s very cold... the accent of the actors is very funny... mainly the original soundtrack is really awesome, all kinds of graceful harmony~~

  • Xzavier 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    The Coen brothers half-jokingly claimed that [The Three Kings of Prison Escape] was adapted from "The Odyssey", but the film critics of the year claimed that they did not understand the purpose of this roaming, which is a shame, because it shouldn't have a purpose in the first place. Absurdity is the core of comedy in the new era, and it is the cornerstone of the Cohen brothers' worldview. Therefore, it is even more important whether the film can convey this absurdity. The final result is no longer satisfactory, and the most important element is the music that is full of personality.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? quotes

  • Ulysses Everett McGill: You can't display a toad in a fine restaurant like this! Why, the good folks here would go right off the feed!

    Delmar O'Donnell: I just don't think it's right keeping him under wraps like we's ashamed of him.

    Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, if it is Pete, I am ashamed of him! Way I see it, he got what he deserved, fornicating with some whore of Babylon. These things don't happen for no reason, Delmar. It's obviously some kinda judgment on his character.

    Delmar O'Donnell: Well, the two of us was fixin' to fornicate!

  • Ulysses Everett McGill: Say, uh, Cousin Wash, I suppose it'd be the acme of foolishness to inquire if you had a hair net.

    Washington Hogwallop: Got a bunch in yon bureau, Mrs. Hogwallop's as a matter of fact

    [sniff]

    Washington Hogwallop: . Help y'self... I won't be needin' 'em.