It took me seven hours to watch it twice, but I couldn't say anything. It was terrible.
As a female audience, leaving all the stories aside, I just want to talk about the two most important women in this movie, the women of Max and Noodles, carol and deborah.
. Deborah and maxi are the same people, they are both people who have ideals and will do whatever they can to achieve them. And they also have a common weakness, which is noodles. Noodles is the opposite of them. He is the embodiment of all the emotions in human nature, and all his actions are driven by his own emotions. For example, noodles made an appearance for his friend Dominic, even ignoring that his opponent was a policeman, and kept himself behind bars for twelve years. Max just hid behind the car and did nothing, because he knew the consequences, he had his own goals, and he couldn't let himself be arrested because he wanted to avenge his friends on the impulse. Another example is the violent episode of noodles against Deborah, because Deborah wants to leave in order to realize his ideals. Noodles thinks that after so many years of reunion, the two can finally get married, only to realize that he is not the ideal of the other party at all. Deborah has greater ambitions. Sadness and anger drove his man's instincts. He had no way to conquer her in his heart. He could only choose to possess her physically, so he disregarded her wishes and abused her in the car. Later, I was remorseful again and fell into a lot of days. This kind of emotional supremacy is something that Deborah and Max do not have, and these feelings gradually become obstacles to their ideals as they grow older, so both of them abandon noodles one after another and shut their own human valve. Deborah is the goddess of all men, not only from noodles, but also from Max. For an ambitious person like maxi, conquering the goddess in everyone's heart like Deborah is undoubtedly a proof of himself, especially when Deborah is enamored with super cowardly and timid noodles in his heart, it must be unbearable. But he will not be like noodles, he will go after what he likes, he knows what Deborah wants. Deborah reads the Bible to noodles in the dance studio. She said he is all together lovable, but he will always be a punk, so he will never be my lover, what a shame." Deborah pursues fame. She will not be willing that her lover is a street gangster, which is why she and noodles have such entangled feelings but not together. Until many years later, the middle-aged Deborah did not marry but had her own lover, the Secretary-General Bailey, who later became the successful Maxi. Max is no longer the little bastard back then. He only went to conquer the goddess after he became powerful and rich. He didn't do anything that didn't make me impulsive. He knew that only in this way could he conquer the arrogant Deborah. Deborah's feelings for noodles are complicated. On the one hand, she just likes the traits in him, which is a kind of humanity that she lacks, the kind of blood and passion that is desperate for feelings. This is also the reason why Maxi has a unique fancy to noodles among so many people, because noodles are the opposite and kind side of the two of them. But on the other hand, she doesn't admit that she loves noodles, she only said that you are the only one that I ever cared. In fact, I don't think she really loves noodles, she actually looks down on noodles from the bottom of my heart. Max once interrupted the conversation between Deborah and noodles twice. One was the first time deborah and noodles made each other. Noodles heard Max calling him and said to Deborah "that's max." Deborah said with a disdainful expression. that's who it was, go on run, your mother is calling you. "For the first time, noodles turned and went to find Max, leaving Deborah standing there and looking straight. However, Max feels that noodles is very disdainful of giving up great opportunities for women, even if that woman is deborah. The second time was on the night when noodles and Deborah reunited after a long time. The two were recounting the past a little bit ambiguously. Max interrupted them again. He called two noodles just like the first time. Noodles is still the same as last time, turning back hesitantly, deborah still teased him and said, "go ahead, your mother is calling yo." But this time, she turned and left without waiting for noodles to leave, because she knew that noodles would run over to find Max just like last time, because noodles is just such a person. In this scene, the director also deliberately portrayed Max's eyes, the possessive desire to conquer. These two scenes vividly show the aura of Max's boss, compared with noodles, it is just an "obedient" entourage. Even in front of the woman she loves most, even if she ridiculed "your mother is calling you." noodles did not get angry with Max. Given Deborah's ambition, it is conceivable who she will choose in the end.
Let’s talk about carol. Why do I say that she is another important woman in this drama, because Max has used her feelings to implement his big plan of concealment. Carol's appearance is very dramatic. She has a different image from Deborah's divine woman, and she is classified as a slut. Before she met Max, she was a woman who could sell her hue for money. She colluded with others to snatch her husband's diamonds, and in order not to be suspected, she also caught noodles and said rape me to create the illusion of being abused. Noodles are people who are dominated by blood. Among the four people, he is the only one who will put down his defenses to rape a woman during the robbery. Later, Carol ran into four people again. Four men covered their faces and dragged their pants to let her guess who raped her. Her expression of inferiority and provocativeness is enough to show that this woman has read countless people, and that Coquettishness is something that many men can't resist. She chose Max, the big boss of these four people. This is nothing. It's just that she loves the wrong person. She falls in love with a person who has no ability to love, or that this man will not be distracted by any woman at all. Although noodles raped this woman, it was only out of instinct. He was disdainful of this kind of woman, and he only thought of his goddess in his heart. But Max took advantage of the woman's love for him to satisfy his own man's possessive needs. Whether he loves carol or not is unknown, but carol is definitely not a necessity for him. He can yell at her to drive her away at any time, or he can come when he wants. He is neither the most powerful nor the richest, but Carol has been following him since then. Carol said to noodles in the car: "noodles we never like each other, we put up with each other for max's sake". The two of them don't like each other, just like Max and Deporah don't like each other, they are the same kind of people. They are all emotional animals. In order to save Max's life, Carol did not hesitate to send him to prison. All she thought was she wanted her lover to live. It's a pity that this feeling was used by Max. Max kept instilling noodles into her that she was too timid to wait for the police to take him into jail to avoid bank robbery. She thought of putting Max in jail to prevent him from "sending him to death". From her later memories, she attributed Max's desire to die to his family's mental illness. After twilight, her eyes were dull, and she was no longer full of tension as before. Compared to noodles, she is lucky, her sorrow is just the death of her lover. And she would never know that her lover didn't care about her at all, and she designed her, after the fraudulent death, she never thought about going to her again. At least she has memories. Just like Deborah advised noodles not to go to a Saturday party in the dressing room, she said "we are both getting old, all we have left now are memories, if you go to that party on satuaday night, you won't have those anymore." She didn't want noodles to see Max and Max and her son. She was protecting noodles and didn't want him to know the cruel truth. When noodles saw Max's son David, he should have understood the face that looked like Max when he was young, and the smiley expression. Max and Deborah call him david, which is the name of noodles, which confirms the status of noodles in the hearts of max and deborah. The only tender and kind side in their hearts.
The director's character setting is ironic. Deborah is an ideal, which all men desire and cannot reach. However, this goddess itself is so realistic. She doesn't care about feelings, she only pursues fame and wealth. Carol is reality, a slut that can be bought with money, but the feelings of this woman are sincere and pure, and they can't be exchanged no matter how much money they spend. It is ridiculous that the ideals that most people have in mind are unreal goddesses, but few people look at the real but stupid women around them.
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