Half angel and half devil, is such a man worthy of sympathy?

Rozella 2022-05-11 22:23:17

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"Three people become tigers", when people around you repeat lies in your ears again and again, one day you will believe it.

Rating: 7.67丨Library Chart: 105


Synopsis

Dix (Humphrey Bogart) is a famous Hollywood screenwriter. When he is single, he has always felt that life is boring and uninteresting, and he has not even written the script for a long time.

On this day, the agent gave him a book and asked him to adapt it into a script.

Dix has a habit of letting people who have read the story tell him that he doesn't like to read books by himself.

So he invited Midred , a girl who had read the book, to come home and tell him the story.

Midred liked the book so much that she agreed, and she didn't leave until late at night.

But the next day, the police found Dix and took him to the police station for questioning. It turned out that Midred was strangled on the way home .

So Dix became the first suspect.

Dix suddenly remembered that his new neighbor, Miss Gray, had seen him in the window after he had taken her home and could testify.

So the police found Gray and let Dix go after getting her testimony.

The two people who never knew each other had an intersection in this way, and soon hit the spark of love .

After the two started dating, they loved each other deeply, and Dix became uncharacteristically and began to love life.

But the sweet time did not last long, and the gossip about Dix from the people around him has been bothering Gray.

Because everyone says Dix is ​​an extremely violent person.

Although Gray thought Dix was worth relying on and kept his opinion, an accident happened one night.

She witnesses Dix in a bad mood punching a stranger .

If she hadn't stopped it herself, she even suspected that Dix would have killed the man.

After this incident, Gray's attitude slowly changed, and she began to wonder if Midred's death was really related to Dix.

At this moment, Dix suddenly proposed to her...


Video Analysis

A simple story, a simple movie, but I don't know how to write because of its characterization. Often after watching a movie, you can easily distinguish between good and bad, sad or joyful, but this movie gives me mixed feelings, some people are obviously worthy of sympathy but do not know how to sympathize with them Where, I want to write something, but it seems to be wrong when I think about it carefully, then I will talk about the feelings that the characters in this story bring to me.

The protagonist Dix has a very distinct personality. It can be said that angels and demons coexist . Although he is violent, it is not without reason. I do not want to make excuses for his evil side, but I think when evaluating a person, it is still necessary to To be objective, you can't completely deny a person because of a certain shortcoming, although this shortcoming is really unbearable.

At the beginning of the film, Dix met an actress on the road to chat up, but she didn't expect to be scolded by her husband, which also set the tone for us, that is, many times, if we don't take the initiative to cause trouble, trouble will come to the door , and The hot-tempered and irritable Dix couldn't stand the provocation at all. He wanted to get out of the car and have a fight with the other party, but most people were just quick to talk, and the other party drove away after cursing. This paragraph is very interesting. It tells us that Dix is ​​a person who is not afraid of things. At the same time, he is also out of tune with this society, because we know that many people are actually very cowardly. run faster than anyone else.

Next, at the bar, a popular actor insulted an outdated actor. Dicks really couldn't sit still. He immediately let the other party know why the flowers were so popular. This shows his sense of justice, but many times, we do Things will not be understood by others . For example, in the eyes of others, your Dix is ​​violent and loves to fight. Not many people will ask, why do you fight?

I don't think Dix is ​​a naturally violent person, from his attitude when he signs autographs for the kids and his conversation with Midred, he's not a gentleman as he says, but he also has principles , I have never seen him use so-called "violence" to force others to do things. Instead, he would anonymously send flowers to Midred, and send medical bills to strangers who were hurt by him, signed to tell them, "I'm sorry I hit you, but you shouldn't scold me."

When watching the movie, before he did anything to Gray, I always expressed a positive attitude towards Dix, because the so-called "violence" does have a reason, and I appreciate his maverick and very real character , but what he did to Gray at the end was really wrong, because from Gray's point of view, all the doubts and fears about Dix were deserved, after all Dix never communicated with her about these things, just childish I think that if you love me, you should accept everything from me, is this possible?

Gray is a very good girl. At the beginning, facing the accusations against Dicks by the people around her, she all chose to believe in the people she loves, but "three people became tigers", rumors still planted the seeds of doubt for her , so in Dick She collapsed when Suzaku used violence in front of her, and the seeds from before took root immediately and filled her mind. She became afraid, had nightmares, doubted her own judgment, and finally chose to leave.

Saw comments that the ending from a woman's point of view is not a tragedy, because Gray ran away from a very violent man, but if Dix is ​​really violent by nature, can a phone ring stop the atrocities? What I saw was just the struggle of a man who was very naive about love when he saw that loneliness would come back again, "In the past few weeks that you loved me, I feel like I've had a new life!"



"When she kissed me, I was reborn, and when she left me, I died again, and the weeks when she loved me was like a rebirth."

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In a Lonely Place quotes

  • 2nd Hatcheck Girl: Mr. Waterman, you forgot to change your costume.

    Charlie Waterman: This is not a costume, ignorant wench, it's the formal attire of a gentleman.

  • Dixon Steele: Remind me to buy you a new tie.

    [in a sarcastic retort to a comment by his agent Mel, in the bar scene]