Our protagonist is in a mid-life crisis. Unemployment, a gradual loss of self-confidence, accompanied by disharmony in family relations-as a husband and father, the loss of work means that authority is no longer and dignity is threatened. Whether it is the complaints of the men who carry his wife to work or the children, they are warning him: if you don't find a job, you will lose all the time.
From the top to the unemployed for more than two years, there is no need to say more about the psychological gap among them. The small details of the film are carefully done. The protagonist is well-dressed every day, dressed in a standard middle-class dress, and is also at home when he is extremely anxious-and when he becomes proficient in killing people and no longer trembles, he even starts to smile and appreciate the humor in it. It also changes and becomes more casual.
All the details are talking. The political orientation of the film is very obvious: anti-globalization. Of course this is not straightforward, even, in a sense, it is just talking quietly. For the recorder of a Sino-Japanese joint venture, the company representative said when the protagonist's voice recorder was presented as a "Sino-Japanese joint venture, so it is better to use than the Japanese one!", and so on. The unemployed and the high-ranking unemployed also complain about the welfare system. Why should talented and energetic working-age workers face such an embarrassing and indecent situation? One interesting detail in the film appeared many times: the female body billboard. From jewellery luxury goods to erotic underwear, every time a billboard appears is on the way of the owner's public car killing. This is an absurd and weird comparison: the protagonist slaughters those who are waiting to be exploited just like him in order to make a living, asking for warmth and dignity. At the same time, capitalism showed a gorgeous and cold expression. The female body here is not only the meaning of showing the face of the city, it is an erotic symbol, but also a symbol of capitalist consumer culture—sex is the packaging of commodities, and the relationship with power is not to be repeated here—and our protagonist, Undoubtedly, he was at the bottom of the entire power system at this time, killing for his livelihood and dignity.
The initial fear and regret passed, and the protagonist began to enter the state. The screenwriter is very smart. At the beginning of the movie, the audience would think that this was a movie with a structure similar to "Mints", and after watching it, they found that it was not-the scene in the small hotel was very exciting. When the audience saw the protagonist wrapped in a blanket and leaning against the wall with a gun at hand, almost everyone would think that he committed suicide-and then found that he did not hang-yes, otherwise, except for the "Mint" How does the film continue with a flashback technique? The sentiment in this passage is very strong.
The protagonist has nothing to do with it. The story continues. The technique becomes more and more proficient, and the mental state becomes more and more stable. He no longer repented. Not every target is killed by the protagonist. The killing process is getting better and better. At the beginning, there is no soundtrack in the killing process. The more you kill, the more the soundtrack is used. One of the target characters committed suicide and assumed the legal responsibility that should have been borne by the protagonist. When the film was about to end, the protagonist finally achieved his purpose of killing, a job that was not an exaggeration for him.
The scriptwriter’s conflict setting is just right, and the rhythm in the two paragraphs of the detective’s visit and the assassination of the target company’s senior executives is particularly good, and the audience can easily be completely brought into the narrative.
At the end, another job title killer appeared, and she was a woman-exactly corresponding to one of the female CEO's questions during the application process. The location has appeared before, and this time, the protagonist has changed from an assassin to an assassin. This is a vicious circle. The protagonist is engaged in the papermaking industry, and recycling waste paper products is the innovative point of his work. But in the cycle of workplace killings, what his final ending is, it is no different to the audience-the audience sees globalization, sees alienation, and sees a smart story written by a smart screenwriter, it is enough.
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