Sonny's sense of loneliness became stronger towards the end.
The identity of a Vietnam War veteran made him disconnected from normal society (the failure of the Vietnam War caused resistance among the American people, veterans were not treated for the aftermath, and many people left psychological trauma or even drug fights, which was regarded as one of the factors of social instability), Without the protection of the trade union, he could not find a normal job to support his family. In turn, his parents parasitized his son and asked him to pay the rent. His wife only cared about her own feelings and did not listen to Sonny's inner feelings. suspect...
I feel tired as a viewer.
During the minutes when Sonny was calling his loved ones, I was looking forward to them saying a few words of comforting lover words, or just voluntarily hanging up and getting out of the way. No, they are still gushing about shamelessly self-centered!
The beginning of the conversation between Leon and Sonny was a rare warmth. "How are you doing", a greeting is worth a thousand words, and I'm even looking forward to their next blurt of "I miss you so much". The situation took a turn for the worse after Sonny said "I'm dying". His tired dependence was seized by his lover as an excuse to question him. I have a lot of complaints about the character of Leon, sympathy but even more disgust. The society at that time did not discriminate against people with gender cognitive impairment seriously. After the queer trend of the 1960s, the gay movement in the United States in the 1970s (the time when the prototype case happened and the film was filmed) was already booming, and no one would Make a fuss about transgender people. Leon's actions were taken aback. He always put himself in the position of a victim. He was too cowardly and self-centered. He cared more about clearing his suspicions than caring about his lover. He was always blaming the other party in the middle and later stages of the call. The behavior of taking care of yourself is even more hateful. Of course, Sonny's rude behavior (including pointing a gun at his lover, slashing each other with a knife, and hitting an innocent friend) aggravated Leon's inner demons, and the two fought each other to death. Circulation, killing the initial love.
I feel exhausted watching it in front of the screen.
And Sonny and his wife, this marriage is even more morbid. Two cops came in to inform Angela of her husband's bank robbery, and a bunch of creases appeared on her face at the same time in response to the woman's gushing. She only cares about her own feelings and never gives anyone a chance to intervene. Her selfish face is exactly the same as that of Leon. She felt terrified and refused to go to the scene to dissuade her husband from putting down the butcher's knife, even though this might be the last chance for the two to see each other. And of course refusing to listen, which is unchangeable and one of the sources of tragedy. If she can be a little bit empathetic, she won't be rejected by her mother-in-law, and the audience won't be so tired, and even Sonny won't necessarily be with Leon or even go the road of crime. Sonny's fault is also obvious: he also forced his wife to ride an amusement park horse, scolded her with the F word, and pointed a gun at her. It can even be known from their calls that Sonny and Leon's relationship has always been hidden from his wife, and Angela didn't know that her husband had married another man until the robbery broke out.
So who was at fault first? This is a chicken-and-egg problem, and no one can clean it up.
Did Sonny deserve to be in this situation?
I can only blame him for his outrageous vision, and he fell in love with the same kind of people.
And fuck.
I know what this old thing is when I stop on the street: a quagmire parent, a shitposter who makes things worse, doing everything in the name of love to make his son faster sent to prison. When she hugged Sonny and cried, "You used to be such a beautiful child", she suddenly thought that such mothers are so easy to nurture mothers and sons. In their world, everything wrong is someone else's, and their children will always be is right. However, Sonny didn't grow up to be an idiot who was beside his mother every day for milk. Instead, he chose to join the army and get married, and took on the responsibilities of a father and a husband--I guess it was mostly because of his father. This guy who is obviously not too old to work, but even asks his son to pay the rent, is a reverse parasitic guy. When facing the bank robbery incident, he happily threw out the sentence "I don't have your son", which makes people feel chilling and very typical . The scary thing is that many people in the real world have similar family conditions to those in the movie. The father doesn't ask, and the mother is afraid that the world will not be in chaos. It is estimated that everyone can always find a few living examples around them. The chaotic state of the original family has caused Sonny's psychological loneliness and tearing. An indifferent and selfish father and a hard-to-speak mother have made him more stressed.
This is really the toughest scene in the movie, real, three-dimensional, and bloody.
These important characters in Sonny's life are all revolving, they talk to themselves, they repeatedly emphasize their views and positions, and no one cares about Sonny's feelings, as long as he takes responsibility.
No one cares whether he is in pain, whether he is stressed, whether he needs to be heard or not.
I probably understand why Sonny is going to rob a bank.
Because the people he cares about and cherishes are not normal at all.
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