I've heard of this American Western classic for a long time. I made it up today, and it really feels like a thing, and it lives up to its name.
The soundtrack is mysterious and sinister, and the humor reveals murderous aura.
The characters are so cool that they are still trending all over the city today. The protagonist of the story is witty and cunning, and his life is smooth and round. On the surface, all he wants is to make money and do some risky speculation. In fact, when he sees civilians being bullied and friends being hurt, he will wait for the right time to stand up to help them take revenge and help them escape from danger. The protagonist says "dead people are useful". This reminds me of "Let the Bullets Fly" I watched two days ago. In it, Zhang Mazi also said that "dead people are sometimes more useful than living people", and he also used corpses to bluff people, which shocked everyone. So director Jiang Wen should pay tribute here.
However, always walking by the river, how can there be no wet shoes. Later, the wise man planted it, and almost died, and even brought disaster to Chiyu. I even blame him a little for causing the poor bastards—if it wasn't for him, the two sides might maintain a false peace, and they would be fine for the time being. However, Raymond's group is extremely vicious, cunning and shrewd. Even if they don't act against the opponent at this time in order not to disturb the people above and affect their own profit, they will be eradicated sooner or later.
The brutality of gangsters should be considered common sense rather than weirdness, but Raymond and the others slaughtered a city in order to kill one person, and they violated the international convention of war treaties without guns. Obviously, it went too far. This gang of people died, and it was too cheap for them to collapse with the last shot. They should give themselves a taste of being burned alive by the fire.
As a western classic, the film's movement of the camera is extremely ingenious, and the rhythm of the story is not rushed, which brings the audience a good viewing experience. Moreover, this film highly draws on the plot of the famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's "Intentional Stick"
There are a lot of imitation traces: for example, the protagonists tried their best to provoke wars on both sides to escape the threat of the suffering people; they were all exposed at the end of the film, they were pointed at guns to make concessions, they were tortured and beaten, and then they escaped with tricks, and Jin Chan escaped. . In the end, they all rescued their friends who had been tortured to protect themselves, and eliminated the wicked in the duel. Finally, they left behind and left the town. Even in the logical flaws that I think are quite obvious, they are completely consistent-that is, the group of villains caught the protagonist, why did they just beat the protagonist instead of using more brutal and vicious means to prevent him from escaping and revenge? If he breaks his hands and feet and picks his veins, wouldn't it be possible for the enemy to take revenge? Why does the vicious villain invariably show mercy when facing the protagonist. And the last one, if you can't beat him to death, just shoot him in the head and it will collapse? Alas, this villain's biggest boss is really dead brains, a piece of shit, how did this kind of IQ become the boss... I'm convinced.
In short, this is a flawed and imperfect western classic, so that after reading it, I feel quite unsatisfied and unsatisfied.
But the flaws do not hide the advantages, and these problems aside, it is still a blockbuster Western that makes people's blood boil.
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