First of all, this is a rare and good film. I am very grateful to Shanghai Film Energy Conservation for bringing us such an outstanding film. For me, the standard of this film is comparable to that of the Godfather, but I think there may be many audiences in the face. Blind state, but this does not affect the exquisiteness of the movie plot.
From a plot point of view, this movie contains too many details to set off the plot. It can be said that there is no trace of wasted plot. Although it seems that there are mostly literary dramas, the turbulent undercurrents he shows are beyond the reach of those gunfight action dramas. After watching I can't calm down for a long time, so I can only explain the details of the movie plot based on my memories and my own opinions.
The film starts with the gathering of the Mafia family where the protagonist is located, and at the same time explains that the background is also the scene of the negotiation of the division of the drug market within the Mafia. On the surface, a prosperous party gathers family officials in the division of the drug market cake. However, the protagonist of the film is not a cadre, he is just an ordinary "soldier" who is at the bottom of the Mafia pyramid class. On the other hand, the film explains that he has a close relationship with senior cadres, which plays a role in the subsequent plot. It has a deep impact. During the party, the protagonist accidentally found his son in a trance on the beach, and then found his son who had just taken drugs and beat him back to the house. At this time, his best friend came to complete the game and prevented him from continuing to teach his son. In this scene, it can be seen that although the protagonist is a member of the gang and may even be involved in a drug transaction, he cannot tolerate drug use by his children. In the end, all cadres took a group photo under the call of the head of the protagonist’s family to take a family portrait of what can be described as a mafia, and this photo also played a vital role in the follow-up story. It seems to be a peaceful and prosperous mafia family. At this moment, the seeds of the tragedy flag have been planted.
After the party is over, the protagonist tells his best friend that he will take his wife and children a golden basin to wash his hands, but the ex-wife’s children are unwilling to leave Italy with him. Finally, the best friend promises him that he will take good care of his sons, and he can take his latest wife with peace of mind. Fly away with your children. Soon after he arrived in Brazil, serious internal fighting broke out in the entire Mafia family. The radical family forces represented by the opponent Lino assassinated the head of the protagonist’s family. The drug market agreement just reached was also invalidated. Then the protagonists once The cadres of the family members were assassinated one by one, even their children were not spared. This is very different from the conservative creed that the protagonist is not hurting family members, and the real story of the film unfolds.
The first paragraph alone made me feel deeply. The protagonist, as a conservative gang veteran, seemed to vaguely feel the changes in the family, the noisy gatherings, the seemingly harmonious negotiations, and the close friends who loved each other seemed to be prosperous on the surface. Hypocritical, he chose to leave the Mafia at this time. Leaving Italy may be an intuition that his organization is deteriorating. It can be said that he wanted to use the golden basin to wash his hands and completely get rid of his past. He even thought it could be like an ordinary person. Rich people spend the rest of their lives like that. The plot took a turn for the worse after that. He kept receiving news of his family being assassinated in a foreign country, and even he himself was accused of facing a return to the country for trial. At this time, he still adhered to the principles of his mafia, silently and even committed suicide. . On the other hand, he already knew that his enemy was the leader of the radicals, and for the gangsters, he could only retaliate with a tooth for a tooth. During this period, I saw the pain of a Mafia veteran who longed to escape from the past and had to be bound by blood and blood. His emotions drove him to avenge and his reason made him understand that even if he was extradited back to Italy, it would be difficult to avenge him.
After returning to Italy, the police also found members of the protagonist who escaped the pursuit by chance, and imprisoned the two together. Their very different attitudes further reflected that one of them was Zhang Fei’s plan of revenge. One is the contradiction and entanglement over whether to be a tainted witness to avenge the war between heaven and man. After a meaningful phone call between the protagonist and his wife, he finally put down his psychological defenses and began the story of the tainted witness. Only then did he officially enter the movie's title "Traitor". In the movie, the protagonist’s wife used sexual hints to the protagonist on the phone, and the police on the other side were also monitoring their calls, hoping to lead clues to pry open the protagonist’s mouth. My understanding is that the protagonist’s wife may use the false impression that she is derailed to anger the protagonist, and thus completely abandon her mafia ideals and testify for the court to expose the inside story of the mafia. For the protagonist, his wife and children may be the last to crush his sanity. A straw; or the protagonist and his wife know that their phone calls are being monitored, they tacitly use sex topics to cover up their true conversations, forging the phone recordings of his wife betraying him to encourage him to become a tainted witness, and convince the police thoroughly He has nothing to worry about.
Then came the lengthy court trial and confrontation. The accused radical mafia cadres were brought to the court one by one, facing the protagonist’s exposure, all pretending to be crazy and pretending to be sick. The only thing in common is that they are full of "traitor" protagonists Anger, as if they are the heroes and the protagonist is a despicable villain, all confident enough to confront the protagonist. This part can be called the essence of the movie. The protagonist’s loneliness and sadness also appeared to be particularly miserable in the court. Even so, he still agreed to the challenge. Facing the former "best friend" pretending to be stupid, what he saw in his eyes was one This kind of contempt and pity for "best friends". The subsequent testimony and the photo of the family portrait made the other side undefeated. The other side's pale defense was defeated by the protagonist's testimony that shook the court and implied grief and indignation. The defendants who were clamoring to confront the protagonist also died down. The plot at this moment has a first turning point. It is clear who is the person who guards the order of the family, and who is the real traitor, villain, and liar. The exposed radical defendants are full of swear words and mock the protagonist as " Traitors", and they are just the criminals who corrupt the entire Mafia order and kill innocent people indiscriminately.
The protagonist made accusations step by step, and finally brought the radical leader Lino to the dock. The progressive court trials made me very excited, like a lonely soul atonement for his relatives (the film also specially Arranged the nightmare of the protagonist in the supernatural segment), which expresses the core line of the film also comes from this. The protagonist asks why the radical leader wants to kill innocent people and betray the long-standing order of the family. It then leads to the fact that the traitor who destroys the Mafia is not himself but the radical. These members are eager to spread the drug business to the world for huge profits, regardless of the youth and the The future of the nation only seeks its own glory and wealth, trampling the once proud Italian mafia spirit like rotten feet, and hastening the demise of the mafia family. For the protagonist, it was the moment he saw his son taking drugs. May understand that his mafia family no longer exists.
This may be a not-so-correct tragic heroism. There is also a memory of the protagonist’s self-report in the film. He tells of his youth when he had just joined the Mafia. As an assassin, he was sent to assassinate a cadre of a hostile force. Always use his son as a talisman inseparable and unable to succeed-this is precisely the biggest difference between the old Mafia conservatives and the new Mafia radicals. The protagonist insists not to kill his wife and children but his children are killed by others. The so-called Mafia Order is faltering like a candle in the wind. At the end of the film, this reminiscence story also ushered in the ending. The protagonist followed the assassination target for decades until his son got married. At that moment, the target finally put down his family and faced death alone. This stubborn old mafia era also As the protagonist ages and ceases to exist, the rise of radicals and the obliteration of order have driven the Mafia to an end, and the entire family will inevitably go to extinction like "The Godfather". I don’t know if this is a kind of revenge or self-salvation for the protagonist, but the interview with the protagonist after the screening gave me a sense of the director’s and actors’ intentions and the reflection on the Mafia’s poisoning of Italian society. On the surface of the gang shootout, my impression of this movie is to truly analyze the rise and fall of the mafia, a deformed family, from reality and essence. The story of each character is derived from a real Italian event. This is what The most shocking.
The first time I wrote a long film review, there are still many details that have not been mentioned. From the time I returned home from the theater until now, I am still memorizing the plot. I hope that these superficial texts can help others understand the film from a more comprehensive perspective.
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